Jemaah Islamiyah：MMP

Jemaah Islamiyah (translated as “Islamic community”) is an Islamist extremist group in Indonesia that seeks to overthrow the Indonesian government and create a pan-Islamic state in Southeast Asia.[3] JI has ideological origins in the Darul Islam (DI) movement of the 1950s and 1960s, in which insurgents of West Javanese descent carried out a violent campaign with the goal of establishing an Islamic state in Indonesia.[4]  The exact nature of JI’s relationship to DI is debated. The group has been characterized as an “offshoot” of DI motivated to organize either in response to government suppression of DI leaders or as a result of internal conflict within DI.[5] 

Experts disagree on the exact date that JI was founded as an organization. Estimates range from the late 1980s to the early 1990s, suggesting that the group coalesced over time before formalizing.[6] The group was founded by Yemeni-born Indonesian clerics Abdullah Sungkar and Abu Bakar Ba’asyir. Despite both being co-fo...