Head
of the National Counter-terrorism Agency (BNPT) Tito Karnavian said
Santosos terrorist group in Poso, Central Sulawesi, is running out of
logistics and is now becoming weaker and weaker.
"The exchange of fire between Santoso members and the security
officers two weeks ago cut off the logistics distribution lanes of the
Santoso group," Tito said after a ceremony held to observe the
anniversary of the Armys Special Strike Forces (Kopassus) here Saturday.
His men also arrested two members of the Santoro group who emerged from their hideouts to look for logistics, he said.
The number of Santoso group has been reduced from 41 to 27 now, which includes two women, the BNPT predicted.
During the armys operation, the local people also took part and supported the operations, Tito said.
"We are supported by the people, as the people do not support them," the BNPT chief said.
The Indonesian National Police will also provide a bonus to its
personnel who are able to arrest Santoso, he said. Quoting Police Chief
Badrodin Haitis statement, Tito added that the bonus would be given in
the form of extraordinary rank promotion or scholarship.
"The bonus will be provided to arouse the spirit of personnel assigned there," he said.
In order to arrest members of the Santoso group in Poso, the
government has launched an operation with a special task force called
the Tanombala task force.
The Tinombala task force team arrested two more alleged members of the
Eastern Indonesia Mujahidin terrorist group under Santoso or Abu Wardah
in Central Sulawesi, police said.
The two men, identified as IB alias AM alias ID (21), who
joined the group in 2013, and SH alias Faqih (19), who joined it in
2015, were arrested near Poso Friday, police spokesman Brig. Gen. Agus
Rianto said here Saturday.
The two arrests brought the number of the group members to 16
killed and arrested under the Tinombala operations by the police and the
military.
Ten members of the eastern Indonesia Mujahiddin Group had been
killed and four others were arrested by the security forces in Central
Sulawesi, police said earlier.
"Four of them were caught alive while 10 others died," the
chief of the Central Sulawesi Police Brig. Gen, Rudy Sufahriadi said in
Poso Friday.
The arrest of the two suspected terrorists coincided with the
arrival in Poso of police chief Badrodin Haiti, chief of the National
Counter-Terrorism Agency (BNPT), Com. Gen. Tito Karnavian, and chief of
the police Mobile Brigade Insp. Gen. Murad Ismail.
The three held a meeting with Brig. Gen. Rudy Sufahriadi and
district military commander Col. Muhammad Saleh Mustafa and district
police chief, Adj. Sen. Comr. Ronny to discuss the security situation in
the region.
The Tinombala operation involving 2,500 military and police
personnel was formed in January 2016, after strict orders of President
Joko Widodo to wipe out the terrorist group, which had made Poso a
security threat for years.
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