Diperkirakan sebagai pelaku Pemboman Mesjid Istiqlal,
oleh Kepolisian Republik Indonesia di Jakarta kemarin.
Yang pasti, keinginan mereka untuk mengkambing hitamkan
non-muslim tidak dapat diteruskan, sebaliknya dapat terbuka
mata dan pikiran seluruh bangsa terutama kaum muslim
bahwa musuh bisa saja dari bawah selimut atau bahkan
dari golongan sendiri. Semoga masyarakat di Ujung Pandang
bisa lebih bersikap dewasa dalam bertindak.
Andrew Pattiwael
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APR 23 1999
Bombing linked to Islamic group
JAKARTA -- Preliminary police
investigations showed that the
Monday bombing of the Istiqlal
Mosque here was linked to a group
calling itself the Mujahidin Islam
Nunsantara Movement, police said
yesterday.
Jakarta district police chief
Major-General Nugroho Djajusman
said it had been determined that 13
people in its custody were from the
group which was based in Bogor, not
far from here.
The 13 were detained in connection
with the bombing of the Plaza Hayam
Wuruk shopping complex in Jakarta
South last Thursday.
The bomb used in the mosque
incident was the same as that used
at the plaza, Maj-Gen Nugroho said,
adding that police were looking for
the leader of the group, Usman Amir,
40. Usman's photograph was
distributed to the media here in an
effort to locate him.
Besides the Hayam Muruk and
Istiqlal, the extremist group was also
said to be planning to bomb several
other targets.
Maj-Gen Nugroho said police
identified one of the accused in the
Istiqlal case from information
provided by witnesses.
The explosion ripped apart several
offices on the ground floor of the
mosque and injured several people.
Bernama
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