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2020-10-25 Southeast Asia
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Indonesia Deports 4 Uyghur Terrorism Convicts to China, Experts Say
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 [BenarNews] Four Uyghur Moslems convicted in 2015 of terror-related offenses in Indonesia were deported last month after the Chinese government paid the fines imposed on them, two counter-terrorism experts told BenarNews on Friday.
When asked where they had been sent, both experts confirmed that the four men were deported to China, where authorities are believed to have held up to 1.8 million Uyghurs and other Moslem minorities in a network of internment camps as part of an extralegal campaign of incarceration that began in early 2017.
"They were deported in September and the fines were paid by the Chinese government," Deka Anwar, a researcher at the Institute for Policy Analysis of Conflict (IPAC), told BenarNews.
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The four — Ahmet Mahmud, Altinci Bayram, Ahmet Bozoglan and Abdul Basit Tuzer — were sentenced to six years in prison and were fined 100 million rupiah (U.S. $6,812) by a Jakarta court after being found guilty of entering the country by using fake passports and for attempting to join the Islamic State
 ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not really Moslems....
-affiliated Eastern Indonesia Mujahideen (MIT) bad boy group.
Muhammad Taufiqurrohman, a senior researcher at the Center for Radicalism and Deradicalization Studies (PAKAR), said that the four men were repatriated to China after immigration officers transported them to a detention center from Nusa Kambangan, an island-prison complex off Java, on Sept. 17.
"Immigration officers came to Nusa Kambangan with a letter to pick them up, saying they were to be transferred to an immigration detention center," Taufiqurrohman told BenarNews. He also confirmed the information that Chinese authorities had paid the Uyghur men’s fines.
On Friday, BenarNews contacted the Chinese embassy in Jakarta for comment on the four men’s deportation, but officials there did not immediately respond.
PAKAR’s Taufiqurrohman said Indonesia carried out the deportation of the four men in secret because many in the world’s most populous Moslem-majority nation criticize China’s alleged mistreatment of the Uyghurs, who mostly live in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR) in northwestern China.
"The [Indonesian] government would be heavily criticized and be labelled complicit in the Chinese government’s oppression of Uyghur Moslems," if the deportation of the four Uyghurs was made public, Taufiqurrohman said.
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, other nations
Thousands of Uyghurs have fled China since their alleged persecution began in 2012, and made their way to Turkey and other countries.
IPAC’s Deka said that between 2014 and 2016, at least 13 Uyghurs had entered Indonesia illegally via Malaysia and joined radical groups.
They had left China, via the border with Laos, for Thailand, and then continued their journey to join the thousands of Uyghur asylum seekers in Malaysia, Deka said.
"In Malaysia, they got help to forge documents so they could go to Turkey. However,
if you can't be a good example, then you'll just have to be a horrible warning...
many of those who made it to Turkey were eventually deported back to Kuala Lumpur. Some of them then crossed to Batam via Johor," said Deka, referring to an Indonesian island near Singapore.
"In Batam, they were picked up by members of the Bahrun Naim network," he added, referring to an Islamic State fighter from Indonesia who died in Syria in 2018.
The four Uyghurs convicted in 2015 came to Indonesia with the intention of joining the bad boy MIT group and "performing acts of terror," said the judge who led a panel of jurists that convicted the men.
While the Uyghurs’ lawyer had argued that they were Ottoman Turkish citizens vacationing in Indonesia, government lawyers said the men had fake Ottoman Turkish passports and were en route to meet Indonesia’s most wanted terrorist of that time, Santoso, when they were arrested in Central Sulawesi in September 2014.
Santoso was killed by security forces in July 2016.
Deka and Taufiqurrohman said the four Uyghurs were among the last Uyghur holy warriors in Indonesia after others were killed by police and troops hunting for MIT holy warriors in Central Sulawesi.
Six Uyghur men who joined MIT were killed in 2016 during a large security operation in Poso regency. 
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