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Full Name Muhammad Bahrun Naim Anggih Tamtomo Born 6 September 1983 (age 33) ( 1983-09-06 ) Pekalongan, Indonesia Allegiance Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant
(2014–present) Education Sebelas Maret University (2002–2005) Parents Fatkurrachman, Siti Toyyibah Similar Abu Wardah, Tito Karnavian, Abu Bakar Bashir, Noordin Mohammad Top, Badrodin Haiti | ||
Muhammad Bahrun Naim Anggih Tamtomo (better known as Bahrun Naim), is allegedly the mastermind of 2016 Jakarta attacks.
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Among his supporters he is also known as Na'im or Abu Rayyan or Abu Aishah.
Background
Naim was born in Pekalongan on September 6, 1983 and grew up in Pasar Kliwon. He was admitted in 2002 and graduated with an Associate degree in Information Technology at the State University of Surakarta in 2005 and once worked at an Internet café as a computer technician.
Terrorism
Naim has often been associated with Mujahidin Indonesia Timur (or MIT) leader Abu Wardah, who has pledged allegiance to IS. He has been known to the authorities since at least 2010 during terrorism investigations in Bekasi. At that time the Anti-terror Detachment 88 arrested a Uyghur foreigner by the name of Alli. The squad searched Alli's residence in the Green Boulevard residential area at Taman Harapan Indah, Bekasi, at around 16:30 pm, December 23, 2010, but they did not find Alli's passport, instead they found a vest-mounted suicide bomb and 533 pieces of 7.62 cm rifle bullets and 31 pieces of 9 mm bullets . He is thought to be behind the funding of foreign nationals as well as pouring some funds to Indonesia to assemble bombs.
He was sentenced to two and half years in prison by the State Court of Surakarta with verdict of violating the Emergency Law No. 12 of 1951 on the possession of firearms and explosives. From around October to November 2015, a Facebook account, named "Muhammad Bahrunnaim Anggih Tamtomo" actively distributed tutorials on making bombs and homemade firearms. The page address was once linked to another radicals's website, which listed more comprehensive bomb-making.
Bahrun Naim went to Syria to join the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIS) in 2014 and is currently thought to be still in Syria. Initially, he joined an ISIS support group in Solo. In Syria, Bahrun created a blog, bahrunnaim.co, and started to write and interact with his supporters through online media. In one of his posts, Bahrun told his struggle to Syria. He took his wife and two children. At that time, his young wife became pregnant.
