Jakarta: The United States has designated the Islamic State-linked Indonesian extremist network that carried out a deadly attack in Jakarta last year as a terrorist organisation.
The State Department said Tuesday that Jamaah Ansharut Daulah (JAD) is “a terrorist group based in Indonesia that was formed in 2015 and is composed of almost two dozen Indonesian extremist groups” who are followers of IS.
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