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Women in Indonesia Increasingly Joining Jihad

Internet spreads radicalism of women

Apr 05, 2021
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By: Ainur Rohmah

On March 31, police shot dead a 25-year-old woman identified as Zakiah Aini who carried a weapon into Jakarta’s National Police Headquarters before she could open fire. Police say she carried out the attack herself, a lone wolf possibly radicalized via the internet and social media.

She wasn’t the first. In the same week, Lukman Alfariz,…

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