Indonesian police dismiss report of terrorist plot to kill Obama

Indonesian police dismissed a report on a terrorist plan to assassinate U.S. president Barrack Obama during his visit to Indonesia this year, police spokesman Nanan Soekarna said here Tuesday.

"The police reject (about the plot to attack Obama)," Soekarna told reporters at the police headquarters here.

The spokesman said that so far, the police had not found any indication of the plan based on the interrogation of those terrorist suspects being detained and documents.

"From the police side, there is no indication of the plot," he said.

Previously, an Indonesian intelligence expert quoted his source as saying to media about the plot.

Indonesian terrorist expert Dynno Chressbon said that the plot to kill Obama was made by the terrorist group's leader Noordin M. Top and his Singaporean Jemaah Islamiyah (JI) colleague Mas Slamat Kastari in Surakarta, Central Java since Obama was campaigning to run in the United States presidency in July last year.

Obama plans to visit Indonesia, where he spent some years in his childhood, on the sidelines of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit in Singapore in November.