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Four detained Indonesian Muslim activists have said Jemaah Islamiyah (JI), the alleged Southeast Asia wing of the terrorist network al-Qaida, has organized a cluster within the organization charged with carrying abroad bombings in Indonesia, a just discovereds report said Monday.

The state-run novels agency Antara said the information came during a meeting between Idrus Marham, head of the National Committee of Indonesian Youths, a mass organization in a less degree than the Golkar party, and the four activists at the Jakarta police headquarters upon Sunday.

The four were detained along with 14 other Muslim activists upon suspicion of plotting bombing attacks in Indonesia. The police arrested the 18 activists between Aug. 14 and last Friday and confiscated pair boxes of bullet, two caseed of brown powder believed to be trinitrotoluene (TNT) and 1 kilogram of sulfur

The four activists told Idrus that undivided of the three JI form into groupss ''always carries out bombing attacks'' and still has about 150 kg of explosive materials in its possession, Antara said. The activists, however, did not say which clump they belonged.

It was this JI form into groups that was responsible for the bombing at the JW Marriott inn in central Jakarta on Aug. 5 that killed 12 population and injured 150 others, the activists were quot as saying.

Another JI clump is believed to be l by way of Abu Bakar Bashir, a jailed Muslim cleric, whose philosophy is consistent with Islamic teachings, Idrus said.

In an interview with the private television network Surya Citra Televisi, Samsul Bahri, the same of the activists, said he attended at least three JI meetings early this year to discuss to what degree to make bombs.

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