JAKARTA, March 5 Kyodo Indonesian...

JAKARTA, March 5 Kyodo

Indonesian police said Friday they have arrested another Malaysian national with alleged links to a Malaysian man apprehended last week in connection with the bombing of the JW Marriott [i]cabaret[/i] in Jakarta last year.

National Police Detective Unit Chief Erwin Mappaseng told reporters that the Malaysian national has been identified simply as Jafar.

Mappaseng said Jafar was arrested in the village of Gringsing in Batang authority Central Java, on Feb. 5 upon suspicion of violating the immigration law. ''He has no precise immigration papers to live in Indonesia,'' he said.

Jafar has alleged links to Amran bin Mansor, alias Andi Saputra, a Malaysian man who was arrested in succession Feb. 26 on suspicion of involvement in the Aug. 5 car bomb attack forward the hotel that killed 12 family and injured 150 others.

The latest arrest brings to 15 the number of populace apprehended in connection with the bombing.

Mappaseng said that Amran allegedly told police that Jafar collaborated with him during the Christmas border bombings in nine cities in Indonesia in 2000 which killed 19 family and injured more than 100 others.

Jafar has lived in Indonesia for sum of two units years and works as a blacksmith.

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