JAKARTA, Indonesia — Indonesia's president said he hopes the arrest of the country's most-wanted terrorist suspect will help cripple a network accused of plotting a Mumbai-style attack targeting foreigners at luxury hotels and several high-profile assassinations.
However, President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, reportedly a target of the plot, urged people to remain vigilant and report all suspicious movements.
The suspect, Abdullah Sunata, was led away in handcuffs with two aides, one of them an alleged expert bomb maker, after raids on their hide-out in Central Java province Wednesday. He is wanted, among other things, on suspicion of setting up a jihadi training camp in westernmost Aceh province and recruiting new members.
"We have successfully arrested Sunata and two other suspects," national police spokesman Maj. Gen. Edward Aritonang told The Associated Press after their house in Cungkrungan, a village in Central Java province, was surrounded and searched. Police found a bomb in a backpack and several revolvers.
An earlier raid on a house in nearby Girimulya village also yielded explosives and weapons.
Police could not immediately confirm a report on Metro TV that documents discovered during one of the searches indicated the men were planning an attack on the Danish Embassy in Jakarta.
The Danish intelligence service has said that militant extremists in Muslim countries are still angry over the 2005 publication in a Danish newspaper of cartoons depicting Prophet Muhammad.
One man, identified as Yuli Harsono, was killed in a shootout Wednesday with police.
Neighbors, angry to learn that a suspected terrorist had been living in their midst, warned Thursday that hundreds of people were ready to block any efforts to bury him in the local cemetery.
They said Harsono was a former soldier who spent two years in jail for stealing gunpowder from the military's arsenal. After his return in 2005, he shut out neighbors and spent all his free time with outsiders, often discussing the Quran at his house, said one resident, Bayu Prastowo.
