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IS supporters mourn terror suspect Fonda
Mourning: A motorcade featuring flags of the Islamic State movement takes part in the funeral procession of alleged terrorist Fonda Amar Sholihin in Surakarta, Central Java, on Friday
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Mourning: A motorcade featuring flags of the Islamic State movement takes part in the funeral procession of alleged terrorist Fonda Amar Sholihin in Surakarta, Central Java, on Friday. Fonda, aka Dodo, died on Feb. 28 in a shoot-out with personnel from the National Police and the Indonesian Military (TNI) in Torire village, Central Lore subdistrict, Poso.(JP/Ganug Nugroho Adi) (TNI) in Torire village, Central Lore subdistrict, Poso.(JP/Ganug Nugroho Adi)
Mourning: A motorcade featuring flags of the Islamic State movement takes part in the funeral procession of alleged terrorist Fonda Amar Sholihin in Surakarta, Central Java, on Friday. Fonda, aka Dodo, died on Feb. 28 in a shoot-out with personnel from the National Police and the Indonesian Military (TNI) in Torire village, Central Lore subdistrict, Poso.(JP/Ganug Nugroho Adi)
Islamic State (IS) movement flags were seen among mourners in the funeral procession of alleged terrorist Fonda Amar Sholihin, 22, of Surakarta, Central Java, who was killed in Poso, Central Sulawesi, during a shoot-out with security officers.
The black flags bearing Arabic letters were carried by a number of people from when Fonda's body arrived at the funeral house until it departed to the cemetery for burial.
Although dozens of officers were seen around the funeral home, they did not seize the flags or arrest the people carrying them. Some people were even seen casually waving the flags around.
Fonda, who was suspected of being a member of the East Indonesia Mujahidin (MIT) terrorist group led by Santoso, aka Abu Wardah, in Poso, was buried in Polokarto Muslim cemetery in Sukoharjo, Central Java, on Friday morning.
Some 100 mourners joined the funeral procession to farewell Fonda, who was reportedly involved in a terror act in Jati Asih, Bekasi, West Java, in 2014.
Riding on motorcycles, the mourners repeatedly cried out Allahu Akbar (God is great) along the roughly 20-kilometer journey from the funeral home to the cemetery.
The body of Fonda was flown from Palu, the Central Sulawesi provincial capital, to Surabaya in East Java on Thursday night and was then transported overland to Surakarta. It arrived in Surakarta the following day at about 4:30 a.m.
The body was first taken to the funeral home, then to a mosque near the house where mourners prayed for the home deceased, then to the burial.
Fonda was the son of Joko Tri Priyanto, aka Joko Parkit, currently an inmate alongside a convicted terrorist at Pekalongan penitentiary in Central Java. Joko initially served his prison term on the high-security prison island of Nusakambangan in Central Java, but was later moved to his current location.
Fonda's body was kept at the police's Bhayangkara Hospital in Palu from Feb. 29, but his family only heard reports of his death on March 3. They promptly departed for Palu to seek clarification.
'Fonda's mother, Umi Widayati, underwent an examination, a series of document verifications and a DNA test and also viewed the body,' preacher Sholeh Ibrahim told mourners before leading a mass prayer for the deceased.
'Why the sending home of Fonda's body was delayed I don't know. It should have been here on March 12,' the preacher added.
A spokesperson for Fonda's family, Endro Sudarsono, said that the family had had a chance to view Fonda's body. He said it was heavily wounded and damaged in several places.
Endro also said that there were signs of gunshot wounds on the head and that some teeth were missing, among other visible injuries.
'That is the condition of the body. We do not know the causes because the police will not give us any explanation,' Endro said.
Meanwhile, the decomposing body of another man has been found on the banks of the Lariang River in Lelo village, Poso.
'Based on an initial identification, the body was a member of the MIT,' Central Sulawesi Police chief Brig. Gen. Rudy Sufahriadi said in Palu on Friday.
Rudy said there was a hole in the head of the 180-centimeter-tall body and also gunshot wounds on his wrist.
He suspected the man had been killed by his own friends due to fears that he would surrender to the authorities.
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