Counter Terrorist Trends and Analyses - MARKING THE 20TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE 2002 BALI BOMBINGS

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Counter Terrorist Trends and Analyses - MARKING THE 20TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE 2002 BALI BOMBINGS

12 Sep 2022

While in recent years the term “Neo-JI” has been used in the media and other analyses to describe the newer generation of the network, the movement’s current members themselves still use the term “JI”. [...] 30 The BNPT is comprised of the Directorate of Prevention, Protection and Deradicalisation; the Directorate of Operations and Capacity Building; and the Directorate of International Cooperation. [...] Marriott and Ritz-Carlton bombings – the last JI attack on record.3 In Poso, Central Sulawesi, JI also bombed the Tentena Market in 2005 and conducted a series of other attacks in the regency.4 JI in Indonesia suffered its first wave of arrests following the 2002 Bali bombings, as police hunted down the perpetrators and the group’s leadership.5 These clampdowns would destabilise the group and forc. [...] After the arrest of Para Wijayanto in mid-2019, the group planned a series of attacks in Serang (Banten), Tasikmalaya (West Java) and Surabaya (East Java).38 The main cause of splintering involving hardline factions within JI owes to their desire to plan attacks immediately, rather than adhere to the group’s ‘jihad later’ strategy.39 Whilst the pattern of splinterings in the past two decades has m. [...] In the absence of strong leadership, the splintering of JI and the potential for some factions to adopt violence again in the future will be key security threats faced by the Indonesian authorities.

Authors

Okkie Tanupradja

Pages
52
Published in
Singapore