| Southeast Asia |
| Indonesian police investigate boarding school after bombings |
| 2009-07-21 |
| Indonesian police have questioned teachers of an Islamic boarding school in Central Java, following the suicide bombings in Jakarta last week, a cleric said on Tuesday. As coordinator of Islamic activity in the area, cleric Mudzakir confirmed the probe in the Al-Mukmin Ngruki boarding school. "Three policemen came to the Ngruki boarding school asking teachers and staff members," he told Xinhua over phone from the area. One of the suspect of the bombing at the JW Marriot Hotel is Nurhasbi target=_blank>Nurhasbi alias, who had been studying in the school along with suicide bombers of the hotel in August 2003, which killed 12 people and wounded dozens others, according to local television. "The police come to match up information that they got," said cleric Mudzakir. The Ngruki boarding school was founded by militant cleric Abu Bakar Bashir, the spiritual head of Jemaah Islamiyah who has been jailed for a conspiracy on terrorism. |
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