Indonesian police hunt for more suspects over foiled terrorist attacks

Source: The Guardian

Indonesian authorities are still hunting for suspects linked to planned terrorist attacks, including an alleged suicide bomb plot targeting New Year celebrations in Jakarta.

The weekend raids and arrest of six members of an allegedly Islamic State-inspired network came after the Australian federal police and US FBI shared information with their Indonesian counterparts.

“The AFP and FBI have been working together with the INP (Indonesian National Police), sharing threat reporting. This reporting has been used by INP to shape their investigations,” the AFP said on Monday.

The raids in five cities carried out by the counter-terrorism unit known as Densus 88 resulted in six arrests, including a teacher from an Islamic boarding school and a student, named as Zaenal, who was allegedly being “groomed” to carry out an attack.

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