“The Nationwide Police’s Particular Detachment 88 has arrested 24 suspected terrorist sympathisers concerned in (actions of) Poso-based MIT and ISIS,” the Police Public Relations Division’s Public Info Bureau head, Brigadier Basic Ahmad Ramadhan, said right here on Monday.
The bureau head remarked that the 24 suspects have been arrested concurrently on Saturday (Could 14) within the three provinces of Central Sulawesi, West Java, and East Kalimantan.
Of the 24 suspects, some 22 people have been arrested in Central Sulawesi, which is the bottom of the MIT terrorist group, he famous.
“Some 22 (suspects have been arrested) in Central Sulawesi, whereas we now have one suspect every in Bekasi (West Java) and East Kalimantan,” Ramadhan revealed.
Regardless of the arrest, the bureau head is but to disclose extra details about the suspects’ private id and their suspected roles and diploma of involvement with the terrorist teams.
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In the meantime, two fugitives belonging to the Poso-based MIT terrorist group are nonetheless at massive in Central Sulawesi following the demise of Suhardin alias Hasan Pranata on April 27.
Suhardin was killed throughout an operation carried out by the joint military-police Madago Raya Job Power deployed to hunt the terrorists.
Central Sulawesi Police Head Inspector Basic Rudy Sufahriadi urged the 2 fugitives to give up peacefully both to the duty power or the army or law enforcement officials.
Moreover, with regard to the development of safety circumstances in Central Sulawesi, some personnel deployed for the duty power have been withdrawn, in response to the Nationwide Protection Forces (TNI) commander.
“Tons of of TNI personnel have been step by step withdrawn (from their deployment) and returned to the respective models since March,” TNI Commander Basic Andika Perkasa said throughout his working go to to Palu, Central Sulawesi, on Friday (Could 13).
He defined that of the preliminary 267 personnel that fashioned the duty power, some 167 personnel have been returned to their models, and the remainder of the 100 personnel stay of their deployment space.
All remaining 100 personnel within the Madago Raya process power belong to army models inside the Central Sulawesi Province, the army commander remarked.
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