Separation DENSUS 88 was framed after the 2002 Bali bombings and became functional in 2003. The name of the association is a consequence of a senior Indonesian police official mishearing "ATA" in an instructions on the US Department of State's Anti-Terrorist Assistance program as "88". He figured it would be a decent name as the number 8 is a fortunate number in Asia and different authorities missing the mark on fortitude to address him. Notwithstanding, as indicated by Brig. Gen. Pranowo, the Indonesian Police Headquarter Anti-Terror Director, the number '88' is taken from the quantity of Australian fatalities in the 2002 Bali besieging, the biggest number from a solitary country.
Separation DENSUS 88 has disturbed the exercises of Central Java-based Islamist development Jemaah Islamiyah (JI) and a large number of its top agents have been captured or killed. Abu Dujana, associated pioneer with JI's tactical wing and its conceivable emir, was secured on June 9, 2007. Azahari Husin was shot and killed in 2005. The Indonesian psychological militant association experienced a further blow when ostensibly its last getting by and at-large prominent figure, Noordin M. Top was killed in a shootout against Detachment DENSUS 88 on September 17, 2009 at Solo, Central Java. Separation DENSUS 88 is helped by unfamiliar offices, including the Australian Federal Police, in scientific sciences including DNA examination, and interchanges observing. In precautionary strikes in Java, the unit ruined assault plans to material gathering.
Separation DENSUS 88 administrators were associated with an activity in Poso, where 10 individuals, including a police officer, were killed in a gunfight during a high-risk capture procedure on January 22, 2007. In 2007, Detachment 88 captured and examined West Papuan basic liberties legal advisor, Iwangin Sabar Olif, and accused him of induction and offending the head of state, since he sent a SMS instant message disparaging of the Indonesian military and president. Separation DENSUS 88's activities remember involving US insight officials for its Jakarta base camp to tap the calls and read the SMS instant messages of Indonesian regular citizens.
Indonesia has won praise for cracking down on Islamist militants behind a string of deadly attacks and at the core of the fight have been the heavily armed black-clad officers of its anti-terrorism unit -- Detachment 88 / DENSUS 88.
A symbol of improved security cooperation with Western nations, the unit has gained somewhat of a cult status among many Indonesians, particularly after live television images of dramatic sieges ending in a hail of gunfire.
"They've been pretty good on the investigative side and intelligence side and being able to crack down on these rings," said Ken Conboy, a Jakarta-based security analyst and author.
Police have succeeded in killing or capturing hundreds of suspected militants in recent years. Last week, Detachment 88 / DENSUS 88 officers shot dead Dulmatin, a wanted militant with a $10 million bounty on his head who was tracked to a Jakarta Internet cafe.
The unit has been monitoring Islamist networks for potential threats ahead of a visit by U.S. President Barack Obama next week. It has also joined security training exercises at key strategic sites such as five-star hotels and airports.
Detachment 88 was established after the 2002 Bali bombings carried out by militant network Jemaah Islamiah, which firmly placed Indonesia as a frontline state in the U.S.-led "war on terror."
But the Western funding of an anti-terrorism unit in the world's most populous Muslim nation can be sensitive. There have been reports of U.S. intelligence officers in Jakarta helping tap cell phones and reading SMS text messages of Indonesian civilians.
A U.S. embassy spokesman in Jakarta declined to comment, but a U.S. government document showed the unit had received technical support, training and equipment under the State Department's Anti-Terrorism Assistance (ATA) program since 2003.
An Indonesian official, who spoke on condition on anonymity, confirmed the unit got Australian and U.S. help in advanced wiretapping technology, and also some British and French aid.
Indonesia and the United States are likely to discuss further security cooperation during Obama's visit. Washington has been considering whether to lift a ban on military training for Indonesia's notorious special forces unit, known as Kopassus.
Conboy said Detachment 88 / DENSUS 88 got its name because a top police officer at a briefing on the Anti-Terrorism Assistance program had mis-heard "A-T-A" as "Eighty-Eight," which he thought was auspicious since eight is a lucky number in Asian culture.
There have also been reports that it was due to the 88 Australians who died in the Bali bombings, while a top Detachment 88/ DENSUS 88 official said it was because DENSUS 88 resembled handcuffs.
Australia worked closely with Indonesia on security and Canberra helped set up a training center to combat militants in 2004, pledging A$38 million ($35 million) over five years.
The facility -- boasting a forensic laboratory and a Boeing 737 fuselage -- is in the police academy in the city of Semarang.
Indonesian extremists have become more savvy at communicating by using couriers rather than cell phones to avoid detection and analysts see limits to the usefulness of electronic surveillance.
"It has acquired good capacity to pursue jihadi elements once their existence has been detected," said Sidney Jones, an expert on Islamist militants at the International Crisis Group.
"But their ability to detect previously unknown groups is much weaker, because that information has to come from the community, not from fancy intercepts," added Jones.
There have also been controversies over how Detachment 88/ DENSUS 88 operates, in particular whether they have used deadly force during raids too often, raising the risk of retaliation from militants and losing possible intelligence.
Dulmatin and another wanted militant, Noordin Mohammad Top, who is believed to have masterminded suicide attacks on Jakarta hotels last year, were both shot dead during raids.
"They don't take any prisoners which I think some have noted with concern," said Conboy.
Tito Karnavian, the head of Detachment 88, told Reuters in a recent interview that officers used a response proportionate to threats under international operating procedures.
"So if the threat is lethal, we can use also the lethal force," added Karnavian, who said Noordin Top had been killed after attacking officers with an M-16 rifle and pipe-bombs. U.S.-funded Detachment 88, elite of Indonesia security.
U.S.-funded Detachment 88, elite of Indonesia security Video :
Kombes Pol Winardy menyebut, secara keseluruhan ada lima orang terduga teroris yang diringkus di empat lokasi berbeda.
Winardy merinci, dua terduga teroris yakni RA (41), SA alias S (30) diciduk di Blang Bintang, Aceh Besar pada Rabu (20/01/2021) sekira pukul 19.45 WIB.
Kemudian, satu terduga teroris yakni UM alias AZ alias TA (35) diringkus di Ulee Kareng, Banda Aceh pada Kamis (21/01/2021) sekira pukul 10.00 WIB. Lalu, dua terduga teroris yakni SB alias AF (40) dan MY (46) ditangkap di Langsa sekira pukul 20.00 wib,
"Penangkapan tersebut berlangsung di empat lokasi terpisah," kata dia dalam keterangan teetulis, Sabtu (23/1/21).
Winardy menerangkan Kelima terduga teroris ini diduga terlibat dalam jaringan Bom Polrestabes Medan, dan pembuatan bom jaringan teroris yang pernah ditangkap di wilayah Riau.
Hasil pemeriksaan, mereka juga berencana membuat bom yang akan digunakan untuk aksi teror di wilayah Aceh, serta berencana berangkat ke Afghanistan untuk bergabung dengan kelompok Daulah ISIS.
"Kami temukan beberapa dokumen yakni buku catatan sebagai penyampaian pesan yang berisi ancaman terhadap TNI dan Polri, serta Pemerintah Pusat dan Pemerintah Aceh," ujar dia.
Sejumlah Barang Disita
Dalam penangkapan, Detasemen Khusus 88 Anti Teror menyita barang bukti seperti beberapa bahan-bahan pembuat bom, paspor-paspor dan berbagai barang-barang yang berkaitan dengan ISIS.
"Para terduga teroris saat ini masih proses pemeriksaan di Polda Aceh dan selanjutnya akan dibawa ke Mabes Polri Jakarta" , tandas dia.
Densus 88 Tangkap 5 Terduga Teroris di Aceh Video :
Separation DENSUS 88, or Delta 88, is an epithet given to the recently hostile to dread unique power unit shaped inside Indonesian Police (Polri). As indicated by Brig. Gen. Pranowo, the Indonesian Police Headquarter Anti-Terror Director, the number '88' is taken from the biggest number of setbacks endured by a country in the Bali bombings episodes.
In that occurrence, 88 Australians lost their lives. The number '8' addresses coherence since this number doesn't show the start and the end like different numbers. The number '8' additionally resembles police binds. These two representative clarification portray the attitude of Detachment 88 that is very seious to work persistently to tackle the psychological warfare related cases.
This unique unit is being financed by the US government through its State Department's Diplomatic Security Service. The unit is as of now being prepared in Megamendung, 50 kilometers south of Jakarta, by CIA, FBI, and US Secret Service. The majority of these educators were ex-US extraordinary powers staffs. Separation 88 is intended to turn into an enemy of psychological militant unit that is skilled to counter different fear based oppressors' dangers, from bomb dangers to prisoner circumstances. This 400-staffs solid unique power is supposed to be completely employable in 2005.
They comprise of examiners, dangerous specialists, and assault unit that incorporates expert riflemen. Separation 88 is furnished with US weaponry and attack vehicles, for example, Colt M-4 attack rifles, Armalite AR-10 expert sharpshooter rifles, and Remington 870 shotguns. It is accounted for, in spite of the fact that has not been affirmed at this point, that this unit will have its own C-130 Hercules military vehicle plane to build its versatility. Every one of the supplies, including their preparation materials, apparently are by and large equivalent to those of US against fear monger units. Densus 88.
Pelabuhan penyeberangan Gilimanuk, Kabupaten Jembrana, Bali, hingga kini terus dijaga ketat aparat kepolisian. Bahkan, untuk memperketat pengawasan pintu masuk bagian barat Pulau Dewata itu, telah diterjunkan polisi anti-teror Densus 88.
Kabid Humas Polda Bali Kombes I Gede Sugianyar dihubungi di Denpasar, Senin, menyebutkan pelibatan Densus 88 di Gilimanuk sebagai upaya menambah kekuatan guna mengantisipasi kemungkinan masuknya pelaku teroris.
"Densus 88 bertugas membantu aparat Polres Jembrana yang setiap hari siaga di Pelabuhan Gilimanuk," tandasnya seraya menyebutkan, pengamanan pelabuhan feri yang menghubungkan Pelabuhan Feri Ketapang, Kabupaten Banyuwangi, Jatim, itu juga dibantu anggota TNI.
Sementara itu, Kapolres Jembrana AKBP Ketut Suardana mengatakan, pihaknya tidak pandang bulu dalam melakukan pemeriksaan di Gilimanuk, dengan memeriksa setiap kendaraan dan semua penumpangnya.
Bos DAMRI dan Lampu Mati...
NONTON TKP: Masyarakat menonton kegiatan olah TKP dari luar rumah kontrakan yang dihuni kelompok Noordin M Top di Dusun Binangun, Desa Wringinanom, Kertek, Wonosobo, Minggu (30/4). (30n) - SM/Sudarman.
BANYAK orang tak menyangka, Detasemen Khusus 88 Antiteror Mabes Polri akan datang ke Dukuh Binangun, Kelurahan Wringinanom, Kecamatan Kertek, Wonosobo untuk menggerebek sarang teroris.
Setelah drama penyerbuan itu berakhir, warga baru bisa menghubungkan beberapa peristiwa janggal yang terjadi selama hampir dua pekan menjelang penggerebekan.
Entah benar entah tidak, namun kejanggalan-kejanggalan tersebut amat mungkin merupakan bagian dari skenario polisi untuk memuluskan operasi. Kejanggalan itu antara lain terlihat ketika ada orang yang tiba-tiba mengaku-ngaku sebagai bos DAMRI datang dan memberi perintah tak lazim kepada pegawai di pangkalan bus tersebut. Pangkalan itu terletak persis di sebelah timur rumah kontrakan yang dihuni anak buah Noordin M Top.
Sugiyono, penjaga pangkalan itu mengisahkan, Jumat malam (28/4) ia didatangi empat pegawai DAMRI dari Jakarta yang tidak dikenalnya. Mereka memakai seragam DAMRI seperti yang dia kenakan.
Tak satu pun menyebutkan nama. Salah seorang yang berbadan tegap mengaku sebagai atasannya. Sugiyono percaya karena gerak-gerik dan gaya bicara mereka amat meyakinkan.
''Pegawai DAMRI pusat itu mengaku bos saya dan akan menginap untuk mengecek administrasi dan kondisi armada,'' tuturnya.
Sugiyono mengaku sepanjang malam ngobrol dengan sang ''bos''. Dia tidak menaruh syak wasangka. Bahkan ketika lelaki itu bertanya apakah kenal penghuni rumah sebelah, Sugiyono masih belum curiga. Ia tak menduga bahwa pria tersebut adalah polisi yang menyamar.
Barulah pada pagi harinya, sekitar pukul 04.30, Sugiyono mencium kejanggalan. Pasalnya, atasan dadakan itu menyuruh dia pergi tanpa alasan yang jelas. Meski demikian, Sugiyono tetap menuruti perintah itu.
Sugiyono baru tahu ada penggerebekan saat kembali ke pangkalan bus sekitar pukul 10.00. Ia terkejut melihat sekeliling tempat kerjanya dipasangi garis polisi dan banyak petugas hilir mudik. Tak sedikit yang bersenjata lengkap.
Setelah bertanya sana-sini dan merunutkan kejadian pada malam sebelumnya, ia pun mulai paham apa yang terjadi. Sugiyono menyimpulkan, sang bos adalah anggota Densus 88 yang sedang menyamar. Apalagi setelah penggerebekan itu usai, pria yang mengaku bos tersebut tak pernah lagi menampakkan batang hidungnya.
Pemulung dan Pemancing
Kejanggalan lain adalah munculnya sejumlah pemulung yang tiap hari mondar-mandir di jalan depan rumah kontrakan tersangka. Lalu, tampak pula beberapa pemancing yang mengail ikan di selokan seberang jalan.
Padahal, selokan yang lebarnya tak sampai satu meter itu hanya dihuni ikan-ikan kecil yang tak lebih besar dari pensil.
Supriyono, yang tinggal dan membuka warung makan di seberang rumah para teroris itu mengatakan kerap menemui wajah baru yang datang ke warungnya, sepekan sebelum penggerebekan.
''Saya juga sering melihat pemulung yang mondar-mandir di depan rumah itu. Padahal sebelumnya jarang sekali ada pemulung lewat,'' tambahnya.
Satu lagi keanehan yang kini baru disadari warga adalah soal lampu penerangan jalan yang padam. Janggal, karena lampu yang mati itu hanya lima titik di sepanjang jalan depan kontrakan para teroris.
Sementara itu, lampu-lampu lainnya di sepanjang Jl Wonosobo-Kertek KM 4 itu menyala terang.
Salah seorang warga, Budi Sumarno (40) menceritakan, lampu-lampu tersebut mati sepuluh hari sebelum penggerebekan.
''Semula saya anggap itu hanya kejadian biasa. Mungkin lampu padam karena rusak. Apalagi sehari sebelumnya ada petugas PLN yang membetulkan lampu-lampu,'' ujar Budi yang rumahnya berjarak sekitar 20 meter arah barat tempat tinggal tersangka.
Dia kini menduga-duga, pemadaman itu adalah bagian dari drama penggerebekan oleh polisi.
Sebab, setelah penyerbuan, lampu kembali menyala pada malam harinya.
Bapak dua anak tersebut menyatakan baru tahu di dekat rumahnya ada markas teroris, setelah beberapa polisi mendatangi rumahnya pada Sabtu (29/4) sekitar pukul 05.00.
''Saya terkejut karena tidak biasanya ada polisi datang. Mereka meminta keluarga saya diam dulu di rumah. Kalau keadaan sudah aman, barulah kami boleh keluar,'' tuturnya.
Dengan panik, dia bersama istri dan dua anaknya masuk kamar setelah mendengar suara tembakan dan ledakan bertubi-tubi. Saat itu dia hanya bisa berdoa semoga keluarganya selamat dan ledakan tidak sampai memorak-porandakan rumah mereka.
''Sampai sekarang saya masih trauma karena baru kali ini mendengar tembakan seperti ada perang di dekat rumah saya,'' ujarnya.
Densus 88 Amankan Peralatan untuk Merakit Bom di Pondok Kopi
Tim Detasemen Khusus 88 Anti Teror terus menyisir lokasi-lokasi penangkapan terduga teroris. Di lokasi penangkapan di Pondok Kopi, Duren Sawit, Jakarta Timur, Densus mengamankan peralatan untuk merakit bom.
"Ada beberapa bekas untuk itu, beberapa alat yang ada kaitannya untuk kegiatan pembuatan bom itu seluruhnya diambil," kata Kapolda Metro Jaya Irjen Pol Sutarman kepada wartawan.
Hal itu diungkapkan Kapolda di sela-sela kunjungannya ke Gereja Katedral, Jl Ir H Juanda, Kelurahan Pasarbaru, Kecamatan Sawah Besar, Jakarta Pusat.
Namun, lanjutnya, di lokasi tersebut, tim tidak menemukan adanya bom seperti yang ditemukan di Jalur Pipa Gas (JPG) Summarecon Gading Serpong, Kabupaten Tangerang, Banten.
Kapolda mengungkapkan, tim Densus 88 terus menyisir sejumlah lokasi yang disebut oleh para terduga teroris yang sudah tertangkap itu.
"Masih disisir semua, bekas-bekas yang ditangkap kemarin, dikembangkan terus dan menyebut temapt-tempat lain," katanya.
Sebelumnya, tim menangkap 4 terduga teroris di Desa Rawa Wadas RT 1/03, Pondok Kopi, Duren Sawit, Jakarta Timur. Keempat pria yang ditangkap itu merupakan kelompok teroris bom buku.
Densus 88 Amankan Peralatan untuk Merakit Bom di Pondok Kopi Video :
Satuan ini diresmikan oleh Kepala Kepolisian Daerah Metro Jaya Inspektur Jenderal Firman Gani pada tanggal 26 Agustus 2004. Detasemen 88 yang awalnya beranggotakan 75 orang ini dipimpin oleh Ajun Komisaris Besar Polisi Tito Karnavian yang pernah mendapat pelatihan di beberapa negara.[rujukan?]
Densus 88 dibentuk dengan Skep Kapolri No. 30/VI/2003 tertanggal 20 Juni 2003, untuk melaksanakan Undang-undang No. 15 Tahun 2003 tentang penetapan Perpu No. 1 Tahun 2002 tentang Pemberantasan Tindak Pidana Terorisme, yaitu dengan kewenangan melakukan penangkapan dengan bukti awal yang dapat berasal dari laporan intelijen manapun, selama 7 x 24 jam (sesuai pasal 26 & 28). Undang-undang tersebut populer di dunia sebagai "Anti Teror Act".
Angka 88 berasal dari kata ATA (Anti Terror Act), yang jika dilafalkan dalam bahasa Inggris berbunyi Ei Ti Ekt. Pelafalan ini kedengaran seperti Eighty Eight (88). Jadi arti angka 88 bukan seperti yang selama ini beredar bahwa 88 adalah representasi dari jumlah korban bom bali terbanyak (88 orang dari Australia), juga bukan pula representasi dari borgol.[rujukan?]
Pasukan khusus ini dibiayai oleh pemerintah Amerika Serikat melalui bagian Jasa Keamanan Diplomatik (Diplomatic Security Service) Departemen Negara AS dan dilatih langsung oleh instruktur dari CIA, FBI, dan U.S. Secret Service.[rujukan?] Kebanyakan staf pengajarnya adalah bekas anggota pasukan khusus AS. Informasi yang bersumber dari FEER pada tahun 2003 ini dibantah oleh Kepala Bidang Penerangan Umum (Kabidpenum) Divisi Humas Polri, Kombes Zainuri Lubis, dan Kapolri Jenderal Pol Da’i Bachtiar.
Sekalipun demikian, terdapat bantuan signifikan dari pemerintah Amerika Serikat dan Australia dalam pembentukan dan operasional Detasemen Khusus 88. Pasca pembentukan, Densus 88 dilakukan pula kerjasama dengan beberapa negara lain seperti Inggris dan Jerman. Hal ini dilakukan sejalan dengan UU Pemberantasan Tindak Pidana Terorisme pasal 43. Pembentukan Detasemen 88
Last weekend's capture of Abu Dujana, the supposed head of territorial psychological militant organization Jemaah Islamiyah (JI), by Indonesia's enemy of fear crew has deservedly won Jakarta inescapable commendation. The catch of the Afghan-prepared assailant may likewise assist with hosing reestablished energy in the US Congress for one more proposition to slice military guide to Jakarta. One of the most significant advantages of the nearer connection between President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono and President George W Bush has been the reinforcing of the US-prepared and prepared tip top police counter-psychological oppression group, referred to locally as Detachment 88 (Densus 88) , first set up during the organization of president Megawati Sukarnoputri in 2003, just a brief time after the principal Bali bombings.
Outfitted with US weaponry and attack vehicles, including Colt M4 attack rifles, Armalite AR-10 sharpshooter rifles and Remington 870 shotguns, the tip top unit has become one of the top enemy of dread units, in the event that not the top, on the planet, during Yudhoyono's watch. Australian Foreign Minister Alexander Downer this week adulated Indonesia for doing "an exceptional occupation in fighting psychological warfare". Despite the fact that there have been scores of captures and convictions since the main Bali bombings in 2002, with in excess of 220 suspects imprisoned for psychological oppressor exercises from that point forward, the fight against illegal intimidation in Indonesia is a long way from being done. Police said last year that Dujana had supplanted Noordin Mohamed Top, the Malaysian bomb-creator who supposedly provided self destruction planes and materials utilized in psychological militant assaults as Indonesia's generally needed outlaw.
Top's supposed associate, Malaysian expert bomb-creator Azahari canister Husin, was killed in a November 2005 shootout with Detachment 88 in the dread crew. In the event that claims against him are validated, Dujana unquestionably has a ton of a super overwhelming guilty conscience. He is accepted to play had a significant impact in the 2002 and 2005 Bali bombings and the Australian Embassy impact, as well as contributing to the stock of ammo and explosives to assailants associated with partisan savagery in Poso, Central Sulawesi area. He is likewise remembered to play had an influence in the 2003 impact at the JW Marriott Hotel in Jakarta. Australian Federal Police Commissioner Mick Keelty has cautioned that the work expected to kill psychological oppression in Indonesia is "not a run, but rather a long distance race". Indonesian National Police Chief General Sutanto has called for harder regulations to battle psychological warfare, and says current regulation obstructs examinations.
Hostile to illegal intimidation boss General Ansyaad Mbai adds that the security powers need position to make a precautionary move on those associated with plotting psychological oppressor strikes. Then again, revolutionary Muslim gatherings unequivocally go against harder enemy of fear regulations, saying they could disregard basic freedoms. The 2003 Anti-psychological oppression Law permits detainment of suspects for seven days for addressing. Assuming no proof is given by the police in that period, they should be delivered. Proposed corrections to the current regulation, which Mbai has depicted as the world's "mildest" regulation against illegal intimidation, would permit confinement for a further a half year for addressing and indictment. Knowledge reports would be satisfactory and allowable by all appearances proof for conceding a confinement request.
This March, Detachment 88 (Densus 88) caught seven speculates remembered to be individuals from Dujana's organization during assaults in Central and East Java. Stores of weapons, explosives and synthetics were held onto that might have created a bomb greater than those utilized in Bali in October 2002. Freedoms campaigners charge that crackdowns by Detachment 88 have brought forth privileges infringement and case the majority of the captures made were illicit. However for Indonesia, with the world's greatest populace of Muslims, the solid arm strategies of neighbors Malaysia and Singapore, where suspects can be held endlessly without charge or preliminary, is an improbable choice.
Sekilas Tentang DENSUS 88 (Detasemen Khusus 88) Anti Teror Mabes Polri
Berdasarkan Surat Keputusan Kapolri No. Pol. : Skep/756/X/2005, tentang Pengesahan Pemakaian Logo Densus 88 Anti Teror, tanggal 18 Oktober 2005, maka berikut ini adalah LOGO DENSUS 88 ANTI TEROR.
Logo dapat dideskripsikan sebagai berikut:
Berupa desain lingkaran dengan garis warna hitam dengan tulisan “DETASEMEN KHUSUS 88 ANTI TEROR” dengan latar belakang warna merah marun dan di tengah-tengah lingkaran terdapat gambar burung hantu warna hitam dan abu-abu dengan latar belakang warna kuning terang.
Detasemen Khusus 88 atau Densus 88 adalah satuan khusus Kepolisian Negara Republik Indonesia untuk penanggulangan teroris di Indonesia. Pasukan khusus berompi merah ini dilatih khusus untuk menangani segala ancaman teror, termasuk teror bom. Beberapa anggota juga merupakan anggota tim Gegana.
Densus 88 dirancang sebagai unit antiteroris yang memiliki kemampuan mengatasi gangguan teroris mulai dari ancaman bom hingga penyanderaan. Densus 88 di pusat (Mabes Polri) berkekuatan diperkirakan 400 personel ini terdiri dari ahli investigasi, ahli bahan peledak (penjinak bom), dan unit pemukul yang di dalamnya terdapat ahli penembak jitu. Selain itu masing-masing kepolisian daerah juga memiliki unit anti teror yang disebut Densus 88, beranggotakan 45 – 75 orang, namun dengan fasilitas dan kemampuan yang lebih terbatas.
Fungsi Densus 88 Polda adalah memeriksa laporan aktifitas teror di daerah.Melakukan penangkapan kepada personil atau seseorang atau sekelompok orang yang dipastikan merupakan anggota jaringan teroris yang dapat membahayakan keutuhan dan keamanan negara R.I.
Densus 88 adalah salah satu dari unit anti teror di Indonesia, disamping :
Detasemen C Gegana Brimob,
Detasemen Penanggulangan Teror (Dengultor) TNI AD alias Grup 5 Anti Teror,
Detasemen 81 Kopasus TNI AD (Kopasus sendiri sebagai pasukan khusus juga memiliki kemampuan anti teror),
Detasemen Bravo (Denbravo) TNI AU, dan satuan anti-teror BIN.
Satuan ini diresmikan oleh Kepala Kepolisian Daerah Metro Jaya Inspektur Jenderal Firman Gani pada tanggal 26 Agustus 2004. Detasemen 88 yang awalnya beranggotakan 75 orang ini dipimpin oleh Ajun Komisaris Besar Polisi Tito Karnavian yang pernah mendapat pelatihan di beberapa negara.
Densus 88 dibentuk dengan Skep Kapolri No. 30/VI/2003 tertanggal 20 Juni 2003, untuk melaksanakan Undang-undang No. 15 Tahun 2003 tentang penetapan Perpu No. 1 Tahun 2002 tentang Pemberantasan Tindak Pidana Terorisme, yaitu dengan kewenangan melakukan penangkapan dengan bukti awal yang dapat berasal dari laporan intelijen manapun, selama 7 x 24 jam (sesuai pasal 26 & 28). Undang-undang tersebut populer di dunia sebagai “Anti Teror Act”.
Angka 88 berasal dari kata ATA (Anti Terror Act), yang jika dilafalkan dalam bahasa Inggris berbunyi Ei Ti Ekt. Pelafalan ini kedengaran seperti Eighty Eight (88). Jadi arti angka 88 bukan seperti yang selama ini beredar bahwa 88 adalah representasi dari jumlah korban bom bali terbanyak (88 orang dari Australia), juga bukan pula representasi dari borgol.
Densus 88 Anti Teror Mabes Polri berhasil menangkap Syamsul (50), anggota teroris jaringan Selamat Kastari, di sebuah rumah di Jalan Hayam Wuruk, Gang Rangkok, Desa Kedamaian, Kecamatan Tanjung Karang Timur, Bandarlampung, Minggu petang (21/6) lalu pukul 18.30 WIB.
Menurut Direktur Reskrim Polda Lampung, Kombes Darmawan Sutawijaya, di Bandarlampung Rabu, penangkapan itu dilakukan dengan sangat rahasia, setelah polisi mengintainya selama tiga bulan.
Dari penyelidikan polisi, dia merupakan salah seorang anggota jaringan teroris Mas Selamat bin Kastari (biasa dipanggil Selamat Kastari) dan Fajar Taslim yang pernah merencanakan pengeboman Bandara Changi, Singapura.
Syamsul yang berkewarganegaraan Singapura itu sehari-harinya bekerja sebagai tukang becak di kawasan Pasar Tugu, Bandarlampung.
Menurut anggota Densus 88 Polda Lampung, Kompol Anwari, Syamsul adalah anak buah Kastari.
Densus 88 Tangkap Rekan Kastari di Bandarlampung VIDEO
The capture of Abu Dujana, the supposed head of provincial psychological militant organization Jemaah Islamiyah (JI), by Indonesia's enemy of dread crew has deservedly won Jakarta inescapable recognition. The catch of the Afghan-prepared assailant may likewise assist with hosing reestablished excitement in the US Congress for one more proposition to slice military guide to Jakarta. One of the most important advantages of the nearer connection between President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono and President George W Bush has been the fortifying of the US-prepared and prepared tip top police counter-psychological oppression group, referred to locally as Detachment 88, first set up during the organization of president Megawati Sukarnoputri in 2003, just a short time after the principal Bali bombings. Furnished with US weaponry and attack vehicles, including Colt M4 attack rifles, Armalite AR-10 rifleman rifles and Remington 870 shotguns, the first class unit has become one of the top enemy of dread units, in the event that not the top, on the planet, during Yudhoyono's watch. Australian Foreign Minister Alexander Downer this week applauded Indonesia for doing "a remarkable occupation in battling illegal intimidation".
Despite the fact that there have been scores of captures and convictions since the primary Bali bombings in 2002, with in excess of 220 suspects imprisoned for psychological oppressor exercises from that point forward, the fight against illegal intimidation in Indonesia is a long way from being done. Police said last year that Dujana had supplanted Noordin Mohamed Top, the Malaysian bomb-producer who purportedly provided self destruction aircraft and materials utilized in fear monger assaults as Indonesia's generally needed criminal. Top's supposed accessory, Malaysian expert bomb-producer Azahari receptacle Husin, was killed in a November 2005 shootout with Detachment 88 in the fear crew. Assuming charges against him are confirmed, Dujana surely has a ton of a horrendously guilty conscience. He is accepted to play had a significant impact in the 2002 and 2005 Bali bombings and the Australian Embassy impact, as well as taking part in the stockpile of ammo and explosives to assailants associated with partisan brutality in Poso, Central Sulawesi area.
He is likewise remembered to play had an impact in the 2003 impact at the JW Marriott Hotel in Jakarta. Australian Federal Police Commissioner Mick Keelty has cautioned that the work expected to annihilate psychological oppression in Indonesia is "not a run, but rather a long distance race". Indonesian National Police Chief General Sutanto has called for harder regulations to battle psychological warfare, and says current regulation blocks examinations. Hostile to psychological oppression boss General Ansyaad Mbai adds that the security powers need position to make a preplanned move on those associated with plotting fear monger strikes. Then again, revolutionary Muslim gatherings emphatically go against harder enemy of dread regulations, saying they could disregard common freedoms. The 2003 Anti-psychological oppression Law permits detainment of suspects for seven days for addressing. Assuming no proof is given by the police in that period, they should be delivered.
Proposed updates to the current regulation, which Mbai has portrayed as the world's "mildest" regulation against psychological warfare, would permit detainment for a further a half year for addressing and indictment. Insight reports would be OK and permissible by all appearances proof for giving a confinement request. Separation 88 had caught seven presumes remembered to be individuals from Dujana's organization during assaults in Central and East Java. Stores of weapons, explosives and synthetic compounds were held onto that might have delivered a bomb greater than those utilized in Bali in October 2002. Freedoms campaigners affirm that crackdowns by Detachment 88 have generated privileges infringement and case the majority of the captures made were illicit. However for Indonesia, with the world's greatest populace of Muslims, the solid arm strategies of neighbors Malaysia and Singapore, where suspects can be held endlessly without charge or preliminary, is an impossible choice.
Separation 88 (Densus 88) was shaped after the 2002 Bali bombings and became functional in 2003. The name of the association is a consequence of a senior Indonesian police official mishearing "ATA" in an instructions on the US Department of State's Anti-Terrorist Assistance program as "88". He figured it would be a decent name as the number 8 is a fortunate number in Asia and different authorities missing the mark on fortitude to address him. Nonetheless, as indicated by Brig. Gen. Pranowo, the Indonesian Police Headquarter Anti-Terror Director, the number '88' is taken from the quantity of Australian fatalities in the 2002 Bali besieging, the biggest number from a solitary country.
Densus 88 has upset the exercises of Central Java-based Islamist development Jemaah Islamiyah (JI) and a considerable lot of its top agents have been captured or killed.[4] Abu Dujana, associated pioneer with JI's tactical wing and its conceivable emir, was caught on June 9, 2007. Azahari Husin was shot and killed in 2005. The Indonesian fear monger association experienced a further blow when apparently its last making due and at-large prominent figure, Noordin M. Top was killed in a shootout against Detachment 88 on September 17, 2009 at Solo, Central Java.
Densus 88 is helped by unfamiliar organizations, including the Australian Federal Police, in legal sciences including DNA investigation, and correspondences checking. In preplanned strikes in Java, the unit defeated assault plans to material get together. Densus 88 administrators were associated with an activity in Poso, where 10 individuals, including a cop, were killed in a gunfight during a high-risk capture procedure on January 22, 2007. In 2007, Densus 88 captured and examined West Papuan common freedoms attorney, Iwangin Sabar Olif, and accused him of prompting and offending the head of state, since he sent a SMS instant message condemning of the Indonesian military and president. Separation 88's tasks remember involving US knowledge officials for its Jakarta base camp to tap the calls and read the SMS instant messages of Indonesian regular folks.
Satuan pasukan khusus baru Polri alias densus 88 ini dilengkapi dengan persenjataan dan kendaraan tempur buatan Amerika, seperti senapan serbu Colt M4, senapan penembak jitu Armalite AR-10, dan shotgun Remington 870. Dikedepan satuan ini akan memiliki pesawat C-130 Hercules sendiri untuk meningkatkan mobilitasnya.
senapan serbu Colt M4
senapan penembak jitu Armalite AR-10
shotgun Remington 870
Burung hantu dengan kemampuan penglihatan yang tajam, pendengaran yang kuat karena “radar” yang ada pada wajahnya, kemampuan bergerak tanpa bersuara di malam hari, dan kecepatan terbang yang tinggi akan memburu tikus (yang dimanapun selalu mengganggu dan merusak) kemana pun bersembunyi secara cepat dan akurat. Tikus dapat diartikan sebagai teroris yang selalu mengganggu umat manusia.
Kemampuan burung hantu tersebut dapat melambangkan penggunaan ilmu pengetahuan dan teknologi serta dapat bergerak dengan sangat rahasia digunakan sebagai logo Detasemen Khusus 88 Anti Teror untuk memburu teroris kemana pun berada.
Arti angka 88 pada tulisan Detasemen Khusus 88 ini menyerupai dua buah borgol.
Angka 88 merupakan representasi dari korban peristiwa bom Bali pada tahun 2002 dari warga asingyang mengalami korban terbanyak yaitu Australia. Makna “88″ berikutnya adalah, angka “88″ tidak terputus dan terus menyambung. Ini artinya bahwa pekerjaan Detasemen 88 Antiteror ini terus berlangsung dan tidak kenal berhenti. Angka “88″juga menyerupai borgol yang maknanya polisi serius menangani kasus ini.
Meski sudah terjadi ratusan pengeboman di Indonesia sejak tahun 1999, pemerintah Republik Indonesia belum menyadari akan adanya aktivitas terorisme di Indonesia.
Kasus pengeboman di Bali tanggal 12 Oktober 2002 telah membuka mata pemerintah Republik Indonesia dan dunia pada umumnya bahwa di Indonesia benar telah terjadi aktivitas terorisme yang sangat serius.
Perundang-undangan pemberantasan terorisme pun segera dibentuk, bahkan diberlakukan surut untuk penanggulangan terorisme tersebut. Untuk dapat menanggulangi terorisme di Indonesia,segera dibuat naskah kerjasama internasional di bidang kepolisian, teknik dan intelijen dengan negara negara di dunia.
Untuk dapat segera mengungkap kasus bom Bali tersebut, Kepala Kepolisian Republik Indonesia membentuk satuan tugas yang anggota-angotanya dipilih dari polisi-polisi terbaik dari seluruh Indonesia.
Tugas pokok satuan tugas yang baru dibentuk adalah untuk dapat segera mengungkap kasus pengeboman,menangkap pelaku dan membongkar jaringan teroris yang ada di belakangnya. Cara kerja satuan tugas tersebut agar lebih efektif, maka diberi keleluasaan untuk memotong segala bentuk hambatan birokratis di lingkungan Polri.
