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Umar Patek, the al Qaeda-linked militant behind the deadly bombings of Jakarta churches in 2000 and a Bali nightclub in 2002, is being tried for mass premeditated murder. An alleged member of the Jemaah Islamayah terror group, Patek was arrested in Abbotabad, Pakistan in January 2011, where he may have met with Osama bin Laden.

Police arrested three “Islamist militants” in the capital of Jakarta. One of the men was involved in a bombing in April that wounded 30 policemen in Cirebon.

Counterterrorism police from Detachment 88 have arrested one of the four most wanted terrorists connected to two suicide attacks in Solo and Cirebon over the past year. The suspect, Beni Asri, was detained in Solok in West Sumatra.

A suicide bomber killed himself and wounded 17 people in an attack at a church in Solo on Java island. Solo is the hometown of jailed Jemaah Islamiyah Abu Bakar Bashir.

Jemaah Islamiyah operative Umar Patek is cooperating with police since his extradition from Pakistan, officials said. Patek has admitted to his role in the 2002 Bali bombings and attacks on churches.

Pakistan has extradited Jemaah Islamiyah operative and leader Umar Patek to Indonesia. Patek was involved in the Bali bombings and is said to have been in Abbottabad, Pakistan to meet with Osama bin Laden.

National Anti-Terror Agency officials said that the army will begin assisting the police and the Detachment 88 antiterrorism squad to combat a “third generation” of terrorists emerging in 14 of the country’s 33 provinces. Within the past two years, over 700 terrorists have been arrested and others have been shot, and a terror training camp […]

Detachment 88, the national antiterrorism force, arrested five suspects in Jakarta and two in Surabaya who were allegedly engaged in terrorist activities in the two cities as well as smuggling weapons into Indonesia from the Philippines.

An Indonesian court has begun the trial of Abu Tholut, a senior Jemaah Islamiyah operative. Tholut procured M-16 assault rifles and other weapons for a training camp run by al Qaeda in Aceh.

A court found Abu Bakar Bashir guilty of “committing a criminal act of terrorism” by supporting a terrorist group in Aceh, and sentenced him to 15 years in prison. Bashir is the co-founder and spiritual leader of Jemaah Islamiyah.

Police arrested 16 “terrorist suspects” over the past five days who were involved in the shooting of policemen. The suspects were detained in Pekalongan, Kutai Kertanegara, Jakarta, Central Sulawesi, and Bandung.

Police arrested six members of he so-called “Islamic State of Indonesia” during a raid in Ungaran in Central Java. Jemaah Islamiyah leader Abu Bakir Bashir accused the court of jailing him at the behest of the United States.