Dulmatin (6 or 16 June 1970 – 9 March 2010) was a senior figure in the militant Islamic group
Jemaah Islamiyah
Jemaah Islamiyah ( ar, الجماعة الإسلامية, ''al-Jamāʿah al-Islāmiyyah'', meaning "Islamic Congregation", frequently abbreviated JI) is a Southeast Asian militant extremist Islamist terrorist group based in Indonesia, which i ...
(JI) and one of the most wanted terrorists in Southeast Asia.
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He was also known as ''Amar Usmanan'', ''Joko Pitoyo'', ''Joko Pitono'', ''Abdul Matin'', ''Pitono'', ''Muktarmar'', ''Djoko'', and ''Noval''. He also had the nickname "Genius". Dulmatin was an ethnic Javanese with a height of 172 cm, weighing 70 kg, with a brown complexion.
According to the ''
Jakarta Globe
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'', when Dulmatin was a young man he attended a religious boarding school run by
the founder of the
Jemaah Islamiyah
Jemaah Islamiyah ( ar, الجماعة الإسلامية, ''al-Jamāʿah al-Islāmiyyah'', meaning "Islamic Congregation", frequently abbreviated JI) is a Southeast Asian militant extremist Islamist terrorist group based in Indonesia, which i ...
,
Abu Bakar Bashir
Abu Bakar Ba'asyir ( ; ar, أبو بكر باعشير, ʾAbū Bakr Bāʿašīr; ; ; born 17 August 1938) also known as Abu Bakar Bashir, Abdus Somad, and Ustad Abu ("Teacher Abu") is an Indonesian Muslim cleric and leader of Jamaah Ansharut Tauh ...
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Dulmatin had received training in al-Qaeda camps in Afghanistan. He was believed to have been the protégé of Azahari Husin and under Azahari's guidance Dulmatin became an electronics specialist and bomb making expert. He participated in the car bomb attack on the ]Philippine
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* ceb, Republika sa Pilipinas
* cbk, República de Filipinas
* hil, Republ ...
ambassador in Jakarta on 1 August 2000 and assembled the timers for the 38 Christmas 2000 church bombings in Indonesia which killed 19 people.[ He was one of the masterminds behind the ]2002 Bali bombings
The 2002 Bali bombings occurred on 12 October 2002 in the tourist district of Kuta on the Indonesian island of Bali. The attack killed 202 people (including 88 Australians, 38 Indonesians, 23 Britons, and people of more than 20 other national ...
in Indonesia which killed 202 people. Working alongside Azahari, Dulmatin helped to assemble the car bomb and explosive vests used in the attack. He allegedly set off one of the bombs with a mobile phone.
He was believed to be with the Abu Sayyaf
Abu Sayyaf (; ar, جماعة أبو سياف; ', ASG), officially known by the Islamic State as the Islamic State – East Asia Province, is a Jihadist militant and pirate group that follows the Wahhabi doctrine of Sunni Islam. It is base ...
group in the Philippines since 2003 and was involved in providing explosive expertise and training other militants. From radio intercept and human intelligence
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Through intelligence, humans ...
, authorities believe that Dulmatin was wounded in a gun battle with the Philippines military in January 2007, on the southern island of Jolo
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. In May 2007, Dulmatin again eluded capture when he fled from a safe house in Simunul
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island just hours before Philippine police and military forces raided the location. The authorities found 4 children believed to be Dulmatin's children.
The United States government offered a reward of up to US$
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10 million for the capture of Dulmatin under the Rewards For Justice Program.
At the beginning of 2010 Dulmatin began training a group of militants in the foothills of Jalin, just south of Banda Aceh in Indonesia
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in an attempt to build a 'nerve centre for Southeast Asian terrorism' under the name 'Al-Qaeda of the Verandah of Mecca.'
The group was quickly wiped out, beginning with police raids on 22 February 2010, when many were killed or arrested, and followed up with intelligence from locals and ex-rebels who banded against the non-Acehnese militants.[
Dulmatin was killed in a police raid in ]Pamulang
Pamulang is a district (''kecamatan'') within the city of South Tangerang, Banten
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, South Tangerang
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on 9 March 2010 on the outskirts of Jakarta by Detachment 88
Counterterrorism Special Detachment 88 ( id, Detasemen Khusus 88 Antiteror), or Densus 88, is a tier one Indonesian National Police counter-terrorism squad formed on 30 June 2003, after the 2002 Bali bombings. It is funded, equipped, and trained b ...
, Indonesia's special counter-terrorism unit.
In Media
Poetry
DulMatin DeMarco (EL Burlador De Pemalang Regency)
References
{{War on Terror
1970 births
2010 deaths
Javanese people
Jemaah Islamiyah
Indonesian Islamists
Indonesian al-Qaeda members
People from Pemalang Regency
People shot dead by law enforcement officers in Indonesia