A regional intelligence source explains that this is because other routes, like from Manado, north of Sulawesi in Indonesia, to Davao, south Mindanao in the Philippines, are unreliable.
Stanislaus Riyanta, a security and terrorism expert based in Jakarta, says Sabah is a transit point for JAD members heading to the Philippines from Indonesia. “Indonesia’s radical groups have long had a relationship with the Abu Sayyaf and other groups in the Philippines,” he notes. Former Sabah Police Commis-sioner Datuk Hazani Ghazali says that there is no doubt the interior of Sabah is a good hiding place for militants. But he says the police work hard to collect intel on them.
“They know there are more Dusun in Keningau and security forces won’t think a militant would be staying among them as they are known to prefer to live on the east coast of Sabah,” the source says, adding that they live in Filipino/Indonesian squatter settlements in Keningau.
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