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Police Have Yet to Arrest Church Bomber's Accomplices
Farouk Arnaz | September 30, 2011

Policemen and their bomb squad vehicle guard the site of an explosion at a church in Solo, Central Java on Sunday. A suspected suicide bomber attacked a church on Indonesia Policemen and their bomb squad vehicle guard the site of an explosion at a church in Solo, Central Java on Sunday. A suspected suicide bomber attacked a church on Indonesia's Java island on Sunday, killing himself and injuring 17 people, police said. (Reuters Photo)
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Six days after the church bombing in Solo, Central Java, the police have yet to arrest any of the suicide bomber’s accomplices.

The police named four people as alleged accomplices of the bomber, 31-year-old Ahmad Yosepa Hayat, a member of Jamaah Ansharut Tauhid (JAT), a group founded by militant spiritual leader Abu Bakar Bashir.

“We have added two more alleged accomplices to the list of wanted people so the total is now six people,” the National Police spokesman Insp. Gen. Anton Bachrul Alam said on Friday, declining to name the two.

The four named accomplices are Yadi al Hasan, Nanang Irawan, Beni Asri and Heru Komaruddin.

“We have questioned 37 people in the case,” Anton said.

A source at the National Police’s elite counterterrorism unit Densus 88 said they were continuing the investigation and focusing on some members of Hayat’s network who were recently captured. One of them is a man named Ari Budi, who was arrested in Temanggung, Central Java.

“Ari knows a lot about Hayat’s movement. He went to Solo a few times with Hayat,” the source said. “He also knew that Hayat was going to carry out the attack but he said he didn’t know when it would happen.”