Jemaah Islamiyah leaders declared the dissolution of the terror organisation on Jun 30, 2024. SINGAPORE: Southeast Asia was shaken to the core by the deadly Bali bombings in 2002. More than 20 years later,and that they will return to the fold of the Republic of Indonesia and were ready to abide by its laws.
In 2019, Imaruddin took advantage of the sudden power vacuum following longtime leader Para Wijayanto’s arrest to plan attacks - an act JI has forbidden since 2011. His faction made plans to attack Chinese-Indonesian owned stores in Banten, West Java and East Java, amassed over 260 million rupiah , and procured two firearms before being arrested.JI’s preferred strategy in the past decade has shifted from carrying out violence to conducting dakwah .
That said, the threat should not be exaggerated. If a splinter group does emerge, it will take some time for them to reorganise and recruit new members. Additionally, the mandate of Indonesia’s counterterrorism operations has grown exponentially since 2018. It lost top decision-makers in the arrests, including Para Wijayanto in 2019 and the head of its leadership appointment council Arif Siswanto in 2020. Hits to organisational and operational capacity forced JI to halt key divisions. This included the ADIRA division tasked with training, vetting and assigning operational roles to recruits and selecting potential cadres for more advanced training.
Discussions to disband the organisation between the police and several JI seniors started as early as 2022. Fearing that Detachment 88’s expanded “preventive strike” capabilities would result in not only further arrests, but also the seizing of JI schools and assets, these senior members agreed to dissolve the group.