Indonesian police declare cleric key suspect in 2016 attack
JAKARTA, Indonesia — Indonesian police on Tuesday named a radical Islamic cleric as the key suspect in a suicide bombing and gun attack that killed eight people in Jakarta last year.
National police spokesman Setyo Wasisto said Aman Abdurrahman, the leader of an Islamic State group-affiliated militant network, ordered the Jan. 14, 2016, attack from prison.
Abdurrahman was among more than 90,000 inmates granted an early release for Indonesia’s Aug. 17 Independence Day holiday this year.
He was prevented from going free by his arrest on suspicion of orchestrating various attacks while imprisoned for his role in organizing a militant training camp in 2010.