Sutarman said he had prepared security for VVIPs namely heads of state of ASEAN member countries from the airport to where they stay, at conference venues and when they return home.
Jakarta (ANTARA News) - Jakarta police will continue monitoring terrorist cells despite recent arrests in connection with the ASEAN Summit to be held here on May 7-8, their chief, Inspector General Sutarman, said.

"We have unveiled the book bomb cases and arrested 20 suspects. But terrorist cells still exist in Jakarta," Sutarman said at a press conference along with Jakarta Governor Fauzi Bowo here on Tuesday.

The Jakarta police chief and Governor Fauzi Bowo along with Jakarta administration officials held a meeting earlier in the day to discuss the security of the ASEAN summit.

Sutarman said the police had already located the terrorist cells in Jakarta. "A team keeps monitoring and watching them," he said.

He said the police had also made efforts to de-radicalize community members whom terror groups intended to recruit.

Sutarman said he had prepared security for VVIPs namely heads of state of ASEAN member countries from the airport to where they stay, at conference venues and when they return home.

The police will also help other security forces securing eight hotels where ASEAN heads of state and government and delegations would stay namely Indonesia Kempinsky Hotel, Grand Hyatt, Mandarin, Four Seasons, Shangri-La, Mulia Senayan, Ritz-Carlton and JW Marriot.

The police would also stand guard at Gelora Senayan which is the venue of the conference and along the routes to the venue.

The coordinating ministry of political, security and legal affairs meanwhile said it believed the recent death of Osama bin Laden would not affect domestic security ahead of the ASEAN Summit.

However security apparatus had taken anticipatory measures with regard to the ASEAN summit, its spokesman, Sagom Tamboen, said to ANTARA News on Tuesday.

"We did not close possibilities about radical movements in the country carrying social symbols such as religious issues. However the death of Osama would not automatically trigger radical actions in the country," he said.

Sagom said he believed Osama`s death would make radical followers to re-think before conducting actions. "How strong his power may be he eventually fell when he had to deal with an official government holding legality to reinforce sovereignty," he said describing the fall of Osama.

Sagom said both the military (TNI) and the police had prepared themselves for any eventuality including possible radical actions to assure the security of the 18th ASEAN Summit.(*)

Editor: Heru Purwanto
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