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SINGAPORE – Three Indonesian domestic workers have been issued detention orders under the Internal Security Act and are being investigated for financing terrorism.
They are Anindia Afiyantari, 33, Retno Hernayani, 36, and Turmini, 31.
All three had been working in Singapore for between six and 13 years at the point of their arrest, said the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) in a statement on Monday afternoon (Sept 23).
They are the first foreign domestic workers to be issued such detention orders.
A fourth maid was also arrested as part of the investigation.
Although she did not subscribe to these radical beliefs, she was aware that the others had been radicalised and did not report them.
She has since been repatriated to Indonesia, the MHA said.
The three maids became radicalised last year after viewing online material on terror group Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS).
Their convictions deepened after they joined multiple pro-ISIS social media chat groups and channels.
Subsequently, they set up multiple social media accounts to post pro-ISIS material.
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