REPUBLIKA.CO.ID, JAKARTA -- Mulyadi who stabbed two police Mobile Brigade members in a mosque in South Jakarta recently is a sympathizer of ISIS, police said.

"Mulyadi is an ISIS sympathizer," head of Public Information Bureau, Brigadier General Rikwanto said here on Sunday evening.

Mulyadi has been coopted by radicalism after studying the materials through radical sites and "he also joined messenger groups with radival nuances," he said.

Based on testimonies of witnesses and existing evidence police believed Mulyadi was an ISIS sympathizer and was not a member of any terror group in Indonesia, Rikwanto said.

"Mulyadi was a lone wolf and believably was motivated by materials uploaded by radical groups' telegrams he followed," he said.

Based on investigation Mulyadi was a cosmetics seller at Roxy market in Bekasi, West Java.

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He lived with his brother, Nismardani, and his brother in law, Hendriyanto in Mekarmukti, Cikarang Utara, Bekasi.

"He has lived with his brother and brother in law for a year," Rikwanto added.

Adjunct Commissioner Dede Suhatmi and First Brigadiet Syaiful Bahtiar were attacked with a knife after Isha prayer at Falatehan mosque in South Jakarta on Friday evening.

The two suffered injuries on the face and neck. Mulyadi had been shot to death after ignoring warning shots to stop.

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