Samarinda city`s police chief, Senior Commissioner Arkan Hamzah, said here Sunday that the police investigators still handled the case but had yet to catch the suspect.
He said the bomb hoax had nothing to do with any network of terrorists in the country. "We suspect that the bomb terror is done by a person for fun; not for a true act of terrorism".
Apart from that, the police investigators had questioned a number of witnesses, including the Bankaltim building`s security guards and employees, he said.
Indonesia takes serious attention to any bomb threat due to deadly acts of terrorism it has undergone over the past ten years.
Despite the deaths of two Malaysian terrorists, Dr.Azhari Husin and Noordin M.Top, and the trio Amrozi, Ali Ghufron and Imam Samudra, Indonesia has yet to be free from the threat of terrorism.
The fact of a series of arrests and raids by the police during 2010 have shown that terrorist cells remain alive.
Last March, for instance, the police`s Densus 88 anti-terror unit launched an offensive and sweeping operations in Aceh province and Pamulang subdistrict, Tangerang district, Banten province.
Highly-wanted terrorist Dulmatin, along with some other terror suspects were killed in police operations. Dulmatin himself was shot dead in a raid on an Internet outlet in Pamulang.
Five months later, a group of armed men who the police believed were part of terrorist ring stormed and robbed the CIMB Niaga Bank in Medan, capital city of North Sumatra province, on August 15.
Former National Police Chief General Bambang Hendarso Danuri said the robbers
were ready to die and conduct "fai" or robbery on those considered kafir (infidels).
In another recent incident, an armed gang attacked a police station in Hamparan Perak, North Sumatra, leaving three police officers on duty dead.
The efforts of those that the police believed to be members of the terrorist ring to seek for funds continued last September. At that time a group of men robbed three automatic teller machines (ATMs) in West Sumatra.
The police shot dead at least three men who took part in the theft of three ATMs that were installed at the Bung Hatta University campus.
Due to the fact of everlasting threats of terrorism in the country, the Indonesian police do not relax their war on terror, including having good cooperation with their counterparts in neighboring countries.
On December 4, an Indonesian terror suspect named Fadli Sadama was extradited by the Malaysian police to Indonesia.
This 28-year-old man who was recently caught in Malaysia was suspected of having links with a Malaysian terrorist network and the Pattani United Liberation Organization (PULO) in South Thailand.
"Fadli planned to train in the two countries before returning to Indonesia to plot acts of terrorism in Pekanbaru, Riau province, and in the Mount Anak Krakatau area with foreign tourists as his main target," the National Anti-Terror Agency (BNPT) director Petrus Golosse recently said.
Golosse said the Malaysian terrorist group and the Thai separatist movement had regular contacts with Fadli to assist him to launch terror attacks in Indonesia, including a `Mumbai style` terror raid in Pekanbaru.
He also accused Fadli Sadama alias Fernando alias Said of planning a robbery in Medan, the provincial capital of North Sumatra, along with Tony Togar.
Togar himself had been captured by Indonesian police in Siantar city, North Sumatra, for his alleged involvement in the first bombing of the JW Marriott hotel in Jakarta in 2003.(*)
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