Jakarta – The National Police are investigating the extent of foreign funding of terrorism activities in Indonesia, after allegations that a French citizen was involved with terrorists arrested in Bandung, West Java.

"It is important for us to establish whether there is a foreign source of funding and to determine just to what extent it is fueling terrorism," the National Police Chief Detective Comr. Gen. Ito Sumardi told state news agency Antara in a media conference on Wednesday.

The Densus 88 antiterror squad is still tracking the whereabouts of a French citizen who allegedly gave a car to the terrorist group. Police said the group planned to make a car bomb and they planned to attack embassies and hotels in a wave of attacks.

Police claimed that the terror suspects arrested in Bandung were connected to hardline cleric Abu Bakar Bashir, who was arrested in Banjar, West Java on Monday.

Police also claimed to have evidence indicating Bashir's involvement in terror activities, including a video recording showing Bashir watching military training in an Acehnese terrorist camp.

"They recorded the video themselves so that they could show those in the Acehnese camp that they had moral support," a spokesman with the National Police Sr. Comr. Marwoto Soeto told news portal Kompas.com.

Witnesses have told police that Bashir often went to Aceh to inspect military training.

"He came to Aceh to make sure the standard of the terrorists' training was rigorous," Marwoto said, adding that the police found sketches of places which became the targets for the terror attacks. "A witness said Bashir ordered him to make the sketches," he said.