Police arrest 27 suspected militants in nationwide crackdown as Indonesia gears up for 2024 election

JAKARTA, Indonesia — Indonesian police said Saturday they arrested at least 27 suspected militants believed to have links to banned extremist groups, in a nationwide crackdown as the world’s most populous Muslim-majority country gears up for elections in 2024. The police’s elite counterterrorism squad, known as Densus 88, made the arrests on Friday in the … Read more