(VOVworld) - Indonesian police announced Sunday that they have foiled a major terror plot with the arrest of several men allegedly linked to a planned suicide bombing in Jakarta during New Year celebrations.

Indonesian police officers from Special Detachment 88 anti-terror unit raid a hideout used by suspected militants' in Mojokerto, East Java. (Photo: AP)

During raids in several cities across the island of Java on Friday and Saturday, police arrested five members of an alleged extremist network and seized chemicals and laboratory equipment.

Among the materials seized were chemistry textbooks and a black flag inscribed with text “similar to an IS flag”.