Police rolled out more barbed wire on Monday to tighten security outside Indones...
JAKARTA - Police rolled out more barbed wire on Monday to tighten security outside Indonesia’s election agency and readied armored trucks and water cannons to quell any civil unrest when official results of a presidential poll are released this week.With the General Election Commission set to declare its count from last month’s election by Wednesday, authorities have detained dozens of militant Islamists suspected of planning attacks to create mayhem during demonstrations.
Although independent observers and analysts have said the poll was free and fair, Prabowo has refused to concede defeat, with his campaign team making accusations of “massive cheating and irregularities” during the vote and vote-counting. Heavily armed security stood guard outside the election commission in central Jakarta, some accompanied by police dogs.
“These people were attempting to travel by bus, car and train to join the rallies on May 22,” said East Java police spokesman Frans Barung Mangera. “We prevented them.” Last week, police said they had detained about 30 suspected militants with ties to Jemaah Ansharut Daulah , Indonesia’s largest group linked to Islamic State, including some capable of using Wi-Fi networks to trigger blasts.
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