Legal Process, 69 Terrorists Involved In Suicide Bombing At Makassar Cathedral Church Brought To Jakarta

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JAKARTA - The National Police has transferred 69 suspected terrorists from the Villa Mutiara network who were involved in the suicide bombing at the Makassar Cathedral Church and brought them to Jakarta, on Thursday, July 1. The transfer is made for further legal proceedings.

"The transfer of detainees for criminal acts of terrorism to Jakarta is of course aimed at further legal proceedings," said Head of the Public Relations Division of the National Police's Public Relations Division, Kombes Ahmad Ramadhan, to reporters, Friday, July 2.

Dozens of suspected terrorists were previously staged in different locations. Some are at the Sulawesi Police and the rest are at the Marauke Brimob Headquarters.

After being transferred, the detainees will be temporarily placed in the Police Headquarters detention house. "So the 69 details are 58 people who were detained in Makassar and 11 people who were detained in Nerauke. Currently, all of them have been transferred to the detention center at Police Headquarters," he said.

The transfer process is also with strict security. This prevents unwanted things from happening. "The transfer of 69 terrorism detainees was carried out according to standard operating procedures for escorting terrorism prisoners. They will then be placed in a special detention center for terrorism detainees in Cikeas," he said.

For information, the National Police's Anti-terror Detachment 88 has continued to carry out terrorism prevention and countermeasures since January 2021, a number of suspected terrorists have been secured in a number of areas.

The arrests of suspected terrorists continued to be intensified after the suicide bombing at the Makassar Cathedral Church, South Sulawesi, on March 28, 2021.

As of April 2021, there were 99 suspected terrorists arrested with details in NTB five terrorist suspects, Jakarta 12 terrorists, Makassar 55 terrorists, East Java five terrorists, West Java six terrorists, Central Java six terrorists, Bekasi one terrorist, and Yogyakarta nine terrorists.

Recently, the Police Anti-terror Detachment 88 Team arrested 11 suspected terrorists in Merauke, Papua and one suspected terrorist in Balikpapan, East Kalimantan. These 12 terrorist groups are members of Jamaah Ansharut Daulah (JAD) who pledged allegiance to ISIS.

In early January 2021 the National Police's Densus 88 Anti-terror Team first arrested 22 suspected terrorists in East Java. The group is known as the Fahim group affiliated with Al Qaeda.

From the results of the deepening of this terrorism group, there is a connection with Upik Lawanga who was arrested by the Anti-terror Detachment 88 Team on November 23, 2020 in Central Lampung Regency, Lampung Province.