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Police to block websites containing IS propaganda involving child militants
The police are coordinating with the Communications and Information Ministry to block radical websites that are allegedly uploading a video of Islamic State (IS) propaganda featuring child militants.
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Islamic State militants release a 15-minute-long video showing children on a shooting training. The video shows the familiar faces of Indonesians, Malaysians and Filipinos. (TEMPO/dailymail.co.id)
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span style="line-height: 1.6em;">The police are coordinating with the Communications and Information Ministry to block radical websites that are allegedly uploading a video of Islamic State (IS) propaganda featuring child militants.
The video, which is currently circulating on the internet, shows a group of children in camouflage clothing undergoing military training during which they were being taught to shoot with handguns and rifles, as well as to burn their passports.
"We have a response team for things related to pornography and radicalism. If there are things that harm people, we can block them," the National Police spokesman Brig. Gen. Boy Rafli Amar said as quoted by kompas.com.
According to Boy, the propaganda is intended for disseminating radical IS teachings, as well as fear among people. He said he deplored the involvement of children in the propaganda, saying that it could inspire the young generation to embrace radicalism.
He further advised people, particularly the younger generation, to wisely absorb information so that they would not be moved by IS propaganda and take action that contradicted the law.
A video uploaded by the alleged media wing of IS also featured a man who identified himself as Abu Thalha Malizi, who spoke in Indonesian with a Malay accent, standing in the middle of a group of child militants.
He showed a red Malaysian passport to the camera while the children who surrounded him showed their passports, mostly green Indonesian passports.
Abu said to the camera that they wanted to revoke their Indonesian and Malaysian citizenship to pledge allegiance to the IS.
"We will burn these passports as a sign of liberation from you, thoghut [infidel] leaders [...] we will come for you with the army that you cannot defeat," Abu said.
The children simultaneously threw their passports to the ground while one of them set the documents on fire. (afr/dan)
