Indonesia's counter-terrorism unit has arrested 59 suspected militants including some loyalists of the Islamic State-inspired Jamaah Ansharut Daulah (JAD) suspected of planning to disrupt an upcoming election, a unit spokesperson said on Tuesday.
An armed police officer stands guard following a blast at a district police station, that according to authorities was a suspected suicide bombing, in Bandung, West Java province, Indonesia, December 7, 2022. REUTERS/Willy Kurniawan/File Photoof the Islamic State-inspired Jamaah Ansharut Daulah suspected of planning to disrupt an upcoming election, a unit spokesperson said on Tuesday.
Aswin Siregar, spokesperson for the Densus 88 counter-terrorism taskforce, said the JAD militants were suspected of plotting attacks to disrupt Feb. 14 presidential and legislative elections."They plan to attack police facilities. It relates to their main goal which is to cancel the election," he added without giving any more detail of the suspected plotting.
Indonesia is the world's most populous Muslim country and it saw a string of Islamist attacks in the years after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks on the United States including bombings on the holiday island of Bali in 2002 that killed more than 200 people, many of them Australian tourists.However, security analysts say the militant threat has diminished significantly in recent years, largely because of successful security force operations.
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