"We have passed on to him initial information, not the whole story, as we have heard that there are some arrests today," Presidential Spokesman Julian Aldrin Pasha said at the presidential palace complex here Thursday.
The information conveyed to the president was preliminary and informal in nature, he said, adding that the whole report would be directly submitted by the police to the president later.
"Formally, the Police chief will report to the President directly," he said.
Until Thursday noon, the police have not given information on the arrest of several people at Pondok Gede.
However, Pondok Kopi residents confirmed that police had detained several people in the area at around 5.30 am local time.
Earlier, Senior Commissioner Boy Rafli Amar, a spokesman of the National Police, said the police had managed to trace couriers of parcel bombs sent to four locations last March.
"The couriers of the parcel bombs sent to several places in Jakarta, have been traced," he said, here, Tuesday.
He said in the near future the bomb terror perpetrators would be revealed.
"There are positive developments for the time being," he said.
No one has been killed so far by parcel bombs, and only three policemen were injured when one of them was trying to defuse a parcel bomb sent to Ulil Abshar Abdallah, a founder of the Islam Liberal Network (JIL), at Utan Kayu, Jakarta, on March 15, 2011.
On March 15, in addition to the one at Utan Kayu, parcel bombs were also sent respectively to Goris Mere, the chief of the National Anti-Narcotics Agency (BNN), Yapto Soeryosumarno, the chief of the Pancasila (state ideology) Youth organization, and Ahmad Dhani, a musician.
The low-explosive bombs were generally put inside "books" with certain "messages". For Ulil and Goris, "the books" were entitled "They must be killed: For their sins against Islam and Muslims"; For Ahmad Dhani "Militant Jews"; and for Yapto "Does Pancasila Still Exist?".
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Editor: Jafar M Sidik
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