The minister was in Doha where she met with Qatari Foreign Minister Abdulrahman Al-Thani and United States special representative for Afghanistan Zalmay Khalilzad to discuss the latest situation in Afghanistan.

She also met with Mohammad Abbas Stanikzai, the deputy chief of staff of the Taliban’s political office in Doha, where they discussed the future of Afghanistan and its diplomatic relationship with Indonesia.

“I conveyed to the Taliban the importance of an inclusive government in Afghanistan, respecting women’s rights and ensuring Afghanistan does not become a breeding ground for terrorist organization and activities,” Retno said in a statement issued after the meeting.

Meanwhile, a spokesman from the Taliban said the two sides had also discussed the immunity of Indonesian diplomats in Afghanistan.

Despite the initial plan to maintain its diplomatic mission in Kabul, Indonesia has moved its embassy in Kabul to Pakistan after evacuating dozens of its citizens and embassy staff from Afghanistan last week.

Thursday’s meeting in Qatar’s capital almost coincided with the chaos that erupted at Kabul airport following two explosions near a crowd of people hoping to flee the country. At least 60 Afghans were killed, including women and children, as well as more than a dozen US troops.

The Islamic State (IS) group, which has been at odds with the Taliban, claimed responsibility for the attacks, AFP reported.

The Taliban’s spokesperson condemned the blasts and said that the US controlled the area where the attacks occurred, stressing that the Taliban “attaches great importance to the security and protection of its people”.

US President Joe Biden vowed to catch those behind the attack. “We will not forgive. We will not forget. We will hunt you down and make you pay," he said in a statement.

Indonesia also joined in condemning the attack, which was committed by the Afghanistan-Pakistan affiliate of IS. The group had been responsible for some of the deadliest attacks in the two countries, having targeted civilians at mosques, shrines and other public places.

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IS and the Taliban, while they are ideologically both hardline Sunni militants, are rivals who oppose each other.

The Taliban have promised a softer brand of rule from their first stint in power that ended in 2001 when the US invaded over their decision to give sanctuary to Al-Qaeda, the masterminds of the Sept. 11, 2001 terror attacks in the US.

Concerns have grown in Indonesia that the Taliban’s victory could embolden violent extremist groups such as Jemaah Islamiyah (JI), an Al-Qaeda-affiliated organization responsible for major terror attacks in the country in the early 2000s, including the Bali Bombings.

However, Muslim groups and other authorities have been cautious not to overstate this possibility, considering the police’s effective use of its expanded investigation powers.

Historically, scores of Indonesian extremists trained with the Afghan Mujahideen organization – the Taliban’s predecessor – from the 1980s, in some cases returning to wage their own terror campaign and establish networks at home.

More recently, many Indonesians sought to join the IS movement overseas as foreign terrorist fighters before its stronghold in Syria and Iraq was dismantled.

According to the Jakarta-based Institute for Policy Analysis of Conflict, there were nearly two dozen pro-IS Indonesians known to be in Afghanistan as of June 2021, half of whom were languishing in prison.

Meanwhile, in the background, the police’s counterterrorism squad Special Detachment (Densus) 88 has been rounding up suspected terrorists around the country, with a National Police spokesman saying that at least 58 people have been arrested in recent weeks.

Among them are members of JI and Jamaah Ansharut Daulah, another once-infamous group linked to IS.

Bolstered by updated legislation in 2018, Densus 88 has arrested hundreds of suspects on terrorism-related charges over the past three years.