The local
leader of prominent Muslim youth group says he will send members to protect
houses of worship following the suicide bombing that killed one and injured
eight in a church in Surakarta, Central Java, on Sunday.
"Don't
let it happen for the umpteenth time," Nusron Wahid, head of GP Ansor, the
youth wing of Indonesia's largest Muslim organization, Nadhlatul Ulama, said on
Sunday as quoted by kompas.com.
Wahid said
that he had previously warned the government to be alert for such attacks and
would deploy NU's "counterterrorism team", Banser Detachment 99 - a
riff on the National Police's Detachment 88 counterterrorist unit - to the
crime scene.
The bombing
was likely related to previous religiously motivated radical attacks, according
to Wahid. "This is indeed savage and cannot be tolerated. It is
uncivilized and hurts the dignity, integrity and meaning of diversity."
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