Katibah Nusantara or KN (Jawi: كتيبه نوسنتارا, transl.
Katibah Archipelago), also known as Katibah Nusantara Lid Daulah Islamiyyah, Malay archipelago unit for the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria and Majmu'ah al Arkhabiliy, is a Southeast Asian Jihadist Militant organization part of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIS), composed of Malay-speaking individuals, mostly from Indonesia and Malaysia, but also from the Philippines and Singapore.
[1] Katibah Nusantara was formally launched on 26 September 2014, headquartered in Al-Shaddadi, in the Syrian province of Hasakah.
Its training ground is located in Poso, IndonesiaIn early April 2015, the unit achieved its first major combat success by capturing five Kurdish-held territories in Syria, speculating that the unit's main area of operations was still in Syria, before the 2016 Jakarta attacks.
As of 2016[update], it is unknown whether he is still leader, but it is alleged that either Bahrun Naim, mastermind of the 2016 Jakarta attacks, or Bahrum Syah took over leadership.