Terrorist plot to blow up the Pertamina fuel depot, the country's largest oil storage facility thwarted

According to reports emerging on 22 October 2008, Indonesian authorities have thwarted a terrorist plot to blow up the Pertamina fuel depot, the country's largest oil storage facility, located in Plumpang, North Jakarta. Officials stated that five members of a militant Islamist cell, reportedly associated with the regional terrorist group Jemaah Islamiyah (JI), were apprehended in West Java, Bogor and Jakarta in a series of raids. During the raids, detailed bomb circuit boards -- higher tech versions of the circuitry used in the Australian Embassy bombing in Jakarta in 2004 -- were found, in addition to weapons, triggers, chemicals, ammunition and nearly 6 lb/2.7 kg of TNT. Some of the terrorists were believed to be associated with the mastermind of the 2002 and 2005 Bali bombings. Authorities stated that during the raid, they found evidence that a number of different terrorist groups have begun to join together in Indonesia, including JI, its Singapore division, a grassroots jihad group called Jundulah, as well as the Islamic State of Indonesia, KOMPAK and FAKTA.