Student Of Malang Brawijaya University Spread ISIS Propaganda, Gets Material From JAD Group

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JAKARTA - Brawijaya University (Unibraw) student as well as a terrorism suspect with the initials IA often spreads ISIS propaganda content on social media. The content was created by MR, who is a member of the Jamaah Ansharut Daulah (JAD) group.

"Receiving content material from a suspect who has been arrested in Jakarta, MR," said Head of the Banops Densus 88 Anti-terror Police Commissioner Aswin Siregar when confirmed, Wednesday, June 1.

In distributing propaganda content, IA often uses social media Facebook and YouTube. The choice of these two platforms is because they are considered to have more users.

In fact, the target audience for the dissemination of propaganda content is not students. However, to the wider general public.

"For the public in general, yes, it's more into the network, it's not like it's published on public YouTube, right, he's in a group or on his fanbase or on his Facebook group," he said.

Regarding the contents of the propaganda, said Aswin, about the ISIS vision and mission that supports the establishment of an Islamic state, including Indonesia.

"The propaganda is related to support, yes, support for ISIS and the ideals of the establishment of a daulah or Islamic state, yes, an Islamic state in Indonesia or a caliphate in our place," said Aswin.

IA is a student of Malang Brawijaya University majoring in International Relations. He was arrested in connection with a terrorism case on Monday, May 23.

From the results of the interim examination, IA has several roles, for example, managing social media is known to often spread propaganda content about ISIS.

In addition, IA is also known to have communicated with one of the terrorist suspects from the JAD group with the initials MR who was arrested in 2019.