Photo: TheStar online – Extra vigilant: Police personnel manning the Tebedu border post yesterday. – Bernama
Let it never be said that Indonesia is a nation which is lacking of interest.
You may now rest assured (at least for the time being) that the invasion of Malaysia has been postponed. At least by a day…
From: TheStar online – Friday October 9, 2009
Indonesian group postpones ‘invasion’ of Malaysia by a day
“PETALING JAYA: Volunteer vigilante group from Indonesia Benteng Demokrasi Rakyat (Bendera) has postponed its “plans” to wage war with Malaysia by a day.
The group, which had conducted a “sweeping” for Malaysians recently in Menteng, Jakarta, originally planned to attack yesterday.
“They will enter through pathways that will be unexpected for Malaysian security,” he said, adding that they would not be deterred.
Mustar, however, did not give any reason why the “invasion” was postponed by a day.
The Thursday attack was to wreak vengeance on Malaysia for “stealing” their culture and abusing their maids. The group planned to attack with “primitive” weapons like bamboo spears, sticks and parangs.
In Putrajaya, Deputy Home Minister Datuk Wira Abu Seman Yusop said security forces, namely those guarding the coast, had been put on alert following threats of attacks by the Indonesians, adding that the Government took the threat seriously.
“We are on alert. Security personnel are ready and prepared to meet whatever threats that come our way,’’ he told reporters yesterday.
However, he said there were no reports of Indonesians entering the country with sharpened bamboo poles.
Police have also stepped up security at all entry points from West Kalimantan to Sarawak as a precaution.
Sarawak Police Commissioner Datuk Mohmad Salleh said patrols by the General Operations Force had been doubled, especially at the Tebedu and Serikin border posts, and several illegal trails at the Sarawak-Kalimantan border.
“So far, we have not received any report of moves by the group to enter Sarawak,” he told reporters after the Sarawak police contingent’s monthly assembly and Aidilfitri open house at its headquarters here.
Malaysian Consul in Pontianak M. Zairi M. Basri said the situation in Pontianak was calm and there were no signs of anti-Malaysia activities.
He said that based on surveillance yesterday at the Pontianak main bus terminal, which provides transportation services from Pontianak to Kuching, nothing unusual happened.
Speaking to reporters in Jakarta, its coordinator Mustar Nona Ventura said that around 1,300 volunteers, including 50 medical personnel, would be departing for Malaysia between today and Oct 22.”
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And, of course, in other news the executions of ‘terrorists’ continues. I am still left with an uneasy feeling about all of this.
Specifically, why are these people not captured and brought to trial?
I think it would not be difficult to use careful surveillance and simply capture them at the store or in the mandi.
But no. It seems much more useful just to rub them out. I guess it must be a message to ‘others’.
However this makes it all quite reminiscent of the ‘petrus’ killings of Soeharto in Jakarta in the 1980s.
Just remember- if they can rub out the ‘terrorists’ this way the can rub you out this way as well.
Who needs ‘due process’?
From ABC News – 10.10.09
Police kill brothers linked to Jakarta bombs
By Jakarta correspondent Geoff Thompson
“Indonesian anti-terrorist forces say they have killed two brothers wanted over hotel bombings in Jakarta in July that left seven people dead.
The police say the two men, who were killed in a counter-terrorist raid on a boarding house in Jakarta yesterday, are linked to the dead terrorist leader, Noordin Mohammed Top.
Forensic tests are expected to confirm this on Monday.
Indonesia’s national police spokesman, Nanan Sukarna, says counter-terrorism police had no choice but to shoot dead two men they confronted at the house.
Syaifudin Zuhri or Jaelani is regarded by police as the chief recruiter of suicide bombers for the Al Qaeda-linked terrorist leader Noordin Mohammed Top, who was killed in a police raid last month.
Educated in Yemen, Jaelani is accused of recruiting the two so-called “bride grooms” who blew themselves up inside Jakarta’s Marriott and Ritz Carlton hotels on July 17, killing seven people.
Jaelani’s brother, Mohammed Syahrir, once worked for the national airline, Garuda, and has been linked to the 2004 truck-bombing of the Australian embassy here.”
