ISIS Is Threatening to Poison Indonesia's Food and Water Supply

ISIS hasn't been dominating the headlines this month quite as much as they were late last year, but they're still dreaming up unthinkable ways to torture and kill. Police in Indonesia are now on high alert after the country unearthed a warning that ISIS is threatening to poison food and water supplies.

The International Business Times reports that police and military personnel are particularly at risk for any attacks as ISIS hopes to destabilize the country.

"[ISIS] is now using cyanide to terrorize," security affairs Minister Luhut Pandjaitan told reporters in Jakarta. "They are using cyanide to poison food."

The plan was brought to the light of day when a note was circulated among security personnel warning about an imminent cyanide attack. Minister Luhut later confirmed the threat and told reporters that they are prepared for the possibility of such a threat.

IBT reports that national police chief General Badrodin Haiti says that ISIS got the idea from a cyanide poisoning that was covered heavily by Indonesian media. In that incident, 27-year-old Mirna Salihin of Jakarta was murdered by a friend with cyanide-laced coffee.

Indonesia has recently been cracking down on terrorist threats, and recently arrested 20 suspected members of ISIS. The UK's Daily Mail reports that Indonesian officials believe ISIS sympathizers have spread throughout the country's prison system and are currently recruiting criminals to join the group.

ISIS typically targets police and the military in Indonesia, according to IBT, and took responsibility for a January 14 attack against police that left eight people killed, including four attackers, and dozens wounded.

It isn't the first time poisoned food has been linked to ISIS. ISIS fighters have previously urged sympathizers to poison water and food supplies.

Other times, ISIS has reportedly been on the other end of poisoning. Reports from last July claimed that 45 ISIS fighters died after eating poisoned food at a meal to break the Ramadan fast. In another incident, Syrian rebels allegedly snuck into an ISIS camp to poison their food, killing 12 fighters.

Indonesia is the world's largest Muslim-majority nation, and the country has an effective counterterrorism police unit that was put in place after 2002 bombings in Bali that killed more than 200 people. As with elsewhere, however, ISIS continues to pose new problems—and the battlefields may soon be people's plates.