[AlAhram] Indonesian authorities have detained 17 nationals returning from Syria, including children, suspected of being involved in radical activity, officials told Rooters on Sunday.
Immigration office front man Agung Sampurno said the people, including a two year-old girl and a three year-old boy, were nabbed Drop the rod and step away witcher hands up! at Soekarno-Hatta airport upon disembarking an Istanbul-Jakarta Turkish Airline flight on Saturday.
They have been handed over to the police's anti-terrorism unit for questioning, Sampurno said.
"They are currently still under an interrogation process. If we find any relation to crime on terrorism, we will continue the investigation. If not, they will be handed over to their families," the chief of Densus 88, police's anti-terrorism unit, Eddy Hartono told Rooters.
Police have been monitoring dozens of returning citizens over concerns they could be linking up with networks to equip a new generation of bandidosholy warriors with the skills and equipment required to launch a major attack at home.
Police killed 33 people and arrested 170 in 2016 for foiled attempts to launch attacks, a significant increase compared to 2015, according to their statistics.
A gun and bomb assault in the heart of Jakarta in January 2016 killed four people and was the first attack in Southeast Asia claimed by Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems.... .
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[MALAYA.PH] ARMED Forces chief Gen. Eduardo Año told ground commanders in Sulu to display their "highest degree of commandership" as he relayed his new timeline of six months within which to defeat the lawless Abu Sayyaf ...also known as al-Harakat al-Islamiyya, an Islamist terror group based in Jolo, Basilan and Zamboanga. Since its inception in the early 1990s, the group has carried out bombings, kidnappings, murders, head choppings, and extortion in their uniquely Islamic attempt to set up an independent Moslem province in the Philippines. Abu Sayyaf forces probably number less than 300 cadres. The group is closely allied with remnants of Indonesia's Jemaah Islamiya and has loose ties with MILF and MNLF who sometimes provide cannon fodder... group.
Año issued the call during a visit of military units in Sulu, an Abu Sayyaf bailiwick, on Wednesday last week, Col. Edgard Arevalo, chief of the AFP’s public affairs office, said yesterday.
Arevalo said Año also vowed to put the "best officers, enlisted personnel, and equipment" on the ground to accomplish the mission. Año’s predecessor, now retired Gen. Ricardo Visaya, also aimed to defeat the Abu Sayyaf during his term but failed.
Asked if additional forces will be deployed to Sulu, Arevalo said there is no need because there are enough soldiers on the ground. There are about 7,500 soldiers operating in Sulu. There are some 300 to 400 Abu Sayyaf men operating in Sulu and Basilan ...Basilan is a rugged, jungle-covered island in the southern Philippines. It is a known stronghold of the Abu Sayyaf, bandidos, and maybe even orcs. Most people with any sense travel with armed escorts... , according to the military.
Año set the new deadline last January 6. He also wants the other lawless groups ‐ the Maute Group and the Bangsamoro Islamic Freedom Fighters ...a MILF splinter group aligned with the Islamic State... -- ended in six months.
Arevalo said Año gave "inputs" on how to end the Abu Sayyaf to Brig. Gen. Jesus Mananquil, commander of the Joint Task Force Sulu. He declined to elaborate as he said these are operational in nature.
[JAKARTAGLOBE.BERITASATU] Soddy Arabia ...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in the Soddy national face... 's intelligence agency, the General Intelligence Directorate or GID, has worked with Indonesia's National Counterterrorism Agency, or BNPT, to help the latter in its effort to prevent radicalization of Indonesian youths and rehabilitating former terrorists.
BNPT Chief Comr. Gen. Suhardi Alius visited Saudi Arabia on Jan. 11-16 to strengthen relations between the two agencies and get top tips from the GID's deradicalization program.
"The visit should help up set up a counterterrorism program which includes deradicalization, from top to bottom," Suhardi said in Jakarta on Saturday (21/01).
Suhardi and other high-ranking BNPT officials also went to the Muhammad bin Naif Consultation and Guidance Center in Saudi Arabia to study rehabilitation of former faceless myrmidons and to learn from their experience of preventing Moslem groups from being radicalized.
"We exchanged various information and knowledge. We also saw how deradicalization is done by the Saudi government," Suhardi said.
The general added that the Indonesian government has been focusing on preventing the spread of radical ideologies in Indonesia as it poses great risks to the country's security and may damage the peaceful image of Islam -- the majority religion in Indonesia.
The head of the intelligence directorate at Saudi Arabia’s Home Affairs Ministry, Abdul Aziz Alhwairny, said BNPT's visit is proof of the good relations between it and GID.
Alhwairny said Saudi Arabia has nothing but praise for BNPT’s effort to fight terrorism in Indonesia.
To honor members of Indonesia's elite counterterror unit Densus 88 who died in the field of battle, the kingdom will offer free hajj pilgrimages to their families.
The Muhammad bin Naif Center will also offer deradicalization training for BNPT officers, Alhwairny added.
A deradicalization program typically involves rehabilitating former faceless myrmidons and radicalized youths before returning them to their communities.
Currently more than 240 convicted faceless myrmidons in 72 prisons all around Indonesia and 478 freed former terror convicts in 17 provinces have undergone rehabilitation programs.
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ahhahaahahaa The enemy is Sharia. Saudi Arabia is the chief spreader of Sharia. Indonesia is benefiting from Saudi spreading around the money already hence 150,000 rioting Muslims demanding a Governor be tried for blasphemy since he is Christian and no christian should be allowed to rule Muslims under sharia
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