"P came from Aceh province, and was a documentary movie director. It is suspected that he planned to make a film of the bombing action."Jakarta (ANTARA News) - National Police`s spokesman Inspector General Anton Bachrul Alam stated the 19 book-bomb terrorist suspects were led by a documentary movie director known by his initial as P.
"P came from Aceh province, and was a documentary movie director. It is suspected that he planned to make a film of the bombing action," Anton said.
The spokesman also said the suspects were a new group and that they had learned how to spread terror from books.
Last March 15, unidentified people sent book bomb parcels to three different places in Jakarta.
The bomb parcels were addressed to Chief of Utan Kayu Community Ulil Abshar Abdalla, Head of National Narcotics Agency Gories Mere, figure of Pancasila Youth Organization Yapto S. Soeryosumarno.
A similar packet was addressed to musician Ahmad Dhani a day after.
The bomb packet for Ulil exploded when Commissioner Dody Rahmawan and several other officers tried to defuse it.
The explosion injured two officers, Inspector II Bara Libra Sagita and Mulyana, and cut Commissioner Dody`s palm.
Earlier, Ansyaad Mbai, head of the National Agency for Tackling Terrorism (BNPT), said efforts to stop bomb attacks were being geared up after authorities had found evidence that the terrorists who had sent book-bombs were also planning more attacks, including on religious buildings.
"Those already arrested were the suspected perpetrators of the recent parcel bombing and who are also planning attacks on churches," said Mbai after a security meeting at the Presidential office.
Security personnel , he said, keep on investigating the previous attacks and the other cases relating to the bomb attack.
The anti-terror expert, however, could not clearly explain if the suicide bombing in the mosque inside the Cirebon City police precinct last week had any relation with earlier attacks using package bombs.
"This is a radical movement and as such will have their correlations. There`s a major main stream," said Mbai, explaining that despite the seemingly uncorrelated, radical movements in Indonesia share a similar way of thinking.
In a latest case, security authorities have found a large-scale time bomb hidden under the gas pipeline of state gas company PGN at Cihuni village, Serpong in Tangerang regency on Thursday.
The bomb was found under the gas pipeline only 100 meters away from the Christ Cathedral at Serpong.
(Uu.A051/H-NG/H-YH)
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