INDONESIA: Indonesian security forces conduct an anti-terror drill as police are involved in a raid of suspected militants

Record ID: 730788

  • Title: INDONESIA: Indonesian security forces conduct an anti-terror drill as police are involved in a raid of suspected militants
  • Date: 10th March 2010
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  • Embargoed: 25th March 2010 12:00
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  • Location: Indonesia
  • Country: Indonesia
  • Topics: Crime / Law Enforcement
  • Reuters ID: LVAC2KR4VMSJ3IEFIY0IG0GNIZAQ
  • Story Text: Indonesian security forces conducted an anti-terror drill at the Police Mobile Brigade Headquarters in West Java's Depok on Tuesday (March 9), following a series of raids across the archipelago after the discovery of a militant Islamic training camp in Aceh last month.
    Police have detained 21 suspected members of the group in Aceh and Java, while two have been killed.
    Three police officers have died in the raids.
    The two-day exercise involving more than 600 people is conducted in a local hotel and at the Indonesia Stock Market building and includes a simulation of a hotel and building siege.
    Police officers could be seen practising jumping out of a helicopter using ropes above the ground to evacuate hostages.
    Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono said last week that a training camp in Aceh province found by the police was operated by a terrorist group that was planning to launch attacks.
    Authorities were investigating whether there were any links to a warning by the Singapore Navy of a possible attacks on oil tankers in the Strait of Malacca, National police chief Bambang Hendarso Danuri said separately.
    Police were still hunting for about 30 members of the group in a jungle area in Lamkebeu in Aceh province on the tip of Sumatra, Danuri added.
    Indonesian police were also involved in a shoot-out with suspected militants on the outskirts of the capital, during which one suspect died in a raid targeting a top fugitive militant, media and police sources said on Tuesday.
    The staunch Muslim province of Aceh suffered a separatist conflict for many years before a peace deal was struck with Jakarta in 2005.
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