[Jakarta Post] An armed group is alleged to have gunned down one person and slaughtered two others in Poso regency, Central Sulawesi, amid the arrests of six members of the fugitive network led by Santoso this week.
The shooting of Dolfis Alipa, a student at Sintuwu Maroso University, occurred on Thursday in Tangkura subdistrict. Poso Police chief Adj. Sr. Comr. Ronny Suseno said, "The victim was shot dead on his way home from a field not far from his house."
The same group allegedly also killed two other locals, Heri Tobio and Aditla Tetembu. The police found them slain with their throats slit.
The Indonesian National Police's Densus 88 counterterrorism unit has nabbed six people in Poso this week alleged to have links with the Santoso-led group. They were identified only by their initials R, S, H, R, A and I. A man with the initials IS, from Pandajaya Pendolo subdistrict, was also killed as the Densus team attempted to arrest him in East Luwu, South Sulawesi.
Poso was the scene of sectarian conflict that lasted from 1998 to 2000. Over 2,000 people were killed or went missing during that period. In 2001, a peace meeting resulted in a peace agreement called the Malino Declaration.
However, new radical groups have been born in the meantime, including Jemaah Islamiyah, led by cleric Abu Bakar Ba’asyir, now serving a 15-year sentence in Central Java. Later, another group, Jamaah Ansharut Tauhid (JAT), emerged and was eventually defeated.
More recently, another group calling themselves East Indonesian Mujahidin (MIT), has emerged under the leadership of Santoso. 
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