Amid the presence of several radical groups in Central Sulawesi, the Palu Police are carrying out a deradicalization program aimed at terrorist convicts and certain local residents
mid the presence of several radical groups in Central Sulawesi, the Palu Police are carrying out a deradicalization program aimed at terrorist convicts and certain local residents.
Palu Police chief Adj. Sr. Comr. Basya Radyananda said on Tuesday that the police had cooperated with the municipal administration and clerics in planning the program and were implementing it.
'We will also visit prisons where terrorists are serving their sentences and give adequate explanations to prevent them from breaching the law,' Antara news agency quoted him as saying.
Regarding preventive action in the provincial capital, Basya said the police would regularly conduct preventive measures like crackdowns and monitoring at entry points in the city.
He also called on local residents to not be easily influenced by certain groups to break the law.
At present, the police's Densus 88 counterterrorism unit and the provincial police are hunting down armed radical groups in Poso and their networks in the province following a series of terror acts in the past few years.
Recently, a number of individuals thought to be members of the East Indonesian Mujahideen (MIT) were arrested in a raid in Poso.
The individuals are thought to have supplied logistics to the Santoso-led MIT group, raising funds, harboring terror suspects and making guns.
Central Sulawesi Police chief Brig. Gen. Idham Azis previously ordered all police personnel in the province to hunt down and arrest all armed civilian groups.
The deradicalization program, designed by the National Counterterrorism Agency (BNPT) over the past few years, has been carried out as an increasing number of civilians have been involved in terrorism in the country. (rms)(+++)
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