Police in Indonesia have detained 24 individuals on suspicion that they raised funds for Jemaah Islamiyah (JI), the al Qaeda-linked terrorist group behind the 2002 Bali nightclub bombings and other attacks, the National Police’s counterterrorism squad said.
The suspects were allegedly fundraising for JI via two Islamic charitable foundations, Sr. Cmdr. Aswin Siregar of the Densus 88 national counterterrorism force told a press conference on Nov. 25, adding that the terror group could raise tens of billions of rupiahs in a year to finance their activities. Syam Abadi, one of JI’s institutions, recorded an annual income of almost 15 billion rupiahs ($1.04 million), he added.
