Fuelled on social media, terrorism remains a threat in Indonesia: police chief | ChrisBarrett_ & ayu_2003
ahead of the 20th anniversary of the Bali bombings on October 12, Inspector General Marthinus Hukom said terror groups were still a threat in Indonesia, the world’s biggest Muslim-majority country.
Pro-IS extremists carried out a suicide bombing of a church in South Sulawesi province and a gun attack on a Jakarta police station last year. Police later announced they had foiled a planned attack on Indonesia’s Independence Day in August 2021 after arresting dozens of mostly JI members. “Initially, they used social media networks to show their ideology. They spread it publicly,” he said. “Then they also spread explosive material handbooks. The radical groups downloaded them and saved them.“Then they created new accounts and spread the same kind of content. It means no matter how strong we try to stop them, hack their social media accounts, they will rise again and create new accounts again.
Yasonna Laoly, Indonesia’s minister for law and human rights, has made clear Jakarta would only consider objections to Patek being freed from Indonesian institutions not external voices.Hukom’s police squad endorsed his release, believing him to have been fully reformed, but he said Indonesia owed much to Australia for strengthening its counter-terrorism forces and its “workplace culture”.
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