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Jakarta Bombings: Police Chief Says Investigations Progressing Well
Farouk Arnaz & Ferry Irwanto | July 25, 2009

Debris is removed from the bomb-damaged J.W. Marriott hotel on Friday. (Photo: Achmad Ibrahim AP) Debris is removed from the bomb-damaged J.W. Marriott hotel on Friday. (Photo: Achmad Ibrahim AP)
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Valkyrie
7:55am Jul 25, 2009

C'mon people!!!

Let the Police do their job. I am confident that they will solve this matter. We must support their efforts and I ask, especially towards the media sector, to please work with the Police and DO NOT seek sensationalism.

Unwarranted data the media airs might interfere with current investigations. The media should do what they do best, just report and and not percolate issues unfamiliar to them.

Constant airing of the bombings are not positive. On the other hand, they just feed more ego into the minds of the perpetrators. How does continued airing of the "killing zones" help? If this continues, a lot of people will probably have nightmares. This is what the terrorist desire, to strike fear into the hearts and minds of Indonesians. TV stations should address the situation in a positive manner by presenting programmes condemning suicide bombings and radical groups that support them.

Once again I ask that TV stations should tone down news on the recent bombings.


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A week after blasts ripped through two hotels in Jakarta, killing nine people and injuring at least 55, police have managed to gather significant information in their investigation, the National Police said.

“We are working hard and, God willing, from what we have done we have been able to obtain significant information,” National Police Chief Gen. Bambang Hendarso Danuri told reporters on Friday.

He confirmed that some of the information was related to a foiled plan to hijack an aircraft. Police sources had previously told the Jakarta Globe that terrorists had plotted to hijack an aircraft and crash it into a high-rise building.

A member of the National Police’s counterterrorism unit told the Jakarta Globe that the plot had been uncovered by IT forensics including from telephone and e-mail trails.

“Thank God we have unraveled everything. We just need to wait for further information from our on-site intelligence,” the senior officer said, declining to provide further details, saying only, “we don’t want the suspects to escape.”

Bambang denied accusations that the police had been negligent in allowing the bombings to take place, arguing that there had been no attacks over the past four years and that the police had captured a number of wanted terrorists.

“This year we detained Abu Zar aka Udin, aka Usama, aka Salim, in Kalimantan, from whom we obtained a compact disc and the pictures shown by President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono,” he said, referring to photos of alleged terrorists the president displayed while making a speech hours after the blasts.

“We also know that Bahrudin, the guy we are still looking for, is the father-in-law of our most wanted fugitive,” Bambang said, referring to Malaysian Noordin M Top, who has been accused of masterminding a string of attacks, including the Bali bombings in 2002 and 2005.

But Bambang declined to comment on the recent arrests in Cilacap, Central Java of Bahrudin’s wife and daughter, as well as Achmady — a man identified as a would-be suicide bomber.

“I will reveal everything publicly later,” he said.

Bambang also declined to comment on the status of Ibrahim, a florist at the Ritz-Carlton Hotel who has been missing since the attacks. DNA tests have shown he was not one of the still- unidentified bombing suspects.

“We are still working on it, exchanging information, and opening up to some other parties, including the Australian Federal Police and the US Federal Bureau of Investigation, but so far we are not yet involving them in this case,” he said.

A Foreign Affairs Ministry spokesman said Washington had already offered its database on terrorists, including forensic and DNA information.