TNI arrest GAM police chief

Mon, 20 Sep 2004, 00:00 WIB | Source: JP

BANDA ACEH: The Indonesian Military (TNI) captured on Saturday
Bantarisa Usaru, the Separatist Aceh Movement (GAM) police chief
for Bireuen regency, during an operation in Krueng Simpo Mina
village, 300 kilometers from Banda Aceh.

"He is an important person in the GAM organizational
structure. We arrested him on Saturday together with a home-made
rifle," Let. Col. Asep Sapari, spokesman of the operations said
in Lhokseumawe on Sunday.

He said that TNI managed also to capture Bantarisa's son
Junaidi, 23, who is allegedly involved in GAM in the area, while
Indriyati binti Wahab, 18, a member of GAM's women's troop
surrendered herself to TNI post in Lamtul village, Aceh Besar on
the same day. --Antara

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