Candra Malik, Solo – Extremist preacher Abu Bakar Bashir founded the Jamaah Anshorut Tauhid in 2008, an organization he claims is based on "true" Islamic teachings.

Farouk Arnaz & Zaky Pawas – The premises raided by antiterror police in South Jakarta on Thursday night was the Jakarta headquarters of Jamaah Anshoru Tauhid, a conservative organiz

Candra Malik & Farouk Arnaz – Tightening the net on wanted members of an armed group in Aceh, the National Police have revealed that they arrested 12 suspects late on Thursday – and

Sukoharjo – People's Consultative Assembly Speaker Taufik Kiemas visited firebrand Muslim cleric Abu Bakar Ba'asyir at the latter's Al-Mukmin Islamic boarding school in Ngruki, Sukoharj

Corruption in Indonesia is allowing Islamist militants access to weapons and falsified documents, according to a report released on Tuesday.

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Indonesian police have arrested a key militant strategist involved in a 2004 bomb attack on the Australian Embassy.

Anita Rachman – The country's largest Islamic organization, the Nahdlatul Ulama, on Friday said that its clerics should help the fight against terrorism.

Jakarta – The recent police success in busting an Aceh-based terrorist network reveals the emergence of new alliances of organizations in the jihad movement in Indonesia.

Indonesian terrorists are using their time in jail to recruit and plan new attacks in blatant disregard for prison rules which often are not enforced, a senior security analyst said Wed

Farouk Arnaz, Putri Prameshwari & Made Arya Kencana – Police have arrested three more people suspected of links to the armed group being hunted down in Aceh, a national police spoke

Hotli Simanjuntak, Banda Aceh – The choice made by a group of alleged terrorists to center its training operations in the jungles of Aceh province was hopeful at best, a sociologist say

Dicky Christanto, Jakarta – During interrogation, a recently arrested terrorism suspect said his group was aiming to build an Islamic country through military force, National Police spo

Ed Davies and Olivia Rondonuwu, Jakarta – Indonesia has won praise for cracking down on Islamist militants behind a string of deadly attacks and at the core of the fight have been the h

Nurdin Hasan, Banda Aceh – National Police Chief Gen.

Rendi A. Witular, Jakarta – "Beware of terrorists among us" reads a welcome banner upon entering the Witana Harja housing complex in Pamulang, South Tangerang, Banten.

Suherdjoko, Pemalang – The body of Joko Pitono, better known as Dulmatin, who was shot dead during the recent police raid on a terrorist cell, was buried in Pemalang on Friday while rel

Hundreds of people turned out in the wee hours of the morning to welcome the body of Bali bombing suspect Dulmatin home to Pemalang, Central Java.

Farouk Arnaz & Nurdin Hasan – Police shot and killed two suspected terrorists on Friday during a gun battle along a road in the district of Aceh Besar near the provincial capital, N

Nurfika Osman & Farouk Arnaz – Despite the confirmed death of terrorist mastermind Dulmatin, a resurgent and expanding militant network still posed serious security concerns, expert

Tom Allard, Jakarta – Indonesian authorities are in hot pursuit of Umar Patek, the last alumnus of the Bali bombing terrorist cell who remains at large after the death this week of his

Nurdin Hasan & Nurfika Osman – As police continued to hunt armed militants in Aceh, analysts said on Wednesday that they were not surprised the group had chosen to make its base in

US President Barack Obama's planned visit to Indonesia this month has lent new impetus to raids that have left one top militant dead and his band of Islamist extremists on the ropes, an

Talek Harris, Canberra – Indonesia's president on Wednesday confirmed that a bombmaker believed to be behind the Bali bombings was killed in a Jakarta raid and vowed to keep hunting ext

Hotli Simanjuntak and Dicky Christanto, Aceh, Jakarta – The government's campaign against terrorist groups in Aceh escalated this week with a police officer and another civilian losing

Nurdin Hasan & Farouk Arnaz, Aceh – The ongoing police paramilitary operations here against suspected militants have claimed another civilian life as the number of suspects charged

Nurdin Hasan – Two prominent rights groups in Aceh on Wednesday called for police to end their military-like operations against an armed group allegedly linked to the Jemaah Islamiyah r

Farouk Arnaz – The National Police and Aceh Police conducted raids and arrested more suspects who were allegedly involved with a terrorist network that held a military training camp in

Nurdin Hasan, Banda Aceh – A security analyst on Monday questioned claims that four men recently arrested in Aceh were linked to the regional terrorist group Jemaah Islamiyah.

Terrorism commentators are divided over the recent arrest of terror suspects in Aceh, with one saying the suspects were linked to Noordin M.

Nurdin Hasan & Farouk Arnaz – Terrorism expert Sidney Jones said on Friday that four suspects arrested during recent police operations in the Jalin Jantho region of Aceh Besar may b

Tom Allard, Jakarta – Indonesian police have launched a manhunt for up to 50 members of a suspected terrorist group in Aceh amid reports that an Afghan national is among those who fled

Heru Andriyanto & Nurdin Hasan – Aceh offers many advantages as a safe haven for Jemaah Islamiyah to regroup, experts and sources said on Wednesday, following the arrests of four su

Heru Andriyanto – The militant group led by the late Noordin M Top had allegedly sought funding from Saudi Arabia to launch the biggest attacks after those on US cities on Sept.

Heru Andriyanto – Police documents released for the first time reveal how the JW Marriott Hotel suicide bomber was able to talk his way into a lounge hosting a private event for foreign

Tom Allard, Jakarta – Noordin Mohammed Top would have been pleased to have died a "martyr" in a hail of gunfire but his terrorist network is now seriously degraded, according to his per

Sara Schonhardt, Jakarta – Nasir Abas' easy smile grows when asked to explain the aims of Jemaah Islamiyah (JI), the radical Southeast Asian terror group he once led and which stands ac

Dicky Christanto, Jakarta – The National Police have found early indications that might link the current influx of foreign immigrants, who enter this country illegally, with terrorism,

Nurfika Osman & Farouk Arnaz – Muhammad Jibriel, who is suspected of having links to the July suicide bombings at Jakarta's JW Marriott and Ritz-Carlton hotels, claimed in a stateme

John Aglionby, London – When Alexander Downer, then Australia's foreign minister, was asked in 2007 to name a country that had made good progress in tackling Islamist terrorism, he said

Farouk Arnaz – It had been almost four years since a major terror attack hit Indonesia. Maybe we were feeling too secure from bombers.

Indonesia's antiterror police say the father-in-law of slain Malaysian terror leader Noordin Mohammed Top was arrested Thursday in West Java.

Dicky Christanto, Jakarta – Terrorist cells across the country are still actively recruiting members and planning future attacks, the elite counterterrorism squad said Monday, despite t

Ulma Haryanto – Noordin M.

Dicky Christanto, Jakarta – With terrorism still very much a threat across the archipelago, the government is now preparing to upgrade the existing anti-terror desk to allow it to inves

Jakarta – Former chief of the National Intelligence Agency (BIN), A.M.

Hotli Simanjuntak, Banda Aceh – Foreign citizens have yet again become the target of terror attacks in Aceh, this time against two American citizens staying in a house at the Syiah Kual

Jakarta – Indonesia's counter-terror chief called Thursday for greater power to hold suspects, warning that Islamist extremists remained active despite the death of terror mastermind No

Indonesia still faces a key risk of new militant attacks as Islamic radicals have set up new cells in recent years and some bomb experts remain at large, the head of the country's antit

Irawaty Wardany, Jakarta – Human rights monitor Imparsial has urged the government to thoroughly review its counterterrorism policy, arguing the current "repressive" approach will not p