AN alleged terrorist wanted in connection with the deadly 2002 Bali bombings has been arrested in Indonesia after almost a decade on the run.
Police confirmed they had arrested Heru Kuncoro during a raid last Thursday in Pekalongan in Central Java.
Kuncoro, the brother-in-law of the terrorist known as Dulmatin, was arrested along with 15 others in relation to plotting cyanide attacks against police and is now in custody in Jakarta.
"His involvement in the Bali bombing was taking Dulmatin to buy electronic devices for the bomb and in planning the bombing along with Imam Samudra, Mukhlas and Noordin M. Top," police spokesman Ketut Untung Yoga Ana told AAP.
"He's a core player in the Bali bombing, but below the other men."
Dulmatin, the mastermind of the 2002 nightclub attacks, was killed by police in a raid in March last year.
The arrest of Kuncoro comes after Umar Patek, also wanted for the Bali bombings which killed 202 people including 88 Australians, was captured in January in Abbottabad, the same Pakistani city where al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden was killed in May.
It is believed Kuncoro fled to the Philippines in 2003.
However, Ketut said Kuncoro has remained in contact with other members of Jemaah Islamiah (JI), the group behind the Bali attacks and a string of other bombings in Indonesia.
"He's indoctrinated strongly, he'll never get out," Ketut said.
The al-Qaeda-linked terrorist group was also behind bombings in Jakarta at the Marriott Hotel in 2003 and Australian Embassy in 2004, as well as the second Bali bombing in 2005.
The arrest also comes ahead of the verdict on Thursday in the trial of JI founder Abu Bakar Bashir on terrorism charges in relation to the discovery of a paramilitary camp in Aceh last year.
Before the Bali bombing, Kuncoro took part in paramilitary training in Maluku during a sectarian war between Muslims and Christians in which up to 9,000 people died between 1999 and 2002.
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