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Jemaah Islamiah

Jemaah Islamiah
Active 1993–present
Ideology

Salafism

Wahhabism
Islamism
Islamic fundamentalism
Pan-Islamism
Leader Abu Bakar Baasyir
Area of operations

Southeast Asia

Strength 5,000
Allies Taliban
Flag of Jihad.svg al-Qaeda
 Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant
Opponents Australia Australia
Brunei Brunei
Cambodia Cambodia
Indonesia Indonesia
Malaysia Malaysia
Myanmar Myanmar
Philippines Philippines
Singapore Singapore
Thailand Thailand
United States United States
United Kingdom United Kingdom

Salafism

Southeast Asia

Jemaah Islamiah (Arabic: الجماعة الإسلامية‎‎, al-Jamāʿat ul-Islāmíyatu, meaning "Islamic Congregation", frequently abbreviated JI) is a Southeast Asian militant extremist Islamist terror group dedicated to the establishment of a Daulah Islamiyah (regional Islamic caliphate or state) in Southeast Asia. On October 25, 2002, immediately following the JI-perpetrated Bali bombing, JI was added to the UN Security Council Resolution 1267 as a terrorist group linked to al-Qaeda, Syrian government or the Taliban.

JI is a transnational organization with cells in Thailand, Singapore, Malaysia and the Philippines. In addition to al-Qaeda the group is also thought to have links to the Moro Islamic Liberation Front and Jamaah Ansharut Tauhid, a splinter cell of the JI which was formed by Abu Bakar Baasyir on July 27, 2008. The group has been designated as a terrorist groups by the United Nations, Australia, Canada, China, Kazakhstan, Russia, the UAE, the United Kingdom and the United States. It remained very active in Indonesia where it publicly maintained a website as of January 2013.

JI has its roots in Darul Islam (DI, meaning "House of Islam"), a radical Islamist/anti-colonialist movement in Indonesia in the 1940s.


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