Police to release 20 JSX bombing suspects<\/p>\n
JAKARTA (JP): Twenty of the 30 people detained over the
\nbombing of the Jakarta Stock Exchange (JSX) building will be
\nreleased soon, an officer said on Thursday.<\/p>\n
Jakarta Police deputy chief Brig. Gen. Makbul Padmanegara told
\na news conference that the 20 men would be released by Friday.<\/p>\n
However, Makbul said the men would not be freed from the
\ninitial charges against them since they were still suspects in
\ntwo bombing cases.<\/p>\n
"They will be released only because they meet the criteria to
\nhave their detention suspended," Makbul said, referring to an
\nofficial request submitted by their lawyers from the Indonesian
\nLegal Aid and Human Rights Association (PBHI).<\/p>\n
Makbul, however, did not disclose the names of the 20
\nsuspects.<\/p>\n
A police document, which could not be confirmed as official,
\nrevealed that the men had been charged for failing to report a
\ncrime immediately to the police.<\/p>\n
National Police criminal investigation deputy head Brig. Gen.
\nAnsyaad Mbai said at the media conference that four of the 36
\nsuspects were prime suspects in bombing cases.<\/p>\n
Two of them, Ansyaad said, identified as Tengku Ismuhadi and
\nIbrahim A. Manaf, acted as the planners and controllers of the
\nSept. 13 JSX bomb attack.<\/p>\n
Aceh Police deputy chief Brig. Gen. Hasikin, who is also a
\nmember of the investigative team, identified the two others as
\nmilitary officers Ibrahim Hasan and Irwan.<\/p>\n
The two, he said, were operators who assembled and planted the
\nbomb at the JSX building, which later killed 11 people, injured
\ndozens and damaged some 200 vehicles.<\/p>\n
Hasikin told the news briefing that Ibrahim A. Manaf had
\nadmitted that the group was funded by someone called Armea, a
\ntreasurer of the separatist Free Aceh Movement (GAM) for the
\nPidie and Pasei areas in northern Aceh.<\/p>\n
He added that the suspects had obtained the money by selling
\noil palms, logs and mugging people.<\/p>\n
"Armea's superior is a man named Zakaria and Zakaria's
\nsuperior is GAM minister Malek Mahmud, who lives overseas and
\nsits on the humanitarian pause (committee)," Hasikin said without
\nmentioning the name of the country.<\/p>\n
In the same conference, National Police spokesman Brig. Gen.
\nSaleh Saaf denied allegations that the police had handled the
\ncase carelessly and did not have any evidence when making the
\narrests.<\/p>\n
"We have been conducting the investigation in accordance with
\nthe law and we have not fabricated any evidence," Saleh said.<\/p>\n
PBHI earlier voiced suspicion that the arrests had not been
\nbacked by adequate evidence and that the police had tried to
\nframe suspects using fabricated evidence.<\/p>\n
"Police forensics found similar explosive materials in the
\nworkshop and at the JSX building," Saleh said, referring to Krung
\nBaro Motor auto repair shop in Ciganjur, South Jakarta, where the
\npolice arrested 22 men, including workshop owner Ismuhadi, on
\nSept. 23.<\/p>\n
Saleh also said the police found at the workshop a bomb timer
\nand carpet fiber similar to those found at the JSX building.<\/p>\n
Saleh said the police investigation had proved the alleged
\nrole of GAM in the JSX bombing.<\/p>\n
None of the officers at the meeting revealed the progress of
\nthe police investigation of the grenade explosion at the
\nMalaysian Embassy here which police earlier claimed was committed
\nby the same group.<\/p>\n
Ansyaad said the suspects of the JSX bomb attack were members
\nof a group that had a wide network and which had carried out
\nseveral bombings in many areas in the country. He added that it
\nwas also the group's job to buy firearms and ammunition to be
\nbrought into Aceh.<\/p>\n
"They are terrorists who are threatening the country's
\nsecurity," Ansyaad said.<\/p>\n
In probing the bombing cases, the joint team is working with
\ntheir counterparts in at least 14 provinces across the country.
\n(jaw)<\/p>",
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