Head Of Detachment 88 Anti-terror Unravel How Terrorists Collect Funds, From Robbing To Charities

JAKARTA - The head of the National Police's Anti-Terror Detachment 88, Inspector General Martinus Hukom, has revealed various ways in which terrorist groups seek funds to support their actions. Some of them, commit robbery to form a charity.

"So far, what we have followed, they use the term faid. In principle, faid is an attempt to legitimize what they are doing, namely theft or robbery crimes and others," said Martinus in an online discussion on the Youtube channel of the Police Public Relations Division, Tuesday, August 31.

Apart from using street crimes, continued Martinus, terrorist groups have also been observed to have committed cyber crimes. That is, they become hackers to earn money.

The next method that has been found is from donations from its members. Terrorist groups collect money from each of its members.

Lastly, by creating a charity. This method was found to be the most widely used in the last year. This method is considered effective because the Indonesian people are known to have a high social spirit and can be used.

"So many of them build charities which are then offered to the community. So that our people who have a high social spirit donate some of their money to these charities," he said.

In this way terrorist groups can get a lot of money. Because, there are also found streams from abroad.

"Unconsciously, our people are led to do (donate) it. The same goes for coming from abroad and their own sympathizers," said Inspector General Martinus.