THE word quietly doing the rounds of former Jemaah Islamiyah (JI) members is that there will be more bombings—they refer to it as the amaliyah jihad, or a charitable holy war. And they will take place soon. But no one who knows exactly where and when the amaliyah will be launched.

“I have been hearing this for the last two months,” said Nur Huda Ismail, Director of the International Institute for Peace Building, speaking to Tempo on Thursd