JAKARTA, Jun 19 (NNN-ANTARA) – The Indonesian police announced yesterday that, they have arrested four suspected terrorists affiliated to the Daesh-linked terrorist group, Jamaah Ansharut Daulah (JAD), in separate operations in the country’s province of West Java, in the past three days.
The National Police’s spokesman, Ahmad Ramadhan, said, the anti-terrorism unit Densus 88, on Wednesday arrested three people in Pangandaran district, for allegedly being involved in JAD, an organisation declared illegal in 2018.
Ramadhan said, the three suspects were allegedly involved in terrorist activity in Sept, 2019, with other members of JAD in the East Priangan region.
Another suspect, he said, was arrested by the special unit in Linggajaya village of Tasikmalaya district, yesterday.
JAD is responsible for a string of attacks, including a suicide bombing at a cathedral in Makassar City on Sulawesi Island in Mar this year, and several suicide bombings at churches in East Java in 2018, which killed a dozen people.– NNN-ANTARA
