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...Despite the growing list of allegations against Abubakar and Hambali, Indonesian officials have been circumspect in dealing with Abubakar, who recently moved back to Indonesia after 15 years. (Hambali, who is wanted by police in Indonesia and Malaysia, has disappeared). Recently questioned by police, Abubakar was released after two days and continues to teach at his religious school in the town of Solo. In an interview with Time, the soft-spoken 63-year-old vigorously denies any connection with a terrorist network. "I am not advocating the overthrow of any government," Abubakar says. "What I want...
...called the Jemaah Islamiah. Abubakar hammered home the themes he still preaches at his school in central Java today: the glory of a martyr's death and the overriding goal of setting up a Muslim government. Officials say he espoused the formation of a new Islamic state encompassing Malaysia, Indonesia, the southern Philippines, Singapore and Brunei. To fund such an ambitious vision, he was in contact with al-Qaeda paymasters and responsible for funneling money through branches of some Middle Eastern banks in Malaysia to his own newly founded cells of Jemaah Islamiah, which gradually stretched through peninsular Malaysia...
...founder of the Mujahidin Council of Indonesia, Abubakar Ba'asyir has come under increasing scrutiny after suspected terrorists in Malaysia, Singapore and the Philippines alleged that he played a key role in the underground Asian network. Last week at the religious school he heads in central Java, he spoke to TIME reporter Jason Tedjasukmana about the allegations...
...Abubakar: This is just a political game. I had never heard of the KMM or Jemaah Islamiah until I returned to Indonesia. I have not been back to Malaysia since 1999, so how could I be the KMM's leader? Jemaah Islamiah is an invention by Mahathir to instill fear in the Muslim community...
...good will that marked her assumption of office evaporates. Expect the accelerating collapse of the country's finances and civil administration, soaring lawlessness and vigilantism in cities, and chaos and bloodshed in the remoter provinces. Ethnic hatreds and independence movements will push the military into bloody reprisals. Indonesia looks headed for implosion, though in agonizing slow motion...