Chitchat Maid Radicalized Because She Had Too Much Free Time To Surf Facebook!

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SINGAPORE: An Indonesian woman who was allegedly planning to carry out a suicide attack on the presidential palace in Jakarta had worked in Singapore as a nanny.

Dian Yuli Novi, 27, told Indonesia's TVOne news channel in an exclusive interview that she had spent one-and-a-half years in Singapore taking care of three children aged 11, nine and five.

In the interview, which was aired on Tuesday (Dec 13), Dian did not say when she was in Singapore but revealed that she had also worked in Taiwan for three years, looking after a 78-year-old woman.

Dian was among seven suspects arrested last week for planning to attack the presidential palace during the changing of guards ceremony on Sunday. Police said the suspects were part of a terrorist network led by Indonesian militant Bahrun Naim, who is with the Islamic State group in Syria.

Dian admitted that she was exposed to material on radical Islam online while she was working overseas. "Over the past few years, I read profiles of jihadists on Facebook and became inspired," she said in the interview.

She revealed that it was also through someone on Facebook that she got to know her husband Nur Solihin, and they communicated through the messaging app Telegram. According to local media, Nur Solihin was arrested by Indonesia’s counter-terrorism squad on Saturday.

The couple got married three months ago despite never meeting each other or exchanging photographs. She also knew he was already married with three children.

When asked about why she wanted to be a suicide bomber, Dian said: "It was not a situation where I had given up and wanted to end my life but the plan was to get blessings from God."

A sustained crackdown in Indonesia, the world's most populous Muslim-majority country, weakened many of the most dangerous extremist networks responsible for a string of deadly homegrown attacks during the 2000s.

But there have been fears of a resurgence in militancy and police believe hundreds of Indonesians have travelled to Syria to fight with militant groups including Islamic State.

http://www.channelnewsasia.com/news/...y/3367454.html


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