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witness in the trial of Aman Abdurrahman, the alleged mastermind of the gun and bomb attack on Jl. MH Thamrin in Central Jakarta in 2016, revealed on Tuesday how he delivered the money used to finance the attack.

The witness, Adi Jihadi, is the brother of Iwan Darmawan Muntho, alias Rois, Aman’s cellmate on Nusakambangan prison island, Cilacap, Central Java, who is on death row for his involvement in the 2004 Australian Embassy bombing.

Adi is currently serving a six-year sentence after being convicted of smuggling weapons from the Philippines to Indonesia and sending Jamaah Ansharut Daulah (JAD) members to Marawi.

During the hearing, Adi said he first met Aman while he was visiting Rois at the maximum-security prison in mid-2015, but they did not talk about any attack plans at that time.

To the judges, Adi said his brother had ordered him to collect US$30,000 from Rois’ friend.

Adi said he did not know that the money was intended to be used to execute the attack.

“I only learned that the money was related to the attack when I was interrogated by the police,” Adi said.

He went on to say that he had made an appointment with Rois’ friend via the Telegram chat application. When asked by the judges if he knew who the person was, Adi said he did not recognize the person.

“The person changed his Telegram name twice a day,” Adi said.

Adi said he had made an arrangement to meet in a mall in Serang, Banten. The person then handed over the money, carried in a plastic bag, to Adi.

At the request of his brother, Adi then delivered $3,000 to Suryadi Mas’ud, alias Abu Ridho, a leader of JAD, who is currently serving a 10-year sentence for his involvement in the Thramrin attack.

Adi also gave $20,000 to Zainal Anshori, another JAD leader, who was sentenced to seven years in prison for masterminding an attack on a police post in Tuban, East Java, in April last year.

He added that he gave the rest of the money to Mas’ud to buy the guns used in the Thamrin attack from the Philippines.

During the hearing, Adi admitted he had listened to an MP3 of Aman’s sermon about tawhid [The Oneness of God] that was circulated by his friend, Rizal.

The prosecutors played an excerpt of the recording during the hearing and asked Adi whether it was the same sermon he had listened to.

Adi said he did not remember the sermon as he had only listened to a small part of it in his car.

Meanwhile, the court heard Adi’s testimony about the spread of radicalism on the Syarif Hidayatullah State Islamic University’s (UIN) campus in Ciputat. He said some 500 people took baiat, or the oath of allegiance, to the Islamic State (IS) movement in 2014.

Previously, it was also revealed that the forest on the University of Indonesia (UI) campus in Depok, West Java, was used as a training ground by Aman and his followers in 2004.