BNPT Reveals 5 Sources Of Funding For Terrorist Networks: Infaq Funds, Charity Boxes, War Boots And Mafia

Illustration of gold jewelery being robbed by a gang affiliated with a terrorist group. Robbery is a way for terrorists to raise funds. PHOTO ANTARA/Ujang Zaelani

JAKARTA - The Director of Prevention of the National Counter-Terrorism Agency, Brigadier General R Ahmad Nurwakhid, revealed five sources of funding for terrorist networks.

"In general, there are several sources of terrorist funding, namely through infaq funds, fundraising for charity boxes, fa'i or spoils of war, mafia, and international funding," he said, quoted by Antara, Thursday, May 12.

Funding through infaq funds is carried out between those who are involved in a terrorist terrorist group or between terrorist groups. Regarding the charity box, according to him, it was done through the manipulation of corporate social responsibility funds.

Meanwhile, fa'i or spoils of war can be a source of terrorist financing because those who are exposed to terrorism consider the country at war to be a thaughut country or a country where people worship other than Allah SWT.

"They consider this country a thaughut country and other parties are considered infidels because their ideology is takfiri, so it justifies the act of seizing the property of people who are considered infidels," he said.

The fourth source of funding is the mafia. He explained that the terrorist funds were obtained from black mafias, such as the business mafia or political mafia, and they collaborated in a symbiotic mutualism.

"Fifthly, international funding is usually through a network of educational institutions, humanitarian institutions, or institutions whose true purpose is to disseminate transnational ideology," he said.

Furthermore, regarding the source of funds obtained by five Indonesian citizens who were sanctioned by the United States for their role as ISIS financial facilitators, he said, "That (the source of funds for five Indonesian citizens who became ISIS financial facilitators) has not yet received a concrete explanation from the US Ministry of Finance. United," he said.