18-year-old fugitive, Special Detachment 88 Arrests Bali Bombing DPO 1

JAKARTA – Special Detachment Team (Densus) 88 Anti-Terrorist Police Station managed to arrest Zulkarnaen, who was the commander of Askari, also known as the army Jamaah Islamiyah (JI). The man who goes by various names, including Aris Sumarsono alias Daud alias Zaenal Arifin alias Abdulrahman, was also identified as being involved in Bombardment I of Bali in 2002.

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During the bombing of Bali 1, Zulkarnain was the commander of the Askari (army) Jamaah Islamiyah. “The arrest took place on Thursday (12/10) in East Lampung, around 7.30pm, without resistance,” Argo said in his statement on Saturday (12/12/2020).

According to Argo Zulkarnain, he was a person who formed a special unit within the Jamaah Islamiyah structure or a special army unit that was involved in the religious conflict in Poso, Central Sulawesi in 2000 and the SARA conflict in Ambon in 2011.

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Not only that, Argo revealed, the man who graduated from the College of Biology also hid Upik Lawanga, a bomb-making expert who was called upon by his circles as a professor because of his expertise in assembling high-explosive bombs.

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