The Luqmanul Hakiem pasentran is located near the main entrance to the village where the suspect who killed two police officers lived. ULU TIRAM, Johor : Right at the end of a small village near Johor 's Ulu Tiram sits a small, wooden dilapidated house with an uneven zinc roof, housing a family whose neighbours describe as private and even reclusive.
“We just see them when they enter and exit, because they live deep inside the village. We have never spoken to them before. There were no signs they were extremists or terrorists," she said. Rohani was wearing a niqab, a hijab which covers all of the face except the eyes. CNA did not come across any adult males in the village - made up of 10 houses - on Friday evening, with all of the residents present being adult women and children.
But the incident is still cause for concern in a region where JI senior members from Indonesia had fled to more than 30 years ago before setting up a religious boarding school there, they said. Prof Ramakrishna said the boarding school was set up by JI exiles, including the group’s founders Abdullah Sungkar and Abu Bakar Bashir, who had settled in Malaysia after fleeing the anti-Islamist regime under Suharto’s New Order in Indonesia.
Despite that, Prof Ramakrishna said Malaysian security authorities had long ago neutralised the more violent elements of the JI community that had grown up around the boarding school. “It is highly likely that this was an isolated incident. Until we understand his grievances, motivations for launching the attack, and objectives, we cannot say with certainty that there is a larger plot.”
Similarly, RSIS’ Prof Ramakrishna emphasised that further investigations are needed to uncover just how far a possible resurgence of violent militancy has spread among the community “affiliated with the old Luqmanul Hakiem pesantren”.Prof Ramakrishna pointed out that the way the attack unfolded seemed to be “very rudimentary”, involving what appeared to be a lone actor who wanted to steal a firearm from the police.
“A former member of JI used to tell me: You can kill the organisation, but you can’t kill the ideology. The continuity of ideology remains in some members and is possibly being propagated discreetly,” he noted.
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