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Police Find Weapons Cache at Bima School Site
Farouk Arnaz & Fitri R. | July 15, 2011

Officers from West Nusa Tenggara Police are on position outside the Islamic boarding school in Bima last Wednesday. (Antara Photo) Officers from West Nusa Tenggara Police are on position outside the Islamic boarding school in Bima last Wednesday. (Antara Photo)
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Sceptic
9:19pm Jul 15, 2011

Did any spokesman for the police explain how it was possible that nobody was in the surrounded school anymore?How did all these people get out without the police noticing?

Quote:He also threatened to close down the boarding school and send its students through a new guidance program should anyone there be found to belong to a radical group. Unquote.I guess the found evidence is not yet enough?

JohnnyCool
4:54pm Jul 15, 2011

Maybe the parents who sent their "children" to this "school" should be arrested as well. That's if they don't burn down their houses first.

anon.everywhere
1:55pm Jul 15, 2011

"At 5 a.m. on Thursday a house belonging to Abrory M. Ali, leader of the school, caught fire before police could search the premise for evidence.

Police have not ruled out the possibility of arson to tamper with evidence"

D'oh!! Do ya think?

lifeatsea
1:29pm Jul 15, 2011

So police are already backtracking? Let's see: The school's leader has not been arrested. Police are refusing categorize "wired bombs" as explosives. A man was killed teaching bomb-making techniques, yet they're not sure the school has ties to radicals. The students barricaded themselves INSIDE and refused to allow police in, yet once they finally got in "the school was empty" so they're still searching for the perpetrators.

JAT must have some powerful friends in Jakarta.

Serigala-Berbulu-Domba
12:23pm Jul 15, 2011

No great surprises here - if this salutary warning about the types of teachings associated with warped minds of the persons of influence in these schools is not rigorously acted upon by the Authorties (and the legal system), then one can only anticipate more of the same going forward.

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Police confiscated explosives, dozens of sharp weapons and bomb-making materials when they were finally able to enter an Islamic boarding school in Bima, Sumbawa island on Wednesday, two days after a bomb blast killed a man.

Four wired bombs fashioned from empty bottles and four unwired bottle bombs were found around the compound of the Umar bin Khatab school, National Police deputy spokesman Brig. Gen. Ketut Untung Yoga Ana told reporters at the National Police headquarters in Jakarta on Thursday.

Police also seized 25 arrows, samurai swords and dozens of jihadi materials.

“We are still searching for the perpetrators since the school was empty when we finally managed to enter it on Wednesday,” he said.

An officer from the National Police bomb squad, who declined to be named because he was not authorized to speak, told the Jakarta Globe the bottle bombs could not be categorized as explosives because they were lacking the necessary switches or detonators.

“They were more like Molotov cocktails,” the source said.

A homemade bomb exploded in a room at the boarding school on Monday afternoon, killing school treasurer Firdaus, also known as Suryanto Abdullah, who was 30 years old.

Police attempted to search the school for evidence, but the school’s management, students and some local residents, many of them reportedly armed with swords and possibly other weapons, barred police from entering the school compound.

Four platoons from the local Mobile Brigade (Brimob) police, the anti-riot squad and members of the Indonesian Armed Forces surrounded the school, where 45 students armed with sticks and machetes were holed up with teachers and an unknown number of supporters.

Police have arrested seven people so far. They were identified as Mustakim Abdullah, 17, Rahmad Ibnu Umar, 36, Rahmat Hidayat, 22, M. Yakub, 26, Julkifli, 23, Muslamin Talib, 38, and Sahrir bin Manhir, 23.

Police in West Nusa Tenggara (NTB) said all seven were still being questioned. Of the original 13 people apprehended after the blast, six have since been released.

“The people still incarcerated are those carrying weapons [in Tuesday’s standoff with police],” NTB provincial police spokesman Adj. Comr. Lalu Wirajaya told reporters in Mataram, the province’s capital.

At 5 a.m. on Thursday a house belonging to Abrory M. Ali, leader of the school, caught fire before police could search the premise for evidence.

Police have not ruled out the possibility of arson to tamper with evidence. The fire was put out at 10 a.m.

Police also raided the home of Firdaus, who was killed in Monday’s blast.

Religious Affairs Minister Suryadharma Ali admitted the boarding school had been problematic since its establishment in 2004.

He also threatened to close down the boarding school and send its students through a new guidance program should anyone there be found to belong to a radical group.

Son Hadi, a spokesman for Jama’ah Ansharut Tauhid, a hard-line group founded by convicted cleric Abu Bakar Bashir, acknowledged the boarding school had links with his organization.