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View all search resultsA draft Presidential Regulation (Perpres) lays out the military’s responsibilities in combating terrorism, including three roles for the Indonesian Military (TNI), which activists argue should be mainly carried out by civilian institutions such as the National Counterterrorism Agency (BNPT).
The Jakarta-based think tank has concluded that the risk of terrorist attacks by Al-Qaeda in Southeast Asia is fairly low, at least in the short term, while noting that remnants of the dismantled Islamic State (IS) group could pose a greater threat.
Indonesia's top diplomat met with a senior member of the Taliban to discuss the future of Indonesia's relationship with Afghanistan, just hours before an Islamic State-linked terror attack outside of Kabul airport caused mayhem among the crowd of people lining up there to evacuate.
Some of Indonesia’s grassroots Muslim groups appear to be giving the Taliban the benefit of the doubt, despite some looming concerns that their victory in Afghanistan could embolden domestic extremist groups.
The second arrest of suspected JAD members in Papua could indicate the decentralized Islamist group's departure from its traditional haunts on Java, Sumatra and Sulawesi, but could also spell more trouble for both the province and the country as a whole through its use of digital technology.
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