The hardline group launched wave of devastating attacks in Indonesia in the 2000s before regional governments cracked down. Five members of his family were arrested, including the suspect’s 62-year-old father, who police said was a “known JI member”. Speaking from prison in Indonesia’s capital Jakarta, where he is serving a life sentence for his role in JI’s 2002 Bali bombing, …
Indonesians went to the polls on February 14 to elect a new president and vice president, with some 204 million of the country’s 270 million population registered to vote. In the city of Surakarta in Central Java, which is also known as Solo, Abdul Rohim Bashir, the son of Abu Bakar Bashir, the so-called “spiritual godfather” of JI, told The …
Survivors will mark the anniversary by praying together at a memorial which now stands where the Sari Club used to be. I still feel it now.” The wreckage of Sardjono’s vehicle had been found outside the Sari Club in Kuta, a busy tourist town packed with bars and restaurants that was the target of the coordinated attack by members of …
Groups like Jemaah Islamiyah were already carrying out attacks in Southeast Asia when 9/11 happened – an attack of an altogether larger scale. “But I immediately guessed this was ‘jihad’ from our friends.” Twenty years ago, Imron was a member of Jemaah Islamiyah, a hardline group founded in 1993 in Indonesia, which still counts more than 1,600 active members according …
Former leader of Indonesia’s Jemaah Islamiyah to face war crimes trial, 18 years after his arrest in Thailand. Medan, Indonesia – An Indonesian man held at a US military prison in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, is due to go on trial on Monday, 18 years after his arrest in connection with a series of “terror attacks” including the deadly nightclub and …
