"It is true that this morning we searched (the house of) one of the suspected terrorists who had planned to commit a terror act this month," he stated after attending a coordination meeting at the Coordinating Ministry for Political, Legal, and Security Affairs office.
As reported earlier, the National Polices Densus 88 counterterrorism squad had arrested a suspected terrorist identified by the initials AM in Bekasi.
AM is also believed to have links with suspected terrorists arrested in Sukaharjo, Central Java, and Tasikmalaya, West Java, on December 19-20.
"It is true they have links with the ISIS group in Syria," he remarked.
Haiti had earlier noted that the police had arrested nine suspected terrorists in the five districts of Cilacap, Tasikmalaya, Sukoharjo, Mojokerto, and Gresik on December 19-20. They are identified by the initials: R, YS, AR, ZA, MKH, TP, IM, JA, and AK.
"Some of them are former members of Jamaah Islamiyah, while others have link with the ISIS group," he claimed.
The police chief affirmed late last month that the police were informed of the planned terrorist attack.
"We also received information from the Australian Federal Police (AFP), the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), and the Singapore Intelligence Service (SIS). We then monitored the groups suspected of committing terror attacks and which are registered in our database," he added.(*)
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