JAKARTA - Indonesian police detained 48 students and a teacher from an Islamic
boarding school and seized firearms and sharp weapons, a spokesman said
Tuesday, in the nation's latest terror raid.
Dozens of police stormed the
Darul Akhfiya school in eastern Java's Nganjuk district on Monday and kept the
students and teacher overnight for questioning.
"Police detained 48 students
and a teacher on Monday after the community reported unusual activity at the
school and expressed concern about possible anarchic behaviour," national
police spokesman Boy Rafli Amar told reporters.
Amar said the school was "strongly
suspected of conducting terrorism training".
"Police also seized
long-barrelled rifles, ammunition and sharp weapons, including a cleaver, as
well as books on jihad," Amar said.
Indonesian police have conducted
a series of terror raids in recent months, including a sweep across the island
of Java in October, netting 11 suspects in a plan to attack the US embassy and
other American targets.
Indonesia was rocked last decade
by several deadly terror attacks blamed on the Al Qaeda-linked network Jemaah
Islamiyah (JI), including the 2002 Bali bombings that killed 202 people, mostly
foreigners.
But a crackdown on militancy in
the country has crippled JI, and smaller terror cells that have carried out
low-impact attacks have emerged.
- AFP/ir
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