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Text your say: Public supports revision of Terrorism Law
Check-up: Police officers stop and search motorists in Ratulene, Poso, Central Sulawesi, on Saturday
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Check-up: Police officers stop and search motorists in Ratulene, Poso, Central Sulawesi, on Saturday. Security personnel have been carrying out spot-checks on motorists in the regency almost every night recently, as part of Operation Tinombala, aiming at hunting down alleged terrorist leader Santoso and his followers.(JP/Ruslan Sangaji) (JP/Ruslan Sangaji)
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span class="inline inline-center">Check-up: Police officers stop and search motorists in Ratulene, Poso, Central Sulawesi, on Saturday. Security personnel have been carrying out spot-checks on motorists in the regency almost every night recently, as part of Operation Tinombala, aiming at hunting down alleged terrorist leader Santoso and his followers.(JP/Ruslan Sangaji)
Your comments on the government's planned revision of the 2003 Terrorism Law in an endeavor to strengthen the country's antiterrorism measures:
To overcome antiterrorism measures there's only one way and that's to lose injustice or to upright justice. No other way, even a nuclear bomb, will help, believe me.
Eduard Iseli
All this time, the police could detect terrorists. And that is why National Police deputy chief Badrodin Haiti and the police named an innocent murdered man a terrorist! You are totally clueless!
And how long did police leadership know this and only now decide to press for a law change?
Once again, reactive instead of proactive.
Willo1246
I do believe that these guys could be charged with crimes against humanity for their actions in Iraq and Syria.
It is fairly easy to cooperate with the international court there and get a summons for these guys as well as the right to prosecute them.
Indonesia signed the international treaty on this and has the right to prosecute its citizens accordingly.
OB
My suggestion is to change Law No. 15/2003 on terrorism to read 'detention without trial', so that these dangerous and thoughtless criminals would have no chance to launch their evil and deadly
assaults on innocent lives within the country.
This means there would be no remission and only the President would have the power to free them.
Law and Human Rights Minister Yasonna H. Laoly should be deprived of his power to release anyone under the amended law.
Detention without trial laws are not new in Asia. This is being practiced in Singapore and Malaysia where political detainees are also included.
Luwanto
It is a good start that will isolate the terrorists currently incarcerated and only allow them supervised visits with next of kin.
I want to remind you that this was possible with a totally corrupt prison management bureaucracy.
As usual, attendees will pretend that law enforcement in the country is running smoothly and it will all be a waste of time.
BB
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