JAKARTA, Indonesia – Terror suspects in police custody have revealed that they planned to attack the parliament building and police in the name of jihad, a senior official told AFP on Friday (September 7th).
Two different terror groups planned to attack parliament in Jakarta and plotted bomb and gunfire attacks on police in the central Java city of Solo, the country's counter-terrorism agency's chief Ansyaad Mbai said.
"We worked with the anti-terror police squad to intensify hunting for suspects still at large and also stepped up security measures to anticipate any possible attacks," he told AFP.
Bayu Setiono, 22, who was arrested following a shootout last week in Solo that left two terrorist suspects and an anti-terror officer dead, said his group plotted more attacks.
In an interrogation video released by police Thursday, Setiono said they targeted police to avenge the arrests and killings of Islamist militants.
Separately, Mbai said another terror suspect claimed to have surveyed the parliament building three times before being arrested in July.
"There are several small groups (whose) underground works are not related to each other, but they all came from the Jemaah Islamiyah (JI) and the Jemaah Anshorut Tauhid (JAT)," he added.
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