An Indonesian policeman guards near a police station after a stabbing attack in Medan (Photo: AFP/VNA)Hanoi (VNA) - Indonesian police have found hundreds of books containingIslamic State (IS) propaganda targeting children at the home of a suspectarrested in connection with the stabbing death of an officer, a policespokeswoman said on June 26.
The booksaimed at children found at the home of the arrested man were written inIndonesian and included pictures and messages supportive of dying in jihad, orholy war, said police spokeswoman Rina Sari Ginting.
A dayearlier, a police officer was stabbed to death at a police station in Medan,the capital of North Sumatra province. Another suspected militant was shot andkilled by police during the attack.
Policebelieve the men were part of Jemaah Ansharut Daulah (JAD), an umbrella organisationon a US State Department "terrorist" list which supports IS and hashundreds of Indonesian followers.
The wifeof the arrested man told police her husband had spent six months in Syria in2013.
There isconcern about a rise of militancy in Indonesia, which has the world's biggestMuslim population. IS sympathisers have carried out a series of mostlylow-level attacks over the past few years, and there are fears about the returnof hundreds of Indonesians who have gone to Syria to support IS.-VNA
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