ISLAMIC YOUTH MOVEMENT


TATAN SYUFLANA/AP

Formed: 1945
Leader: Suaib Didu
Membership: Claims to have 30,000 members across the country
Headquarters: Jakarta
The anti-American youth group took part in mass demonstrations against the U.S. in Jakarta in the wake of the war in Afghanistan in October 2001. Signed up Indonesians willing to fight the Americans in Afghanistan and claims to have thousands of volunteers ready to go to war if the U.S. attacks Iraq