[5] In another side, Admiral Sudomo, Commander of the Kopkamtib revealed in the aftermath of the hijacking of Garuda Indonesia Flight 206 to the ulamas that in the early 1970s, the government fostered some Darul Islam veterans under the Indonesian state intelligence agency at that time, Intelligence Coordinating Agency (Indonesian: Badan Koordinasi Intelijen, Bakin, the predecessor of the current Indonesian State Intelligence Agency) to provide a mass base for the ruling government to prepare the 1971 election.
However, the plan apparently backfired, as some of the veterans later returned to jihadism and Islamic extremism, siding against Suharto.
Sudomo said that their transformation into the DRII and Komando Jihad was beyond Bakin's knowledge and claimed it was an out-of-hands situation.
[4] On 28 March 1981, five members of Komando Jihad boarded a Garuda Douglas DC-9 on a domestic flight from Palembang to Medan and took it and the 57 passengers aboard to Bangkok, Thailand.
[6] They were armed with machine guns and dynamite, and demanded the release of 20 political prisoners, that all "Jew officials and Israeli militarists" be expelled from Indonesia, and that they be given $1.5 million.