The Straits Times, Feb 16, 2005
Terror group's Constitution found, say Jakarta police
INDONESIAN police have found what they say could be part of the Constitution and
operational manual of the terrorist group Jemaah Islamiah (JI), Australian newspapers
said.
The reports were based on comments made by Indonesia's national police chief Da'i
Bachtiar.
He told a parliamentary security committee that officers had seized the photocopied
document after a bomb blast in January in the town of Balikpapan in East Kalimantan.
The alleged bomber, identified as Sujono alias Sugiono, was injured in the blast, the
Sydney Morning Herald said.
'From him, we confiscated a copy of a document of the Nidhom Azasi - a kind of JI
Constitution, consisting of 15 chapters and 34 articles,' General Bachtiar was quoted
as saying at the hearing.
According to the police chief, the document included fundamentalist Islamic and
anti-Western teachings, and contained chapters on bomb-making and shooting skills.
But the police chief believed the bomber was possibly not linked to JI master
bomb-maker Azahari bin Husin or the top suicide bomb recruiter Noordin Mohammad
Top, two of the most wanted terrorist masterminds in the region.
'We don't think that the bomber is related to the Azahari group, because his bomb
was simple, while Azahari's bombs are sophisticated,' he said.
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