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Indonesia’s post-arrest countering violent extremism programs are intended to help prevent recidivism. What are the system’s current shortcomings?
A senior Malaysian counterterrorism official has warned that religious and ethnically motivated violent extremism is the most significant terrorism -related danger the country faces, while Indonesia, the Philippines and Singapore are most concerned by groups linked to al-Qaeda and Islamic State (Isis) . The comments from officials and analysts came as This Week in Asia asked security agencies in the...
April 26, 2021 A police officer stands guard outside the Mobile Police Brigade headquarters. Reuters An Indonesian court has sentenced six terrorists to death for their role in a 2018 prison riot in which five police officers were brutally killed and one inmate shot dead. The six defendants – Wawan Kurniawan, 45, Syawaludin Pakpahan, 46, Anang Rahman, 55, Handoko, 36, Suyanto, 44, and Suparman, 38 – were sentenced in an online session by the East Jakarta District Court on Wednesday evening. The men are all linked to pro-Islamic State (Isis) militant groups. “All six men have been sente...