Zulkarnaen, a senior leader of Jemaah Islamiyah, arriving at Jakarta’s Soekarno-Hatta International Airport on Dec 16, 2020. - AFP
JAKARTA (The Straits Times/ANN): A two-storey house in Central Java used by the Jemaah Islamiah (JI) terrorist network to train recruits in handling weapons and assembling bombs for seven years until 2018 has been uncovered by Indonesian authorities.
Recruits at the fenced-in villa in Gintungan village in Semarang regency were inducted by senior militant Joko Priyono, alias Karso, under the instructions of Para Wijayanto, the leader of JI, the group behind the Bali bombings in 2002 that killed 202 people.
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