Police find active bombs in anti-terror search

The Jakarta Post, Surakarta, Thu, August 13 2015


The National Police’s counterterrorism squad, Densus 88, found active bombs and bomb-making instructions during searches over three locations in Surakarta, Central Java, on Thursday.

The Densus 88 team said they searched three locations: a mobile phone kiosk in Sangkrah sub-district, a house in Semanggi sub-district and a boarding room in Kebakramat, Karanganyar.

The team said the active bombs and bomb-making instructions were found in two of the three locations. The search was conducted following the arrest of three suspected terrorists, namely Giyanto, Yuskarman and Ibadurrahman in Semanggi, on Wednesday.

Densus 88 Sr. Comr. Ibnu Suhendro confirmed the discovery. He said the bombs were assembled at the hand phone kiosk in Sangkrah, the team’s first search location. The suspects then brought and kept the bombs, which were ready to be detonated, in the boarding room in Kebakramat.

“The National Police will hold a press conference regarding this [about the incident] tomorrow [Friday],” said Ibnu.

Kebakramat village head, Haryono, said a man had rented the room for three days at the rate of Rp 150,000 (US$10.95) per month. After paying the rent, the boarder put a number of cardboard boxes inside the room.

“I don’t know what his name is. He had once showed his ID to the room owner, but he immediately took it back when the owner wanted to register it, saying that he would copy it first,” said Haryono.

The Densus 88 team reportedly searched the mobile phone kiosk at around 11 a.m. local time. The search team consisted of 11 passenger vehicles, two trucks of Mobile Brigade (Brimob) personnel, one bomb squad (Jihandak) vehicle and one police forensic laboratory vehicle. Sangkrah sub-district head, Singgih Bagyono, witnessed the search.



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