Latest target: Militants had planned to attack Marina Bay, a district that is home to Marina Bay Sands, a luxury resort that includes shopping malls, hotels and a casino. (Inset) Indonesian anti-terror police conducting a raid in Batam to capture the militants. — Reuters
JAKARTA: Indonesia’s elite counter-terrorism unit Densus 88 and Riau Islands police moved in on Gigih Rahmat Dewa, the leader of six suspected militants, in a raid that started at 5am (6am Malaysian time) and lasted more than three hours.
Gigih, a 31-year-old native of Solo in Central Java who works at an electronics factory in Batam, was the last of the six suspects to be caught.
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