Anti-terrorism squad to be inaugurated

JAKARTA: The newly formed antiterrorism unit of the Jakarta Police will be inaugurated by the city police chief Insp. Gen. Firman Gani on Thursday.

"The squad personnel will be trained at the police educational center in Megamendung, Bogor regency. They will come from all police stations in Jakarta and the mobile brigade," the city police detectives chief Sr. Comr. Mathius Salempang said on Wednesday.

The squad will be deployed to secure the second round of Indonesia's direct presidential election on Sept. 20. -- JP