BNPT : Terrorist Attacks Target Slide

BNPT : Terrorist Attacks Target Slide


Head of the National Agency for Combating Terrorism ( BNPT ) Ansyaad Mbai said it had a lot to learn from that position in 2002 . In the last decade , Ansyaad has led the investigation into a number of blasting . He also seeks to unravel the shift in the body which makes the radical Islamic groups as the target of a police officer .

There are many lessons to be learned , he said . However , one thing is sure that he held : do not let the name fool row .

Whatever designation selected by various militant groups in recent years , there is basically a link between them , said Ansyaad .

In the past , these groups coalesced . " However , when the pressure increases , they separated themselves into cells of jihad , " he said in an interview . " When the opportunity comes, they will re- form a coalition . "

Indonesia managed to suppress many forms of hard-line movement under President Suharto . After he stepped down in 1998 , Indonesia was hit by a series of small -scale terror attacks . The groups claimed responsibility for the attack saying that their goal was to establish an Islamic state in the country .

The first major attack that drew international attention is blasting two nightclubs in Bali in October 2002 . A total of 202 people , mostly foreigners , were killed .

In 2003 , Indonesia established a special unit under the anti-terror police , the Detachment 88 , to discover terrorist activity as well end it. With the help of a number of countries, including Australia and the United States , Indonesia began to dismantle the Jemaah Islamiyah network affiliated with Al - Qaeda .

Anti-terror forces have much to weaken the strength of JI . In 2005 , police killed a veteran bomb-makers from Malaysia , Azahari bin Husin , in Malang , East Java . Four years later , one of the most wanted terrorist suspect , Noordin Mohammad Top , who is also the Malaysian citizen , was also killed . Noordin and Azahari allegedly jointly prepare the Bali Bombing , 2002 .

Death officials JI splitting the organization , said Ansyaad . Many followers of the group scattered and form other groups like Mujahideen smaller western Indonesia and Jemaah Ansharut Tauhid . The last name is classified as a terrorist group by the U.S. in 2012 .

The groups are no longer launch a major attack targeting foreigners . However , they continue to set the number of sporadic attacks in Sumatra , Java , Sulawesi , and East Nusa Tenggara , which generally aim at police .

However , according to Ansyaad , they are the same motivation : " Establishing an Islamic state in Indonesia through violence . "

According to him , the ways that they take will not work . He served to prove his theory that - things he learned since receiving his candidacy as head BNPT . At that time , the anti-terror agencies still one division under the ministry coordinator politics , law , and security .

In an interview last year , Ansyaad reveal refusal when President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono , when still the head of the ministry , asking BNPT head office .

" I told him that I was blind in matters of combating terrorism , " said the former inspector general of police was 65-year -old . Yudhoyono then said , " None of the people in Indonesia who can , but you can learn . " | WSJ