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View all search resultsCritics say that signing the draft Perpres would be premature without auditing the effectiveness of joint police-military operations, involving the public and providing more specific details on provisions on the military's counterterrorism role.
The suicide bombing at the Medan Police headquarters in North Sumatra on Wednesday is the latest reminder of the nation’s vulnerability to violent extremism. Acts of terrorism pose a serious threat not only to national security but also to our hard-won democracy.
Indonesia’s rehabilitation and disengagement program needs urgent improvement for the country to cope with the future threats of returnees or “deportees”. Around 775 former Indonesian Islamic State (IS) group sympathizers are scattered in several camps in Syria. Most of them are women and children who wish to return to Indonesia. However, none of Indonesia’s reliable programs have been proven effective.
Such extremist clerics are intellectual actors who are often difficult to be snared by the current Indonesian penal system, as it is hard to prove who are the masterminds of violence and murder under the current Terrorism Law.
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