Targets: The President and Nuclear Facilities

Pepi Fernando learned how to assemble bombs from the internet, according to the police. The bombs made by the graduate of the Syarif Hidayatullah State Islamic (UIN) University in Jakarta, are indeed low-power. However, if detonated, the bombs in a number of locations would be no less powerful than those of the Jemaah Islamiyah (JI) group. The targets varied: from the president’s entourage to places they suspected of being nuclear installations.

May 4, 2011

Packed in PVC pipes and books, the bombs made by Pepi had certain characteristics:

• Low-power explosives

• Detonation force of 400-800 meters per second

• Composition of propellant (black powder):

Targets

A. Book Bombs

(March 15, 2011)

  • Democrat Party politician Ulil Abshar-Abdalla (an activist with the Liberal Islamic Network, JIL)
  • Pancasila Youth Chairman Japto Soerjosoemarno
  • Ahmad Dhani (musician)
  • Chief Administrator of the Na
  • ...

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