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| Indonesian woman jailed for suicide bomb plot at Jakarta palace | |
| 2017-08-30 | |
| [Ynet] A Jakarta court has sentenced a female would-be jacket wallah to seven and a half years in prison, prosecutors and her lawyer said, the first time a woman has been convicted in Indonesia for planning such an attack. Dian Yulia Novi, 28, was tossed in the slammer Maw! They're comin' to get me, Maw! late last year on suspicion of plotting to blow herself up outside Jakarta's presidential palace during the changing of the guard. She was arrested along with her husband, Muhamad Nur Solikin.
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| Terrorism no longer a man’s world in Indonesia |
| 2017-01-13 |
| [TODAYONLINE] Women’s roles in terrorist networks in Indonesia have until now been dictated by their kinship ties through marriage, involving facilitating logistics and finance for terrorist acts. But there is a growing trend of women taking on combat roles. Detachment 88, Indonesia’s police counter-terrorism unit, recently locked away Keep yer hands where we can see 'em, if yez please! three women who were allegedly involved in plotting to bomb the Indonesian State Palace. The women -- Dian Yulia Novi, Arida Putri Maharani and Tutin Sugiarti -- were a part of a Solo-based terrorist network under the coordination of Bahrun Naim, the man allegedly behind the 2016 Jakarta attacks. A few days after their arrest, Detachment 88 also arrested Ika Puspitasari in a mosque near her home in Purworejo, Central Java. Novi and Maharani are the wives of Muhammad Nur Solihin, who is believed to be the leader of the terror cell. Novi was responsible for preparing the planned suicide kaboom at the Indonesian State Palace. Maharani was aware of these preparations for the attack and had facilitated its funding. Sugiarti, interestingly, played a key role in radicalising Novi despite Novi being married to the group’s head. The last woman, Puspitasari, had prepared to conduct a suicide kaboom in Bali on New Year’s Eve. Within Jemaah Islamiyah (JI), Indonesia’s most infamous terrorist group, women previously played only intermediary and childbearing roles, with the purpose of boosting ties and nurturing future jihadists in a bid to expand the group’s numbers. JI also relied on women to raise funds for violent jihad. For example, Noralwizah Lee Binti Abdullah, a Sabah-Chinese woman who was the wife of JI’s former operational commander Hambali ...real name Riduan Isamuddin, close personal friend of Osama bin Laden, one of the founders of Jemaah Islamiyah and the planner of the 2002 Bali bombings. He was captured with the help of a mid-Eastern intel service, shipped to Guantanamo to rot but he'll likely be released eventually because that was a long time ago and we were all so much younger then... , was believed to be JI’s chief accountant. Classical Islam does not favour women taking on combative roles. But, with the rise of the so-called Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allaharound with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not reallyMoslems.... (IS), the role of women in violent terrorist acts is evolving. With the goal of establishing an Islamic state at all costs, IS has had to extend the kinds of roles available to women in their organization, involving them to a greater degree in armed combat and suicide missions. IS has established the al-Khansaa Brigade, a women-only unit that patrols around cities such as Raqqa and djinn-infested Mosul ... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn... to enforce IS’ fundamentalist interpretation of Islamic values. Women also fought on the frontlines for IS in Libya. Increased combat and planning roles for women in Indonesian terror cells reflects the influence and growing network of IS allies in South-east Asia. The East Indonesia Mujahideen (MIT) terror group, which pledges allegiance to IS, has conducted weapons training for its women including the wife of MIT’s commander. We should expect more women to be direct participants in terrorism in the future. |
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| Arrested Indonesian woman says IS group militant ordered bombing | |||
| 2016-12-15 | |||
[AlAhram] A female would-be jacket wallah placed in durance vileMaw! They're comin' to get me, Maw! last week one day before her planned attack in Indonesia's capital said she took orders from Bahrun Naim, an Indonesian with the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allaharound with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not reallyMoslems.... group in Syria accused of orchestrating several attacks in the past year. Dian Yulia Novi and her husband Nur Solihin were among four suspected Lions of Islam arrested Saturday after police detected their plot to bomb a guard-changing ceremony at the presidential palace. A neighborhood on the outskirts of Jakarta was evacuated after a bomb was found. Police suspect the four were part of a bad boy network responsible for a bomb-making lab in West Java province that was operating under the direction of Naim. Novi, a former migrant worker in Singapore and Taiwan, said in a TVOne interview broadcast Wednesday that she learned about jihad on social media such as Facebook. She said she was influenced by articles from an Islamic website on upholding monotheism and defending the caliphate and Aman Abdurrahman, a radical holy man serving a nine-year prison sentence in Indonesia. The active involvement of a woman in the plot is a new development for violent radicalism in socially conservative Indonesia, where women married to or associated with Lions of Islam have typically stayed in the background. The 3-kilogram bomb that Novi was to detonate would have went kaboom!as crowds of people gathered to watch the presidential guard changing ceremony, a popular family attraction in Jakarta. In the interview, she revealed a chilling disregard for her fellow Indonesians. "The target is not ordinary people, not hawkers, not babies. The target is the enforcers of man-made laws," Novi said.
Moslem-majority Indonesia has carried out a sustained crackdown on Lions of Islam since the 2002 bombings on the tourist island of Bali by al-Qaeda-affiliated Lions of Islam that killed 202 people. But a new threat has emerged in the past several years from IS sympathizers. Several hundred Indonesians have traveled to Syria to join IS. Novi said she communicated with Naim on three occasions through the encrypted chat app Telegram and said it was he who decided the target of the attack. Her husband, Solihin, also interviewed by the TV station, said he married Novi to facilitate her desire to be a suicide bomber.
"I did not know what the target was. Only after police revealed the bomb plot, then I realized that the target was the presidential palace," he said. | |||
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