Thursday 21 January 2016

ISLAMIC STATE UIGHURS ENTER INDONESIA

The National 22 January 2016

The ease  with which three separate groups of ethnic Uighur militiamen sneaked into Indonesia is ringing alarm bells for security forces, who are on high alert for a far deadlier attack than last week's assault on Jakarta.

At least 10 Uighurs from China arrived in the world's most populous Moslem nation over the last 18 months to join Islamic radicals exposing an extensive network ready to welcome wanabee radicals.

Police fear that the same network could assist in the return of battle-hardened Islamic IS fighters from Syria who could then launch more calculated attacks, similar to that which hit Paris.

Indonesia's sprawling archipelago of 18,000 islands is too vast to control the movements of militants, drug smugglers, human traffickers and refugees, police say.

There is enough security at the main entry points. But there are more traditional points for entering illegally where fishermen bring people in.

With around 500 Indonesians taking one way trips to join the Islamic state in Syria and Iraq, authorities had not considered the South East Asian nations porous borders to be a problem.

But last month, after arrest of Uighur Ali Mahmet, police found bomb making equipment in a house in a Jakarta suburb.

Uighurs come from Xinjiang in far western China, a region Beijing says is the home of Islamic militants. 

Jakarta says it is working with China to stem the flow of Islamic militants who police say are responding to Samoso, Indonesia's backer of IS.

Comment:  The Muslims have already taken over the province of Aceh that can now be the focal point of jihadism in the archipelago.

Australia and Papua New Guinea have to be aware of the large numbers of Indonesians who were transmigrated to West Papua. There must surely be IS extremists in West Papua who may set up links with the Free Papua Movement.

Freedom for West Papua will be a Moslem freedom with IS support to set up a Sharia state. There will be large numbers of refugees flooding into Papua New Guinea. 

IS leadership does not recognise borders and will attack Papua New Guinea. The headquarters of Second Royal Pacific Islands Regiment in Wewak needs to be strengthened. So too the military and police bases in West Papua.

In recent weeks, we read of attacks on so many military and police bases in the Middle East and Africa. Personnel were killed with weapons and ammunition taken and vehicles captured.

The Islamic State is now supporting terrorist attacks in a large circle around Syria from North, West and East Africa to Middle East and South East Asia. 

The Boko Haram in Nigeria has affiliated with Islamic state. But the Al-Shabab from Somalia does not want to be controlled from outside jihadists namely Islamic State. Trouble will come on the issue of power. The IS demand that they have the only caliphate.


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