JAKARTA - INDONESIAN police have nabbed a Singaporean identified as Husaini Ismail who allegedly plotted to hijack a plane in Bangkok and crash it into Singapore's Changi airport in 2001, according to a report on Tuesday.

If his arrest is confirmed, it would mean that all five men involved in the failed plot are now in custody.

They were believed to be part of a five-man terrorist cell led by Singapore Jemaah Islamiah (JI) leader Mas Selamat Kastari who fled Singapore that year when the Internal Security Department (ISD) rounded-up JI members.

The terror team included Mohammad Hassan Saynudin, 36, the leader of a group called Jemaah Palembang. In April, a Jakarta court sentenced him to 18 years jail for killing a Christian teacher and plotting attacks against Westerners in the country.

Husaini was arrested in Central Java, on the same day that Indonesian terrorist suspect Saefuddin Zuchry was caught after attending a Koran recital service in Cilacap, according to a page one report in the Jakarta Globe yesterday.

'Finally we were able to arrest Husaini,' a police source told newspaper on the separate arrests on Sunday (june 21).'We have been searching for him since 2002.'

There were no details of Husaini's capture but the police source said that he would be dealt with in Indonesia instead of being deported to Singapore.

Asked to comment on the Jakarta Globe report, a spokesman for Singapore's Ministry of Home Affairs told The Straits Times yesterday: 'ISD has been in close communications with the Indonesian Police. As investigations by the Indonesian Police are still ongoing, we are not able to comment at this point in time.'

Indonesia's national police spokesman Abu Bakar Nataprawira refused to elaborate when asked about the report. But he confirmed that several arrests had been made by Densus 88, the anti-terror squad.

'I am not able to reveal their identities at this stage because the investigation is still going on,' he said.

Read the full report in Wednesday's edition of The Straits Times.