Indonesia’s arrest of JI leader Para Wijayanto exposes militant group’s active recruitment in bid to establish caliphate

Indonesian police’s arrest of the leader of Jemaah Islamiah (JI), the Southeast Asian offshoot of the international terrorism network al-Qaeda, has exposed that JI is on the resurgence, actively recruiting members and cultivating palm oil plantations to fund its bid to establish a caliphate in the country. Para Wijayanto, 54, who has been at large since 2003, was arrested on Saturday at a hotel in Bekasi, West Java, together with his wife and one trusted aide. On Sunday, two other JI members…