---------------------------------------------------------- FREE for JOIN Indonesia Daily News Online via EMAIL: go to: http://www.indo-news.com/subscribe.html - FREE - FREE - FREE - FREE - FREE - FREE - Dengan mengClick banner sponsor anda menyumbang Rp. 1000,- untuk HomePage IndoNews. ---------------------------------------------------------- Indonesian dissidents have allegedly undergone four months of military training in the Philippines to prepare for a holy war with Jakarta COTABATO CITY -- About 600 Indonesian dissidents had reportedly completed months of guerilla-warfare training at a "secret" jungle camp run by the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (Milf) deep in Central Mindanao, according to military-intelligence reports. Based on the classified documents, "around 600 trainees allegedly of Indonesian origin" had undergone a four-month intensive guerilla warfare training in an isolated part of Camp Abubakar. The camp is the stronghold of the fundamentalist MILF guerillas. Intelligence sources said the dissidents are believed to be members of the underground Indonesian Islamic Liberation Front (IILF). The IILF is reportedly headed by a certain Muhammad Salib Sulayman. Mr Sulayman allegedly helped his friend, MILF leader Salamat Hashim, seek exile in an Arab country sometime in 1980. Returning the favour, Mr Salamat is reportedly helping his friend organise his own revolutionary group and offered Camp Abubakar as the training ground of Indonesian recruits. Entering the country through the southern back door in 1988, Mr Sulayman immediately set up his own training base inside the camp, which he later named Camp Hudaibic. The military authorities claimed it would be difficult to distinguish an Indonesian rebel from his Filipino counterpart because "they have similar physical features". Military intelligence sources said the guerilla training focused more on "Islamic subject aimed at strengthening spiritual resolve". "The military training is allegedly in preparation for their planned declaration of holy war or jihad against the Indonesian government, which they deemed to be veering away from pure Islamic practises," the classified document noted. "It must be noted that despite being the largest Muslim country in the world, Indonesia is largely a secular and modern society," it added. Sources said half of the Indonesian trainees also went through another "specialised" training in yet another MILF camp in Busra. The MILF, however, quickly denied the reports, describing these as unfounded and products of deception in order to discredit the organisation. Its military chief, Al Haj Murad, said there were no Indonesian rebels nor a training camp for them inside Camp Abubakar. He said foreign dissidents, including Indonesians, have no business with the MILF. "They have their own struggle, we are fighting our own fight. Although we have one thing in common -- that is to establish a real independent Islamic state." The alleged presence of Indonesian dissidents in MILF training camps was actually the second time the military has brought to the government's attention the growing partnership of Islamist radicals in the region. The Manila Times/Asia News Network ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Didistribusikan tgl. 27 Mar 1999 jam 03:50:35 GMT+1 oleh: Indonesia Daily News Online <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.Indo-News.com/ ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
