Anti-terror Detachment Arrests 40 JAD Terrorist Suspects Planning To Thwart The 2024 Election

Illustration of the arrest of terrorists (ANTARA)

JAKARTA - The National Police's Anti-terror Detachment 88 arrested 40 terrorism suspects from the Jamaah Ansharut Daulah (JAD) group. From the results of the investigation, they plan to thwart the 2024 General Election (Pemilu) process.

"This is a group of AU leaders called activities planned by this group to thwart or disrupt the running of the election democracy party," said the spokesman for the National Police's Anti-terror Detachment 88, Kombes Aswin Siregar, to reporters, Tuesday, October 31.

The plan to thwart the 2024 election is because they think democracy is an act of legal action. So, it must be destroyed.

"For them, elections are a series of democracies, where democracy is immoral, this democramy is something that violates the law for them," he said.

One of their plans to thwart the implementation of the 2024 General Election is to attack law enforcement officials.

The attack is expected to have an impact on an atmosphere that feels tense and dangerous. Thus, the five-year democratic Persta event was postponed.

"From the information in question, the investigators obtained or the results of the investigation, there were plans for the attack, especially to the police security facility," said Aswin.

Meanwhile, 40 terrorist suspects were arrested during October 2023. In detail, 23 of them were arrested in West Java, 11 were arrested in DKI Jakarta, and six in Central Sulawesi.