Police play down new terror fear<\/p>\n
Eva C. Komandjaja, The Jakarta Post, Jakarta<\/p>\n
Police will not increase their presence in public places over the
\ncoming two months amid fears of a resurgence of terror activity
\nin the country.<\/p>\n
National Police spokesman Sr. Comr. Saud Usman Nasution said
\non Tuesday there would be no extra deployment of officers to
\nguard places that might be targeted by the terrorists such as
\nembassies or public facilities like shopping malls.<\/p>\n
\"We will remain on alert but we won't add more personnel. We
\nhave always been on guard all the time anyway, not just now or
\nwhenever we detect threats,\" Saud said.<\/p>\n
President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono has ordered security
\nofficers to raise their vigilance due to possible strikes in the
\nnear future. He noted that bomb attacks have occurred around
\nSeptember and October in the past three years.<\/p>\n
Saud said the police had not yet seen any increase in
\nterrorist activities in the last few weeks, contrary to the
\nPresident's statement that terrorist cells in the Southeast Asia
\nregion continue to maintain contact among themselves.<\/p>\n
\"We haven't received any threats yet and we don't detect any
\nintensification of terrorist activities,\" Saud said.<\/p>\n
Saud said that National Police chief Gen. Sutanto had ordered
\nregional police forces to intensify their search for two
\nMalaysian fugitives Azahari bin Husin and Noordin Mohd Top, who
\nare held responsible for three major bombings in 2002, 2003 and
\n2004.<\/p>\n
Saud added that Sutanto had signed a memorandum of
\nunderstanding with the Philippines police, due to findings that
\nmany Indonesian militants went to the Philippines for training
\nand returned home as skilled terrorists.<\/p>\n
Sutanto also intends to renew a similar agreement with the
\nAustralian police, whom the National Police worked with in
\ncapturing the culprits in the 2002 Bali bombings.<\/p>",
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