REPUBLIKA.CO.ID, JAKARTA -- Indonesia's National Police Headquarters confirmed here on Tuesday that the four Indonesian citizens deported recently by Singapore had links with ISIS.
The case is now being studied by the National Police's anti-terrorist squad Densus 88, while the four have been taken to the Densus headquarters, National Police spokesman Inspector General Anton Charliyan stated.
National Police Chief General Badrodin Haiti earlier noted that the four men had links to the radical cleric Aman Abdurrahman who is now serving jail term for terror activities.
The men had planned to go to Syria through Singapore, but after questioning, it was found that they knew Abdurrahman, and hence, they were then deported.
According to information, the four Indonesian citizens were earlier deported through the international ferry port of Batam Center in the Sumatran province of Riau Islands. They were suspected of traveling to Syria to join ISIS. The four were identified by the initials: R, MKR, USM, and MMM.
They were caught at Singapore's Changi airport on February 19 while boarding a flight to Syria.
According to information, they had come from the Ibnu Masud Tahfuzul boarding school in Bogor, West Java.
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