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A high-ranking police officer has called Indonesia the capital of terrorism in Southeast Asia, pointing to the Indonesian Islamic Group (NII) as one of the regions, first groups to spread radical propaganda and to terrorist organization Jamaah Islamiyah (JI).

These groups had thousands of followers in Indonesia and many had been arrested, said Jakarta Police chief Ins. Gen. Tito Karnavian.

'€œI said to my friend in Singapore: Your [terrorist group] is only a small branch. [Terrorist groups in] Malaysia, the Philippines and Sri Lanka are also small branches of JI,'€ he added on Thursday as quoted by tempo.co.

According to Tito, Muslim countries should lead the cooperation against radicalism to be able to overcome these groups. The public should also assist the government in identifying newly formed networks.

An IT system to report radical group activity would be a good mechanism, he said.

'€œThe internet is amazing, but efforts to overcome radicalism via the internet are, if not a big zero, only ten on a scale of one to 100,'€ said Tito.

Tito went on to suggest a tighter detention system for members of radical groups. '€œMost of the radical group members that were arrested [in Poso, Central Sulawesi] were moved to Java, since its prison didn'€™t have a special treatment for radicals. It will be dangerous to put the members together there, since they would be able to consolidate,'€ added Tito.

Your comments:

That is why only a fool would think of saving Bali by turning it into a sharia area. Similar thinking to IS.

Ucok

This officer actually makes a bit of sense, a refreshing change.

Fred Herring

Indeed, one only hopes he didn'€™t get a good talking to from the boss. Straight talk is not always a good thing in this country.

Wandering Star

I thought the problems in the Philippines were much worse.

But good news that the police here are taking the issue seriously.

I think many people here would benefit from extremists causing problems here, anything that takes the focus away from corruption is a good thing for many in power here.

Jakfan

If you use drugs, you get crocodiles, tigers and piranhas. If you use terror, you get socialization.

Simaging

Exactly what'€™s wrong with this issue, being nice doesn'€™t help.

All mosques must be monitored.

Abdul Malik

Can we have some news we don'€™t actually know please?

Gila-Gila