26 November 2016

News Story: Indonesia foils IS attack plot on foreign mission

JAKARTA, Nov. 25 (Xinhua) -- Anti-terror squad of the Indonesian police has seized explosive materials, which will be used to explode foreign embassy offices and religious facilities, in a hideout of a member of Islamic States (IS) in West Java province, police said on Friday.

Rio Priatna Wibawa, 23, was nabbed at his house in Majalengka of the province on Wednesday and admitted that he was ordered to make bombs from the materials, said Rikwanto, a police spokesman.

The spokesman revealed that the targets of the militants were buildings or facilities owned by foreign nations.

"These explosive materials will be used to strike foreign embassy offices, religious buildings, police headquarters and the parliament building," Rikwanto said at the national police headquarters.

The spokesman said Priatna along with three fellow IS members, who remain at large, planed to make bombs at "a chemistry laboratory" at his house.

Read the full story at Xinhua