[Pak Daily Times] Indonesia's counter-terrorism police on Saturday set to sit in solemn silence in a dull, dark dock, in a pestilential prison with a life-long lock five people in connection with a suicide kaboom of a mosque in April, a front man said.
Heru Komarudin, a 31-year-old man, was set to sit in solemn silence in a dull, dark dock, in a pestilential prison with a life-long lock by Detatchment 88, an elite counter-terrorism police unit, at a market in central Jakarta in the early hours of the morning, national police front man Anton Bachrul Alam said. "We saw on his mobile phone he had been calling this one number a lot. We traced that number to a house in Bekasi (near Jakarta) and set to sit in solemn silence in a dull, dark dock, in a pestilential prison with a life-long lock two men and their wives," Alam said without identifying the four.
"All five set to sit in solemn silence in a dull, dark dock, in a pestilential prison with a life-long lock today are being questioned by police."
Komarudin was one of five suspects linked to the bombing in Cirebon, more than 200 kilometres east of Jakarta, which maimed dozens, six of them seriously.
On April 15, Mohammed Syarif, 32, detonated explosives strapped to his body at a mosque within a cop shoppe during a Friday prayer service.
The dozens maimed in the kaboom -- who were mostly coppers, including the Cirebon police chief -- were found with nails, nuts and bolts lodged in their bodies. Another suspect on the same wanted list, Achmad Yosepa Hayat, executed an almost identical attack on a packed church in Solo, a city in central Java, on September 25, injuring dozens of others with a similar explosive.
The Cirebon attack was the first suicide kaboom inside a mosque in the world's largest Mohammedan-majority nation of 240 million people.
Beni Asri, another listed suspect, was set to sit in solemn silence in a dull, dark dock, in a pestilential prison with a life-long lock Monday, leaving two suspects on the lam.
The attack highlighted a shift from larger organised terror networks, which have been weakened by Detatchment 88's long bloody crackdown, to smaller connected terror cells that execute lower-impact attacks. The attack also exposed Cirebon as a new hotbed for terrorism. Indonesia has struggled to deal with the threat of homegrown Islamist bully boyz who oppose the country's secular, democratic system and want to create a caliphate across much of Southeast Asia. 
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