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SINGAPORE: Singapore's Home Affairs Ministry advises Singaporeans in Indonesia and those travelling there to exercise vigilance and be mindful of their personal safety.
This followed reports that Indonesian authorities have arrested suspected terrorists who had plans to attack the Singapore embassy in Jakarta. The report was confirmed by a senior Indonesian counter-terrorism official on Thursday.
Responding to media queries, Singapore's Home Affairs Ministry added: "We should take all such information of terrorist threats against us seriously. Our security agencies are working closely with their counterparts in Indonesia."
A group of terror suspects rounded up earlier this month in Indonesia were planning to attack the Singapore embassy in the capital Jakarta, said Indonesia's National Anti-Terror Agency (BNPT) deputy chief Petrus Golose on Thursday.
He told AFP in a text message that "it is true" that the 11 had revealed the plot during police interrogation.
"The planned attack was led by Abu Umar," Golose said in the message, referring to one of the suspects, who is close to Ahmad Sayid Maulana.
Maulana was killed in a police raid last year and was suspected of plotting a separate attack against Singapore.
Police arrested the 11 suspects in a four-day operation in several locations including the outskirts of Jakarta and seized more than a dozen firearms and hundreds of bullets.
Police believe they were involved in smuggling weapons into Indonesia from the Philippines through Malaysia.
An unnamed anti-terror police official told AFP that "there's no mention of when they would launch the attack" on the Singapore embassy.
In the raid on Maulana's house last year, police found a map of Singapore's train network. The underground train station on Orchard Road shopping belt had been circled on the map.
A map of an airport in the city of General Santos in the southern Philippine island of Mindanao was also among the items found in his house.
Indonesia has been rocked by a series of attacks staged by the regional terror network Jemaah Islamiyah in recent years, including the 2002 Bali bombings which killed 202 people.
- CNA/AFP/ck/ir
SINGAPORE: Singapore's Home Affairs Ministry advises Singaporeans in Indonesia and those travelling there to exercise vigilance and be mindful of their personal safety.
This followed reports that Indonesian authorities have arrested suspected terrorists who had plans to attack the Singapore embassy in Jakarta. The report was confirmed by a senior Indonesian counter-terrorism official on Thursday.
Responding to media queries, Singapore's Home Affairs Ministry added: "We should take all such information of terrorist threats against us seriously. Our security agencies are working closely with their counterparts in Indonesia."
A group of terror suspects rounded up earlier this month in Indonesia were planning to attack the Singapore embassy in the capital Jakarta, said Indonesia's National Anti-Terror Agency (BNPT) deputy chief Petrus Golose on Thursday.
He told AFP in a text message that "it is true" that the 11 had revealed the plot during police interrogation.
"The planned attack was led by Abu Umar," Golose said in the message, referring to one of the suspects, who is close to Ahmad Sayid Maulana.
Maulana was killed in a police raid last year and was suspected of plotting a separate attack against Singapore.
Police arrested the 11 suspects in a four-day operation in several locations including the outskirts of Jakarta and seized more than a dozen firearms and hundreds of bullets.
Police believe they were involved in smuggling weapons into Indonesia from the Philippines through Malaysia.
An unnamed anti-terror police official told AFP that "there's no mention of when they would launch the attack" on the Singapore embassy.
In the raid on Maulana's house last year, police found a map of Singapore's train network. The underground train station on Orchard Road shopping belt had been circled on the map.
A map of an airport in the city of General Santos in the southern Philippine island of Mindanao was also among the items found in his house.
Indonesia has been rocked by a series of attacks staged by the regional terror network Jemaah Islamiyah in recent years, including the 2002 Bali bombings which killed 202 people.
- CNA/AFP/ck/ir
