Densus 88 Is Now Hunting Supporters Of The JI Terrorist Group Movement

Head of Detachment 88 Operational Assistance, Kombes Aswin Siregar/PHOTO: Rizky Adytia-VOI

JAKARTA - The National Police's Anti-terror Detachment 88 is currently hunting for those who support the Islamic Network (JI) terrorist group. The current prosecution is no longer related to the executor level.

"Our (action) is getting higher, we are far from the hands that used to be covered in mud and blood. One part exploded, the other part attacked," said Head of the Operational Assistance Section for the Anti-terror Detachment 88 Police, Kombes Aswin Siregar told reporters. , Thursday, November 25.

"Now we go up to the brain, strategies such as funding and others," he continued.

This change in the pattern of prosecution, said Aswin, is intended to accelerate the eradication of the JI network. This network is observed to continue to develop its groups in various regions.

Prosecution, especially regarding funding. The JI group uses various methods, one of which is asking for donations by attracting public sympathy.

"Which in practice is always obscured by activities which in the eyes of the public are activities which do not violate the quotation marks," said Aswin.

In that way, they disguise the funding patterns of terrorist networks.

"It's very neat, this is where we try to express it," said Aswin.