Terror risk still looms in 2011, albeit lesser

Wawan Purwanto, an intelligence researcher and author on terrorism, said the threat persists as the authorities had yet to apprehend several key players active in Indonesia’s extremist jihadi movement.

Currently there are at least five fugitives related to extreme jihadi movement in Palembang, South Sumatra, two more in Plumpang, Jakarta, 10 in Poso, Central Sulawesi, and 20 spread throughout West and East Java, Wawan said.

“There is also Umar Patek, who is responsible for the first Bali bomb. He is still out there,” he said.

The threat from fugitive terrorists is coupled by threats posed by convicted terrorists  who had completed their sentences, but had yet to change their course of Islamic activism, he added.

Wawan said the police should monitor the daily activities of the former convicts. “They must be located and re-educated,” he said.