Islamic State cells in scarcely all Indonesian provinces: troops chief
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JAKARTA: The Islamic State militant group has a participation in scarcely all provinces opposite Indonesia, the world’s largest Muslim-majority country, a troops chief in Jakarta has said.
General Gatot Nurmantyo’s comments late on Monday that there are surreptitious ‘sleeper’ cells opposite a sprawling Indonesian archipelago underscored concerns about Islamic State’s flourishing change in Southeast Asia. “After observation, we see that in roughly each range … there are already IS cells, though they are sleeper cells,” Nurmantyo told reporters in a capital, Jakarta.
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He singled out a primarily Christian range of Papua as one of a few exceptions. “These sleeper cells can simply join adult with other radical cells,” he said. Governments opposite a segment have been on high warning since Islamic State-linked militants, mostly from Southeast Asian countries, overran a city in a southern Philippines about three weeks ago.
The Philippine military, that has carried out atmosphere strikes and raids in Marawi city, pronounced on Tuesday a militants still control about 20 percent of a city. Indonesian and Malaysian officials have stepped adult security to forestall militants from evading from Marawi over their shared borders with a Philippines. “It’s easy to burst from Marawi to Indonesia and we contingency all beware of sleeper cells being activated in Indonesia,” Nurmantyo said.
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Southeast Asian nations trust a segment is home to thousands of Islamic State sympathisers, and Indonesia and Malaysia have incarcerated scores of suspected militants in recent years. Singapore pronounced on Monday it had incarcerated an assistant child-care workman suspected of perplexing to join Islamic State, the first lady to be hold on such charges in Singapore.
A gun-and-bomb conflict that killed 4 people in Jakarta last year noted a initial Islamic State strike in a region. There has given been a fibre of small, Islamic State-inspired attacks in Indonesia, a latest of that were twin self-murder bombings during a Jakarta train hire that killed three police officers final month.
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