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12/12/2020 Indonesia (International Christian Concern) – One of Indonesia’s terrorist groups has deployed charity boxes to market across Indonesia, hoping to trick unsuspecting shoppers into giving money to fund the group’s terrorist activities, according to Indonesian police .
On December 9, the National Police revealed the finding, after questioning 24 members of Jamaah Islamiyah (JI) detained in the October-November period.
“The funds raised are used to send people to Syria, to finance military training, to help wanted terrorists evade capture and to buy weapons and explosives.” Medeka.com quoted Brigadier General Awi Setiyono.
Setiyono also added that at least 13,000 boxes were placed by an alleged charity group called the BM ABA foundation. Its leaders were among the senior officials of JI, a Southeast Asian-based terrorist organization that has ties to al-Qaeda.
According to the Jakarta Globe, Ken Setiawan, a former terrorist recruiter and founder of an Islamic State of Indonesia (NII) Crisis Center de-radicalization organization, said terrorists have been masking their fundraising efforts using charitable activities in recent years. Two decades.
“They created legal organizations in the form of NGOs, orphanage foundations, charities. The foundations created by these radical groups have spread under the guise of social activities ”. Ken said.
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