Danger zone: Propaganda footage by IS showing children undergoing training in Iraq and Syria. — The Straits Times/Asia News Network
Jakarta: The lure of the East Indonesia Mujaheedin (MIT) was so strong that a 16-year-old from West Sumatra left home and travelled some 2,300km to Central Sulawesi to join the militant group and fight for its cause.
When troops involved in Operation Tinombala, whose mission was to capture remnants of the MIT, found the teenager in Poso last month, he had only the clothes on his back and 86,000 rupiah, or less than S$10 (RM30), on him.
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