TEMPO.CO, Jakarta - A number of radical groups that supported the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) had declare a new radical group called the Jamaah Ansharut Daulah.
As'ad Said Ali, former deputy chief of State Intelligence Agency, stated that he got the information about the organization a week ago.
"All groups that supported ISIS in Indonesia have combined into one," he said to Tempo on Tuesday, March 17, 2015.
As'ad, who is also the Deputy Chairman of Nadhlatul Ulama Board, explained that the groups he mentioned were from the East Indonesian Mujahiddin and West Indonesian Mujahiddin networks. There were also additions from the Jamaah Islamiyah and the Al-Muhajirun groups, which were formed by former members of Indonesian Hizbut Tahrir.
As'ad stated that the Jamaah Ansharut Daulah is supplying ISIS militants with its members.
Nanang Ainur Rofiq, the advocacy team leader of Jamaah Ansharut Tauhid, confirmed the declaration from some of its members with other radical groups to support ISIS through a new organization called the Jamaah Ansharut Daulah. "The declaration had just been done recently," he uttered.
Nanang denied to describe the names of the other radical groups which also followed in the declaration act.
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