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Although the Islamic State (IS) group based in Marawi City, southern Philippines, was able to be destroyed by the Philippine military, the southern Philippines is providing a new center of conflict that could become a stepping stone for IS jihadists and militia groups to consolidate and continue to spread their ideology and develop the group’s global influence, as noted by researchers Zachary Abuza and Colin P. Clarke.
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.
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.
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.
It is important to distinguish between returnees and deportees to determine a suitable approach for their rehabilitation and reintegration. I conducted fieldwork research from late 2017 to mid-2018 on the governmental and NGO approach to Indonesian deportees.
Indonesia has an imminent returning foreign terrorist fighter (FTF) challenge. The latest data from Indonesia’s Countering Foreign Terrorist Fighters Task Force showed that the state has received more than 600 deportees and returnees, while still needing to deal with around 630 Indonesian citizens still in Syria and Iraq.
On Jan. 27, a bomb exploded in Our Lady of Mount Carmel Cathedral in Jolo, Sulu province, in the Philippines. A day after the attack, which killed 22 and injured more than 100 people, the Philippine Defense Ministry announced the act had been carried out by an Indonesian couple.
The government is anticipating potential trouble ahead of the wrap-up of the official vote tally on May 22, amid reports that supporters of losing presidential candidate Prabowo Subianto are planning to take to the streets to challenge the election result.
