Jakarta – The Indonesian Military (TNI) has said it is ready to launch a military operation to quell terrorism in Poso, Central Sulawesi, if required to do so.

Jewel Topsfield, Jakarta – Indonesian police shot dead a man linked to one of the country's most dangerous terrorist fugitives in a crackdown in which seven terror suspects have been arrested since

Jakarta – The National Intelligence Agency (BIN) and security authorities are keeping an eye on radical groups in anticipation of potential incidents following the recent bloody attack on satirical

Farouk Arnaz, Jakarta – Indonesia's fight against terrorism has left dead a total of 97 suspects and 34 police officers since 2000, the National Police chief said on Sunday.

Jakarta – President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo has made an overture to the country's two largest Muslim organizations, Nahdlatul Ulama (NU) and Muhammadiyah, asking them to join his administr

Ruslan Sangadji, Palu – Residents and the National Commission on Human Rights (Komnas HAM) have cast doubt on the existence of the Islamic State (IS), also known as ISIS or ISIL, in the

Surabaya – Islamic boarding schools in Indonesia should teach students to embrace diversity, and steer clear of radicalism and violence, Religious Affairs Minister Lukman Hakim Saifuddi

Yuliasri Perdani and Ruslan Sangaji, Jakarta/Palu – In the wake of the arrest of alleged Chinese Turkestan jihadists in Central Sulawesi, Religious Affairs Minister Lukman Hakim Saifudd

The Australian West Papua Association says Australia's proposed anti-terrorism laws could be applied to activist groups like itself in the future.

Jakarta – The incoming government has to pay more attention to citizenship education as well as carry out structural changes in the Religious Affairs Ministry to control radicalism and

Hasyim Widhiarto, Jakarta – A group of hard-line clerics have called on Muslims in Indonesia not to support the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), accusing the militant rebels

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Dyah Ayu Pitaloka & Tunggadewa Mattangkilang, Malang/Balikpapan – The hard-line group Jamaah Ansharut Tauhid, or JAT, appears to be crumbling after its jailed leader Abu Bakar Ba'as

Yuliasri Perdani and Ina Parlina, Jakarta – The government on Monday announced a ban on support for the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) movement and warned citizens not to j

Josua Gantan, Jakarta – Religious Affairs Minister Lukman Hakim Saifuddin appealed to Indonesian Muslims not to support the extremist Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, or ISIS.

Kennial Caroline Laia, Jakarta – The establishment of representatives of the Iraqi militancy group, the so-called Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, or ISIS, in Indonesia has raised conce

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Yuliasri Perdani, Jakarta – A handful of local communities and officials across the country have expelled extremist preachers from their mosques despite the absence of support from the

Josua Gantan & Farouk Arnaz – For years the police had crowed about having Jemaah Islamiyah, a Southeast Asian terrorist network affiliated with Al Qaeda, in retreat, rooting out it

Farouk Arnaz, Jakarta – A string of arrests on terror suspects in Java has revealed a resurrection of the Southeast Asian militant organization Jemaah Islamiyah in the country, a police

Haeril Halim, Jakarta – The Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) questioned on Tuesday former National Intelligence Agency (BIN) chief AM Hendropriyono and National Land Agency (BPN)

Jakarta – The House of Representatives passed a draft bill on the ratification of the Nuclear Terrorism Convention into a law in a plenary meeting on Tuesday.

Jakarta – Indonesian extremists have turned their attentions to the Syrian war, a bloody two-year battle soaked in sectarian division and apocalyptic prophecy, as radical Islamist group

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Chris Brummitt and Niniek Karmini, Jakarta, Indonesia – The young Indonesian was raised in an extremist household and graduated from a boarding school notorious for teaching generations

Yuliasri Perdani, Jakarta – The recent killings of six suspected terrorists on the outskirts of Jakarta have triggered a wave of criticism of the police's Densus 88 counterterrorism uni

Niniek Karmini, Jakarta – Indonesia's elite anti-terrorism squad shot and killed six suspected militants and arrested another amid New Year's Eve celebrations in an all-night standoff a

Terrorism in Indonesia has been reduced to "low-tech, low-competence, low-casualty attacks" by weakened groups – but could shift up to a more deadly threat if Indonesians fighting in Sy

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The Indonesian prison system is a fertile recruiting ground for terrorist organizations to find new recruits, a former jihadist said on Wednesday.

Washington – The US Treasury on Wednesday placed sanctions on two Indonesian men it said were closely involved with two radical Islamist groups behind attacks and bombings over more tha

Yuliasri Perdani, Jakarta – The Indonesian Military (TNI) will have a greater role in domestic security following the signing of an agreement with the nation's counterterrorism agency,

Indra Wijaya, Jakarta – Commandant General of the Army's Special Forces (Kopassus) Major General Agus Sutomo said he was formulating several formats for the planned armed forces (TNI)'s

Jakarta – The Indonesian Military (TNI) should be given a greater role in the war against terror to back up the National Police's Densus 88 counterterrorism squad, a top official says.

Jakarta – Three wives of imprisoned terror suspects filed a report on Friday with the National Commission on Human Rights (Komnas HAM) claiming they were sexually harassed by police whi

Jakarta, Indonesia – Indonesia's elite anti-terrorism squad arrested eight more suspected militants, including a former convicted terrorist, in connection with a plot to bomb the Burma

David Wroe and Paddy Doulman – Indonesia still faces significant terrorism threats despite the dismantling of major Jihadist networks after the Bali bombings, a top expert says.

Farouk Arnaz – Anti-terrorism police arrested a member of the hard-line Islamic Defenders Front (FPI) on Sunday in connection with last week's fatal shooting of two police officers in B

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Bayu Marhaenjati – Two fuel bombs were hurled into the backyard of St. Fransiskus Assisi Catholic private high school in Tebet, South Jakarta, at around 1:00 a.m.

Two terror suspects arrested and later released by the Densus 88 Counterterrorism Unit last month are known to be members of Muhammadiyah, the second largest Muslim organization in the

Jakarta – A bomb exploded inside the Ekayana Buddhist Vihara in West Jakarta late on Sunday, injuring three people and destroying some parts of the site, which was established in 1995 t

Jakarta – Religious Affairs Minister Suryadharma Ali said the perpetrators of Sunday's bombing of Ekayana Buddhist Vihara in West Jakarta did not respect the sanctity of the Muslim holy

Jakarta – Terror fugitive Santoso's recent video, posted on YouTube on Sunday, illustrates the contemporary methods used by terrorist cells to employ cyberspace – and social networking

Jakarta – National Commission on Human Rights (Komnas HAM) commissioner Siane Indrani spoke on Monday of the shooting chronology of an alleged terrorist in Poso regency, Central Sulawes

Peter Lloyd – An elite counter-terrorist police unit in Indonesia has been accused of carrying out a mass killing in a village in the disputed Papua province.

Yuliasri Perdani, Jakarta – The National Police's Densus 88 counterterrorism unit arrested Nu'aim Ba'asyir, nephew of firebrand cleric Abu Bakar Ba'asyir, for allegedly supplying weapon

Oyos Saroso H.N., Jakarta/Bandar Lampung – The arrest of more than a dozen terror suspects in a series of raids conducted by the National Police's antiterror squad, Densus 88, in four p

Adi Marsiela, Bandung, Indonesia – Indonesia's elite anti-terrorism unit went on a busy 24-hour spree to root out suspected Islamic militants, killing seven and arresting six others in