BANDUNG: Authorities said that on Wednesday, a suspected Islamist militant, outraged by Indonesia's new criminal code, set off a suicide bomb at a Bandung police station, killing one person and wounding at least 10.
According to Indonesian police chief Listyo Sigit Prabowo, the suicide bomber had previously been imprisoned on terrorism charges and was thought to be associated with the IS-inspired Jamaah Ansharut Daulah. He stated that Agus Sujatno, the assailant, was freed in 2021 and that the crime scene contained dozens of documents protesting the country's controversial new criminal code.
However there are sharia-based arrangements in the new crook code, Islamist hardliners might have been maddened by different articles that could be utilized to crackdown on the spread of fanatic philosophies, examiners say.
According to what the West Java police chief told Metro TV, authorities had discovered a blue motorcycle at the scene, which they believed to have been used by the assailant. Suntana stated that a note with a message calling the new criminal code "an infidel product" was attached to the bike. According to security analyst Todd Elliott, the attack was probably motivated by an ideological opposition to the country's new laws. Hardliners would not support certain criminal code modifications. including the prohibition of ideology that includes extremist ideology.