Jakarta Globe, Farouk Arnaz, Dec 21, 2014
Jakarta. The alleged attempt by a group of 12 Indonesian nationals to join the Islamic State movement in Syria was financed by a convicted terrorist, a police source told the Jakarta Globe on Sunday.
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| A motorcyclist rides past a wall with the Islamic State flag painted on it in Solo, Central Java. (JG Photo/Ali Lutfi) |
Jakarta. The alleged attempt by a group of 12 Indonesian nationals to join the Islamic State movement in Syria was financed by a convicted terrorist, a police source told the Jakarta Globe on Sunday.
“We’ve
figured out that Bagus Maskuron, a former convict of the paramilitary training
case in Aceh, was behind this,” said an investigator from the National Police’s
anti-terror squad, Densus 88. “He told the nine people [out of a group of 12]
to go to Syria and funded the trip. Bagus is in Syria. One of the women and one
of the kids detained were Bagus’s wife and kid.”
Police
raided a terrorist training camp in Aceh in March 2010.
The 12
Indonesians were detained after trying to leave for Syria from Malaysia. Nine
of them, four women and five children, were released on Friday. Three men would
still be questioned until Monday, police said.
It is not
illegal for Indonesians to travel to Syria, and the only law that can be used
in such cases, police say, is the one dealing with citizenship. Indonesians can
lose their citizenship if they voluntarily take an oath or pledge allegiance to
a foreign country or a part of it.
One of the
men detained was M. Sibgotuloh, a former convict of a deadly CIMB bank robbery
in Medan, North Sumatra, in 2010.
Members of
the group were from Surabaya and Magetan in East Java, as well as Kutai
Kertanegara in East Kalimantan.
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