Jemaah Islamiyah's Indonesian senior leader Abu Rusdan (seated) with other members declaring on June 30 that the terror group has been dissolved. - FORMER JI MEMBER
JAKARTA: Key members of the terror group Jemaah Islamiyah (JI) in Indonesia have dissolved the organisation but analysts caution that the threat posed by the group, which has claimed responsibility for a string of deadly attacks in the region, remains potent.
In a video declaration made at the National Counter Terrorism Agency in Bogor, near Jakarta, on June 30, its senior leader, Abu Rusdan, said that JI’s senior council and the leaders of the group’s affiliated Islamic boarding schools “have agreed to declare the dissolution of the JI and return to Indonesia’s embrace”.
