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Dicky Christanto , The Jakarta Post , Jakarta | Sat, 08/08/2009 9:37 PM | National National Police chief Gen. Bambang Hendarso Danuri has called on the public to keep an eye on former terrorists as they may seek another chance to launch attacks. Bambang said the public played a pivotal role in reintegrating the former terrorists into the society. “We hope the public to monitor the former terrorists after they serve their jail sentence and accept them so as to prevent them from rejoining the terror group,” Bambang told a press conference on Saturday. Bambang made the statement after the police identified a terror suspect shot dead in a raid on a house in Jatiasih in the West Java town of Bekasi earlier on Saturday as Air Setiawan, who had been released from prison after serving a five-year jail term for his role in the bomb attack on the Australian Embassy in Jakarta in 2004. The police confiscated from the house around 500 kilograms of explosiv...

Dicky Christanto , The Jakarta Post , Jakarta | Sat, 08/08/2009 8:55 PM | National Most wanted terror suspect Noordin M. Top stayed in a house rented by his accomplice in Jatiasih in the West Java town of Bekasi after suicide bomb attacks on two South Jakarta hotels last month, police say. “We found that Noordin stayed at the safe house in Jatiasih after the July 17 bombings,” National Police chief Gen. Bambang Hendarso Danuri told a press conference on Saturday. He said a terror suspect who was arrested on Aug. 5 in North Jakarta, Amir Abdillah, told the police investigators during a questioning that Noordin was in Jatiasih to lead a plan to launch fresh attacks in Jakarta. The police’s counterterror squad raided the house early Saturday, killing two terror suspects following an exchange of fire. Noordin is believed to have been shot dead in another raid on a house in the Central Java town of Temanggung on Saturday.

Dicky Christanto , The Jakarta Post , Jakarta | Sat, 08/08/2009 8:20 PM | National President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono is among the targets of a series of new attacks to be perpetrated by the terror network under Noordin M. Top after Aug. 17, police say. National Police chief Gen. Bambang Hendarso Danuri said the terror group intentionally rented a house in Jatiasih in the West Java town of Bekasi, which is located 12 minutes drive from the president’s private residence in Cikeas in the West Java town of Bogor. “Why Jatiasih? Because it is situated just about 12 minutes drive from the president’s [private] residence. It’s a legal fact that the target is the president’s house,” Bambang told a media conference on Saturday. Bambang said a terror suspect who had arrested before a raid on the house in Jatiasih, Amir Abdillah, told police investigators during a questioning that the terror group set their sight on the presidential palace and his privat...

Dicky Christanto , The Jakarta Post , Jakarta | Sat, 08/08/2009 7:45 PM | National The terror group under Noordin M. Top had planned to launch a series of bomb attacks in Jakarta after the anniversary of Indonesia independence on Aug. 17, police say. National Police chief Gen. Bambang Hendarso Danuri told a media conference two terror suspects who were shot dead in a raid on a house in Puri Nusa Phala housing complex in Jatiasih in the West Java town of Bekasi had prepared a car bomb for the fresh attack. Bambang said an interrogation of an arrested terror suspect, Amir Abdillah, the planned attack was discussed at the house, which was rented by Ahmad Fery. “Already prepared were a car for the suicide bomb attack and its driver. The man recruited for the attack that would be perpetrated after August 17 was IB alias Boim,” Bambang said. Bambang said Amir had reserved a room at JW Marriott Hotel for Dani Dwi Permana and Nana Ikhwan Maulana who bl...

Dicky Christanto , The Jakarta Post , Jakarta | Sat, 08/08/2009 7:19 PM | National After weeks of investigation, police revealed on Saturday the identity of the suicide bombers of two hotels in South Jakarta. National Police chief Gen. Bambang Hendarso Danuri said the suicide bomber of JW Marriott Hotel was identified as Dani Dwi Permana, a 18-year-old senior high school graduate of a private senior high school in Bogor, West Java. Bambang said the police confirmed the suicide comber’s identity on Aug. 3 after DNA tests on his family. “The perpetrator was recruited in Bogor,” Bambang said. The suicide bomber of Ritz-Carlton Hotel was identified as Nana Ikhwan Maulana, a youth from Pandeglang in Banten. Bambang did not unveil Nana’s age. Bambang said the two suicide bombers were recruited by a man identified only as SJ alias AT, who is still at large. The bomb attacks on the two hotels on July 17 killed nine people, including six foreigners.

The Jakarta Post , Jakarta | Sat, 08/08/2009 7:13 PM | National The National Police chief said Saturday they could not confirm Noordin M Top was killed during a police shootout in Temanggung, Central Java, despite media speculations that Noordin was killed. National Police chief Bambang Hendarso Danuri told a press conference that the police could not yet confirm whether the man killed during the shootout was Noordin because the police had not yet conducted a DNA test. "We could not yet disclose the identity of the killed man," Bambang Hendarso said during the press conference. "After the DNA test, we will announce it, based on facts, not based on speculations." Bambang Hendarso said the police would seek from the family of Noordin M Top a DNA sample to confirm his death. The remains of a man believed to be Noordin had been transported from Temanggung in Central Java to Jakarta. The remains are currently kept at a polic...

The Jakarta Post , Jakarta | Sat, 08/08/2009 5:35 PM | National President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono congratulated the National Police on Saturday for its crackdown on the terrorists’ network in the country, which led to the death of most wanted suspect Noordin M. Top. The president called the police raids on terror suspects in two houses in the West Java town of Bekasi and the Central Java town of Temanggung as “a successful operation” to enforce the law. “On behalf of the state, the government and people of Indonesia, I thank the police for their successful operation,” Yudhoyono told a media conference after a meeting with National Police chief Gen. Bambang Hendarso Danuri at the presidential office. Yudhoyono said the operation was “important” in the country’s fight against terrorists and to protect the people. The raids in the last two days capped a concerted law enforcement operation in Jakarta, West Java and Central Java, the president sai...