Country Reports on Terrorism 2012

enforcement officers attended U.S.-sponsored capacity building training at ILEA on cargo
targeting and interdiction, and post blast investigations.
Macau is a member of APG and the Egmont Group of Financial Intelligence Units. Terrorist
financing is a criminal offense in Macau, and banks and other financial institutions are required
to continuously search for terrorist financing networks and screen accounts using U.S.
designations lists, as well as the UN 1267/1989 and 1988 Committees’ consolidated lists. Filing
suspicious transactions reports irrespective of transaction amounts is obligatory, but Macau lacks
mandatory reporting requirements for cross-border currency movements.
Macau’s Financial Intelligence Office (FIO) signed a Memorandum of Understanding to
cooperate formally with Fiji’s Financial Intelligence Unit, making this the eleventh such
agreement since the FIO’s inception in 2006. Macau cooperated internationally in
counterterrorism efforts through Interpol and other security-focused organizations.
INDONESIA
Overview: A decade after the 2002 Bali bombings, Indonesia continued its counterterrorism
efforts and initiatives and cooperated with a range of partners, including the United States. Law
enforcement authorities made a series of preemptive arrests in 2012, demonstrating enhanced
investigative techniques and an increasing ability to disrupt terrorists’ plans before they could
carry out attacks. Despite the security challenges inherent in governing a nation composed of
more than 17,000 islands, authorities were diligent in efforts to deny terrorists a safe haven.
Police conducted raids at several locations, including in Poso, Central Sulawesi, where
authorities began operations in October to disrupt an alleged terrorist training program associated
with Jemaah Anshorut Tauhid.
In May, authorities arrested suspected terrorists based in Medan, North Sumatra, who had hacked
into a multi-level marketing website and transferred funds to private accounts. This trend of
terrorists seeking illicit funding through online crime is new to Indonesia. Limited weapons
smuggling, often through the Philippines, posed an ongoing challenge. Authorities have
expressed concern that, in some cases, explosive devices were of increasing sophistication.
Indonesia worked with international partners, including the United States, to deter and prevent
terrorist attacks. Coordination among the various agencies responsible for preventing terrorism
and prosecuting terrorists continued to pose challenges. Indonesia has sought to address this
through better training for law enforcement, prosecutorial, and judicial officials, and by
encouraging better information sharing between stakeholder agencies.
2012 Terrorist Incidents: Continuing a trend in recent years, terrorists targeted Indonesian law
enforcement officials. Incidents included:
In August, terrorists attacked police in the Central Java city of Surakarta (also known as
Solo). On August 17, two police officers were shot by a passenger on a motorcycle. On
August 18, a grenade was thrown at a police post, resulting in damage to the building.
On August 30, a police officer was shot and killed by terrorists.
On August 31, during a police raid, one law enforcement official was killed and one
terrorist suspect was arrested. Two suspected terrorists were also killed during the
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