"We still continue to solidify preparations and coordinate security measures," Suryo, who is the chief of the 18th ASEAN Summit`s Security Operations Command, said here on Wednesday.
He said that the military had prepared contingency plans and scenarios to anticipate security problems in the ASEAN Summit 2011, including bomb threats.
Bomb threat scenarios were set in a drill on the sidelines of the visit of Vice President Boediono who observed the ASEAN Summit preparations on Wednesday.
"We have made various security threat scenarios such as bombings and their anticipatory measures in the way of an exercise," the chief of general staff of the army, Lt Gen S Suryo Prabowo, said here on Wednesday.
Suryo made the statement in connection with reports about the discovery earlier in the day of a suspicious object in a minibus at the first gate of the Bung Karno stadium compound near the summit`s venue. He said there had been no real bomb threat.
He said the TNI in the drill assumed that someone had seen a suspicious object resembling a bomb in a vehicle and reported it to the police.
A bomb defusing unit then came, checked and secured it.
Suryo said based on the results of the drill, the TNI and the police had come to the conclusion they needed to increase coordination.
(Uu.A014/HAJM)
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