The US Treasury slapped sanctions on Thursday against three men it said were members of Jema'ah Ansharut Tauhid, or JAT, an Indonesia-based militant organisation. Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control said the sanctions against Mochammad Achwan, Son Hadi bin Muhadjir and Abdul Rosyid Ridho Ba'asyir were intended to cut off their access to the international finance system by prohibiting US transactions with them.
It said in a statement the move coincided with the State Department designating JAT as a terrorist organisation. JAT is headed by Abu Bakar Ba'asyir, who is also the co-founder of Jemaah Islamiya, or JI, a Southeast Asia-based militant group with links to al Qaeda. All three men have ties to JI, the Treasury said.
"The OFAC is taking another step to ensure that terrorists are cut off from the international financial system and find it ever more difficult to carry out their acts of violence, no matter where they are based," Treasury's OFAC director, Adam Szubin, said in a statement. According to the Treasury, Achwan provided funding for an Aceh militant training camp in 2010. The militants, using the name "al Qaeda in Aceh," plotted to kill US aid workers and Western tourists.
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