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Wednesday, December 17, 2014

Malaysia transit point for IS militants

Indonesian laws do not allow authorities to charge or detain IS supporters.
isis transit2KUALA LUMPUR: There are mounting fears that militants in Malaysia will play a role through their networking to facilitate Indonesians who may wish to go to Iraq and Syria to fight for the Islamic State.
These fears have been expressed in a local Malay daily and The Diplomat magazine which covers the Asia-Pacific region.
“We don’t want Indonesia to have an Internal Security Act, but it would be good to make participation in military training by extremist groups at home and abroad illegal,” Sidney Jones, the director of the Institute for Policy Analysis of Conflict, was quoted by The Diplomat as telling The Jakarta Post in an interview.
According to the Malay daily’s report, a source said 12 Indonesian citizens were recently detained from three families when Jemaah Islamiah (JI) tried to manipulate the authorities in Indonesia in order to enter Malaysia.
“They come and transit in Malaysia because they want to avoid the Indonesian authorities from suspecting their purpose to go to Turkey. They have actually applied for a visa to Turkey in Jakarta and will transit to the Middle East (West Asia) from Malaysia at any time.”
The source added that such methods were in fact used by JI militants a few years ago when they stayed in the country for about a month before leaving to Afghanistan and the southern Philippines.
“They get to deceive the Indonesian authorities because they think they are in Malaysia to work,” said the source. “From the arrest of the three families, we found that all of them entered the country illegally and this is not impossible if they had assistance from people in Malaysia.”
“In Syria itself, there are people from Malaysia and Indonesia involved in the unrest in that country.”
According to IGP Khalid Abu Bakar, his force has launched several operations in various locations around Selangor shortly after receiving intelligence regarding the individuals concerned.
He said the suspects were arrested together with five children, aged between five months to five years old.
One of those arrested was detected to have links to former member of Jemaah Islamiah (JI), Umar Patek, a wanted terrorist in several countries including the US.
Indonesia’s counterterrorism chief, Saud Usman Nasution, warned last week that the recruitment of IS fighters from the country had more than tripled in just a few months.
All in all, Saud said around 514 Indonesians have gone to Iraq and Syria to fight with the movement, with about half being students or migrant workers “who had already been living in neighbouring countries”. That makes Indonesia Southeast Asia’s biggest supplier of IS fighters by far, raising questions about what might happen once those militants return home, he added.
Indonesian laws currently do not allow authorities to charge or detain IS supporters who leave to fight for the movement.
Home Minister Ahmad Zahid Hamidi had warned on November 25 that the overall terror threat in Malaysia had reached “a whole new level,” with growing links between foreign and local fighters and militants seeking to influence domestic political parties and raise funds in Malaysia.
Some of those arrested recently were reportedly planning attacks on government agencies, nightclubs and pubs, including a brewery owned by Danish beer company Carlsberg according to Channel News Asia.

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