Indonesian police has declared Muslim cleric Abu Bakar Bashir suspect on terrorism, national police chief of detective Ito Sumardi said here on Wednesday, Xinhua reported.
Bashir, 71, was arrested on Monday in West Java by the police's anti-terror squad amid a tight security.
"He (Bashir) has been declared a suspect on terrorism. He has involved in a terror plot and persuaded others to implicate on terror acts," Sumardi told Xinhua over phone.
Police spokesman Edward Aritonang has said that the cleric implicates on planning, funding and managing militant training at a camp in remote Aceh jungle in westernmost of Indonesia, the camp was raid by police in February.
The chief of detective said Bashir has used the video of the training to raise fund among business people.
The cleric refused to answer questions in interrogation and said the arrest was made up by the United States.
The arrest on Bashir is the third since 2000. He has served over three years of imprisonment for conspiracy in Bali bombings in 2002.