Seven secessionists arrested

KEDIRI, East Java: Seven people suspected of attempting to establish an Indonesian Islamic state have been arrested.

Antara quoted the head of the provincial Agency for the Coordination of Support for the Development of National Stability, Maj. Gen. Imam Utomo, as saying here yesterday that four of the suspected secessionists were found in Madiun, two in Malang and one in Surabaya.

Imam, who is also chief of the Brawijaya regional military command, said a number of secessionists who were actually communists pretending to be Moslems were discovered recently in Semarang.

"We don't know the results of the investigation, but the secessionists in East Java could be communists, too," he said. (swe)