At 10:43 a baby group, burdened with explosives, suicide vests and firearms, absolved into a Starbucks bistro and unleashed the worst. Five hours afterwards they were all dead. The declared Islamic State said they agitated out this attack, its aboriginal in South East Asia.
If the killers planned accumulation slaughter, they did not succeed. Four civilians were larboard dead. But it is their appetite that is worrying.
They appeared green but had the affliction of intentions. The advance came amidst ambiguous warnings but added decidedly afterwards a access of pledges of allegiances to IS beyond the Indonesian archipelago by baby groups of adolescent men and women.
The acknowledgment to why these adolescent Indonesians are acceptable added radicalised lies in places like Solo, 400 afar (650km) away.
Many accept that Indonesia's new adolescent cast of radicals were able in this city, including the country's a lot of belled son, 32-year-old Bahrun Naim.
Authorities say he went to Syria in 2014 to activity with IS and is believed to accept planned and adjourned these attacks.
Roots of abolitionist ideology
Solo - or Surakarta - is a baby and asleep town, criss-crossed with paddy fields.
About bisected a actor humans reside here, and amidst its claims to acclaim is that President Joko Widodo is from here.
But admiral say several active groups accept aswell emerged from here. Abu Bakar Bashir, the declared airy arch of Jemaah Islamiah - the accumulation amenable for the Bali bombings of 2002 - set up a academy here, one that abounding academics say still spreads abolitionist ideology.
Naim aswell advised in Solo - not in Bashir's school, but in one not far abroad - and it's anticipation this is breadth the roots of his abolitionist credo aboriginal began, as did his chance from internet bistro abettor and mathematics apprentice to active in Syria.
We aren't terrorists'
Solo has struggled in contempo years to be as economically acknowledged as cities around. It acclimated to be a bolt accomplishment centre but has absent out to added added aggressive assembly hubs.
Experts say the bread-and-butter angst is one bureau blame adolescent men to the alarm for jihad.
With newspapers agreeable out account about the abominable advance - "ISIS administrator a Solo boy" - a bell-ringer affairs affidavit in the bounded esplanade said artlessly he acquainted "ashamed".
"Very, actual ashamed. I don't apperceive whether it's accurate or not but the humans of Solo aren't like this. We aren't terrorists."
It is aswell the allocution of the bounded market, which is breadth I met Yati, a neighbour of the Naim family.
"They accumulate to themselves," she tells me. "They are actual private, actual quiet. They never admix with the blow of us."
She aswell tells me about the added amount of adolescent abolitionist Muslims in the area, who often, according to her at least, barrage raids on backward night singing and dancing events, breaking up parties and celebrations.
"We've abstruse to authority our contest beforehand on in the evening," she says. "Otherwise we could accident them advancing and accusing us of bubbler alcohol. That would could cause a lot of trouble."
'Not guilty'
I tracked down Bahrun Naim's ancestors to a dejected and white corrective abode on a baby ancillary street. It is boarded up and looks bare and it is bright the ancestors are not in a affable mood.
"We aren't talking to any journalists!" says Naim's father. Eventually he agrees to let us in.
It is a simple, apparent house. In the corner, a makeshift kitchen breadth the ancestors cooks aliment to sell. Their baby accessibility abundance appears to accept been shut down too, although they acquaint me that they will still advertise to those who are accustomed to them.
Naim's mother is a agilely angry lady, her acrimony at the media categorical on her face. She and Naim's ancestor debris to allege to me - alone his adolescent brother Dahlan agrees, admitting reluctantly.
"Bahrun went to Syria to study, and he is not complex in this," he told me. "My accompany accumulate allurement me what's traveling on. My university agents say I appear from a ancestors of terrorists. But the badge accept alone acicular a feel at my brother, and it's not even bright if he's guilty."
Naim's ancestor filmed the chat and capital to apperceive breadth I was from and breadth I lived. Their suspicion of outsiders was unsettling, but conceivably barefaced accustomed the analysis they are beneath not just from the locals, but aswell authorities.
At atomic four policemen on motorcycles anesthetized by the house. Some neighbours told me intelligence admiral had been spotted in the village.
'Radicalised in prison'
Naim's above advocate Anis Priyo Anshori, appointed by the family, says he has been fabricated into a scapegoat.
"He was a quiet, artistic man," Mr Anis told me. "He is actual able but kept himself to himself."
He admits Naim had a antecedent besom with the law. In 2010 he was bedevilled of possessing ammunition, a case that saw him go to bastille for two-and-a-half years.
"He has been in jail, and that, too, for a abomination that I don't accept he committed. Now they are accomplishing it again," Mr Anshori insists. "As far as I apperceive if he was adolescent he had abutting a abolitionist group, but it wasn't one with a agitated clue record. Just because he was allotment of this group, doesn't beggarly he agitated out the attack."
Most experts accept he was radicalised, and it was his academy or bastille that radicalised him.
Police say militants consistently frequented the abbey that Naim's academy was run by, although the school's admiral accept reportedly said they alone advise the Indonesian class and are not a axis for agitator ideology.
But it does point to a beyond botheration that Indonesia is adverse - policing what goes on in some of its schools and added chiefly prisons. There accept been allegations that Abu Bakar Bashir for instance is still able to authority account lectures abaft bars, overextension his abolitionist account to a readily accessible accumulation of recruits.
Intelligence authorities aswell accept Naim was one of those antecedent recruits, although so far there is no affirmation to prove that there's a absolute hotlink amid Bashir and Naim, even admitting they are both from Solo.
Ever back relocating to Syria, authorities say Naim has been active in recruiting and planning attacks adjoin Indonesia. In a blog attributed to him, Naim praises the Paris attacks and urges his followers to do the aforementioned in Indonesia.
'Super hero' cast of Jihad
Indonesia itself is the world's a lot of crawling Muslim nation - for the a lot of allotment abstinent and run by a civil government. It has been angry abandonment for decades.
But in the endure few years, anytime back the declared Islamic State has started recruiting in earnest, it's anticipation that 500 - 600 Indonesians accept gone to Syria to fight. There are aswell anticipation to be 1,000 IS sympathisers on the ground.
That's not a lot in a country this size, but authorities are anxious because of the attributes of the appeal. They say adolescent Indonesian Muslims are decidedly taken with the "superhero" cast of jihad IS is selling.
"Studying Islam, it's not cool, it's not heroic," says Taufik Andrie, a researcher in active extremism. "But jihad - it is cool. And it has a faculty of chance about it. That's what these adolescent men are after.
"There are 21 groups affiliated with aggression in Indonesia; seven of them abutment IS, and amidst them three groups are actual focused on recruiting fighters for Syria," say Hamidin, agent for Indonesia's anti-terror agency.
"These are the adolescent guns, terrorists age-old amid 18 to 30. They may not accept the adequacy to accumulate bombs, but they just wish to attending like they're accomplishing something and appearance off. They wish to attending like they're in the blubbery of the action."
That was what we saw endure anniversary and this admixture of airs and confused credo has become a baleful combination, one that has led authorities to accept this isn't the endure advance we'll see on Indonesian clay by followers of IS.
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