Indonesia's counterterrorism squad jugged five terrorist suspects in West Java, a local police chief said Sunday, a day after the country's president said he had received reports that certain groups in areas of the province intended to do him harm.West Java police chief Insp. Gen. Sutarman said police also confiscated high explosive materials during four separate raids on Saturday in the province's capital, Bandung, and Subang district.
On Saturday, President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, who was visiting Bandung, said he had received reports that certain groups in the province intended to do him harm. He did not elaborate, or refer to the arrests.
On Sunday, his front man, Julian Aldrin Pasha, did not rule out that the suspects' alleged target was the president.
"It could be assumed that their activities were aimed at (attacking) the presidential entourage," Pasha said.
Sutarman said two suspects were jugged by the special anti-terror force in Sukaluyu hamlet on the outskirts of Bandung.
Bomb squads had to detonate a bomb found within their house after failing to defuse it, Sutarman said. One suspect managed to escape.
Two others were jugged in Cilenyi and Padalarang districts, also on the outskirts of Bandung, Sutarman said, adding that the fifth suspect was jugged in a raid on his house in Subang district.