Journey into the Heart of Darkness
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Journey down Gunung Biru on jeep hired from a resident living in the remote mountain village. -- PHOTO: WAHYUDI SOERIAATMADJA
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Traps laid out in the terror camp at Gunung Biru, Poso. This is the scene of a freshly abandoned terrorist training camp the army stumbled upon in early November. -- PHOTO: INTELLIGENCE
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Traps laid out in the terror camp at Gunung Biru, Poso. This is the scene of a freshly abandoned terrorist training camp the army stumbled upon in early November. -- PHOTO: INTELLIGENCE
Journey down Gunung Biru on jeep hired from a resident living in the remote mountain village. -- PHOTO: WAHYUDI SOERIAATMADJA
Traps laid out in the terror camp at Gunung Biru, Poso. This is the scene of a freshly abandoned terrorist training camp the army stumbled upon in early November. -- PHOTO: INTELLIGENCE
Traps laid out in the terror camp at Gunung Biru, Poso. This is the scene of a freshly abandoned terrorist training camp the army stumbled upon in early November. -- PHOTO: INTELLIGENCE
When my colleague, Wahyudi Soeriaatmadja, and I checked in for our flight to Poso, the woman behind the counter asked why.
“It’s dangerous over there right now,” she said.
I hesitated just a moment, then a sense of excitement took over as we headed out to visit a terrorist camp discovered just days before.
Since late August, this sleepy coastal town of 220,000 has woken up in terror. Militants murdered two policemen, shot dead one resident and injured three others, including two policemen, when a bomb went off at a police post. Handmade bombs were also discovered by residents elsewhere around the regency.