Nivel Rayda – Elite anti-terror police arrested three more people in Centra Java Thursday morning, a day after five suspects were killed in two separate clashes.

Thursday's arrests by Densus 88 squad officers took place in Sukoharjo, Central Java at a house believed to be used as a haven for an alleged terrorist group. The raids are related to operations to roll up an alleged terror network discovered some months ago in Aceh.

The state-run Antara news agency reported that those arrested were Hamid Agus Wibowo also known as Abdul Hamid; Eko Purwanto whose many aliases include Handzalah, Thoriq, Abid and Luqman; and a shop keeper identified as Erwin.

The three were flown to a police detention center in Depok, on the outskirts of Jakarta.

After the arrests, at around 8.30 am Thursday, dozens of anti-terror officers also raided an auto shop in a village of Sukoharjo. No arrests were made, Antara reported, but police did confiscate an assault rifle, a pistol and hundreds of rounds of ammunition from the mechanic shop.

Separately, a source at the directorate general of penitentiary affairs at the Ministry of Justice and Human Rights said that two convicted terrorists had been moved from the Cipinang prison in Jakarta to the Nusa Kambangan maximum security prison in Cilacap, Central Jakarta in response to the ongoing anti-terror operations.

Police moved on the Cipinang convicts, the source said, because they believed they were working with terrorists outside the facility.

"At 10 am this morning, several officers from Densus 88 arrived [at the Cipinang prison] by helicopter. They contacted the warden, saying that police believe that convicts had been communicating with members of the terrorist group outside," a source told the Jakarta Globe.

A day earlier, police killed five terrorist suspects in East Jakarta and Cikampek, West Java.

Brig. Gen. Tito Karnavian, head of the anti-terror unit, told the Jakarta Globe that among those killed were two high-value targets, Maulana and Saptono, also known as Pak Tuo.

Maulana, who was killed in East Jakarta, was wanted by East Kalimantan police on weapons charges and had previously been detained under Malaysia's Internal Security Act. Saptono, who was killed during a raid in Cikampek, was the alleged new head of the Aceh terrorist group, police said. He supposedly succeeded his brother Encang Kurnia, who is also known as Jaja, who was killed by police in Aceh in March.