Jakarta, March 26 (Antara) - Indonesia has over the past few days
raised the alert over the activities of ISIS sympathizers, mapped out
suspicious locations and arrested suspected members.
The government is tightening control in the country over the activities
of supporters or followers of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria
(ISIS) after it learnt that some 500 Indonesian citizens have joined the
radical group.
Moreover, 16 Indonesian citizens have also been arrested in Turkey for
alleged plans to cross into Syria to join the ISIS.
The 16 Indonesians were caught when they were trying to cross into
Syria from a Turkish border city without proper documents.
Besides
that, at least 514 Indonesians have joined the ISIS, according to
Deputy Chairman of Commission I on Foreign Affairs of the House of
Representatives Tubagus Hasanudin.
Therefore, Indonesian
anti-terrorism police officers are now tightening control on suspicious
activities of the group in Indonesia and they are arresting suspected
ISIS activists.
"All
regions in East Java will be mapped out, not just in Malang. We will
inform of any development," Chief of East Java Provincial Police
Inspector General Anas Yusuf said after an arrest was made in Malang,
East Java.
East Java Police has made efforts to involve other components,
including clergy members and individuals associated with religious
organizations, he remarked.
East Java Police has helped the national police's counter-terrorism
unit, Detachment 88 to arrest the suspected ISIS followers in Malang,
Yusuf admitted.
Personnel of East Java's anti-terror police squad Densus-88 arrested
Wednesday (March 25) two suspected followers of the ISIS in Malang
District (East Java).
The two suspects were AHM (45), a resident of Ade Irma Suryani, and HA
(51), a resident of Jalan Soputan of Malang district, East Java.
"It is true, there are activities being carried out by personnel of the
national police's counter-terrorism unit, Detachment 88 in Malang. But
East Java Police only support it," Anas Yusuf remarked.
The arrests in Malang were made after investigators linked them with
the five terrorist suspects arrested Sunday (March 22) in Jakarta and
its buffer towns, Head of the Public Relations Division of the National
Police Headquarters, Brigadier General Anton Charliyan, said.
"Further investigations were conducted in East Java after the earlier arrests were made," he affirmed.
Last Sunday (March 22), the country's police's anti terror squad
arrested six people for allegedly assisting and financing recruitment of
Indonesians to travel to Syria to join the ISIS there.
The six were arrested in Jakarta, Tangerang and Bekasi on the same day,
but only four were actively involved in the recruitment, police said.
The four, identified as Aprianul Henri, Engkos Koswara, Fachry and
Muhammad Amin Mude, funded and recruited Indonesians wanting to join the
ISIS and prepared Islamic state propaganda, police spokesman Sr. Comr
Rikwanto said.
The arrest was also confirmed by Head of the Police Squad Densus-88 Senior Commissioner Faisal Tayib.
"Today we searched the house of suspect M Amin Mude for allegedly
having funded and facilitated people willing to go to Syria, to join the
terrorist group Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS)," Tayib said in
Jakarta Sunday (March 22).
Tayib
said the Densus-88 personnel arrested Amin in the wee hours on Sunday.
He said that police also once nabbed Amin last December for facilitating
the accommodation of 16 Indonesian citizens from Makassar, South
Sulawesi, who would depart for Syria.
"But his arrest now is related to his alleged terrorism related crime," Faisal Tayib added.
The Jambi police have also arrested a youth found keeping in his house
attributes including a flag of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria.
Police arrested Novaldi (18) on a report by his own father, Jambi
police chief Brig. Gen. Bambang Sudarisman said. The arrest was made
after Novaldi asked his father, Mulyadi (47), for Rp300 million, but
when his father asked what the money was for Novaldi took a machete and
tried to attack him and locked his younger brother in a room.
Police found a number of ISIS attributes including an ISIS flag, an
AK-56 replica, a long knife, a sweater written in the Arabic language
and a book on jihad.
Novaldi's case has raised concerns as he was even prepared to risk his family for the sake of the ISIS.
Therefore, support for the fight against the ISIS influence is
increasing, especially after the group also threatened to kill a number
of Indonesian leaders.
Indonesia's Council of Ulemas (MUI) thus appealed to the government to
close any access radical movements have to the country, following the
recent case of an ISIS video circulating over the Internet.
"If possible, the government should immediately close all loopholes
that provide the ISIS entry into the country," General Chairman of the
MUI Din Syamsuddin said here.
Therefore,
Minister of Informatics and Communication Rudiantara said his office
has been coordinating with YouTube to counter the ISIS videos promoting
terrorism.
"We have (done it), and we will continue coordinating with YouTube.
YouTube is part of Google and Google has an office here, so if something
happens, we may just directly go there," he said here Tuesday.
As an example, he referred to the recent blocking of a video showing
Indonesian children participating in an ISIS training program.
"Yesterday,
the video (showing Indonesian children participating in an ISIS
training program) vanished in just an hour. YouTube really helped. Our
cooperation has been good," he added.
According to Commissioner of Education of the Indonesian Child
Protection Commission (KPAI) Susanto, the disseminators of the Islamic
State of Iraq and Syria ideology should be punished severely and firmly.
"The state should not show leniency to the disseminators of ISIS
ideology. Indonesia has enormous fortitude to prevent the spread of ISIS
ideology," Susanto emphasized here Wednesday.***2***
(T.A014/INE)
Edited by INE
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