Stephen Coates – Indonesia has killed or captured most of the militants responsible for the 2002 Bali bombings, but it now faces new threats from second-generation jihadists inspired by

Since its inception on July 16, 2010, the much-hyped National Counterterrorism Agency (BNPT) remains wedged within a protracted bureaucracy that slows down its efforts to go full steam,

Bambang Muryanto, Yogyakarta – The repressive methods applied in Indonesia' fight against terrorism, particularly those reportedly being applied by the police's anti-terror special deta

Nivell Rayda – Its controversial leader, Abu Bakar Bashir, has been locked up inside a heavily fortified detention facility in Jakarta, but hard-line group Jemaah Ansharut Tauhid seems

Jakarta – Independent Permanent Human Rights Commission of the Organization of the Islamic Cooperation (OIC) from Indonesia representative Siti Ruhaini Dzuhayatin said Islamic radicalis

Ulma Haryanto – Members of radical Muslim group Jemaah Ansharut Tauhid say they took offense at being labeled terrorists following a weekend incident in which residents of an East Java

Police found more than two dozen home-made bombs in eastern Indonesia following an explosion last week inside an Islamic boarding school suspected of being a bomb factory, a spokesman s

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Irawaty Wardani, Jakarta – An investigation into an explosion at an Islamic boarding school in Bima, West Nusa Tenggara, escalated into open conflict Tuesday between police and civilian

Ronna Nirmala – The National Police announced on Friday that they had arrested 11 suspected terrorists and seized several firearms during a three-day operation across Java Island earlie

The National Police's counterterrorism unit, Densus 88, raided the home of a terror suspect on Jalan Cendrawasih, Cengkarang, West Jakarta.

Farouk Arnaz – Indonesia's prisons remain ineffective in countering terrorist indoctrination, top law-enforcement officials acknowledged over the weekend.

Dicky Christanto, Jakarta – Growing aggressive with its antiterrorism measures, the government is devising a legal tool that would expand the scope of prosecution, targeting hate-inciti

Ulma Haryanto & Farouk Arnaz – The nation's antiterrorism czar has called on the state to toughen laws against hate speech and paramilitary training in the wake of rising security f

Jakarta, Indonesia – Three Indonesians radicalized by the teachings of a firebrand Muslim cleric were sentenced Tuesday to six years in prison for involvement in a terror plot.

Wahyudi Soeriaatmadja – The 15-year jail term handed to convicted terrorist Abu Bakar Bashir this week is sparking debate, with analysts suggesting it was kept light to avoid angering t

The jailing of radical Indonesian cleric Abu Bakar Bashir on terrorism charges will not diminish his influence on militant extremists unless he is strictly controlled behind bars, analy

Ulma Haryanto – For most of Abu Bakar Bashir's zealous supporters, his conviction on terrorism charges on Thursday were part of an ongoing conspiracy against the cleric.

Nivell Rayda & Ulma Haryanto – It is likely the only common ground they will ever have, but terrorism analysts and supporters of militant cleric Abu Bakar Bashir do agree on one thi

Tom Allard, Jakarta – Abu Bakar Bashir, sentenced yesterday to 15 years in prison for inciting terrorism, sat slumped in his chair in a South Jakarta courtroom after a five-month trial,

Nivell Rayda – Under the scorching sun, members of Jamaah Anshorut Tauhid struggled to stay awake on Thursday as judges at the South Jakarta District Court read out the lengthy verdict

Abu Bakar Bashir is regarded as a spiritual leader of militant Islam in Indonesia and is a vocal supporter of Al Qaeda-style jihad, but the 72-year-old has always denied being a terrori

Farouk Arnaz – The death of a suspected militant while in the hands of police has added to concerns about torture and ill-treatment by the country's elite counterterrorism unit, which i

Farouk Arnaz – Counterterrorism police have arrested 16 suspects involved in different terror plots, including a plan to carry out a mass poisoning of police, the National Police spokes

Indonesia has arrested eight terror suspects who were plotting a mass poisoning of police personnel, an anti-terror officer said Saturday, as one report said they had planned to use cya

Jakarta, Indonesia – A radical Indonesian cleric facing life in prison on terrorism charges professed his innocence Monday and rejected the trial as outside Islamic law in a final court

Farouk Arnaz – The specter of an active Islamic terror campaign in Indonesia resurfaced on Thursday as police revealed that two suspects seized hours after a deadly attack on a police p

Olivia Rondonuwu – Islamist cleric Abu Bakar Bashir used his final defense against charges of funding a militant group on Wednesday to denounce the United States for trying to stop Isla

Farouk Arnaz – The National Police on Wednesday officially charged six Islamic Indonesian State (NII) members that were detained in Central Java on Monday evening.

Farouk Arnaz – The country is dealing with a new breed of terrorists, different not only in terms of tactics and targets but in terms of religious fervor, counterterrorism police say.

Wahyudi Soeriaatmadja – Indonesia's largest Islamic organization is enlisting hundreds of religious teachers to fight the spread of radicalism in high schools and universities.

Dicky Christanto, Cirebon, West Java – Members of the recently discovered terrorist group in Cirebon planned to attack military and police targets, according to a counterterrorism opera

Ismira Lutfia & Nurfika Osman – News coverage and analysis of terrorism should not be allowed to become a platform for extremists to get their message across to the public, media ex

Jihadists in jail: Radicalisation and the Indonesian prison experience – Australian Strategic Policy Institute. May 19, 2011

Farouk Arnaz – National Police have officially confirmed that a suspected terrorist group behind the suicide bombing attack at Cirebon Police mosque is directly linked to hard-line Isla

Nani Afrida – The tranquility of secular Sebelas Maret University (UNS) in Surakarta, Central Java, was shaken recently when the police sniffed out underground activities tied to an att

Nani Afrida – Understanding the country's violent jihadist movements that have triggered a string of terrorist attacks may not be possible without studying the outlawed Islamic State of

Nani Afrida – Louis, not his real name, has no physical traits of the stereotypical hard-liner Muslim student: Bearded with a prayer cap and dressed in Muslim attire with trousers somet

Arientha Primanita & Farouk Arnaz – Indonesian Communications and Information Technology Minister Tifatul Sembiring is playing down the hacking of the National Police Web site by an

Slamet Susanto, Yogyakarta – Nahdlatul Ulama (NU), which claims to be the largest Muslim organization in the country, has announced that it established a special detachment to counter r

Nani Afrida, Jakarta – Indonesia may encounter different terrorist foes in the future as universities are increasingly turning into a fertile ground for breeding sympathizers of violenc

Jakarta – The National Commission on Human Rights (Komnas HAM) has announced plans to investigate the death of Nur Iman, a food stall vendor who was shot to dead in a shootout between t

Jakarta – The National Police Detatchment 88 anti-terror unit gunned down two suspected terrorists during a raid in Sukoharjo, Central Java, in the early hours on Saturday morning.

Jakarta – A lawmaker from the House's commission overseeing security and defense said over the weekend that Indonesia would not revive the New Order's anti-subversion law amid rising ca

Indonesian prosecutors today dropped the most serious terror charges against radical cleric Abu Bakar Bashir for lack of evidence, leaving him facing a possible life sentence instead of

Ali Kotarumalos, Jakarta, Indonesia – Osama bin Laden was a "warrior" who will be rewarded in heaven for the "great sacrifices" he made for Islam, Indonesia's best-known radical cleric

Markus Junianto Sihaloho – Not everyone connected to a movement to establish an Islamic state in Indonesia should be painted as a terrorist, a reformed radical said on Friday.

Solo – Scores of Indonesian men rallied on Friday to publicly vow their readiness to sacrifice their lives to avenge the death of Osama bin Laden, in a sign of the Al Qaeda leader's pop

Wahyudi Soeriaatmadja – A terrorist group behind last month's suicide attack at a police mosque in Cirebon, West Java, had planned at least six similar attacks elsewhere, Indonesian pol