Indonesia: Police arrest Islamic boarding school chief after blast

Jakarta, 15 July (AK/Jakarta) - Police announced Friday they had arrested Abrori, head of the Umar Bin Khatab Islamic boarding school in the eastern Indonesia, where a bomb exploded earlier this week.



“Police arrested Abrori at the home of his parents in Khananga village, Bolo district, at around 12:30 local time [1:30 p.m. Jakarta time],” said Indonesian national police spokesman Untung Yoga Ana in text messages sent to journalists on Friday.



Police will transfer Abrori from the Bima district in West Nusa Tenggara to the provincial capital of Mataram for further investigation, Yoga added.



Abrori fled the boarding school after a bomb blast on Monday claimed the life of Suryanto Abdullah, alias Adnan Firdaus, a teacher and the school’s treasurer.



Police finally entered the school building on Wednesday after being obstructed by dozens of locals carrying sharp weapons and home-made bombs.



Police said they found bomb materials along with weapons and DVDs on Muslim holy war or Jihad.