Police said on Thursday they had made two more arrests in
Police said on Thursday they had made two more arrests in connection with this month's suicide bombings in Bali, a day after an angry crowd stormed the island's main jail to demand speedy executions for those convicted for the 2002 blasts.
It was not clear whether those arrested on Wednesday in Banten province on the island of Java were believed to have been directly involved in the attacks on the crowded restaurants on Oct. 1, which killed 20 people plus the three bombers.
"The two men in Banten were detained for questioning for seven days," AFP quoted police spokesman for the Bali investigation Soenarko D. Ardanto.
In Jakarta, National Police spokesman Arianto Budiharjo confirmed the arrests and said that the first suspect in the bombings, who was detained on Sunday, had been released because he was found to have no links with the case.
News of the fresh arrests emerged after a public display of anger and frustration in Bali, where officials and relatives of the dead gathered on Wednesday to commemorate the third anniversary of the 2002 bombings.
A crowd of more than 1,000 ripped down the large steel gates that guarded Kerobokan prison and demanded that the three key bombers on death row -- Amrozi, Mukhlas and Imam Samudra -- be executed.
The three were sentenced to death by firing squad for the 2002 nightclub bombings which killed 202 people and dealt tourism on the resort island a heavy blow.
Meanwhile, the prosecutors office in Denpasar has picked Bali as the location to carry out the execution against Amrozi, Mukhlas and Imam, a condition demanded by many Balinese, newsportal detik.com quoted chief judge of the Denpasar Court Nengah Suryada as saying on Thursday.
But Nengah said that the authorities had yet to decide on the schedule for the execution as they must first obtain written statements from the three whether they would request for clemency from the President.
He added that the three had previously said they would not seek clemency, but the court and the prosecutors needed formal written statements.
The three convicts were transferred to the maximum security Nusakambangan Prison island in Central Java from Kerobokan Prison, a day before the attack against the Bali jail.
The police said they were reviewing security at Kerobokan.
"We are continuing to provide security around the jail and there is a plan to build a police post at the front," police spokesman A.S. Reniban told AFP.
A second protest in front of Bali's provincial legislative council in Denpasar has been called for Monday.
Passions are running high following this month's bombings in Bali.
Before Wednesday's protest the mood had been one of grief as some 1,000 guests, many blinking back tears, observed 202 seconds of silence in memory of those killed on October 12, 2002 in attacks on two nightclubs.