Indonesia's antiterror unit Densus 88 has arrested Abu Tholut, an alleged senior terrorist and mastermind behind a series of armed robberies across North Sumatra.
“We cornered him in Kudus [Central Java] at 8 a.m.,” National Police spokesman Insp. Gen. Iskandar Abubakar said Friday.
Iskandar said police investigators were questioning the suspect, and were trying to establish the nature of his connection to an Aceh-based terrorist cell.
Abu Tholut was released from prison in 2007 after serving just under four years for terrorism.
The 48-year-old is a former instructor of the Jamaah Islamiyah military camp, and later established military training camps in the Philippines and then in the Aceh regency of Jantho.
