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A rented house along Jalan Semanggi II, in the Ciputat area of Tangerang, has been raided by the anti-terrorism unit of the Indonesian police. Over a dozen members of Densus 88 raided the house when a gunfight erupted. After the raid, the police has closed off the area while residents had to keep some distance.
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Some 5.000 Muslims from several districts in the Surakarta region gathered yesterday to declare their fight against terrorism. A number of Islamic organizations and leaders of boarding schools gathered on the central square of Kotabarat to denounce acts of terrorism which have already killed hundreds in Indonesia alone in the past decade.
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The burial of the body of terrorist Urwah alias Bagus Budi Pranoto has lead to problems in the village of Mijen in Kudus regency. Villagers do not want the body to be buried in their graveyard. Urwah would have created a bad image for their village. The house of the family of Urwah in the city of Kudus also is quiet, not many people seem to want to day goodbye to the dead terrorist.
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A DNA test performed on the body of the terrorist of which the finger prints matched those of wanted Islamist militant Noordin M. Top have confirmed that he was indeed killed in a police raid. Earlier this week, anti-terrorist police raided a house in a village near Solo in Central Java, killing four and arresting three others.
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The parents of Adib Susilo, one of the terrorists that was killed in a police raid on a house in Mojosongo village near the city of Solo yesterday, went missing shortly after their son was killed. A neighbor told that Parno and hit wife Yanti were picked up by four men which were dressed up in similar clothing. This happened around nine in the morning, just a few hours after the police raid had come to an end and just moments before uniformed police arrived to pick up the parents.
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The head of the national police, Bambang Hendarso Danuri, has confirmed that Noordin M. Top, the most wanted terrorist in Southeast Asia, has been killed in a raid near the city of Solo in Central Java earlier today.
"The fingerprints we took from one of the terror suspects' bodies matched those of Noordin that we obtained from Malaysia. We found similarity in at least 14 points, which is a justifiable proof," told Bambang during a press conference at the National Police Headquarters.
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After last nights anti-terrorist raid by Densus 88, it is now speculating on who were among the three or four people killed in the gunfight and explosions in a house in a village near the city of Solo in Central Java. Some media already reported that they know for sure that Noordin M. Top has been killed this time and a member of parliament also said the same.
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The police are working on defusing a bomb that has been found during an anti-terror raid on a house in the village of Kepuhsari, near the city of Solo in Central Java. Dozens of police have closed off the entire neighborhood after the raid, in which a long gunfight was heard by residents. At the end of the raid there were two loud explosions. It is suspected that the police was on the hunt for suspects of the twin bombings in Jakarta last July.
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The special anti-terrorist unit Densus 88 has shot and killed three suspected terrorists in a village near the city of Solo in Central Java. The bodies have been taken to the airport of Adi Soemarmo, where they will be flown to Jakarta for further examination. The three dead terrorists were the result of a night long siege on a house in the village in which Densus 88 was in a gunfight with the suspected terrorists.
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Bali's Governor Made Mangku Pastika has asked the regent van Badung not to grant permission for the building of a night club on the location of the former Sari Club, destroyed by a terrorist bomb on October 12, 2002. Governor Pastika's recommendation comes following an announcement by a local businessman of his plans to build another night club on the lot.
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After three nights in 'Hotel Police Headquarters' in South Jakarta, Mohamad Jibril is now officially seen as the latest suspect in the twin suicide bombings of two hotel in Jakarta last month. "After thorough investigation, Mohamed Jibril is now an official suspect," said the head of the national police, Bambang Hendarsono Danuri after the Friday afternoon prayers.
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A member of the Indonesian parliament, Ali Mochtar Ngabalin of the Partai Bulan Bintang (PBB, Moon & Star Party) has said that the police is wrong in thinking that Mohamad Jibril is involved in looking for funds to pay for acts of terrorism in Indonesia. He said this after the family of Mohamad Jibril had a meeting with some of the members of the First Commission of the parliament. They asked the police to be closely watched so that he would not be intimidated.
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Abu Jibril, the father of fugitive terrorism suspect Mohamad Jibril, has said that the arrogance of which anti-terrorism unit Densus 88 executed their task. A 20-man team of Densus 88 searched the house of Abu Jibril last night. According to the father of eight children - yes the one who was pictured on this blog with a gun yesterday - they don't have any politeness in their guts.
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That terrorists are strange people might be nothing new to you, but the hype of denial is reaching new hights every single day. Fortunately for PKS member of parliament Anugerah, he was forgotten instantly when it became clear that the child of a former member of the Majelis Mujahidin Indonesia ('Mujahidin Council Indonesia', MMI) is wanted because of his involvement to last months suicide bomb attacks in Jakarta.
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Anugerah, member of the PKS '(Partai Keadilan Sejahtera', a strict Islamic party which earlier wanted a unitary Islamic state in Southeast Asia) said he didn't know that his little brother is a fugitive. Wanted for terrorist activities in Indonesia, Saefuddin Jaelani, is currently on the run for Indonesian authorities.
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Terrorists in Indonesia are said to have detailed plans to stage a terrorist attack on American president Barack Obama. The attack should be carried out by sharp shooters. This information was made public by a safety expert in Indonesia. Obama is expected to bring a visit to Indonesia in November this year.
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A house that is located in the foothills of Mount Salak, near Bogor, has been burned by residents in the village. The house was burned down because the residents suspected that the house was a hideout place for terrorist leader Noordin M. Top. Villagers said that they have seen a person that has the same face as the the terrorists seen in Cilacap and Temanggung.
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Haryadi Soetanto, military commander of the Diponegoro division of the Indonesian army, has said that Indonesians should not be scared to report people that dress different than what is normal in the current Indonesian culture. "If there are foreigners wearing a sorban (Islamic headscarf) or jubah (Islamic long robe) or even wear a beard, they should be reported to the local authorities. The people should be more direct in this kind of situations," he said.
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The Indonesian police has found explosives at a farm in Bogor, West Java province. The police seized some 12 kilograms of explosives of different types and at the moment they are looking for the person that has rented the place a while ago. Ugi, resident of Kampung Bojong in northern Bogor, told that he rented out the farm house to students for their research. The students who rented the place together are students at the Institut Pertanian Bogor (IPB).
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It has become clear to the Indonesian police force that terrorists in hiding are not that easy to catch. Noordin M. Top, Southeast Asia's number one searched for terrorist, was not killed in a police raid last week, but is still on the run, as he has been for the last seven years of his live.
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Residents of Kampung Caringin in the village of Sampora, Kuningan, have refused the burial of Ibrohim in their graveyard. Ibrohim was one of the people that helped bomb the J.W. Marriott Hotel and Ritz Carlton Hotel last month. Residents told that they don't want to have a body of a terrorist in their graveyard. The village head of Sampora, Nurohidin, confirmed the deman of his residents.
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Police in Indonesia said that a DNA test on the body of a man killed in the anti-terrorism raid in Temanggung last Saturday showed that the body was not terrorist mastermind Noordin M. Top. The body was identified by police as being the body of Ibrohim, who worked as a florist in the Ritz-Carlton Hotel in Jakarta which was the scene of a twin attack on July 17, 2009.
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Television station Aljazeera claims that it has received information from a source within the Indonesian national police force that the body of the person that was killed during the anti terrorism raid in Temanggung, Central Java, last Saturday is not that of terrorist Noordin M. Top. The police however suspects that the person killed is Noordin M. Top and DNA testing should soon conclude whether he was killed or not.
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The only way to find out who was killed in the raid by Indonesian anti-terrorist forces of Densus 88 yesterday in Temanggung Central Java, is by testing DNA. For now the police does not want to say a word about this test. Wawan Purwanto, a specialist on police matters says that it is very important that the final result of any test is made public as soon as possible. "Residents will always wonder about this," he said.
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Always wondered what a terrorist hide-out would look like? Well, it looks like any other house in the block because residents should not be aware of any strange activities of course. Terrorists prefer to blend in with the local population. The ones hiding out in the house in Temanggung that was stormed earlier today even worked the fields!
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Indonesian tv-station Metro TV states that the fugitive top-terrorist Noordin Mohammad Top has been killed by anti-terrorism forces while his hide-out in Beji village in the district of Temanggung was besieged. He is said to be shot in the chest.
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The anti-terrorst unit Densus 88 has placed police lines around the house they were besieging for over 12 hours. Five members of the team entered the house just 15 minutes ago with some gunfire. They came out a few minutes later, bringing a white object. The head of the regional police as well as the head of the national police have just arrived at the location of the shootout as well.
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Dozens of members of the anti-terrorism unit Densus 88 have moved towards the house where Noordin M. Top 'most likely' is hiding out. An explosion caused by Densus 88 was followed by some troops moving towards the house. Five of them have entered the house while firing shots. The other members of Densus 88 are currently on standby on several locations nearby the house.
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The Indonesian television has cleared out two stations of their normal programs which now broadcast live one of the biggest anti-terrorist actions in Indonesia ever. Hundreds of members of the national and regional police, anti-terrorism unit Densus 88 and the mobile brigade have gathered around a house in the village of Beji in the district of Temanggung.
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The police has started to clean out the house from hundreds of kilograms of explosives that were found inside the terrorist hide-out in the Nusaphala Indah housing complex in Bekasi, West Java province. The evacuation started around 07:30 local time and was witnessed by hundreds of locals which had flocked to the scene after two terrorists were killed there earlier today.
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Last night and early this morning, the police tried to raid the house of terrorist Mohzahri in the village of Dusun Beji, Temanggung, Central Java province. They did not get in the house because a heavy firefight broke out when people from inside the house started to shoot at the police.
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The Indonesian police have shot and killed two terrorists in a raid on the Nusaphala Indah housing complex in Jati Asih in the city of Bekasi, West Java province, early this morning. When the police started the raid, the two of them tried to escape. The identity of the two terrorists is not known yet. Based on information gathered on the scene, the police also found explosives and a red pick-up truck which was parked in front of the house.
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It took a few days for the national police in Indonesia to realize that they also should put their pictures of 'bombers' they are looking for on the internet as well. They eventually did so, and their picture is below. They are the suicide bombers that blew themselves up in the July 17 attacks on the J.W. Marriott Hotel and Ritz-Carlton Hotel in Jakarta.
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A Dutch man who went missing after the bombings in Jakarta just over a week ago, has certainly be killed in those bombings. The Department of Foreign Affairs of the Netherlands has told. The man is the second Dutch victim in the bombings. Most likely he is the husband of the Dutch woman who was confirmed to be killed in the bombings as well.
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The regional police of Surakarta (Solo) in Central Java, is doing all it can to make the moving space for terrorists in the region as small as possible. Outside the roadside checkups that are organized at various locations in the area, they have also printed some 15.000 posters with pictures of fugitive terrorist Noordin Mohammad Top. They are spread in busy areas in the entire district of Surakarta.
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Indonesian police is stepping up the hunt for wanted terrorist Noordin Mohammad Top (picture below) after the bombings of the J.W. Marriot and Ritz Carlon hotels in Jakarta last Friday. Recent information shows that Noordin is most likely involved in the bombings of the hotels via the terrorist network of Jemaah Islamiyah (JI). JI is known to have ties with the terror network of Osama bin Laden, Al-Qaeda.
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Dutch press agency Radio Nederland Wereldomroep (RNW) reports that the recent bombings on the J.W. Marriott Hotel and Ritz-Carlton Hotel are claimed by the militant Islamic Jemaah Islamiyah. They are said to have sent an SMS to RNW. Earlier Indonesian authorities already told that they suspected that the group, related to Al-Qaeda, was behind the attacks. The SMS sent to RNW is the first reaction of the terrorist organization.
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The JI was established as a loose confederation of several Islamic groups. Sometime around 1969, two men, Abu Bakar Bashir,and Abdullah Sungkar, began an operation to propagate the Darul Islam movement, a conservative strain of Islam. Darul Islam was almost eliminated in the 1950s after members belonging to that sect instigated a rebellion in an effort to create an Islamic state in parts of Indonesia.
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Jemaah Islamiyah ("Islamic Congregation"), or simply JI, is a Southeast Asian militant Islamic organization dedicated to the establishment of an Islamic State in Southeast Asia incorporating Indonesia, Malaysia, the southern Philippines, Singapore and Brunei. JI was added to the United Nations 1267 Committee's list of terrorist organizations linked to al-Qaeda or the Taliban on 25 October 2002 under UN Security Council Resolution 1267.
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In the last few days it has become clear that the idea to blow up the restaurants of the J.W. Marriott Hotel and Ritz-Carlton Hotel might have originated from the Malaysian terrorist-on-the-run Noordin Mohammad Top, which is related to the Southeast Asian terrorist network of Jemaah Islamiyah. Also some pesantren (islamic boarding school) in Central Java are closely watched for their possible connection to that person.
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As is made public now, two Dutchmen might have been killed in the terrorist attack in Jakarta last Friday. Two Dutchmen are missing according to a spokesperson of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Dutch police is also involved in the investigation to the victims of the attacks, according to a spokesperson for the nationwide police service KLPD.
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It was just a short visit to Jakarta, just one night, but it took place after the first bombing in a number of years in Indonesia. Where media all want to talk about the results for Indonesia - as if the country is as small as Luxembourg or Brunei, and even that is still too big - locals seem to go on with their lives as they did before. While the area around the two hotels, J.W. Marriott and Ritz Carlton was still partly closed off, the rest of Jakarta looked like a Saturday morning when it was Saturday morning.
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International suspicion focused Friday on a Malaysian accountant-turned-bombmaker as the instigator of a pair of blasts at Western hotels in Jakarta that may have signaled the re-emergence of deadly attacks by Southeast Asian groups affiliated with Al Qaeda, according to counterterrorism officials and analysts.
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Indonesia's TVOne showed closed circuit television footage on Friday of a man suspected of detonating a bomb that went off in the Ritz-Carlton hotel in Jakarta, one of two near-simultaneous bomb attacks. The CCTV footage showed a man wearing a baseball cap and pulling a small wheelie-bag behind him as he entered the hotel lobby.
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An active but unexploded bomb was found in one of the guest rooms of the J.W. Marriott hotel in Mega Kuningan, Jakarta. The bomb was found after a special bomb squad searched the entire hotel after two bombs exploded earlier today, killing nine people.
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At least eight people were killed in two powerful explosions at the JW Marriott and Ritz Carlton hotels Friday morning in the Indonesian capital, media reports said. Jakarta police officers said four foreigners died in the apparent attack, but media reports put the death toll at eight. A number of people were injured in the blasts.
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The head of the regional police of Banyumas, M. Ghufron, has said that one person has been arrested by the anti-terrorism unit Densus 88 because it is suspected that he is a terrorist. "We arrested one person in the region. After that we also searched his house," he said when he was asked for confirmation by telephone earlier.
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Mas Selamat Kastari, the suspected leader of the Jemaah Islamiah militant group had used an improvised flotation device to escape from the north shore of Singapore to Johor Baharu. Singapore Home Affairs Minister Wong Kan Seng said this happened after his escape from the Whitley Road Detention Centre on Feb 27 last year where he was being held under the Internal Security Act.
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At a prayer gathering, some 500 members of the radical Islamic Islamic Defenders Front FPI (Front Pembela Islam), held a warfare training session at the Mekarhayu Mosque in the village of Cilame in West Bandung. The activities that were organized there are related to volunteers of FPI who want to help ease the suffering of the people in the Gaza Strip, caused by the Israeli actions there.
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Indonesia will establish a counter-terrorist exercise on December 19-22 in the Malacca Strait as a part of the army-police joint exercise in overcoming terrorist threats on land, air and in the sea, the national Antara News Agency reported on Friday. Indonesian Coordinating Minister for Political, Legal and Security Affairs Widodo AS said that the exercise to be done in the Malacca Strait was a form of care Indonesia would show as a littoral country on the security of the world's busiest waterway.
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Three Bali bombers have been executed on an Indonesian island for their lead roles in the 2002 nightclub bombings that killed 202 people. The family of Mukhlas and his younger brother Amrozi said the bombers had been executed along with Imam Samudra just after midnight local time on Nusakambangan Island, in Central Java, where they had been jailed.
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The families of the Indonesian Islamists on death row for the 2002 Bali bombings which killed more than 200 people have been told to "get ready" for the executions, officials said Friday. In the latest indication that the men will soon face firing squads, prosecutors and police visited the family of brothers Amrozi, 47, and Mukhlas, 48, in this east Java village and warned them to prepare for bad news.
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The three Bali bombers on death row in Indonesia may be executed as early as Saturday, as security is tightened around their island prison. According to the office of Indonesia's Attorney-General, after midnight this Friday is the earliest time Amrozi, Mukhlas and Imam Samudra could face the firing squad.
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Australia says the recent arrest of a number of terrorist suspects in Indonesia indicates the threat from extremists is "ever present." Earlier this week, Indonesian police said they had captured five members of an Islamic militant cell, seizing arms, ammunition and explosives.
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Indonesia is to execute three Islamic militants for Bali bombing in October 2002, spokesman of the Attorney General Office Jasman Pandjaitan announced here Friday. The spokesman said that all the legal effort by Ali Gufron alias Muklas, Amrozi, and Imam Samudra alias Abdul Azis, to reduceor delete their punishment were aborted.
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Indonesian police say they've arrested five members of a terrorist cell that was planning to blow up a state oil facility in north Jakarta. After a series of arrests in recent days, Indonesia' national police spokesman announced that five suspected terrorists have been arrested in Jakarta and Bogor.
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Execution by firing squad does not violate Indonesia's constitution, the country's top court ruled on Tuesday. Indonesia's Constitutional Court rejected the claim by three men on death row, who were convicted in the 2002 Bali nightclub bombings, that their executions by firing squad would violate the country's constitution. Their request for beheading was also dismissed by the court.
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Three key Islamic militants on death row over the 2002 Bali bombings could be executed as early as next week. The Indonesian Government today took the unusual step of announcing that an announcement about the executions will be made on Friday, October 24. Indonesia typically announces executions after they have been carried out.
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Three Islamic militants on death row in Indonesia for their involvement in the deadly 2002 Bali bombings say they have no regrets about carrying out the attacks. The twin nightclub bombings killed 202 mostly foreign tourists. Speaking with a group of reporters Wednesday at a maximum security prison on an island in eastern Indonesia, the bombers warned that retribution would come to those who carry out their executions.
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The three sentenced to death for their part in the Bali bombings in October 2002, in which 202 people - mostly foreigners - died, are going to be executed, it's just that the exact time of their execution is not sure yet. The Attorney General's office by mouth of Abdul Hakim Ritonga said that the executions are going to take place for sure. "The final decision for Amrozi and the two other bombers is already received by the Attorney General, which just needs to response to it," he said.
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A member of the staff of the Attorney General in Jakarta, Abdul Hakim Ritonga, said that the execution order for the three convicted of being the masterminds of the Bali bombs in 2002, is already on the table of Attorney General Hendarman Supanji. According to Ritonga, the execution is just a doorstep away, waiting for final approval by the Attorney General. "The documents are on his table already."
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The court in Bali is currently preparing the paperwork needed for the three that are sentenced to death because of their involvement in the first Bali bomb attack in 2002. These steps are taken in order to make sure that the executions will take before the holy month of Ramadan. "All paperwork is currently being gathered. Tomorrow we will hand it over to the Attorney General in Jakarta," said Putu Alit Adnyana a spokesperson of the court in Denpasar.
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The Attorney General will order the execution of the people convicted for the Bali Bomb attacks in October 2002 before the start of the Islamic holy month of Ramadan. This decision is made based on sociological factors of the people. "If the execution is performed during the holy month of fasting, it will disturb the fasting of many. Outside that, it will also interfere with the psychological mind of the people," said Attorney General Hendarman Supandji during a press meeting in the Attorney General's main building at Jalan Sultan Hasanuddin in Jakarta earlier today.
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A court official with the Bali court has said that the final appeal by the three Islamic militants that are convicted over the 2002 Bali bombings has been rejected, bringing them closer to being executed. The head of the court, Nyoman Gede Wirya, said that the men now formally had to ask the president for clemency if they want to avoid the death penalty.
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A police spokesperson for the national police force, Abubakar Nataprawira, has said that the special anti-terrorism unit - usually named 'Densus 88' - has not arrested the most wanted terrorist in Southeast Asia, Noordin Top. "We didn't capture him yet, but we are still looking for him," said Abubakar when asked about his possible arrest.
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Indonesian police say 10 terror suspects arrested in Southern Sumatra this week were involved in a plot to bomb a cafe visited by tourists. The Bedudel Cafe is the most popular cafe for foreign tourists visiting Bukitinggi in West Sumatra. Australian tourists are among the most common visitors to the cafe.
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The police has arrested seven people who are suspected terrorists at three different hide-outs in southern Sumatra. According to the police one suspect was arrested in Musi Banyuasin while the six others were secured in the city of Palembang. One of the seven is supposed to be a member of a terrorist network. Details released by the police are still sketchy.
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South East Asia's most wanted terror suspect accused of directing the 2002 Bali bombings may have evaded a massive manhunt and fled Indonesia, according to police interrogation documents. The documents, obtained by the Associated Press, include interviews with two senior Indonesian members of the Jemah Islamiyah network, the same network suspected terrorist Noordin Top belongs to.
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Indonesian prosecutors said on Friday that Central Java has been selected for the venue to execute three convicted militants in death row for their key roles in the 2002 Bali bombings. "We are now asking approval from the Ministry of Justice," deputy attorney general Abdul Halim Ritonga was quoted by leading news website Detikcom as saying.
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Indonesian authorities have arrested an alleged member of the Southeast Asian terror group Jemaah Islamiyah (JI) in connection with the 2005 Bali bombings that killed 20 people and injured over a hundred, a police spokesman told AFP Monday. Faiz Fauzan is accused of helping to plan a second suicide bombing on the island and is reported to have close connections with JI leader Noordin Muhammad Top.
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A court in Indonesia has sentenced two leaders of the Jemaah Islamiyah terrorist network to 15 years in prison. The network is blamed for the 2002 Bali bombings. The self-proclaimed leaders, Abu Dujana and Zarkasih, were sentenced in the district court of South Jakarta.Both were arrested in separate police raids in June 2007. They were finally found guilty of helping terrorists and possessing, storing and moving weapons.
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Indonesian authorities have arrested two more members of the Islamic militant group Jemaah Islamiyah. A senior police official in Jakarta says the arrests may help police to track down Noordin Mohammad Top, one of the most senior members of the Jemaah Islamiah who is still on the run.
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Indonesian prosecutors have called for life sentences for two alleged former Jemaah Islamiah top commanders. Dujana and Zarkasih are both accused of being key players in terrorist attacks across Indonesia. Abu Dujana allegedly had a hand in the 2002 Bali bombings and the 2004 attack on the Australian embassy.
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The Indonesian Attorney Generals Office (AGO) said Tuesday the execution of three convicted Bali bombers must wait their decision whether or not they ask a presidential pardon. "They have said earlier they will never ask for a presidential pardon. But if they will, then we must wait," AGO spokesman Bonaventura Nainggolan told reporters here.
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The Indonesian government should more closely monitor publishers associated with Indonesia’s most prominent extremist organisation, Jemaah Islamiyah (JI).
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A suspected Indonesian militant faced his terror trial here Tuesday with the charge of training the military wing of shadowy terror group Jemaah Islamiyah. Suparjo, the defendant, admitted that he was an instructor who trained the group's followers how to use M-16 assault riffles at secret places, including in northern Javanese coasts and mountainous areas in Central Java.
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President Yudhoyono said that the death sentence for three Islamic militants, which are currently on death row for their part in the 2002 Bali bombings, must be carried out. With this he clearly indicates that there is no way of granting them clemency. Imam Samudra, Amrozi and Ali Gufron face execution by a firing squad after the Supreme Court rejected their final appeal. The three also refused to seek clemency from the president, saying that they want to die as martyrs.
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Dozens of people have placed flowers and pictures of their loved ones at a memorial service held on the site of the deadly Bali bombings of October 11, 2002. It was the fifth anniversary of the attack yesterday.
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The three Bali bombers on death row in Bali are likely to be executed even if a court revokes the law permitting executions, a human rights campaigner says. Islamic militants Imam Samudra, Ali Ghufron and the so-called smiling terrorist Amrozi, are on death row in Indonesia for their parts in the October 2002 nightclub bombings, which killed 202 people including 88 Australians.
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The Supreme Court in Indonesia has rejected final appeals from all three Islamic militants on death row for the 2002 Bali bombings, meaning they face execution by firing squad. A request by one of the bombers, Amrozi, for a case review - the final legal avenue for appeal under Indonesian law - was rejected earlier this month. Now his two accomplices have also had their requests rejected, Supreme Court spokesman Nurhadi told the online Detikcom news agency.
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An Indonesian Islamic militant serving 20 years in prison for plotting a deadly cafe explosion in 2004 has escaped from jail in South Sulawesi province, an official of the prison said on Monday. Jasmin Bin Kasau used a rope to climb a wall of Guning Sari prison on last Friday night after a mass prayer, the official named only Rusdini said.
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The Indonesia Supreme Court has rejected a request for a judicial review filed by - one of three terrorist sentenced to death for their role in the October 12, 2002, that claimed the lives of 202 people and seriously injured scores of others.
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Ten prisoners convicted for the bombings on Bali in 2002 had their prison terms cut by up to five months today, angering relatives of some of the victims. The six, convicted for their involvement in the 2002 bombings which left 202 people dead, have been given remissions of five months as part of the Indonesian Independence Day celebrations.
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Indonesian police said yesterday they had captured the head of Southeast Asian extremist network Jemaah Islamiyah, blamed for some of the deadliest terror attacks in the region. They said Zarkasi had been heading the militant Muslim outfit since 2004 and that he had been seized in raids last weekend which also netted the alleged head of a JI special forces unit.
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The Indonesian police confirmed Wednesday that Abu Dujana, suspected of being military leader of the Jemaah Islamiyah terrorist group, had been arrested and was in custody in Banyumas, Central Java.
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Authorities have arrested a close aide to the most-wanted terrorist in Indonesia, police said earlier today. A suspect was shot in the leg when he tried to escape a raid on his hideout. "Yusron Ahmahmud was wounded during the raid, but is in good condition," said national police spokesman Sisno Adiwinoto. "He is being questioned by police."
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Just over one week ago it all happened. At walking distance one person was killed, some were arrested and after that the party was over as quick as it started. It wasn't a criminal shootout and n drugs were found as well. It was nothing more than busting some terrorism-suspects by an anti-terror squad from the Indonesian police (Densus 88); they were simply overwhelmed in their hide-out. The one that tried to flea, was directly given some bullets and didn't survive the event. Seven others were arrested. In fact that could be the entire story, but it was just not to happen that way. It proved to be the start of what currently looks like a terror cell uncovered. Within two weeks after the first shooting several more police actions were held. Police is scarce with giving information, but in recent days is became clear that most likely a part of the Southeast Asian terror network Jemaah Islamiyah has been found.
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Police in Yogyakarta say they have found maps and charts mapping the structure of Jemaah Islamiyah, the Southeast-Asian extremist branch of Al-Qaeda, responsible for terror attacks including those on Bali in 2002. A board governed the group, according to the photocopied charts, which contain handwritings of suspected group leader Abu Dujana, as was told by anti-terror police chief Brigadier General Surya Dharma.
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A report recently published claims that Islamic militants from a group linked to Al-Qaeda have held armed training exercises on the slopes of the Mount Sumbing volcano on the island of Java. Tempo magazine says the militants from the Southeast Asian group Jemaah Islamiyah, held at least two training exercises on the high slopes.
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Indonesia police chief Sutanto has said that explosives found this month in different raids throughout the island of Java, exceeded the amount used in the 2002 Bali bombings. At that time, a bomb-laden mini-van killed 202 people when it was brought to explosion near nightclubs in Kuta Beach at 12 October 2002. The bomb was believed to be produced by Malaysian terrorist Azahari Husin, who killed himself in 2005 when police was hunting him down.
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An anti-terrorist unit of the Indonesian police has found a huge stash of weapons and explosives in a house in Yogyakarta following tips from suspects arrested earlier this week. A spokesman of the police said this yesterday. On Tuesday night, a suspected militant was shot dead and another wounded while several others were arrested. They are believed to be linked to Abu Dujana, the leader of Jemaah Islamyah, the Southeast Asian militant network.
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One suspected militant has been killed while another was wounded during an ambush by an anti-terror unit in the city of Yogyakarta in central Java. This was announced by the police today. The police also arrested 'several suspects' after a gunbattle on Tuesday evening. National police spokesman Sisno Adiwinoto told reporters the entire story, including the fact that top militant Abu Dujana was not apprehended, on contrary what rumors said.
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Australian and Indonesian intelligence reports signal that murderous sectarian violence is to return to the area of Poso, Central Sulawesi. Last week, information was released concerning islamic militants that have been blamed for a series of deadly bombings in Jakarta and Bali could be in the last stages of planning fresh attacks in Poso. Australia warned nationals to avoild travelling to Central Sulawesi. The United States and New Zealand have issued similar warnings.
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Basri - one of Indonesia's most wanted Islamic militants - wears a tattoo of Mickey Mouse on his wrist and drank alcohol when he was young. He jammed on Nirvana songs in a rock band. He wasn't religous and even now he struggles remembering the verses of the Quran, the holy book of Islam. As Islamic militant he is accused of beheading three Christian girls and other attacks on the island of Sulawesi, a front for Islamic militants.
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Indonesia will be allowed to interrogate an alleged Asian terrorist chief being held at the U.S. prison in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, a police spokesman said Saturday. U.S. officials had previously refused Indonesian investigators access to Hambali, also known as Riduan Ismaddin, because they said doing so could compromise their own investigation of his activities.
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Policemen arrested on Thursday two men wanted as top members of a local Islamic militant group that has terrorized the country's Central Sulawesi province and had links to an Asian terror network, police said. Officers wounded one of them who had fired at the security forces, said a senior police official in Central Sulawesi's Poso regency, where raids on hideouts of suspected militants have intensified recently.
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Renewed trouble in Indonesia's central Sulawesi island, long the site of deadly Christian-Muslim rivalry, underscores how communal tensions may help reinvigorate the country's militant Islamic movement.
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Coordinating Minister for Political, Legal and Security Affairs Widodo Adi Sutjipto said despite a decrease in terrorist attacks in the past year, the government would focus on terrorism in securing national stability. "Objectively, we must say that this year has been relatively more conducive as terrorist attacks in the country have decreased," the minister said here on Wednesday.
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Americans and other Westerners in Indonesia should remain alert to the possibility of militant attacks over the Christmas and New Year period, the U.S. embassy in Jakarta said on Monday. Indonesia, the world's most populous Muslim country, has in recent years been hit by a series of bomb blasts blamed on Islamic militants.
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An Indonesian court has sentenced a militant to three years in jail for storing explosives used in the 2004 suicide bombing of the Australian embassy here, a court clerk said Wednesday. Twelve people, including the bomber, were killed when an explosives-laden van exploded in front of the mission on September 5, 2004.
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