JakartaGlobe-June 16
The police and the anti-money laundering agency have frozen at least 21 bank accounts belonging to suspected leaders of Muslim group Khilafatul Muslimin, which authorities said seeks to establish an Islamic state in Indonesia. The move came after more than 20 Khilafatul Muslimin members were named suspects in a crackdown on radicalism in several provinces. “As we know that the flow of money is the vein of any crime. If we cut the vein, they won’t be able to move freely,” Maryanto, the analysis director with the Financial Transaction Reports and Analysis Center (PPATK), said at a news conference at the Jakarta Police headquarters on Thursday. Jakarta Police Chief Detective Chief Comr. Hengki Haryadi said the group collects donations from tens of thousands of members. Many of the group’s leaders are former terrorism convicts, including the highest in command identified as Abdul Qodir Baraja, the officer said. Abdul has spent more than 15 years in prison for terror convictions, including the bombing at the Borobudur Temple decades ago, he said. Khilafatul Muslimin runs its own education system from elementary schools to universities where the 1945 Constitution and the national ideology of Pancasila are never introduced in classrooms, Hengki said. Police have found at least 25 schools affiliated with the group. Read more at: https://jakartaglobe.id/news/police-freeze-bank-accounts-belonging-to-khilafatul-muslimin-leaders
