Teenager Became Withdrawn Before Joining Tuban Attack

Satria Aditama, one of the six people shot dead after an attack on a police station in Tuban, East Java, was known as a friendly person in his neigborhood. Just like other people of his age, the 19-year-old resident of Ngaliyan subdistrict in Semarang, Central Java, was active in the neighborhood and went regularly to a nearby mosque. “But he changed six months ago. He did not hang out with his friends or go to the mosque,” Candra Satya Nugroho, the head of neighboring unit where he lived. Satria was the youngest of five children of Wagito and Cici Murdiati. When he was not in the neighborhood, he usually visited his older siblings. The news that he was among the six people who apparently attacked a police station in Tuban shocked the residents in Ngaliyan. “We are shocked. We are now helping his mother Cici Murdiati to cope with this tragedy. We think Satria is a victim of a terrorist group,” said Candra. National Police’s counterterrorism squad Densus 88 shot six men on Saturday after they apparently attacked the police station in Tuban. The motive behind the attack was suspected to be retaliation against the police who had earlier arrested a leader of terrorist group Jamaah Ansharut Daulah (JAD) in Lamongan, East Java.