Under tight police escort, Jamaah Islamiyah leader and alleged terrorist mastermind Abu Bakar Ba’asyir arrives at the National Police’s detectives office in Jakarta on Monday. Hours earlier, the senior firebrand cleric was arrested in Banjar, Ciamis, West Java, on charges of terrorism. JP/Wendra Ajistyatama
Senior Prosperous Justice Party (PKS) politician Hidayat Nur Wahid says the police should have conducted a more “humane” arrest of Abu Bakar Ba’asyir, a hard-line cleric recently apprehended for his alleged involvement in training activities for terrorists in Aceh.
“The police should have only followed his car and I believe [Ba’asyir] did not have any intention to escape,” Hidayat told reporters in Jakarta on Tuesday.
Hidayat urged police not to harm Ba’asyir while he is in detention.
Ba’asyir was arrested by the National Police Detachment 88 Antiterrorism Unit Squad on Monday morning in Ciamis, West Java, on his way home to Solo, Central Java, after a tour of sermons in several cities in West Java.
Ba’asyir is the spiritual leader of Jamaah Islamiyah and the leader of Ngruki boarding school in Solo, Central Java. Several graduates and students from the school had launched suicide bombing attacks.
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