ANN/THE STAR – Indonesian police have uncovered illegal sales of firearms on at least two popular e-commerce platforms – some of which were falsely advertised as airguns to avoid detection – including one sale to an Islamic State (IS) supporter.
The two platforms are Tokopedia and Shopee, said the police. They are among the most popular e-commerce platforms in Indonesia.
The finding comes amid an ongoing investigation into Dananjaya Erbening, an employee of Indonesian state-owned railway company KAI. He was detained on Monday for possessing five assault rifles, 11 handguns, hundreds of live bullets and an ISIS flag at his home in Bekasi, a satellite town of the Indonesian capital Jakarta.
Some of the firearms were homemade and modified, while others were manufactured products.
Dananjaya, who is aged around 30 and has been a supporter of ISIS for the past 13 years, had plans to attack the mobile brigade headquarters of the Indonesian police, which houses temporary detention cells for terrorists during trials, and a few military bases.
