Indonesian Police Find Alleged al-Qaeda-Linked Network

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Indonesian Police Find Alleged al-Qaeda-Linked Network

Several members of an Indonesian Islamic militant group with reported ties to Osama bin Laden's al-Qaeda network have been spotted in Sragen in Central Java province.

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Several members of an Indonesian Islamic militant group with reported ties to Osama bin Laden's al-Qaeda network have been spotted in Sragen in Central Java province.

The Jakarta Post Saturday quoted Sragen police chief Adjutant Commissioner Charles Himler Ngili as saying that some 30 members of Jemaah Islamiya (JI) had spread out in the districts of Sambung

Macan, Gondang Legi, Masaran, and Kali Jambe in the Sragen regency.

"They carry out their extremist activities in the districts of Sragen, but their main organization is based in Sukoharjo and in Ngawi," Ngili said.

Both Sukoharjo in Central Java and Ngawi in East Java are located near Sragen.

Ngili declined to say what the group members were doing. He added that he had received orders from the National Police to monitor their routine activities more closely.

No arrests have been made following the discovery, Ngili said.

It was reported that the JI sees itself as the new Darul Islam,a group which tried to establish an Islamic state in Indonesia in 1949.

Coordinating Minister for Political and Security Affairs Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono said recently that the government has been working effectively to fight terrorism through a series of

concrete actions that could not yet be publicized.

"We are fulfilling our duties (to fight terrorism) for our own and the international community's sakes," he said.

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