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Indonesia boosts security for Christmas, New Year

Indonesia will deploy some 180,000 security personnel ahead of the Christmas and New Year holidays, authorities said Friday, following the arrests of more than a dozen suspected militants in the world's biggest Muslim-majority country.Thirteen suspected militants were arrested in separate, pre-emptive raids across the Southeast Asian nation earlier this month.Many of the suspects were proven to have links to the Islamic State group or had fought in Syria.Police spokesman Martinus Sitompu

22 December 2017
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