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ept. 25, online

The local leader of a prominent Muslim youth group says he will send members to protect churches following the suicide bombing that killed one and injured eight in a church in Surakarta (Solo), Central Java, on Sunday.

“Don’t let it happen for the umpteenth time,” Nusron Wahid, head of GP Ansor, the youth wing of Indonesia’s largest Muslim organization, Nadhlatul Ulama, said on Sunday as quoted by kompas.com.

Wahid said that he had previously warned the government to be alert for such attacks and would deploy NU’s “counterterrorism team”, Banser Detachment 99 — a riff on the National Police’s Detachment 88 counterterrorist unit — to the crime scene.

Your comments:

Good move, Nusron Wahid. This is what we like to see.

Sony
Jakarta

May the Almighty protect and bless all who value the unity in diversity in Indonesia. I pray for endless blessings.

Ricardo
Amsterdam

Too little, too late. Only words. They should speak out and agree that the FPI (Islamic Defenders Front) should be forbidden.

Dewi
Jakarta

Indonesia, especially its radical groups, needs psychiatric help. Therapy is needed for radical leaders engaged in ideological brainwashing.

The Religious Affairs Ministry, the Indonesian Ulema Council (MUI), Nahdlatul Ulama and Muhammadiyah as well as experts must work together to formu-late a method of mental health therapy.

I am sure it can materialize if the government has the will to eradicate terrorism in Indonesia.

Achmad Baihaqi
Kediri, East Java