An Indonesian policeman killed a farmer 

A member of an organization that pledged allegiance to Daesh has been killed by Indonesia’s elite counterterrorism police, Indonesian policeman said.

A police investigation revealed that Al Ikhwarisman, also known as Jaid, was a key member of the East Indonesia Mujahideen.

MIT, the East Indonesia Mujahideen, a group associated with Daesh, has claimed responsibility for the beheadings of police officers and minority Christians.

At least ten of the group’s executions carried out by Jaid, including that of four Christian farmers in May 2021. During a shootout late Thursday, a Densus 88 counterterrorism unit killed him in mountainous Kawende village, an extremist hotbed in Central Sulawesi province, Sufahriadi said.

Indonesian Policeman killed MIT member 

Police said Thursday’s shootout occurred four months after police killed the other MIT member in a jungle shootout.

In Sufahriadi’s words, “he the last member of the group suspected to be a member.” “We have eliminated a dangerous militant group that has disrupted the peace in Poso.”

In Central Sulawesi, security operations were intensified last year to capture MIT members, including Ali Kalora, the group’s leader and Indonesia’s most wanted militant. In July 2021, Kalora killed in a shootout, two months after the group beheaded one of the four Christians in Kalemago village.

Was the Farmer’s death a revenge?

According to authorities, the attack was revenge for the killing of two militants in March 2021.  Its including Abu Wardah Santoso’s son.

In July 2016, Kalora’s predecessor, Santoso, assassinated by security forces. The group’s leaders and members who escaped to the remote mountain jungles of Poso have since been killed or captured.

Since the Bali bombings killed 202 Western and Asian tourists in 2002, Indonesia. The world’s most populous Muslim nation, has cracked down on militants.

Indonesian militants have largely replaced attacks on foreigners with smaller, less deadly attacks on police and anti-terrorism forces. As well as on people militants consider to be infidels, following the tactics of Daesh groups abroad.