Indonesia: Police Say Weekend Arrests Deterred a Terrorist Plot on Officials

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The Indonesian police said Monday that they had foiled a terrorist plot to kill government officials, law enforcement officers and others by suspects arrested over the weekend. Security was raised at airports, the presidential palace, malls and foreign embassies, and the government said it would deploy more than 150,000 personnel to safeguard public places and churches across the country. The national police chief, Gen. Badrodin Haiti, said, “This is the result of sharing intelligence to combat international evil,” crediting information from the United States, Australia and Singapore. Antiterrorism police officers arrested nine men last weekend in five cities on Java, Indonesia’s main island.