{"id":39326,"date":"2018-05-16T06:00:46","date_gmt":"2018-05-15T20:00:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.aspistrategist.ru\/?p=39326"},"modified":"2018-05-15T19:12:45","modified_gmt":"2018-05-15T09:12:45","slug":"the-rise-of-jamaah-anshurat-daulah-indonesias-most-dangerous-terrorist-group","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.aspistrategist.ru\/the-rise-of-jamaah-anshurat-daulah-indonesias-most-dangerous-terrorist-group\/","title":{"rendered":"Indonesia\u2019s most dangerous terrorist group\u2014the rise of JAD"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The shocking involvement of three families in a wave of bombings across the port city of Surabaya has announced the arrival of Jamaah Ansharut Daulah<\/a> (JAD), a loosely organised Islamic State (ISIS) affiliate that may well become a more dangerous version of the Jemaah Islamiyah<\/a> network that terrorised Indonesia in the early\u00a02000s.<\/p>\n

Certainly, given the fact that one of the three families involved only returned from Syria last year, it has provided proof that with many of their Indonesian fighters dead or missing, radicalised dependents are willing to sacrifice their lives in small-scale terrorist attacks.<\/p>\n

Formed from among nearly two dozen jihadist splinter groups in\u00a02015, JAD may not be targeting hotels and embassies. But in sustaining a campaign of violence over the past week that began with a bloody prison riot in Jakarta, JAD\u2019s followers have taken the government unawares and left counterterrorism authorities scrambling to respond.<\/p>\n

Terrorism experts say if last year\u2019s siege of the Mindanao city of Marawi wasn\u2019t sufficient evidence, the latest violence demonstrates ISIS\u2019s ability to mount operations as far afield as Southeast Asia despite the destruction of the Syria\u2013Iraq caliphate. As one former investigator put it, \u2018That is the big issue coming out of this.\u2019<\/p>\n

The involvement of returning mothers and children, whom authorities initially paid little attention to, has added an insidious new dimension to a threat that will only get bigger as hundreds more returnees from Syria melt back into JAD\u2019s network of independent cells across\u00a018 of the country\u2019s 34\u00a0provinces.<\/p>\n

The Surabaya death toll now stands at 28\u2014some 13\u00a0bombers and 15\u00a0civilians, together with more than 50\u00a0wounded. The most casualties were around the three churches that were struck within minutes of each other in the deadliest terrorist incident since the 2005\u00a0Bali bombings and the worst since the JAD-inspired gun-and-bomb attack in Jakarta in early\u00a02016.<\/p>\n

The Surabaya attackers assembled 25\u00a0pipe bombs\u2014two of which are still missing\u2014using the highly explosive chemical TATP, or acetone peroxide, which has been employed before in pressure-cooker devices, including one that was found on Indonesia\u2019s first would-be female suicide bomber last year.<\/p>\n

Indonesia\u2019s elite Detachment\u00a088 counterterrorism unit, which has just doubled in size, continues to do a sterling job in tracking down militants. But the government doesn\u2019t have the manpower or the capability to monitor the estimated 500\u00a0returnees, let alone the 600\u00a0who are thought to remain in the war zone.<\/p>\n

On top of that, efforts at rehabilitating the homegrown militants are failing. Look no further than the 9\u201310\u00a0May siege at the Police Mobile Brigade\u2019s headquarters<\/a> in Depok, where 156\u00a0inmates\u2014who were detained in temporary quarters there as part of a deradicalisation program\u2014shot and stabbed to death five Detachment\u00a088 officers, most of whom had their throats cut.<\/p>\n

The rioters also seized 88\u00a0weapons, including assault rifles and light machine guns, and a staggering 28,400\u00a0rounds of ammunition stored in an unsecured evidence room. The only reason the siege didn\u2019t turn into a bloodbath was that the rioters couldn\u2019t contact three coordinators on the outside.<\/p>\n

The uprising leader, Wawan Kurniawan, head of the Pekanbaru, Riau, chapter of JAD, is a close associate of the organisation\u2019s founder, Aman Abdurrahman<\/a>, who was already incarcerated in a different part of the prison. Abdurrahman is currently on trial for his role in masterminding the 2016\u00a0Jakarta attack from behind bars.<\/p>\n

Counterterrorism experts say no effort was made to classify the inmates into those who were possible candidates for deradicalisation and those who weren\u2019t. In that sense, the program was doomed before it started. All prisoners have now been moved to the Nusakambangan island prison off the south coast of Java.<\/p>\n

With national elections less than a year away, President Joko Widodo is now demanding a revision of the 2003\u00a0Anti-Terrorism Law to allow police to detain terrorist suspects longer in the pursuit of further evidence, and to prevent citizens from travelling overseas to overthrow a legitimate government.<\/p>\n

Alarming for human rights activists, however, have been moves to legislate the involvement of the armed forces in the anti-terrorism effort. For those with a memory, even using military intelligence\u2014which the police chief, Tito Karnavian, says he wants to do in the Surabaya investigation\u2014is seen as the thin edge of the wedge.<\/p>\n

Although there have been few large-scale attacks on the scale of the now-disbanded Jemaah Islamiyah\u2019s protracted bombing campaign in 2000\u20132009, the National Counter-Terrorism Agency (BNPT) recorded 172\u00a0terrorist cases last year, continuing a steady rise from\u00a0163 in\u00a02016 and only\u00a073 in\u00a02015.<\/p>\n

Former BNPT chief Ansyad Mbai has criticised politicians<\/a> for tying the hands of police, claiming that jihadists who have returned from Turkey, Syria and Iraq have been using social media to renew networks while counterterrorism authorities have failed to monitor their activities.<\/p>\n

Spurred on by the deputy House Speaker, Fadli Zon, a key associate of presidential aspirant Prabowo Subianto, Indonesia\u2019s social media has been alive with criticism of Karnavian for failing to prevent the prison uprising or the latest wave of bombings in Indonesia\u2019s second largest city.<\/p>\n

Karnavian\u2019s appointment in March\u00a02016 over the heads of several more-senior officers led to a rift with his deputy, General Syafruddin, who is close to the National Intelligence Agency (BIN) director, Budi Gunawan, a confidant of Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle leader Megawati Sukarnoputri.<\/p>\n

Widodo\u2019s failure to promote Gunawan, then deputy police chief, to the top job in early\u00a02015 owing to corruption allegations brought the fledgling president into conflict with Megawati, which finally appeared to have been resolved when Gunawan was made head of BIN in September\u00a02016.<\/p>\n

While Gunawan is also copping a lot of heat for not anticipating the bombings, the president is unlikely to remove either him or Karnavian less than a year out from the presidential and legislative elections scheduled for April next year, where he\u2019s the clear frontrunner in the polls.<\/p>\n

Struggling with a lagging economy and a failure so far to attract foreign investment, the sudden rise of JAD was the last thing Indonesia\u2019s president needed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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