Jakarta - Umar Patek, a member of Jemaah Islamiyah who was captured by Pakistani security officials in Abbotabad, Pakistan, on January 25, 2011, has arrived in Indonesia, a reliable source said on Thursday. Head of the National Counter-terrorism Agency (BNPT) Ansyaad Mbai said Umar Patek, in the United States, Australia, and Indonesia on terrorism charges, has been flown from Pakistan to Jakarta with a tight guard by Special Anti-terror Detachment team. "Yes, Umar Patek has arrived in Indonesia," Ansyaad said without mentioning the day of Umar's arrival. Umar Patek is believed to have served as the assistant for the field coordinator of the 2002 bombings in Bali which killed 202 people, mostly Australians and seven Americans. One of the most wanted Islamic extremists in Southeast Asia, Umar Patek has a US$1 million bounty on his head under the US government's "Rewards for Justice" program. Umar Patek alias Abdul Ghoni alias Abu Syeikh alias Umar Arab fled from Indonesia in 2003 with the assistance of Abdullah Sonata and his organization. Blamed for a series of deadly bombings in Indonesia dating back to 1999, Umar Patek is a suspected member of Al-Qaeda-linked Southeast Asian terror network Jemaah Islamiyah. Patek reportedly returned to Indonesia early last year to join a new militant group being set up in Aceh province by another alleged Bali ringleader, Dulmatin, who was killed in a police raid in March 2010. A Pakistani intelligence official was quoted by Associated Press as saying that the Indonesian government sent a plane on Wednesday to pick up the 41-year-old Patek from a Pakistani air force base just outside the capital, Islamabad. The extradition was confirmed by senior Pakistani security and government officials. Ansyaad told the Associated Press on Wednesday that Umar Patek, who has confessed to playing a role in the 2002 Bali bombings, would stand trial in Indonesia.

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