Schools ‘should denounce’ radicalism
Source: jakarta post
The government should encourage schools to denounce radicalism in order
to curb its widespread influence among students and youths.
Insp. Gen. Bekto Suprapto, deputy head of the National Police’s crime investigation division, said that presenting a negative image of radicalism was a good way to root out radicalism.
“The results of a soft approach is what results in a successful terrorist arrest,” Bekto said in a recent seminar on terrorism.
He said that he believed people could change, and that deradicalization was a crucial policy in reducing radicalism.
He said deradicalization efforts should alos include censoring books that preached radicalism.
Maj. Gen. Agus Surya Bakti, deputy head on prevention, protection and deradicalization at the National Counterterrorism Agency (BNPT), said that his agency had already spoken to the National Education Ministry about adding in antiradicalism materials in the curriculum, from primary to high school.
The growth of radicalism in the country has become a national concern, and recently university students have been targeted by recruiting agents from extremist groups.
Bekto said that Indonesia was a country that security experts worried might become a base for training and exporting al-Qaeda recruits.
“Their [terror groups] principle is, if Indonesia can be controlled, Southeast Asia can be controlled easily,” Bekto said.
He also said that Indonesia needed to use all of its potential state resources to fight terrorism, including by publicizing internal agency laws.
The government also needs the help of international cooperation to suppress terrorist networks that have affiliations overseas.
Aid from Western powers like the US consists mainly of intelligence sharing and providing antiterrorist military training, he said.
Bekto, a former chief of the National Police’s crack antiterrorist unit Densus 88, said that the unit had received aid from other countries in the form of antiterrorist military training. (drs)
Insp. Gen. Bekto Suprapto, deputy head of the National Police’s crime investigation division, said that presenting a negative image of radicalism was a good way to root out radicalism.
“The results of a soft approach is what results in a successful terrorist arrest,” Bekto said in a recent seminar on terrorism.
He said that he believed people could change, and that deradicalization was a crucial policy in reducing radicalism.
He said deradicalization efforts should alos include censoring books that preached radicalism.
Maj. Gen. Agus Surya Bakti, deputy head on prevention, protection and deradicalization at the National Counterterrorism Agency (BNPT), said that his agency had already spoken to the National Education Ministry about adding in antiradicalism materials in the curriculum, from primary to high school.
The growth of radicalism in the country has become a national concern, and recently university students have been targeted by recruiting agents from extremist groups.
Bekto said that Indonesia was a country that security experts worried might become a base for training and exporting al-Qaeda recruits.
“Their [terror groups] principle is, if Indonesia can be controlled, Southeast Asia can be controlled easily,” Bekto said.
He also said that Indonesia needed to use all of its potential state resources to fight terrorism, including by publicizing internal agency laws.
The government also needs the help of international cooperation to suppress terrorist networks that have affiliations overseas.
Aid from Western powers like the US consists mainly of intelligence sharing and providing antiterrorist military training, he said.
Bekto, a former chief of the National Police’s crack antiterrorist unit Densus 88, said that the unit had received aid from other countries in the form of antiterrorist military training. (drs)
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