KUALA LUMPUR, July 16 (IslamOnline.net) - The U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), spies from the Australian Secret service and the intelligence department of Singapore are helping Indonesian authorities crack down on madrassah’s (religious schools), refugee camps and remote areas of the country allegedly in search for "fundamental Muslims", a source close to the Indonesian Mujahidin Council (MMI) charged Wednesday, July 16.

The MMI source contacted IslamOnline.net correspondent to report the arrest of several Indonesian Muslims working in local "pesantren" and "Markaz," names given to religious schools and small Islamic community centers in Indonesia.

The MMI member, who leads a group of Muslims that provide aid to other fellow Muslims in refugee camps in Madura, Aceh, Maluku, Nunukan and East Timor, said his people spotted foreign spies disguised as tourists or aid workers in these regions.

"These people were asking about Muslims who professes fundamentalism and who want to press the Megawati Sukarnoputri regime to change the secular constitution into an Islamic constitution," said the MMI member who identified himself as Abu Sufian.

In statements to IOL a week ago, the MMI charged that the CIA had "planted" its operatives, sometimes disguised as Muslim women, wearing Hijab, to do the spying jobs.

"The CIA has also recruited locals and Arabs of non-Muslim faith, who speak good Arabic and sometimes very good Malay or Javanese languages to infiltrate the religious centers in Indonesia," said Sufian.

"They may have infiltrated local political parties, the MMI itself and other organizations in the country in a bid to bring down the movement for Islamization in Indonesia, it is clear that if Islam is made an official religion here, it will not be of interest to the Zionists in particular," he stressed.

The Indonesian Kompas newspaper had reported the arrest of 3 Jamah Islamiyah (JI) members in Semarang after the reported discovery of thousands of sensitive materials, including bomb making elements, supposedly to be used to blast 23 regions in Indonesia.

Sufian further charged that U.S. warplanes were doing "spy" jobs to locate sensitive areas and possibly bomb targets in the country as part of the so-called war on terror.

The MMI accused the Indonesian government of collaborating with the U.S. air force, expecting strikes similar to the one that took place in Yemen.

The group said Washington "ordered the Megawati regime to take quick steps upon reception of intelligence reports from the CIA in order to prevent direct U.S. intervention on Indonesian soil."

Two weeks ago, the Indonesian air force was on alert after it detected 6 American jet fighters in violation of the country’s air space near the borders with Singapore.

Reports said the local jet fighters had already locked their missiles on the U.S. jets just before friendly signals were given to the Indonesian pilots. The U.S. has refused to apologize to the Indonesian government on the incident.

Kompas reported that the planes were flying for more than 2 hours in the Indonesian air space before they were detected and chased out of the region.

They were flying on Madura and Batam Islands, a military source told Kompas on July 5.

The same day, MMI sources told IOL that U.S. operatives were seen active in Madura itself, prying on local Islamic schools and extracting information on the movements of local Islamic leaders.