Jakarta (ANTARA News) - The Jakarta Metropolitan Police will deploy 2,500 personnel to secure cleric Abubakar Ba`asyir`s trial which will take place here on Monday, a spokesman said,

"The personnel will be positioned in five concentric rings," Jakarta Metropolitan Police Headquarters` spokesman Senior Commissioner Baharuddin Djafar said adding that there would be an additional force of 300 personnel from the Indonesian Military (TNI).

The police troops would be armed rubber bullets and supported by barracuda and water cannon.

At Monday"s court session, the court will hear the prosecution`s indictment against Abubakar Ba`asyir who is accused of financing terrorist` activity in Indonesia.(*)

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