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| Senior Jemaah Islamiyah Figure in Indonesian Custody |
| 2020-12-15 |
| 11 December [BenarNews] One of the Jemaah Islamiyah suspects in Indonesian custody is a senior religious scholar who was a candidate to serve as the murderous Moslem group’s next leader, police and counter-terrorism experts said Friday. The anti-terror unit Densus 88 arrested Siswanto, a suspected senior Jemaah Islamiyah (JI) member also known as Arif Siswanto, during a raid in Central Java’s Klaten regency on Nov. 13, according to information from police. "The arrest was made without fanfare," Muhammad Taufiqurrohman, a researcher at the Center for Radicalism and Deradicalization Studies (PAKAR), a think-tank based in Jakarta. |
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