Villa Mutiara Makassar Terrorist Group Recruits Members From Family

ILLUSTRATION / Location of the raid on suspected pro-ISIS terrorists at Villa Mutiara Biringkanaya Makassar, Wednesday, January 6 (DOK. Police)

JAKARTA - The National Police said the suspected terrorist group Villa Mutiara, Biringkanaya, Makassar used the closest cluster pattern. The terrorist suspects take their family members.

"The method of recruiting is clearly the closest cluster, that is from the usual family," said Karo Penmas, Police Public Relations Division, Brigadier General Rusdi Hartono, to reporters, Thursday, April 1.

In this group, continued Rusdi, it is usually the head of the family or the father who first belongs to the group. From there, his wife and children were invited to enter.

This recruitment pattern is said to be easier to develop the Villa Mutiara Makassar group.

"The closest thing they will bring is the easiest part of how to influence certain people with this kind of understanding," said Rusdi.

After the Makassar Cathedral bombing, Densus 88 Anti-terror made arrests in a number of areas, namely Makassar, Jakarta, East Java and Bima, NTB. In total, more than 20 terrorist suspects were arrested.

After the Makassar bombing, a woman attacks National Police Headquarters, Wednesday, March 31. The woman with the initials ZA shot 6 times at the police who were at the Police Headquarters guard post.

ZA, who is known to have ISIS ideology, was shot dead by the police at the National Police Headquarters. Now the Police are tightening security, including conducting an audit of security patterns at the Police Headquarters after the ZA terror attack.