ALL five men involved in a failed plot to crash a plane into Changi Airport in 2002 have been captured, the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) confirmed yesterday.

The final fugitive, Husaini Ismail, was nabbed in Central Java over the weekend by the Indonesian authorities acting on information provided by Singapore.

In a series of raids, the Indonesians also caught another Singaporean, Samad Subari, in Lampung province in southern Sumatra.

With Husaini's arrest, all five members of the Jemaah Islamiah (JI) group in the Changi plot led by Mas Selamat Kastari have been captured, MHA said in response to queries from The Straits Times.

Mas Selamat is being detained in Malaysia after he was arrested in Johor in April. The other three are: Mohamed Rashid Zainal Abidin (detained under the Internal Security Act in May 2006); Ishak Mohamed Noohu (detained in November 2006); and Mohammad Hassan Saynudin (arrested in June last year and currently serving an 18-year-jail term in Indonesia).

On Wednesday, Indonesia's Criminal Investigation Director Susno Duadji said that he had contacted his counterparts in Singapore about the arrest of Husaini and Samad and had sent them the suspects' particulars for verification.

He was quoted by Detikcom online newspaper as saying that the Indonesians were trying to verify if indeed the two were Singaporeans and that they were awaiting confirmation from Singapore.

Asked about this, the MHA spokesman told The Straits Times: 'The Internal Security Department had a few weeks ago provided the Indonesian authorities details of the two men, including their fingerprints and their involvement in the JI, as well as current intelligence on them.

'The Indonesian authorities have since told Singapore that the two men are indeed Singapore JI fugitives Husaini and Samad.'

Read the full story in Friday's edition of The Straits Times.