Indonesia’s elite counterterrorism police have killed a militant who was the final remaining member of a corporation that pledged allegiance to the Islamic State, police mentioned Friday.
Police mentioned Al Ikhwarisman, often known as Jaid, was a key member of the East Indonesia Mujahideen community.
The East Indonesia Mujahideen, recognized by the Indonesian acronym MIT, has claimed accountability for the killings of cops and minority Christians, some by beheading, and has pledged allegiance to the Islamic State group.
Provincial police chief Rudy Sufahriadi mentioned Jaid carried out no less than 10 of the group’s executions, together with the killing of 4 Christian farmers in Could 2021. He was killed by the Densus 88 counterterrorism unit in a shootout late Thursday in mountainous Kawende village in Poso district, an extremist hotbed in Central Sulawesi province, Sufahriadi mentioned.
Thursday’s shootout occurred 4 months after safety forces killed the opposite remaining member of MIT in a jungle shootout, police mentioned.
“He was the final remaining suspected member of the group,” Sufahriadi mentioned. “We’ve managed to eradicate a harmful militant group that has disturbed peace in Poso.”
Safety operations in Central Sulawesi have been intensified final 12 months to seize MIT members, significantly Ali Kalora, the group’s chief and Indonesia’s most needed militant. Kalora was killed in a shootout in July 2021, two months after the group killed the 4 Christians in Kalemago village, together with one who was beheaded.
Authorities mentioned the assault was in revenge for the killing in March 2021 of two militants, together with the son of the group’s former chief, Abu Wardah Santoso.
Santoso, Kalora’s predecessor, was killed by safety forces in July 2016. Dozens of different leaders and members of the group who escaped to distant mountain jungles of Poso have since been killed or captured.
Indonesia, the world’s most populous Muslim-majority nation, has carried out a crackdown on militants since bombings on the resort island of Bali in 2002 killed 202 folks, largely Western and Asian vacationers.
Militant assaults on foreigners in Indonesia have been largely changed in recent times by smaller, much less lethal strikes concentrating on the federal government, primarily police and anti-terrorism forces, and other people militants contemplate to be infidels, impressed by Islamic State group techniques overseas.
