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Conviction Islamic institutions and contexts Other Islamic authority or family context Kuta, Bali, Indonesia · 2002

Bali bombings: official records attribute the attack to Jemaah Islamiyah and document convictions

Record class

Core record

Evidence status

Convicted

Authority role

Jemaah Islamiyah leadership and operational network, jihadist ideological authority, bombing cell

Organization

Jemaah Islamiyah

Spiritual nexus

Australian parliamentary and government records classify Jemaah Islamiyah as a religiously motivated violent extremist organization inspired by al-Qaeda's anti-Western jihadist ideology. They describe its objective of establishing an Islamic state and regional caliphate through armed struggle and identify the October 12, 2002 Bali bombings as its first successful anti-Western attack.

  • Institutional obedience or isolation
  • Threatened spiritual consequence
  • Other spiritual authority or belief

Evidence structure

Proceedings

  1. 2004-03-01 · criminal investigation, trials and convictions

    Indonesian criminal courts and joint Indonesian-Australian investigation. Australian government reporting recorded 33 convictions within roughly 18 months of the bombings; Australian Federal Police records later summarized that multiple Jemaah Islamiyah members were convicted, including three sentenced to death.

  2. 2012-06-21 · later participant conviction

    Indonesian criminal court. Umar Patek was sentenced to 20 years in prison for his role in the bombings, according to the Australian Federal Police's official case history.

Documented coercion mechanisms

  • anti-Western jihadist ideology
  • armed-struggle doctrine
  • organizational recruitment and training
  • martyrdom orientation

Primary record

Sources

official parliamentary security review organization attribution and ideology Parliamentary Joint Committee on Intelligence and Security, Review of the re-listing of Jemaah Islamiyah, Australia (2022).

The parliamentary review identifies Jemaah Islamiyah as a religiously motivated violent extremist group, describes its jihadist ideology and armed-struggle objective, and attributes the 2002 Bali bombings to the organization.

official investigating agency history investigation and convictions Australian Federal Police, The First Thirty Years: A History of the Australian Federal Police, Bali bombing investigation entry.

The official police history records the 202 deaths, joint investigation and convictions of Jemaah Islamiyah members, including three death sentences.

official investigating agency retrospective later disposition and scope Australian Federal Police, Operation Alliance: 2002 Bali Bombings, official transcript.

The official retrospective records later justice proceedings, including Umar Patek's 2012 twenty-year sentence, while distinguishing Abu Bakar Bashir's separate terrorism sentence and denial of involvement in the Bali attack.

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