TNI arrest GAM police chief

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