Bali bombers' books on sale in Jakarta

(AAP) Books written by each of the executed Bali bombers are being sold in Indonesia
despite the government's best efforts to stop their publication.
South-East Asia terrorism expert Sidney Jones said the three books, by Amrozi,
Mukhlas and Imam Samudra, were known as the "martyr trilogy" and were being sold in
Jakarta.

Jones said the men were prolific writers while in prison, and a number of radical
publishing houses competed for their works in the lead-up to their executions in
November last year.
"And for the first time that I can recall the Indonesian government actually took a
lot of steps to try to ensure that these first didn't get published, and then didn't
reach a wide audience," said Jones, an adviser to the International Crisis Group
(ICG).
She told reporters the bombers' books were due out last year but were delayed after
intervention by Indonesian authorities, including the country's top intelligence
agency BIN.
"Eventually, just in the last couple of weeks, (the publishers) have come out with
the printed copies, published somewhere in Jakarta but not being sold very openly,"
she said.
"But the point is, for the first time, there's actual real attention on the part of
the Indonesian government to what's published and how it is distributed."
The ICG has previously criticised Indonesia for not doing enough to stop the
publication of radical works by militant Islamist groups such as Jemaah Islamiah
(JI).
Jones said the threat of terrorism in Indonesia was currently low, despite looming
elections and fears the global financial crisis could be destabilising.
But she did warn of a radical figure named Aman Abdurrahman, also known as Abu
Sulaiman, a hardliner with a large following across the country.
Abdurrahman recently broke away from JI spiritual leader Abu Bakar Bashir's new
"above ground" group Jemaah Ansharut Tauhid, which has drawn in many JI supporters.
She also warned of a group called Darul Islam-Akram, sometimes called cabe-rawit,
meaning small but hot.
The group, with connections to radicals elsewhere in South-East Asia, was "one to
watch", she said.