Security success

Security success

From Warta Kota

Christmas this year was celebrated smoothly and peacefully. Hopefully, this will mark the return of peace to our country.

A spate of bomb blasts on Christmas Eve in 2000 and several other bomb blasts at a number of churches in 2001 were terrifying acts of terror for us.

The peaceful celebration of Christmas this year is the result of the success by our police and state intelligence agencies in maintaining security and making preparations against the likelihood of other acts of terror.

It must also be attributable to the success of our police and state intelligence agencies in cracking down on the network of terrorists in our country, marked by the arrests of Muchlas, Imam Samudra and their accomplices, suspects in the Bali bomb blasts. A high-ranking police officer has even said that three of four groups of terrorists have been broken up, arrested and legally processed. Those terrorists still at large must have been paralyzed and can no longer act effectively in an organized manner.

We hope that the police and the state intelligence agencies can crack down and uproot all of the terrorist networks operating in the country.

Praise must be heaped on the National Police and intelligence agencies for this great achievement. Doubting the ability and professionalism of our police and intelligence agencies is itself an act of terror that subverts national resilience. The perpetrators are those who seek to create a misleading public opinion.

RIDWAN METAREUM

Tangerang, Banten