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Against terrorism – The National Police’s forensic laboratory officials bring several pieces of evidence from a house rented by a suspected terrorist group on Jl. Bintara Jaya 8, Bekasi, West Java, Sunday. (Antara/Risky Andrianto)
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n the past two years, five maids working in Singapore were radicalised, although they "did not pose an imminent security threat" at the time, said the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA).
The maids were among some 70 foreigners investigated during that period, and had been radicalised through social media. Some of the foreigners were later deported after the authorities in their home countries were informed of their cases.
The statement yesterday came after Indonesia's anti-terror police commandos rounded up four women in the past week on suspicion of terrorism. Among them was Dian Yulia Novi, 27. She had worked in Singapore between 2008 and 2009, said an MHA spokesman.
Dian had allegedly been planning to mount a suicide bomb attack on the presidential palace in Jakarta. In a television interview broadcast last Tuesday, she said she was first exposed to radical Islam through Facebook by opening profiles of extremists while working as a maid abroad.
She worked for a family with three children here, and as a maid for three years in Taiwan.
This article appeared on The Straits Times newspaper website, which is a member of Asia News Network and a media partner of The Jakarta Post
Against terrorism – The National Police’s forensic laboratory officials bring several pieces of evidence from a house rented by a suspected terrorist group on Jl. Bintara Jaya 8, Bekasi, West Java, Sunday. (Antara/Risky Andrianto)
