Fairfax Media can now reveal a shocking secret – the mosque that lies in the geographic heart of Indonesia’s power elites is an active recruitment centre for Islamic State (IS), the terrorist group that has seized territory in Syria and Iraq and the imagination of radical Islamists across the world.
Exclusive video footage, provided to Fairfax Media by Indonesian terrorism analyst and documentary filmmaker Noor Huda Ismail, shows a group of young Indonesian men inside al-Fataa pledging allegiance to the IS leader and so-called “caliph” of Muslims, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi.