JAKARTA, Indonesia — Indonesian police arrested nine suspected militants following a tipoff about a possible attack during the announcement of presidential election results next week, police said Thursday. The elite counterterrorism squad arrested suspected militant instructor Joko Supriono in the East Java town of Madiun on Tuesday, and eight others were apprehended separately in Central Java province, National Police spokesman Dedi Prasetyo said. Prasetyo said police were tipped off about Rafli’s whereabouts while interrogating four suspected militants who were arrested in Bekasi during several police raids on JAD members. Indonesia, the world’s most populous Muslim-majority nation, is an outpost of democracy in a Southeast Asian neighborhood of authoritarian governments and is forecast to be among the world’s biggest economies by 2030. The country held the biggest single-day election on April 17 to elect a president and national and regional parliaments.

Source: Washington Post May 16, 2019 12:39 UTC