Rusman Gunawan, also known as ''Gun Gun'', is an Indonesian jailed for "facilitating and aiding terrorism". He is the younger brother of the

Jemaah Islamiah 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) chief of operations,

Hambali Riduan Isamuddin also transliterated as Riduan Isamudin, Riduan Isomuddin, and Riduan Isomudin, better known by the '' nom de guerre'' Hambali, born as Encep Nurjaman (April 4, 1964) is the former military leader of the Indonesian terrorist org ...

. Born in the

West Java West Java ( id, Jawa Barat, su, ᮏᮝ ᮊᮥᮜᮧᮔ᮪, romanized ''Jawa Kulon'') is a province of Indonesia on the western part of the island of Java, with its provincial capital in Bandung. West Java is bordered by the province of Banten ...

town of

Cianjur Cianjur ( su, ᮎᮤᮃᮔ᮪ᮏᮥᮁ) is a town and district in the West Java province of Indonesia, and is the seat of Cianjur Regency. The district of Cianjur is located along one of the main roads between Jakarta (120 km to the north ...

, he moved to

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to continue his religious studies at an Islamic school (''

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''). After graduating, he travelled to

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to train at the

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Al-Qaeda facilities {{Afghanistan-stub ...

. From 1999 he was in charge of coordinating visits from JI

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n operatives to Afghanistan and Pakistan. During 2002, while he attended Abu Bakar Islamic University in Pakistan, he took over as the "intermediary" for e-mail messages between al-Qaeda and his older brother Hambali, who at the time was hiding in Cambodia."Indonesia's Jemaah Islamiya"

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June 2, 2006 At the behest of the United States, he was arrested with six other Indonesian students during September 2003 in

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while he was attending the Abu Bakar Islamic University. He was taken to Indonesia where he was sentenced in October 2004 to four years jail for "facilitating and aiding terrorism". In particular, he was found to have transferred the money (in Australian dollars) that was used to finance the

2003 Marriott Hotel bombing The 2003 Marriott Hotel bombing occurred on August 5, 2003 in Mega Kuningan, South Jakarta, Indonesia. A suicide bomber detonated a car bomb outside the lobby of the JW Marriott Hotel, killing 12 people and injuring 150. Those killed including ...

.JW Marriott Hotel Bombing
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References

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"Marriott blast suspects named"
''CNN''

''Xinhua''
"Terrorism in Indonesia: Noordins Networks"
International Crisis Group
"Combating JI in Indonesia"
Ng Boon Yian
Jemaah Islamiyah Shown to Have Significant Ties to al QaedaLearning by Doing:Al Qaeda's Allies in Southeast AsiaTerrorism Perpetrated and Terrorists Apprehended
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Rusman Gunawan Rusman Gunawan, also known as ''Gun Gun'', is an Indonesian jailed for "facilitating and aiding terrorism". He is the younger brother of the Jemaah Islamiah (JI) chief of operations, Hambali. Born in the West Java town of Cianjur, he moved to Pakist ...

Indonesian expatriates in Pakistan

Prisoners and detainees of Indonesia Living people Year of birth missing (living people)