Dark Justice Gets Darker

A violent clash occurred in Bondosowo, East Java between a civilian-based security squad of the biggest Indonesian Muslim group NU-PKB and a local police station. Was it a show of power or merely a business dispute?

October 2, 2000

A truck and a pick-up heavily laden with people, stopped right in front of a police HQ in Bondosowo, East Java. Full of rage, the passengers jumped down and cried, "Let Hanafi go! Release him!" But the police were ready with a welcoming party. Loading their guns, their bullets cost five villagers’ lives. It was an actualized prophecy. When leaving home, Fatullah, one of the five deceased, told his family he was ready for jihad or die as a mar

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