JAKARTA, January 26 (Xinhuanet) -- Several members of an
Indonesian Islamic militant group with reported ties to Osama bin
Laden's al-Qaeda network have been spotted in Sragen in Central
Java province.
   The Jakarta Post Saturday quoted Sragen police chief Adjutant
Commissioner Charles Himler Ngili as saying that some 30 members
of Jemaah Islamiya (JI) had spread out in the districts of Sambung
Macan, Gondang Legi, Masaran, and Kali Jambe in the Sragen regency.
   "They carry out their extremist activities in the districts of
Sragen, but their main organization is based in Sukoharjo and in
Ngawi," Ngili said.
   Both Sukoharjo in Central Java and Ngawi in East Java are
located near Sragen.
   Ngili declined to say what the group members were doing. He
added that he had received orders from the National Police to
monitor their routine activities more closely.
   No arrests have been made following the discovery, Ngili said.
   It was reported that the JI sees itself as the new Darul Islam,
a group which tried to establish an Islamic state in Indonesia in
1949.
   Coordinating Minister for Political and Security Affairs Susilo
Bambang Yudhoyono said recently that the government has been
working effectively to fight terrorism through a series of
concrete actions that could not yet be publicized.
   "We are fulfilling our duties (to fight terrorism) for our own
and the international community's sakes," he said.  Enditem