Abu Tholut alias Mustofa alias Pranata Yuda

Place of birth: Semarang, Central Java

Age: 49

Current status:

Fugitive for organizing a military-style terrorist training camp in Aceh that was raided by police in April. Abu was last seen in northern part of Bekasi. He is a member of Jamaah Ansharut-Tauhid (JAT), set up by hard-line cleric Abu Bakar Ba'asyir. Several months before fleeing, Abu lectured on war based on the Koran and hadith at Ba'asyir's Al-Mukmin boarding school.

Track record:

• A recidivist for taking part in the bombing of the Atrium shopping mall in Central Jakarta in 2001, and for possessing illegal ammunitions and explosives in several houses in Semarang and Jakarta in 2003. Abu was sentenced to 7 years in prison in 2004. Abu received a reduced sentence due to good behavior and was released on Indonesian Independence Day on Aug. 17, 2007. He was also among several convicted terrorists enrolled in the police's deradicalization program while in prison.

• A former Jamaah Islamiyah (JI) chief of Mantiqi III, overseeing parts of eastern Indonesia, Malaysia and the southern Philippines between 1999 and 2001. He is responsible for the deployment of JI members in a bloody sectarian conflict in Poso, Central Sulawesi, between 1998 and 2001. Abu also provided military training to local Islamic militia.

• A graduate of the military academy class of 1987/1988 on the Afghan-Pakistan border during the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan. His classmates included former JI executive Nasir Abbas, first Bali Bombing perpetrator Mukhlas, and former JI leader (replacing Ba’asyir when he was in prison in mid 2002) Abu Rusdan. In Afghanistan, Abu also taught tactics and field engineering to Southeast Asian extremists and separatists between 1989 and 1993.

• A military trainer and initiator for the establishment of a military training camp in Southern Philippines for the Moro Islamic Liberation Front and the Abu Sayyaf separatist group.

Attributes:

• Trained in using various weapons, including anti-aircraft guns.

• SERE (survival, evasion, resistance and escape) and field engineering

• High-explosive bomb-making skills

• Networks with financiers in Pakistan, Afghanistan and the Middle East.

 

 Abu Rusdan alias Thoriqudin alias Hamzah

Place of birth: Kudus, Central Java

Age: 49

Current status:

Above ground. Rusdan is the son of Haji Moh. Faleh of Kudus, a Darul Islam leader, who was arrested for his alleged involvement in commando jihad warfare in the early 1980s. Rusdan graduated from Surakarta State University’s School of Social and Political Sciences in 1983. In April 2003, he was arrested for harboring Mukhlas, one of the perpetrators of the 2002 Bali bombings. Although police investigation found that he had actually opposed the bombing as well as the Christmas Eve attacks in 2000, he was sentenced to three-and-a-half years in jail a year later. After his release in late 2005, Rusdan declined to condemn the Bali bombers but said all militant groups should rethink their violence. Members of the jihadist movement believe Rusdan is pooling resources for a future movement. Rusdan lives a very simple life in Kudus.

Track record:

• An expert in explosives, he is a veteran of the anti-Soviet guerrilla war in Afghanistan between 1986 and 1989.

• Rusdan led JI Mantiqi II, overseeing Java, Sumatra and other islands of Indonesia, from 2000 until 2003.

• He was JI's acting amir (leader) in the absence of Ba'asyir between 2002 and 2003.

• Rusdan leads a mainstream faction — the "traditionalists" — who constantly oppose further bombings and encourage members not to participate in any attacks at the moment. He believed the time wasn’t yet ripe to wage jihad in Indonesia. According to ICG, Rusdan believes he and his followers must build up their strength before waging war. He urged the mujahideen in Aceh to value the rights of those actively working to build the capacity for jihad.

• The UN listed Rusdan in 2005 as being as a sociated with al-Qaeda, Osama bin Laden or the Taliban for “participating in the financing, planning, and facilitation of terrorism."

Attributes:

• A master recruiter

• Vast network with militants in Pakistan, Afghanistan and the Middle East

• Skilled in the use of weapons, including anti-aircraft guns.

• SERE (survival, evasion, resistance and escape) and field engineering

• High-explosive bomb-making skills

 

 Abdul Rohim alias Ustadz Iim alias Abdurrohim

Place of birth: Surakarta, Central Java

Age: 31

Current status:

Above ground. Iim is the youngest of firebrand cleric Abu Bakar Ba'asyir's three children. After his older brother Rosyid Ridho left to establish his own Islamic school in Magetan, East Java, Iim was the only child left living with Ba'asyir.

Aside from teaching Koran interpretation and faith at his father’s Al-Mukmin Islamic School in Ngruki, Sukoharjo, Iim is also a senior member of the Jamaah Anshorut Tauhid (JAT) overseeing Central Java. The JAT is an above-ground organization set up by Ba’asyir in 2008 to promote the implementation of sharia law. Iim, the father of three daughters, regularly takes a role as family spokesman.

Track record:

• During his time in Pakistan between 1992 and 1996, Iim took part in military training camp with al-Qaeda-linked organization near the Pakistan-Afghanistan border, according to the head of the antiterror desk, Ansyaad Mbai. Iim has denied the allegation.

• In his second stint living in Pakistan between 1999 and 2002, Iim and Gun Gun set up student group Al-Ghuroba for Indonesian and Malaysian students there. The now-defunct group has been implicated in terrorism since Gun Gun was found to have helped his brother Hambali finance the 2003 bombing of the JW Marriott Hotel in Jakarta. The group's other member, Muhammad Jibriel, was sentenced to five years in prison for his role in financing the 2009 attacks on the JW Marriott and Ritz-Carlton hotels, again in Jakarta. In 2003, six members of the group were detained by Pakistani authorities for their alleged involvement in financing terrorism. Lim returned from Pakistan in 2002 on orders from his father to marry.

• Iim runs a radio station RDS (Radio Dakway Syariah), broadcasting propaganda encouraging the full implementation of sharia. He is also involved in making printed propaganda with his friend Bambang Sukirno, who runs the jihad movement's publications.

Attributes:

• Extensive network with militants in the border region of Pakistan/Afghanistan

• Master recruiter

• Military training

 

 Sonhadi Bin Muhadjir

Place of birth: Pasuruan, East Java

Age: 38

Current status:

Above ground. Residing and preaching in Surabaya, East Java. A 1991 Ngruki graduate, Sonhadi has worked alongside JI official Usman bin Sef alias Fahim in the Surabaya-based Darussalam Foundation since 1997. The foundation was the center where JI members in the province ran their activities. Sonhadi took the helm as JI’s East Java area chief from Fahim in 2004 for a short period before he was arrested for allegedly harboring now deceased master terrorists Noordin M. Top and Dr. Azahari, who allegedly masterminded the 2002 Bali bombing and the 2003 attacks on the JW Marriott Hotel in Jakarta. In May 2005, the South Jakarta District Court sentenced Sonhadi to four years in jail. He is also alleged to have been involved in the bombing of the Australian Embassy in Jakarta in 2004. Sonhadi is JAT's secretary for East Java chapter, and the group's
spokesman. In a recent interview he denied speculations suggesting he was among the future leaders of the movement.

Track records:

• Sheltering Noordin and Azahari

• Involved in the Australian Embassy bombing.

Attributes:

• The intellectual figure of the movement

• Master recruiter

• Ideologically zealous

• Strong networks within militancy movement

 

 Umar Pathek alias Umar Kecil alias Umar Arab or Abu Syekh or Zacky or Mike

Place of birth: Pemalang, Central Java

Age: 40

Current status:

Fugitive since 2002. Umar was born to a family of Yemeni descent. A 2008 International Crisis Group report on Mindanao indicated that Umar had become the top commander among the foreign jihadist in the country. The best friend of slain master terrorist Dulmatin, Umar was spotted with the JI field commander in Jakarta but managed to escape the police raid that ended his friend's life in Tangerang, Banten, early this year. Umar and Dulmatin trained in al-Qaeda camps in Afghanistan in the mid-1990s before returning to Indonesia. They were also brothers-in-law as Dulmatin married Umar's sister. Umar is reported to have returned to the Southern Philippines where he is a senior instructor at an Abu Sayyaf training camp. There is a US$1 million reward being offered by the US Rewards For Justice Program for information leading to his capture. Between 2003 and 2005 Umar forged intense communications with a leader of a Central Javanese terror cell, Abdullah Sunata, who is now in detention for his role in setting up Aceh military training camp for terrorists.

Track record:

• Assistant to the field coordinator of the 2002 Bali bombings.

• Participated in the setup of an attack against the Australian Embassy in Jakarta by selecting, recruiting and training the right people for the suicide attack.

Attributes:

• A high proficiency in manufacturing chemical-based explosives and using various types of weapons.

• SERE (survival, evasion, resistance and escape) field engineering skills

• A master recruiter

• A master financier

 

 Aris Sumarsono alias Zulkarnaen alias Daud

Place of birth: Sragen, Central Java

Age: 47

Current Status:

Fugitive since 2002. Zulkarnaen has been a key member of JI's central command and the head of its military section. Zulkarnaen became JI operations chief after the arrest of his predecessor, Hambali, in Thailand in August 2003. As a military commander, Zulkarnaen has been responsible for intelligence operations and military training, and authorized the launch of a number of terrorist attacks, according to the UN. The UN listed Zulkarnaen in 2005 as an associate al-Qaeda, Osama bin Laden and Taliban for “participating in the financing, planning, facilitating and preparing terrorist attacks. Zulkarnaen earned a degree in biology from an Indonesian university and was among the first Indonesian militants to go to Afghanistan for training. He became an expert in sabotage in the 1980s, when he was appointed the head of Camp Saddah, a military academy established for fighters from Southeast Asia. Zulkarnaen spent a decade at the camp training other JI members.

Track record:

• Headed the operations section of JI, which helped carry out the suicide bombing of Jakarta’s Marriott Hotel that killed 12 people in 2003 and helped to prepare the bombs that killed 202 people in Bali in 2002.

• Helped organize fighting in vicious religious violence in Maluku in the 1990s

Attributes:

• Zulkarnaen was one of al-Qaeda’s representatives in Southeast Asia and one of the few people in Indonesia who had direct contact with Osama bin Laden’s network. Zulkarnaen has led a squad of fighters known as the Laskar Khos, or “special warriors”, whose members were recruited from some 300 Indonesians who trained in Afghanistan and the Philippines

• Master recruiter

• Skilled in the use of various weapons, including anti-aircraft guns.

• SERE (survival, evasion, resistance and escape) and field engineering skills

• A trained bomb maker capable of working with high explosives

• Networks with financiers