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Stepping up deradicalization
Komnas HAM has rightly said such a sentence would not only elevate Aman Abdurrahman to martyrdom, but also incite possible revenge attacks.
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Amid the recent terror attacks in Surabaya and Riau and the controversy over revisions to the Terrorism Law, the court trial for terror defendant Aman Abdurrahman is continuing. (Antara/Wahyu Putro A)
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mid the recent terror attacks in Surabaya and Riau and the controversy over revisions to the Terrorism Law, the court trial for terror defendant Aman Abdurrahman is continuing.
Aman is believed to have founded the Jamaah Ansharut Daulah (JAD) extremist group, and is on trial for terrorist attacks, including those on Jl. MH Thamrin and a Samarinda church in 2016, although he was in prison at the time. He has denied all charges.
Aman has already been behind bars for 14 years since he was found guilty for coordinating a 2004 bombing in Depok, for which he was sentenced to seven years in prison, and was found guilty again for funding terrorist group exercises in Aceh in 2010, for which he was sentenced to another seven years.
A central figure of the local group that has pledged allegiance to Islamic State (IS), the Institute for Policy Analysis of Conflict (IPAC) has labeled him “the most important ideological promoter of IS” in the country and for good reason.
Behind bars, he continued to spread IS teachings by giving translated materials to his frequent visitors, who then uploaded them on social media and compiled them in an online collection titled Kajian Tauhid that anyone can google and download easily.
These materials have inspired followers to incite amaliyah, or struggle against non-believers, which they understood to include the government and the National Police. At his trial, Aman said he encouraged people to carry out jihad in Syria, not at home.
Prosecutors are demanding the death sentence for Aman with hopes of cutting down a major source of radicalism. However, the National Commission on Human Rights (Komnas HAM) has rightly said such a sentence would not only elevate Aman to martyrdom, but also incite possible revenge attacks.
