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Indonesian General says Islamic State has cells in nearly all Indonesian provinces

Jun 14, 2017 3:11 pm By Robert Spencer

Indonesia is reputed to be a bastion of “moderate Islam.” How, then, did these “extremists” who have “hijacked” the Religion of Peace gain footholds all over the country?

“Islamic State cells in nearly all Indonesian provinces: military chief,” Reuters, June 13, 2017:

The Islamic State militant group has a presence in nearly all provinces across Indonesia, the world’s largest Muslim-majority country, the military chief in Jakarta has said.

General Gatot Nurmantyo’s comments late on Monday that there are clandestine “sleeper” cells across the sprawling Indonesian archipelago underscored concerns about Islamic State’s growing influence in Southeast Asia.

“After observation, we see that in almost every province … there are already IS cells, but they are sleeper cells,” Nurmantyo told reporters in the capital, Jakarta.

He singled out the predominantly Christian province of Papua as one of the few exceptions.

“These sleeper cells can easily join up with other radical cells,” he said….

“It’s easy to jump from Marawi to Indonesia and we must all beware of sleeper cells being activated in Indonesia,” Nurmantyo said….

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  1. gravenimage says

    Jun 14, 2017 at 4:25 pm

    Indonesian General says Islamic State has cells in nearly all Indonesian provinces
    …………………………..

    Indonesia is the largest Muslim-majority country in the world, so this should surprise no one.

    The idea that Indonesia is “moderate” seems less plausible all the time…

    • Godwin says

      Jun 14, 2017 at 10:06 pm

      These cells are just like the many volcanoes in Indonesia that can erupt at any time. It had erupted before like the Bali bombing n the Marriott Hotel bombings. The Philippine army had found some Indonesia militants fighting for IS in Marawi.

  2. marina says

    Jun 14, 2017 at 4:34 pm

    They should build a high wall around the Christian province of Papua.

    • dumbledoresarmy says

      Jun 15, 2017 at 5:33 am

      Papua, or West Papua, the western half of the island of New Guinea, to the north of Australia, is being destroyed by Hijra, or ‘transmigration’ as the Indonesians call it.

      For *decades*, all over Indonesia, portions of the country that were historically *non*-Islamic – Christian and/ or animist, mostly – have been deliberately demographically *swamped* by large-scale transference of Muslims as ‘migrants’, purportedly to ‘relieve overcrowding’ in Java, and to ‘develop’ ‘underdeveloped’ regions (or, rather, basically, to spread Islam, dominate the non-Musims, and **pillage the natural resources**).

      Papua ‘s indigenous population is overwhelmingly Melanesian rather than Malay; when Indonesia ‘annexed’ it in the 1960s it was mostly Christian, with some tribal animists. Indonesia has pillaged its minerals and its timber and treated the locals like dirt. Huge numbers of Muslims have been deliberately moved in. Priests have been killed; Christian children have been seized and taken off to Java to be put in madrasas and forcibly Islamised. It’s *horrendous*. The human rights abuses are dreadful. Indonesia keeps a *very* tight lid on what is going on; few outsiders are allowed in and little news gets out; but what *does* seep out, like blood leaking from under a door, is horrifying.

      At the rate things are going, give it twenty-thirty years and Papua *won’t* be majority Christian any more; its indigenous people will be a terrorised, dispossessed remnant, exploited and abused, overwhelmed by the Hijra – *exactly* the same technique as the Ummah is currently using to overwhelm *western Europe*. Those who haven’t’ ‘broken’ and converted to Islam will be dead, or eking out an existence as de facto dhimmis.

      Indonesia is *pouring* Muslims into Papua as fast as they possibly can, and the army *crushes* any attempt at resistance made by the local indigenous non-Muslims.

  3. Martel says

    Jun 14, 2017 at 6:53 pm

    Many decades of Saudi missionary work throughout Indonesia is really starting to bring forth its fruits. This country will be a Mindanao on steroids, from destroying pool bars with sticks, massacres of Christians and minorities on Sulawesi ,the foolishness of this sprawling archipelago will see insurgencies morphing into civil war, moderates and the rest vs Islamic jihad on a massive scale.

    • dumbledoresarmy says

      Jun 15, 2017 at 5:40 am

      There have *already* been Muslim massacres of Christians. In the 1990s there was a Jihad against the Christians of the Moluccas. Thousands upon thousands of people were driven from their homes, their churches and villages destroyed. Many were **forcibly “converted” to Islam**… and this involved men being circumcised and women … genitally mutilated, since Indonesian Islam follows the Shafiite school of Sharia. One group carrying out the attacks was called the Lashkar Jihad. The Indonesian military did diddly-squat to stop the mass-murders, church -burnings,a nd drivings-out of Christians from historically Christian areas. Most of those displaced Christians have never returned to where they used to live.

      Also, in the 1960s, with the suppression of Communism as the stated pretext, there was huge Muslim mob violence against the Chinese in Indonesia, who happen to be one of the largest NON-MUSLIM ethnic minorities. There were mass murders, and gang rapes; an absolute jihad-style orgy of violence, and most of the Chinese victims were not communists at all; many were *Christians*, others Buddhist.

      And then there was, of course, the murderous Indonesian occupation of majority-Catholic East Timor.

      • Martel says

        Jun 15, 2017 at 11:59 am

        I’m aware of these atrocities, but what we will see is it morphing into a wider nationwide open combat against numerous salafist groups, that’s if Jakarta has the courage to stand up to this threat.

      • Lukas says

        Jun 16, 2017 at 8:40 pm

        so what, want my country be balkanized? Sod off. Anyone want to help combat Islamism in my country should abide to this condition: No separatism allowed.

        • gravenimage says

          Jun 16, 2017 at 8:57 pm

          So, Lukas–do you believe that Christian East Timur should have stayed with Indonesia so that pious Muslims there could have continued slaughtering them?

  4. Paul N Silas says

    Jun 14, 2017 at 8:08 pm

    Hell’s bells, ISIS most likely has cells, in Minneapolis, Chicago, L.A., Miami, and Dallas too. F*ck’em !

    Let’m run into an organized Unit like the Rangers or Marines and see how tough they are.

  5. Matthieu Baudin says

    Jun 14, 2017 at 9:22 pm

    There is a real possibility that the undermining of Indonesia’s newly formed democratic institutions by subversive Jihadist activity could usher back in the hand of the military as the custodian of civil unity and nation building.

  6. Adam says

    Jun 14, 2017 at 10:00 pm

    And the response from the west…….the usual. I did hear POTUS say he was going to crush ISIS, so this is most likely an old story. Big weapons deal with the sunni, biggest in history of all history, so this ISIS thing is all done. Heads down keep moving, back to work, worker.

    Chaos all around us and it seems the weakest and most gutless people among us are in charge of the levers of power. And something tells me their level of security is going to increase here real soon. Well at least the really smart people are safe.

    • Godwin says

      Jun 16, 2017 at 1:05 am

      No possible to destroy IS for they are like mushroom growing everywhere every time

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