Bogor – Four members of the banned al-Qiyadah al-Islamiyah sect turned themselves in to police Thursday.

Adj. Comr. Sarjiman, the chief of the Ciomas police station where the four Sukajaya subdistrict residents turned themselves in, said they had signed promises of repentance.

"Members of the public said there were five sect members living in the subdistrict, so we put them under surveillance to prevent public rage.

"The four people came to the station voluntarily asking for protection," Sarjiman said. The fifth member of the sect was yet to hand himself in to police as he had to work, Sarjiman said.

The sect's leader, Ahmad Moshaddeq, who is now in police detention, declared himself a Muslim prophet and taught followers that praying and the haj pilgrimage were unnecessary.