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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. They received international attention for being the perpetrators of the 2016 Jakarta attacks. It is made up of about 30 small cells.
Listed as terror organisation by Malaysia.[1]