Indonesian police beef up security after string of attacks in their stations

Indonesian police will beef up security in their regional stations following string of attacks in their facilities lately with the latest one occurred in Central Java province's Banyumas precinct station on Tuesday that wounded three police, a senior police officer said here.

"To prevent reoccurrence of such an attack, we would escalate our alertness in every region," a spokesperson and national police headquarters Martinus Sitompul said in his office here.

Regarding the latest measure to anticipate the attacks, police headquarters would issue directions to stations, he added.

Commenting on the latest attack against a police station in Banyumas police station earlier in the day, Martinus said that investigation against the perpetrator is underway at present.

"So we were yet to be able to disclose neither his motive nor his background, whether he is a member of a radical group or not," Martinus said.

Three police were wounded in the attack solely carried out by a 22 year-old man namely M. Ibnu Dar in the police station on Tuesday morning.

Ibnu used his motorbike to trespass into the police station premises and rammed into a police guarding the station. Besides that he also stabbed two other police who tried to help their colleague rammed by Ibnu with his motorbike.

In the attack Ibnu covered his head with a fabric emblazoned with IS logo and shouted at the police, using dagger and sword.

Banyumas Police Chief Aziz Andriansyah said the stabbed police received serious injuries that made them rushed and treated in a hospital. Ibnu was arrested in his house after the attack.

Previously on Saturday, Indonesian police and military members killed six ones who shot at a police station in East Java province's city of Tuban. They were killed in a shootout with the security apparatus in a corn field around the cit

Police arrested one who tried to run a car used by the station attackers in the event.

Police said the shooting against the police station in Tuban may related to the arrest against three alleged terrorists in the province's city of Lamongan on Friday. One of those arrested in Lamongan was a senior leader of Jamaah Ansharut Daulah (JAD), a radical group. Endit