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Twelve people have been arrested over an alleged terrorist plot to attack an archbishop and police stations in the Indonesian province of Papua, local police officials said.
[AFP]
Twelve suspected Islamic militants taken into custody in a southern district of Indonesia’s troubled Papua region had planned to attack a local archbishop and police stations there, authorities said Tuesday.
The suspects arrested in Papua’s Merauke regency on Friday and Sunday were linked to a cell of Jamaah Ansharut Daulah, an Indonesian militant network affiliated with the so-called Islamic State (IS) group, police said.
Indonesian authorities had blamed JAD for suicide attacks that targeted churches in other parts of the Muslim-majority country in March 2021 and May 2018.
“The targets were the bishop and police stations in Merauke,” Untung Sangaji, Merauke police chief, told BenarNews.
Indonesia's top security minister, Mahfud MD, has made relentless efforts in pursuit of peaceful solutions to the Papua issue through engaging in a dialog .