“Moderate” Indonesia: Islamic State cells in nearly all provinces

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Indonesia is constantly held up as an example of “moderate Islam.” If that is true, how did these Islamic State cells grow? Why didn’t the Indonesians reject this “perversion of Islam”?

“Islamic State cells in nearly all Indonesian provinces: military chief,” Reuters, June 13, 2017:

The Islamic State militant group has a presence in nearly all provinces across Indonesia, the world’s largest Muslim-majority country, the military chief in Jakarta has said.

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General Gatot Nurmantyo’s comments late on Monday that there are clandestine “sleeper” cells across the sprawling Indonesian archipelago underscored concerns about Islamic State’s growing influence in Southeast Asia.

“After observation, we see that in almost every province … there are already IS cells, but they are sleeper cells,” Nurmantyo told reporters in the capital, Jakarta.

He singled out the predominantly Christian province of Papua as one of the few exceptions.

“These sleeper cells can easily join up with other radical cells,” he said….

“It’s easy to jump from Marawi to Indonesia and we must all beware of sleeper cells being activated in Indonesia,” Nurmantyo said….

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christian vidal
christian vidal
6 years ago

How utterly strong they despise and hate us, only the stupid leftists that are daily

brainwashed by the enemedia and the educational system cannot understand this

common sense, so ban all muzzies from the US shut down all mosques for ever. Don’t

forget when the twin towers collapsed 1 billion of their kind were dancing and chanting in

the streets worldwide. They are our deadest enemies since the inception. Their only

goal is the erasement of the western and jewish civilizations.

Suresh
Suresh
6 years ago

More Islam = More jihadi attacks = Bigger Islamic helhole.

Now in EU jihadis are practicing the art of torturing , beheading infidels while the dumb Left/Liberals run away http://bit.ly/2tlUWt3

As they cannot stop them !

Mamat Mamat
Mamat Mamat
6 years ago
Reply to  Suresh

The Left/Liberals support the savages. They will keep supporting the savages until the very moment the savages’ blade slit their filthy throats.

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kirana
kirana
6 years ago

Just to make a slight correction without trying to minimize the content of the news presented here.
Indeed jihadist sleeper cells are spreading through some critical region in Indonesia, there have been 16 spots monitored closely by anti-terror force since the escalation in Phillippines war against jihadist force in Marawi. Indonesia has 35 provinces which consisted of thousands of islands. Papua is not the most predominently Christian province, the most predominetly Christian province is East Nusa Tenggara province which from the colonial time had been Christenised by Portugal Catholic missionaries, later by Dutch and German Protestant missionaries after Portuguese lost to Dutch in 16th century. This region consists of some islands where Christianity holds its strongest influence. West Papua, North Sulawesi and Molucas islands are the other predominantly Christian regions but not as strong as East Nusa Tenggara, since the escapes jihadist from Phillippines escaping to Indonesia through North Sulawesi, North Molucas and an island called Bitung that are close to the border with Phillippines.

Indeed it is true that jihad and Islamic radical views have rising by individual approach in Indonesia as one of ex-jihadist terrorist stated who still serving time in jail said it only takes 2 hours to radicalised a muslim. Just talk to them about jihad verses and all the hadists that supporting it to mean as war against infidels, and keep using the muslims as victim of western capitalism as pretext, especially using Palestinian issue, Syrian issue and all the like. Their feeling of brotherhood will arise in just 2 hours of brainwashing talk. They do not need to know about what really happened or history or whatever, what a moderate muslim need to be radicalised is to touch his Islamic ‘heart’ of solidarity with another muslims they forever know as victims when it comes to ‘infidel’ context.

There is no such thing as moderate Islam, but I must say there are indeed moderate stance on muslims view of Islamic teachings, Indonesia taken this stance for along time and hopefully for longer time. In the whole South East Asia region probably Indonesia is the longest to see Islamic terrorism and the example taken by its neighborhood in combating it. We stoll hold strong as secular country despide the biggest muslim population. We have fought ‘communism’ and literarally kill it that the talk of it or a display of its emblems are forbidden. No country in the world that banning communism in all manners of individual and public speaking like Indonesia. Culturally speaking we are still moderate comparing to many Islamic countries because we are not Islamic country but secular country with multi-cultural, multi-lingual, multi-racial, multi-in many ways. Our nationality foundation is this Five Pillars (Pancasila – this term is from sanskrit language), we came from a long history of Hindus people, to Hindu-Budhist people, pagans, animist, dinamist people which we can still see their tracks in many of our Islamic and Christian traditions. Javanese muslims for example form central java, despite being muslims they still have their old-Hindus traditions attached to them. They still playing Mahabarata legends in their traditional art performance, they still paying respects to their ancestors with burning icenses and bring water and flowers to the graves, they still hold strong to many Hindu old-ways with all Hindu reciting changed into Islamic one. That is in Java only. Every other region has their own old traditions attached to their religious traditions.

The problem came indeed with the new wave of Islamic scholars who were studying in Egypt and Middle East countries. They came back with Salafis, Wahabis, and many others teachings which brought ‘real’ Islam. We got habibs now continuing coming here from Saudi and other Arab countries. Bringing all its Arab mindset and culture to ne forced on regular muslims. And this is exciting thing to them like many other new impressing things. One must know Islam came to Indonesia by Gujarati Indians in the West and by Chinese muslims in Java, along with small numbera from Iraq and Iran….and with that we once had small Iraqi Jews community too but not it is no more. Thats why ‘moderate’ muslims were actually exist in Indonesia because it was preached by non-Arabs who were assimilatong themselves with native cultures. Now we have these straigh from Arab thing like Wahabism and Salafism….things just getting weird and weirder even for muslims as they could not reject them teachings without feeling guilty fpr their Arab prophet and cs. And the jihadist approach is always one on one encounter, individual approach, and theor community is always on moving ‘sleeping’ mode. Once they create sleeper cells they move for new locations…makes it really hard for the government forces. The ladtest scandal is Capital Jakarta’s mayor or now ex-mayor who was of Chinese ethnic and a Catholic devout was being jaild for 2 years for quoting a quranic verse which always being used by muslim politicians to encourage common muslims to never elect infidel as leaders. He was jailed 2 years for telling people not to let politicians using religion as political tool. And these new-found again muslims radicals had been demonstrating every month in thousands demanding this mayor to be jailed, fatwas from National Islamic council are launched against each and everyone dare to speak against Islamic preachers, teachers, and Quaran and Islam….while one specific so called Ulema that defaming national pillars and spreading hate speeches against infidels, and now on the run for another case of pornographic chat..the beloved leader of those demonstration now found a safe heaven in Saudi Arabia, leaving police force to work hard to bring him home to face justice. We really in trouble indeed, but to say we did not face Islamic radical teachings and terorism also not so right because our anti-terror squad is the strongest in our region, and you can only hear we say the truth for what it is here. Npt like the west politicians and media, we call Islamic Jihadist for what they are, Islamic terrorists for what they are, we never use the soft language for terrorism like in the West. We call Islamic terrorism for every jihadis terror threat and attack and we behave accordingly in response to them. Our Military and Police force, even our government who mostly are muslims never fear of being called Islamophobe for claiming Islamic Jihadist Terrorist should be shot death whenever they are encountered in actions, and the ones who were captured alive when found guilty of seriuos crimes against the lives of others will have death sentence without any possibility of pardon, and all the family members of a jihadi should face all thorough examination for any Islamic terror view. We still do not take it lighly of Islamic terrorism despite the muslim numbers here. I am no muslims, a minority that day by day now growing worry of how situations here become so intolerant and so scary, but I do live among muslim friends who I can say have moderate attitude towards minority. I never see them as muslims though, I just see them as friends…fellow human being. And our first president whic we all Indonesian nationalists live dearly despited our religion, ethnic or whatever difference we have, once said before he proposed that Five Pillars, we are Indonesians, brothers and sisters before our religions or our political views…we must seek unity in diversity before anything else as a people and as a nation. That’s how Indonesian is known for being ‘moderate’ because our founding fathers and mothers before we became a independent country were of different religions, ethnic groups, political views, languages….we even honored individuals from the West and Japan who helped us to become independent, we honor high our Hindus, Budhist, Animist/Dynamist ancestors by keeping many of their traditions alive in our daily lives even the ones that make no sense at all.

So maybe Indonesia have come to that day when we must face the reality of Islamic true face, but we have gone through alot bad before and we have learnt the hard way to not be soft and to cover up for evil forces….we are not western politicians, media, and even so called ‘humanist’ activists who always on the defense of this one particular evil. These new Islamic preachings from Arab….they will hold long we know, but one thing that will be hard for them to face is Indonesian muslims who do not share their views, the vast majority muslims who won’t let go their traditions of old because they have become part of our cultural identity. One might wonder that with the numbers of muslims Indonesia has, with worldwide Islamic terrorism at rise….Indonesian Islamic terror organisations and individual terrorists are relative small in numbers (yet as deadly as others I know) and as long as Indonesia still exist as secular country, and that our people even muslims not afraid to call Islamic terrorism as Islamic Terrorism by Islamic Radical Teachings on Quran…I think I still live in a better place than Europe or America……

Mahou Shoujo
Mahou Shoujo
6 years ago

The tolerance of islam leads to islam not tolerating anyone else. Eradicate islam.

AlgorithmicAnalystD
AlgorithmicAnalyst
6 years ago

Stupid government, allowing ISIS cells. ISIS will try and attack the government leaders when they get a chance.

Kalambong Kalambong
Kalambong Kalambong
6 years ago

IS cells are all over

From Pakistan to Indonesia, from the Philippines to India, from London to San Benardino, from Minneapolis to Madrid …

Everywhere there are moslems, IS exists

IzlamIsTyranny
IzlamIsTyranny
6 years ago

The f’ing muslums in Indonesia didn’t need the Islamic State or ISIS to slaughter between 200,000 to 800,000 assorted kafir al najjis (mostly Catholic) in E. Timor in the 1970’s. Similarly they didn’t need ISIS to ethnically cleanse W. Papua New Guinea.

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