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JAKARTA: Indonesian police said on Thursday 14 suspects had been charged under anti-terrorism laws after they were arrested while allegedly undergoing military training in northern Aceh province.
"We've been able to prove that they planned a series of terror attacks," national police spokesman Edward Aritonang said.
The suspects were arrested over the past week after more than 100 armed police raided a site in Aceh Besar, in a remote region of northern Sumatra island, where around 50 militants were conducting training, police said.
Four suspects were arrested during the raid. The remaining men were arrested in follow-up raids in which one was shot dead while trying to escape.
The suspects' military training included "physical exercise and the use of firearms to prepare the planned terror attacks," Aritonang told a news conference at national police headquarters in the capital, Jakarta.
During the Aceh Besar raid police found rifles, Malaysian military uniforms and propaganda material including videos of the 2002 bombings on the Indonesian resort island of Bali which killed more than 200 people.
Provincial police chief Aditya Warman was reported as saying that those arrested were "strongly suspected" of being part of regional terror group Jemaah Islamiyah, which has been blamed for multiple attacks across Indonesia. - AFP/de
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