Jakarta jails ISIS-linked couple who tried to assassinate minister
An Indonesian court on Thursday found three people linked to the Islamic State (IS) group, who attempted to assassinate the country’s former chief security minister Wiranto last year in Banten province, guilty of an offence under the country’s anti-terror law. Syahrial Alamsyah, also known as Abu Rara, who attacked the former senior minister during his visit to Pandeglang, Banten province on October 10, 2019 with a knife, has been sentenced to 12 years in prison.
Alamsyah also stabbed Wiranto’s aide Ahmad Fuad Syauqi who was trying to protect the former minister in the left-side chest and rightside shoulder.
Meanwhile, Alamsyah’s wife Fitria Diana, who attacked a Police officer accompanying Wiranto also with a knife, has to serve a nineyear jail term.
Alamsyah was a member of the Jamaah Ansharut Daulah (JAD), an IS-linked homegrown militant group in Indonesia, a country with the world’s largest Muslim population.
The group was responsible for suicide bombings at churches in East Java province’s capital of Surabaya in 2018, where a dozen people died in the attack.