Jemaah Ansharut Daulah members (Source: Reuters)Hanoi (VNA) - A court in Indonesia on July 31 disbanded JemaahAnsharut Daulah (JAD), the country's largest Islamic State-linked group, for"conducting terrorism" and affiliating itself with a militantorganisation.
Judge Aris Bawono Langgeng delivered the verdict in the heavily guardedSouth Jakarta District Court in the capital of Indonesia, the world's largestMuslim-majority country.
JAD, a loose grouping of Islamic State sympathisers, has thousands offollowers in Indonesia. Its leader, Aman Abdurrahman was sentenced to death bythe same court last month for inspiring bomb attacks in central Jakarta inJanuary 2016 in which eight people died, including four attackers, as well asfour other attacks in the country.
The sentencing of Aman and the indictment of JAD follow suicide bombingsin May at churches in Surabaya, a major city on the island of Java.
In one of the incidents, a family of six, including four children,killed 14 other people. That and other bombings in mid-May were the firstterrorist attacks in Indonesia that involved children among the suicidebombers.
Since then, more than 270 suspected terrorists have been arrested acrossthe main islands of Java and Sumatra, most of them with links to JAD. They alsoinclude some suspected of direct links to the Surabaya church bombings.-VNA
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