12 terrorists apprehended in East Java are Al-Qaeda affiliates: Police 1st March 2021 Indonesian Police's spokesman, Brigadier General Rusdi Hartono, during a press conference on March 1, 2021. (ANTARA/Laily Rahmawaty) Jakarta (ANTARA) - Indonesian Police's spokesman, Brigadier General Rusdi Hartono, revealed that 12 terror suspects lately taken into arrest in East Java Province belonged to the Al-Qaeda-affiliated Jamaah Islamiyah group. "The group conducting activities is part of Jamaah Islamiyah, and of course, it is affiliated to Al Qaeda," Hartono stated during a press conference at the National Police Headquarters here on Monday. Several of their activities comprised self-defense training and designing bunkers to manufacture weapons and homemade bombs. Furthermore, the suspects had prepared a weapons storage area and a hideout after conducting terror activities.