(Jakarta, Indonesia) A Singaporean identified as Husaini Ismail, an alleged plotter in the 2001 terrorist scheme to crash a plane into Singapore's Changi Airport, has been arrested by Indonesian Police.
A police source close to the investigation said Husaini had moved around Sumbawa, West Nusa Tenggara, in 2006-07 before settling down in Central Java.Another source reports that all five terrorists involved in the failed Changi Airport plot have now been captured. Also, Husaini Ismail will be prosecuted in Indonesia rather than being deported to Singapore.
“In Sumbawa he tried to build a new community to support his ideas to build an Islamic state in Asia but then we lost him before we found him again in Central Java,” the source said. [...]
It is believed that Husaini came to Indonesia together with terror suspects Mas Selamat bin Kastari; Mohammad Hasan bin Saynudin, also known as Fajar Taslim; Ishak Sio Muhamed Noohu; and Muhammad Rasyid bin Zainal Abidin by ship via Medan, North Sumatra, in January 2002.
Meanwhile, Amnesty International issued a report earlier today claiming that torture is commonly practiced by Indonesian Police.
The report - Unfinished Business: Police Accountability In Indonesia - found that the police were particularly brutal to the most vulnerable and marginalised people, such as drug addicts and women.Furthermore, Human Rights Watch issued an earlier report also stating that torture and abuse of jailed prisoners in Indonesia are rampant.
Companion post at The Jawa Report.
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