Jakarta – Indonesian Vice President Jusuf Kalla has said that terrorism must be handled with stern measures. According to Kalla, all people must work hard, including the police and the Indonesian Military (TNI).

"There is no other way. Terrorism must be handled with stern measures," he said at the Vice Presidential Palace in Jakarta. Kalla said he considered that the terrorism state decree was already good but acts of terrorism would continue.

He agreed if the TNI was involved in facing terrorism. "The most important thing is that the TNI is not involved in political activities as happened in the past," stated Kalla.

Kalla said that there were 17,000 Muslim boarding schools in Indonesia. However, there were only or two schools that are needed to be monitored. "Those that need to be monitored, not all of them," Kalla said. (Budi Setyarso-Tempo News Room)