Police are still studying the possibility that a terrorist network was involved in last Friday`s attack on Horale village by people of neighboring Saleman village, Central Maluku District, a spokesman said. Four people were killed and tens of houses and public and social facilities were burnt during the incident, Maluku Police`s chief information officer Adjunct Senior Commissioner J. Huwae said on Tuesday."Based on the results of direct observations at the location of the clash , police are now studying such a possibility, " he said.Maluku Police Chief Brig Gen Mohammad Guntur Ariyadi on Monday visited the location. Huwae further said judging by the conditions st the location and based on exhibits collected, the attack was carried out in a systematic way and by trained people.He added the results of the preliminary investigation would be made public on May 7.Police had so far questioned 27 people over the incident and seven of them had been named suspects in the case, he added.People in the two villages also fought each other in a border dispute in 2006, Huwae said.
A policeman, right, watches over two masseuses and their customers during a raid on suspected prostitution activities at a hotel in Changchun, in northeast China's Jilin province The Bandung authority is at loss to uncover cases of covert prostitution involving junior and senior high school students, whose number continues to rise in the West Java capital. Eli, a sex worker advocacy program mentor from the Rumah Cemara Group in Bandung, said it was hard to provide advocacy to teenagers involved in covert prostitution since most were not receptive. The number of those involved in covert prostitution is believed to be higher compared to commercial sex on the streets, she added. Eli has been providing support to more than 200 housewives and child sex workers over the past two years, around 20 of who are senior high school students between the ages of 15 and 16. "They are psychologically unstable at those ages. They are hard to handle due to their strong motivation to ea
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