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19 March 2017
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Growth of IS See’s Female Terrorist Numbers Rise in Indonesia
Women’s roles in terrorist networks in Indonesia have until now been dictated by kinship ties through marriage, involving facilitating logistics and finance for terrorist acts. But there is a growing trend of women taking on combat roles.
Last December Detachment 88, Indonesia’s police counterterrorism unit, arrested three women who were allegedly involved in plotting a suicide bombing during the changing of guards ceremony at Merdeka Palace.
The women — Dian Yuli Novi, Arida Putri Maharani and Tutin Sugiarti — were part of a Solo-based terrorist network under the coordination of Bahrun Naim, the man allegedly behind the 2016 Jakarta attacks. A few days after their arrest, Detachment 88 also arrested Ika Puspitasari in a mosque near her home in Purworejo, Central Java.
… This article was written by Chaula Rininta Anindya, a research assistant with the Indonesia Programme at the S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. It first appeared on East Asia Forum under a Creative Commons license and is reproduced here with its permission.
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Last updated on 21/03/2017
