Thousands Attend Dulmatin's Burial
March 12, 2010
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Thousands attended the burial of Dulmatin, a key wanted terrorist slain
during a police raid in Tangerang this week, at a family cemetery in
his hometown of Pemalang in Central Java on Friday.
Along the
way from his house to the cemetery in Loning village, mourners shouted
“Allahu akbar” and called Dulmatin a mujahideen.
Dulmatin’s
body arrived in Pemalang at 3:20 p.m. on Friday, to the frenzied
greetings of members of the hard-line Islamic Defenders Front (FPI). A
banner in front of Dulmatin’s house read, “Ammar Usman Sofie was not a
terrorist. He was a mujahideen.”
Police forces banned
journalists from entering Dulmatin’s house to take pictures but they
were themselves later barred from going to the cemetery. “Back off,
back off. We do not need police officers,” said mourners.
Only
male relatives and friends were allowed to attend the funeral and the
prayers at the Baitul Muttaqin mosque near the cemetery. Istiadah,
Dulmatin’s widow, and the other women remained at home.
“The
funeral has gone well, with no problems or difficulties. Everybody in
this village came and helped us,” Dulmatin’s eldest brother Azam
Ba’afut said. “This shows that my brother was a good man.”
Dulmatin, 39, and two other people were shot dead on Tuesday in a gunfight with counterterrorism forces in Tangerang.
With
a $10 million bounty on his head, Dulmatin was accused of having been
one of the key people in the 2002 Bali bombings that left 202 people
dead, mostly foreign tourists.
“He was not a terrorist but a
holy warrior,” another relative, Sahid Ahmad Sungkar, was quoted by
Antara news agency as saying. “His death is the will of Allah, who will
decide who’s right or wrong.”
FPI Pekalongan chairman Abu Ayas
said mourners had come from nearby Pekalongan and Batang as well as
regions as far away as Solo and Banyuwangi.
Abu Wildan, a
former member of the Jemaah Islamiyah regional terrorist group to which
Dulmatin used to belong, also appeared at the funeral. Widlan split
from the group, disagreeing with the path of violence it had chosen.
Heru
Kuncoro, Dulmatin’s brother-in-law and now the most wanted person after
terrorism suspect Umar Patek, was rumored to have attended the funeral
but Zaid Ahmad Sungkar denied it.
In Solo, Central Java,
hard-line cleric Abu Bakar Bashir said: “I do not know Dulmatin and
we’ve never met. But he did not deserve to be called a terrorist.
Dulmatin was a mujahideen even if I don’t agree with his struggle and
use of violence in the country in times of peace.”
Meanwhile,
the Densus 88 antiterrorism police unit continued to pursue accomplices
of Dulmatin in Solo, Wonogiri, Yogyakarta and Klaten, all in Central
Java. Candra Malik, AFP
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