14 May 2021
The remote Indonesian village of Kalemago held a mass funeral Wednesday for four coffee farmers murdered by jihadists the previous day.
The primarily Christian residents of the village demanded “firm action” against the killers and seemed skeptical they would get it.
“Our hope for the government, the president, is to resolve this. If not, we will no longer be able to go out to earn a living. Frankly, we feel that no one is paying attention to us,” village secretary Otniel Papunde told Voice of America News (VOA).
The regional police said they know the identity of the five assailants, members of a group called the East Indonesian Mujahedeen or Mujahedeen Indonesia Timur (MIT). The group has been active since 2010 and swore allegiance to the Islamic State in 2014. Its founder, Abu Wardah Santoso, was killed by Indonesian security forces in 2016.