JAKARTA: The Indonesian government has asked a court to ban Jemaah Anshorut Daulah (JAD), a militant network linked to the Islamic State (IS) group, hoping to strangle its funding and support.
The network of almost two dozen extremist organisations has been implicated in numerous attacks in Indonesia in the past two years and was designated a terror organisation by the United States last year.
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