Indonesia police find IS stash in raid
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INDONESIAN police have found hundreds of books containing Islamic State propaganda targeting children at the home of a suspect arrested in connection with the stabbing death of an officer, a police spokeswoman said yesterday.
The wife of the arrested man told police her husband had spent six months in Syria in 2013, said police spokeswoman Rina Sari Ginting, adding this was still being investigated.
Police believe the men were part of Jemaah Ansharut Daulah, an organization on a US State Department “terrorist” list which supports Islamic State and has hundreds of Indonesian followers.
“We can see from the pattern of their attack that it is likely they belong to the JAD network,” said Ginting.
There is concern about a rise of militancy in Indonesia, which has the world’s biggest Muslim population.
Islamic State sympathizers have carried out a series of mostly low-level attacks over the past few years.
And there are fears about the return of hundreds of Indonesians who have gone to Syria to support Islamic State.
The books aimed at children found at the home of the arrested man were written in Indonesian and included pictures and messages supportive of dying in jihad, or holy war, Ginting said.
They appeared to be designed and printed by the suspect, she said.
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