| Summary: | A powerful narrative about a heretofore little known fundamentalist group that briefly existed in Indonesia during 1989. Organized as a reference book ... it details the motivations of the group's leaders, their Quixotic attempt to form a puritanical commune in modern day Southeast Asia, and, finally, their destructive confrontation with the authorities. It strips away rumors and, for the first time, offers compelling evidence as to what happened during the radical band's final hours. This book is a must read for persons interested in contemporary Indonesian history, Islam in modern Southeast Asia, and the current spate of terrorism in the Indonesian archipelago.
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