Suspected bomb plotter arrested

Suspected bomb plotter arrested

YOGYAKARTA: The local Legal Aid Institute has protested the
arrest of a local resident the authorities suspect of involvement
in the recent bomb-making plot in Jakarta.

Institute chief Budi Hartono said the arrest by Jakarta police
officers on Jan. 31 of Rachmat Kustianto Basuki, alias Yosie, was
a mistake.

"The police caught the wrong person," he said in a news
conference here Monday.

Yosie's arrest is the latest in the investigation into a bomb
blast in a low-cost apartment in Jakarta last month. On the day
of the incident, the police arrested one injured suspect who
could not flee the scene after the homemade bomb exploded
prematurely.

Two others escaped from the apartment.

"Yosie was caught after the police claimed they found his
identity card and motorbike driving license at the scene of the
explosion," Siti Hari Kartini, one of Yosie's relatives, quoted
Jakarta police detective Capt. Aris Munandar, in Yogyakarta
Monday.

She said she believed Yosie was not involved in the bomb plot,
added that the documents the police found were the ID card Yosie
lost in Bandung in 1993 and the driving license he lost in
Yogyakarta in 1995. (44)