Militants in Indonesia looking for women terrorists

An online conversation between two women, who wanted to carry out suicide bombing on a government agency, was picked up last August by researchers who were studying the radicalization of women in Indonesia. Subsequently, after four months, Indonesian police arrested two women in connection with a plot to bomb the presidential palace in Jakarta.
The arrests marked a major strategy shift which indicated that militants in Indonesia, who were loyal to the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS), were recruiting women terrorists to carry out attacks.
This has been reported in thestatesman.com dated 4 February 2017.

The study by a Jakarta-based Institute has confirmed that ISIS has brought about a fundamental change in how extremists view the role of women in their cause. To them, the role of women as wives, mothers and teachers in militant groups continued to be a priority. Simultaneously, ISIS plan to deploy women on terrorist duties.
This is a major shift in the thinking of militant groups.
Earlier, leaders of the old Jemaah Islamiah militants did not promote the culture of allowing women to take an active role in terror causes. Exception would be made for emergency circumstances or for self-defence. However, today's Indonesian women, many of whom work overseas as domestic helpers have become interested in ISIS. The women are useful for terror operations because they do not attract suspicion easily.


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