New Facts Behind The Arrest Of 24 MIT Terrorists, Online Inauguration As ISIS Supporters

Karo Penmas Police Public Relations Division Brigadier General Ahmad Ramadhan/PHOTO: Rizky Adytia-VOI

JAKARTA - The National Police have discovered new facts behind the arrest of 24 terrorists from the East Indonesia Mujahideen (MIT). They are said to have pledged allegiance to the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) group online or online.

"So give their statement or allegiance by reading the text and sending it through the WhatsApp group", said The Head of Police Public Relations Division, Brigadier General Ahmad Ramadhan, to reporters, Tuesday, April 17.

The online allegiance technique carried out by the suspects was carried out by sending texts or narrations in the Whatsapp group. The sender is known to be the suspect with the initials H.

Then, each of the suspects read the narration of allegiance to the new ISIS leader, namely, Abu al-Hassan al-Hashimi al-Qurashi, and the process was recorded.

Next, the recording is sent back to the group. The video is also proof that they have pledged allegiance.

"So this is it, the confession was in the WA group, it was conveyed and then each one did it independently, so he took an oath and then sent it", said Ramadhan.

In other words, continued Ramadhan, there was no meeting in the allegiance process. Allegedly this was done to trick the officers.

However, not all of the MIT terrorist suspects have pledged allegiance to ISIS. Only some are known to be supporters of the international network terrorist group.

However, it is not yet known in detail the number of terrorists who have pledged allegiance to the ISIS group.

"All of those who belong to the MIT group. So among them or some of them have made allegiance to ISIS", said Ramadhan.

Meanwhile, some of the 24 suspected terrorists from the East Indonesia Mujahideen (MIT) group are said to be supporters of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS).

In that pledge, they vowed to support the new ISIS leader, Abu al-Hassan al-Hashimi al-Qurashi. However, it has not been clearly explained since when they became supporters of the ISIS group.

In fact, from the results of a series of examinations, said Ramadhan, dozens of terrorist suspects had participated in the ritual or training process in Tojo Una-Una Regency, Central Sulawesi.

The identities of the terrorist suspects include MIR, BSS, ETO, MB, IS, FM, TT, SH, H, and AWS. Then, DRM, TL, AMW, MN, EA, DM, S, RK, LY, RK, ISR, MAM, K, FS

They were arrested in several locations, among others, 22 people were arrested in Central Sulawesi, 1 person in Bekasi, and 1 more in East Kalimantan. The arrest took place on Saturday, May 14, 2022.