Tangerang, Banten (ANTARA News) - Abu Jibril, father of a terrorist suspect being tried at the South Jakarta district court, denied that Pamulang sub-district was a nest of terrorists.

"Pamulang is not a nest of terrorists," he told newsmen who met him at Al-Munawwarah Mosque of Pamulang sub-district, South Tangerang regency, on Thursday.

Abu Jibril, the father of terrorist suspect Muhammad Jibril, said the police raids on Tuesday which ended with the death of Dulmatin and his two bodyguards had damaged Pamulang`s image.

Following the top terrorist`s death in the police raids, the Indonesian and foreign media had intensively reported the Pamulang incident.

The incident should not create an opinion that as if there was a nest of terrorists in Pamulang near Jakarta, he said.

During the Tuesday raids, the police also stormed the house of a local resident named Fauzi Syarif. The anti-terror police personnel gunned down two men believed to be Dulmatin`s bodyguards.

Abu Jibril said the Indonesian police`s Densus 88 anti-terror squad should not kill the terror suspects as in the Pamulang raids.

Dulmatin, who was confirmed by the Indonesian police responsible for the 2002 Bali bombings, was shot dead in a raid on an internet outlet in Pamulang.

His death was not only announced by the Indonesian police chief in Jakarta on Wednesday but also by President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono during his state visit in Canberra, Australia.

Indonesia has been fighting terrorist cells in the country since the 2002 Bali bombings that claimed 202 lives, including 88 Australian holiday makers.

Two years before the terrorists attacked the resort island of Bali, Indonesia was rocked by the Christmas eve bombings in 2000.

The latest bombing incident occurred in July 2009. At that time, two suicide bombers simultaneously attacked two luxurious hotels in South Jakarta, killing several people. (*)

Editor: B Kunto Wibisono
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