Seven secessionists arrested

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.
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