Indonesia has detained Yudi Lukito Kurniawan, a suspected terrorist who carried out a 2014 terrorist assault on the Singapore Exchange tower.
In a statement identifying the man with the initials YLK, Indonesia’s counter-terrorism unit Detachment 88 claimed that he is affiliated with the terrorist organization Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula ( AQAP ).
On August 21, he was apprehended in a town in Gorontalo Province on the island of Sulawesi.
According to Detachment 88 spokesman Senior Commissioner Aswin Siregar,” YLK is an Indonesian who joined the terror group Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula who planned a terror attack against the Singaporean Stock Exchange in 2014,” Senior Commissioner Aswin Siregar said on Tuesday ( Sep 3 ).
According to AQAP, the alleged evil attack against the Singapore Exchange creating occurred on an ordered basis. No specifics were given about his plans to carry out an attack of this nature.
According to Mr. Aswin, YLK had attended a number of terrorism training camps, including one run by the terrorist organization Jemaah Islamiyah ( JI ) in East Java in 2001.
YLK was detained for the first time in 2003 after a Bali fighter who had been sentenced to death had given him weapons for storage. In 2012, YLK traveled to Yemen as part of the AQAP international terrorism by joining Jemaah Anshorut Tauhid, a fracture cell of JI.  ,
” In Yemen, YLK claimed he was instructed by AM or AZ, a top AQAP part, to carry out a terror attack on the Singapore Stock Exchange. According to Mr. Aswin, YLK attempted to enter Singapore via marine in 2015, but was turned down by Singaporean multiculturalism and deported to Batam, according to the Jakarta Globe.
When he was arrested, the officers found a card under the name of Yudi Lukito Kurniawan and a piece of Singapore immigration’s inspection report.
” We are also investigating the evidence”, said Mr Aswin.
Just two weeks after Al-Qaeda-affiliated JI announced the organization’s breakdown on June 30th, the arrest was made. However, despite the breakdown, terrorism will still be a threat in the area because many JI splinter groups, including the Islamic State-backed Jamaah Ansharut Daulah, are still active.
A suicide bombing story involving a 19-year-old Islamic State sympathiser identified as HOK was foiled on July 31 by Detachment 88. The teenager, authorities said, learned how to organize bombs website and was planning to pin a religious page in Malang, East Java.  ,
Less than a week after, on August 6, authorities detained two Islamic State sympathisers who were accused of spreading the terror network’s ideology online. According to the police, there is n’t any proof that the two incidents were connected.