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Jakarta, CNN Indonesia –
East Indonesian Mujahidin Group (WITH) again sowing terror in Central Sulawesi. The group led by Ali Ahmad alias Ali Kalora | massacred a family and burned seven houses in the village of Lemban Tongoa, District Sigi, Central Sulawesi, Friday (11/27).
The terrorist attack took place in the middle of a country that still carries out Operation Tinombala to suppress MIT since 2015. Operation Tinombala is known to have killed the MIT leader at the time, Santoso. Ali Kalora is said to be a fugitive successor. The remaining cells kept Operation Tinombala going.
A terrorism observer from the University of Indonesia (UI), Ridlwan Habib, assessed that the actions carried out by the Ali Kalora group were not based on a specific religious ideology, but on their efforts to survive or survive police persecution.
“Their goal is survival, because they know that their own abilities are constantly weakening,” Ridlwan said when contacted. CNNIndonesia.com, Monday (11/30).
Ridlwan said the group’s strength now leaves 10 members. However, he believes that there are still many MIT supporters in Poso, Central Sulawesi so far.
The sympathizers, according to Ridlwan, did not hesitate to become his accomplices and provide information on the movements of the security forces.
While defending himself from the authorities, the Ali Kalora group’s action was seen as an attempt to send messages to ISIS networks abroad, both in Indonesia and in the Middle East. The message they sent was that they were still around and asking for help.
“Carrying out the beheadings as a signal to the ISIS network in the Middle East that they still have their wings in Indonesia,” Ridlwan said.
The director of the Community of Islamic Ideological Analysts (CIIA), Harits Abu Ulya, expressed a similar sentiment. He claimed that Ali Kalora’s action was an effort to survive, drawing attention to help and support.
“Morally, the MIT group, if it continues to carry the ISIS story to attract and gain new support from ISIS sympathizers in Indonesia, it has lost momentum,” Harits said.
Nor did he see Ali Kalora’s action aimed at making Poso the basis for the establishment of an Islamic state. According to him, the group’s actions were purely to survive.
Obsolete operation
Ridlwan Habib assessed that the Tinombala task force did not yet have the ability to defeat Ali Kalora and his group in the Sulawesi desert. Ridlwan assessed that the Tinombala Working Group should completely review the operation.
Operation Tinombala, which currently has patrols, will not be able to reach Ali Kalora, who has a great capacity for survival.
“Only the elite team can have around 7-8 people specially assigned to chase them to the mountains and they can’t go out, go home, before reaching the goal,” Ridlwan said.
If the Task Force still insists on using the patrol method, he said, then this search for Ali Kalora cs will be difficult to produce results. Ali Kalora has many informants in various regions.
“They have informants, they can know that the patrols are here, they are hiding them, the patrol is coming home,” he said.
Meanwhile, Harits Abu Ulya also said that hunting down Ali Kalora requires action from the TNI Special Operations Command (Koopsus). So far, Operation Tinombala has been carried out by the police, while TNI is only helping.
The police, he said, could return to the landing line for the protection of justice and the environment. On the other hand, Koopsus could take action to destroy the Ali Kalora Group.
“If the context is still a joint operation, Poso will have a hard time at any time to finish. TNI has so far only been in the BKO, Operation Tinombala in volumes is the domain of the police,” he said.
“Now we have to test it with the existing mechanisms, the police asked the TNI commander to send Koopsus to Poso,” Harits added.
(dmi / ain)
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