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ISIL recruiter in video linked to Santoso
An Indonesian man appearing in an Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) recruitment video is a terrorist fugitive with links to the countryâs most-wanted terrorist leader, Santoso, National Police chief Gen
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n Indonesian man appearing in an Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) recruitment video is a terrorist fugitive with links to the country's most-wanted terrorist leader, Santoso, National Police chief Gen. Sutarman said on Monday.
The man, who identifies himself as Abu Muhamad al-Indonesi, makes a fiery speech on the recently uploaded YouTube video titled Join the Ranks, calling on fellow Indonesian Muslims to join ISIL's fight against infidels.
ISIL, which is also known as ISIS, claims to have established a 'Caliphate of the State of Islam' stretching from northern Syria to the west of Baghdad in Iraq.
Sutarman said that the man had been on the run for more than a year in connection to his alleged involvement in terrorism.
'The man is a fugitive, identified by the initial B ['¦] He is connected to Santoso, with the eastern cell,' he said at the National Police headquarters in South Jakarta, referring to Santoso's East Indonesia Mujahidin terrorist cell.
Santoso is also known by the alias Abu Wardah.
According to Sutarman, the National Police are keeping a close eye on Indonesians suspected of being ISIL fighters in Syria and Iraq.
He added that the police had detected an underground movement to recruit more members for ISIS in Indonesia after the YouTube video was released.
'We have identified 56 individuals there, of which three are recently deceased,' he said.
Santoso, convicted terrorist and radical cleric Abu Bakar Ba'asyir and several other radical figures in the country are known to have pledged allegiance to the ISIL leader, Abu Bakar al Baghdadi, according to the National Counterterrorism Agency (BNPT).
Responding to growing domestic support for ISIL, the BNPT and the Law and Human Rights Ministry are in talks to devise a mechanism to impose penalties on Indonesians who join and fight with ISIL. (put)
