Word: tenggulun
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...month, he told Indonesian national police chief Da'i Bachtiar that he was "a naughty person, sir--that's what my family always say about me." Unlike his brothers, most of whom graduated from religious schools, Amrozi never got beyond junior high and was best known for roaring through Tenggulun on one of his beloved motorbikes...
...Kuta bombs were an estimated 75 Australians, 22 Britons and 7 Americans. Hambali may now be in Bangkok or Pakistan. But Indonesian authorities have identified a person they claim to be the new leader of the terrorist cells within JI--Ali Ghufron, a radical Islamist from the village of Tenggulun in eastern Java. Amrozi is Ali Ghufron's younger brother...
...Tenggulun is a very religious place. In 1992 two brothers of Ali Ghufron and Amrozi founded a school there to train local youngsters in Wahhabism, one of Islam's most severely orthodox strains. Most of Tenggulun's residents follow the more moderate Islam of Nahdlatul Ulama, an Indonesian religious society. Rivalry between the two groups erupted in 1987, when the tomb of a local saint was burned down. The culprit was Amrozi...
...bomb: the Mitsubishi L-300. Daubing acid on the abraded surface of the engine block, forensic experts teased out the numbers that were etched in the metal. Once they had the registration of the van, investigators were on a path that led to Amrozi's home village of Tenggulun, about 200 kilometers west of the port city of Surabaya...
...with an institution originated by Abubakar Ba'asyir, the Muslim cleric who has been described by U.S. and Southeast Asian governments as the spiritual leader of Jemaah Islamiah?a network of Islamic militants in the region that has been designated a terrorist organization by the United Nations. Abubakar visited Tenggulun no less than four times, says village headman Maskun, most recently in mid-June when he gave a speech at the local school. "They always ask Uztadz (Abubakar) to come here to give the year-end speech because they're proud of him and admire his commitment to Islam," says...