JAKARTA, Sept. 5 (Xinhua) -- A would-be suicide bomber, who attacked a church in western Indonesia last month, has links with an IS leader in Syria as the group is trying to use a new modus operandi, police chief said on Monday.
The 17-year-old Ivan Ahmadi Hasugian had often contacted Bahrun Naim, the IS leader for Southeast Asia, before he attempted to blow himself up in Santa Yosep Catholic church in Medan, the provincial capital of North Sumatra, on Aug. 28, National Police Chief General Tito Karnavian said.
"He (Ahmadi) has directly contacted Bahrun Naim who is in Raqqa of Syria," he told lawmakers in a hearing at the parliament building.
The general revealed that the church attack was plotted in a new style.
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