Jakarta, Dec 03: Six Indonesian students suspected of terrorist links will be held for questioning when they arrive home after being deported by Pakistan, police said today. The six include Rusman Gunawan, the brother of alleged top terrorist Hambali, considered al-Qaeda's pointman in Asia and also former operations chief of Jemaah Islamiyah (JI), which is blamed for the October Bali bombings that killed 202 people and for a string of other deadly blasts. "It is important for us to question them. We already have the material which we will use as reference for their questioning," said Sunarko Danu Ardanto, a national police spokesman.
Ardanto said that under current anti-terror laws, police could detain them for up to four months before bringing them to court. He added that police would release them if they found no proof of terrorist activities.
Foreign Ministry spokesman Marty Natalegawa said yesterday that Pakistan had notified Jakarta of its plan to deport the students but that no date had yet been set.

He said Pakistani authorities had finished questioning the six, all students of the Abubakar Islamic University in Pakistan who were arrested in September on suspicion of terrorism.
Bureau Report