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Police Arrest University Students Allegedly Involved In Ambon Bombing
Farouk Arnaz | April 18, 2013



Maluku police arrested two university students allegedly responsible for 
setting off a pipe bomb in Ambon on April 6.

“This is not an act of terrorism. The incident was triggered by their 
dissatisfaction with the service provided by a prostitute. ... We are still 
investigating where they got the bomb from,” National Police spokesman Sr. 
Comr. Agus Rianto said on Thursday.

Agus said the two suspects, Muhammad Malawat and Taufik S., were arrested on 
Tuesday. They are both students at Pattimura University in Ambon.

“This is just a crime. It has nothing to do with their school. They were just 
disappointed with the service and decided to detonate the bomb.”

The suspects are currently being detained at the Ambon police office.

The bomb was set off on April 6 in Tantui Bawah, Ambon, and it damaged a house 
and wounded one person. The police also discovered several empty liquor bottles 
at the scene. 

Agus said that the suspects could be charged under Article 12 of the 1951 
Emergency Law for the illegal possession of firearms and explosives. They could 
face capital punishment. 

A bomb exploded at the Pasar Mardika Terminal in Ambon early in October of last 
year, but no injuries or fatalities resulted.

The police’s elite counterterrorism unit, known as Densus 88, often carries out 
raids in the restive Maluku region.


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