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Jakarta Post 05 May, 2001
Police confirm the arrest of provocateurs
JAKARTA (JP): The National Police announced on Friday the arrest of Lasykar Jihad Ahlus Sunnah Wal Jamaah commander Djafar Umar Thalib and Dayak leader Usop for provoking chaos in the Malukus and Central Kalimantan, respectively.
National Police spokesman Insp. Gen. Didi Widayadi was quoted on Indosiar television as saying that the two were arrested separately in Surabaya, the capital of East Java and Palangkaraya, the capital of Central Kalimantan.
Details of the arrests, however, were not immediately available.
Didi further said that the arrests were based on strong evidence and intelligence reports on both men's activities in inciting chaos in the two regions.
Jafar is known as the leader of the Jihad Force which has vowed to defend until the death Muslims in strife-torn Maluku. The group has conducted a series of paramilitary training and has been sending volunteers to Maluku since last year.
Over two years of bloody communal conflict between Muslims and Christians in the Malukus have claimed some 8,000 lives since first erupting in Ambon on Jan. 19, 1999.
The Maluku violence has also forced some 230,000 people to flee their homes as refugees.
Meanwhile, Usop, a professor at a local university in Central Kalimantan, is a Dayak tribal leader who was allegedly involved in inciting a bloody pogrom launched by indigenous Dayaks against Madurese migrants, which spread from Sampit town to neighboring Pangkalan Bun and Palangkaraya at the end of February.
No less than 500 people died in one of the worst conflicts in the country, with most of the fatalities being beheaded.
Some 80,000 Madurese migrants have fled Central Kalimantan and headed back to East Java and Madura island following the riots. (edt)
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