The Attack Of The Daha Selatan Police. Terrorist Network JAD

Karo Penmas, Police Public Relations Division, Brigadier General Awi Setiyono (Photo: Police Public Relations)

JAKARTA - Two people who attacked the Daha Selatan Police, South Kalimantan are called members of the terrorist group Jamaah Ansharut Daulah (JAD) South Kalimantan network. The attack was known to have left one police officer dead and one seriously injured.

Police Public Relations Division Karo Penmas, Brigadier General Awi Setiyono, said the two US and TA perpetrators were the masterminds as well as the compilers of the plan to attack the Daha Selatan Police. Both were arrested at different locations but on the same day or Friday, June 5, 2020.

The terrorist suspect with the initials AS was arrested by the anti-terror Densus 88 at around 01.10 WITA in the Baru Gelang area, Kusan Hilir, Tanah Bumbu, South Kalimantan.

"As a result of the investigation, the US was a member of JAD in South Kalimantan, which had the role of providing an idea for the amaliah team to carry out attacks on targets of police officers and police stations," Awi said in Jakarta, Monday, June 8.

In addition, the results of the examination also revealed that the US had recruited four people to join its network. They are MZ, N, AR and AS.

Meanwhile, a suspected terrorist with the initials TA was arrested in the Banjar Baru area, South Kalimantan. Based on the results of the investigation, TA was the financier of the attack on the South Daha Police.

"TA played a role in forming a small JAD team and gave Rp. 500 thousand for the manufacture of samurai swords and has also embraced JAD members of South Kalimantan," Awi concluded.

Previously reported, the two victims, Brigadier Djoman Sahat Manik Raja, was injured by a samurai slash and Brigadier Leonardo Latupapua who died in the attack, was an officer of the SPKT Daha Selatan Police, South Kalimantan.

The attack by the suspected terrorist was carried out on Monday, June 1, in the early hours of the morning, to be precise at 2:15 WITA. Even before attacking the police, the suspected terrorist burned two cars that were wrecked around the Daha Selatan Police Station yard.

Head of Public Relations of the South Kalimantan Regional Police, Kombes M. Rifa'i, said that based on the identification of the man without identity, he was part of the ISIS network. This is because the evidence found leads to acts of terror and radicalism.

"Based on the evidence that leads to it (ISIS Network, red)," Rifa'i told VOI, Monday, June 1.

The evidence in question is in the form of ISIS group identification cards, threat messages and ISIS flags. Some of these items were found stored in the waist bag used by the suspected terrorist.

However, to ensure that the man is a member of the ISIS terrorist group, he must first investigate and investigate further.

"Of course it must be traced first whether the person concerned is really an ISIS sympathizer," said Rifa'i.