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A Jakarta court handed a 12-year sentence to Syahrial Alamsyah, 51, and nine years to his wife Fitria Diana, 21, after convicting them on terrorism charges for trying to kill then security minister Wiranto in October last year.
The defendant was reportedly concerned that he would be placed on the police’s most-wanted list for being affiliated with the Islamic State group-linked Jamaah Ansharut Daulah, driving him to retaliate against authorities.
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.
There is indeed a presumption that those who follow the hijrah (repentance) movement, which usually starts with changing the way the followers dress into more “Islamic” way, have a bigger chance to be infiltrated by radical ideologies. There might be a few cases, but there are no grounds for generalization.
The knife attack on Coordinating Political, Legal and Security Affairs Minister Wiranto in Pandeglang, Banten, on Thursday, shows that local terrorist cells are far from defeated and that the slightest complacency in the war on terrorism could prove disastrous.
