Indonesian police chief Tito Karnavian gestures during an interview with Reuters in Jakarta, Indonesia, June 28, 2018. REUTERS/Beawiharta
JAKARTA (Reuters) - Indonesia's counter-terrorism police plan to arrest more than 100 suspected militants in a bid to prevent retaliatory attacks after a radical cleric linked to Islamic State was sentenced to death, the country's police chief said on Thursday.
Aman Abdurrahman, regarded as the ideological leader of Jemaah Ansharut Daulah, a loose grouping of hundreds of Islamic State sympathisers, was convicted last month for masterminding four deadly attacks in Jakarta and elsewhere in Indonesia.
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