Six bomb suspects arrested by police

The Jakarta Post, Jakarta

Security officers arrested on Saturday six people suspected of planting explosives that went of at the Graha Cijantung mall on June 30, injuring at least eight shoppers.

The six have been identified as Atom, Abdullah, Ahmad, Syahrul, Mudawali and Adi, alias Bambang, all of whom are said to come from East Aceh.

The suspects are now being questioned at the Jakarta Police Headquarters.

National Police chief, Gen. Da'i Bachtiar, said six other members of the group were currently at large.

It is still unclear who arrested them, with both the police and the Army's Special Force (Kopassus) claiming the credit.

"My subordinates have been working hard to unravel this case, thanks to information from the public," Da'i told SCTV on Saturday afternoon.

However, a well-placed source at Kopassus told The Jakarta Post that the suspects had been arrested by the red berets.

"We've handed them over to the police for further questioning," said the source.

Neither would reveal where they had arrested the suspects.

On Saturday afternoon, Da'i and other high-ranking police officers, including National police spokesman, Insp. Gen. Saleh Saaf, visited a rented house in Tapos village, Cimanggis, Depok, where they found several grenades, homemade bombs, 20,000 rounds of ammunition, over 160 magazines, several detonators, a pack of marijuana, Rp 50 million (US$5,555) in cash and some military- looking uniforms.

Eight people were injured when explosives went of at 7:20 p.m. last Sunday in the basement of four-story Graha Cijantung mall, which is located close to the Kopassus headquarters on Jl. Raya Bogor, East Jakarta.