Nine People Arrested for Planning to End this Year with a 'Boom'

Liputan6.com, Jakarta With Christmas and New Year’s Eve just around the corner, the Indonesian Anti- Terrorism Act or Special Detachment Force (Densus 88) endeavors to invigilate all areas susceptible to conduction of terror are greatly enhanced.

One of their marvelous achievements is the recently successful detainment of nine people within Java region that are believed to have been planning to orchestrate a terror attack in the coming days.

“They have been planning to terrorize the very last few weeks of this December by creating a bomb as its main instrument. While their targets vary, one that remains the dominant subject is the community that they believe does not follow the same pattern of thoughts as them, the secular pact and also the places where these people go to,” Chief of Indonesian Police Force Badrodin Haiti spoke to Liputan6.com on Sunday 20 December 2015.

Badrodin claims that he remains unsure whether or not the bomb made was meant to be detonated during Christmas or New Year’s Eve, but he is sure that the object carries with it, massive detrimental repercussions that could result in equally massive amount of casualty.

“It is still unclear as these people were caught when they are still at the planning stage. But we do know that such plan was meant to be executed this month,” he further stated.

“All we found was the material to create one, so it is safe to assume that they were still at the preliminary phase of making one,” he added.

According to Badrodin, the nine people were captured during three days raid operation from the 18-20 December in various places within Java region. The locations include: Cilacap, Tasikmalaya, Sukoharjo, Mojokerto and Gresik.