Indonesia’s police chief says security forces have arrested 12 people linked to this week’s attack by Islamic State militants in the centre of Jakarta.
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Paul, who has been in Jakarta for six months and works in Kuningan area, said that there are no threats for foreigners in this country and even there were terrorists’ attacks, he said that he did not believe they were launched by ISIS. Naim is accused of planning the bombing from Syria, where he now fights for Islamic State militants.
Isis already has affiliates in Libya and Nigeria, and has targeted a host of other countries, such as Yemen, Somalia and Afghanistan, using its signature brutality to lure disaffected fighters from other jihadists like the Taliban.
In recent years, Indonesian counterterrorism forces successfully stamped out the extremist group Jemaah Islamiyah that was responsible for several attacks, including the 2002 bombings of bars in Bali which killed 202 people, as well as two hotel bombings in Jakarta in 2009 that killed seven people.
An Indonesian man holds a banner made for a tourism campaign to encourage people to visit the country, outside the Starbucks cafe where Thursday’s attack occurred, in Jakarta, Indonesia, Saturday, Jan. 16, 2016.
The police chief said Afif has been recruited to IS by Indonesian extremist Bahrum Naim, who is believed to be a founding member of Katibah Nusantara and who police say orchestrated Thursday’s attacks from Syria.
Its goal: a Southeast Asian outpost for its global caliphate.
“Canada will continue to stand by Indonesia and co-operate in the fight against extremism”.
They killed two people – a Canadian and an Indonesian – and injured 20 in the first major attack in Indonesia since 2009.
A total of 13 people have been arrested by Indonesia’s counter terrorism squad (Densus 88) on Friday (15/01) on grounds of suspected involvement in terrorist networks.
“He is an active player”, said Joseph Chinyong Liow, an expert on Southeast Asian Islam at Singapore’s S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies. “It was just a Paris-inspired attack without being well prepared”, he told the AP. Police did not identify the customer but said he or she had suffered minor injuries.
For the record, on Thursday (14/1/2016), a series of bomb and gunfire attacks hit a police post on Jalan M.H. Thamrin, near the Sarinah shopping mall in Jakarta.
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Mayor explained that this cooperative effort is meant to ensure that global terrorist now hiding in Indonesia won’t be able to slip past the border and enter Philippine territory.
