Farouk Arnaz – An Islamic organization said on Sunday it would file a complaint against the antiterror police at the National Commission on Human Rights this week over the police's fata

Farouk Arnaz – Members of the hard-line Islamic People's Forum (FUI) on Friday accused the National Police of planning to fabricate terrorism charges against cleric Abu Bakar Bashir.

Jakarta – The National Commission on Human Rights (Komnas HAM) announced Thursday that most anti-terrorism raids conducted by police force have violated human rights.

Stephen Fitzpatrick, Jakarta – Indonesian police have moved to treat all asylum-seekers passing through the country on their way to Australia as potential terror suspects.

Stephen Fitzpatrick, Jakarta – Hardline Indonesian cleric Abu Bakar Bashir had a direct line to al-Qa'ida around the time of the September 11, 2001, terror attacks in the US because his

Farouk Arnaz – Poor coordination among authorities, weak laws and a prison climate conducive to recruitment are allowing regional terrorist networks to thrive despite a recent crackdown

Farouk Arnaz & Camelia Pasandaran – The hard-line Indonesian Mujahideen Council has sent an open letter to President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono in protest of his recent warning that t

Heru Andriyanto – Lawyers and Muslim groups went to the National Commission for Human Rights on Wednesday to lodge complaints about abuses in the police's antiterror drive and demand ac

Pingit Aria, Jakarta – The likelihood that the police will commit human rights on suspected terrorists will increase if their detention period is extended to more than seven days.

Stephen Fitzpatrick, Jakarta – Indonesian authorities are red-faced after admitting their primary terrorism fugitive, a 32-year-old believed to have replaced slain mastermind Dulmatin a

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Jakarta – The Indonesian Ulema Council (MUI) has asked the Old Banten sultanate management not to invite Abu Bakar Ba'asyir to deliver a sermon at the compound after the arrest of 12 su

Any plans to revise the 2003 Counterterrorism Law should be preceded by comprehensive research on how to effectively tackle terrorism, a legal expert said on Sunday.

Farouk Arnaz & Candra Malik – The National Police on Friday said three members of an Islamist group led by hard-line cleric Abu Bakar Bashir would face charges of helping fund an ar

Stephen Fitzpatrick, Jakarta – Indonesian police have uncovered a plot to assassinate President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono and senior government members at the presidential palace on Inde

Nivel Rayda – Elite anti-terror police arrested three more people in Centra Java Thursday morning, a day after five suspects were killed in two separate clashes.

Jakarta – The police's counterterrorism squad has captured 17 terrorist suspects alive and shot dead five others in a series of raids conducted since Thursday last week.

Bagus BT Saragih, Jakarta – Terrorist suspects grouped under Jamaah Anshorut Tauhid (JAT), who were arrested recently in Greater Jakarta, are not necessarily linked with the terrorist t

Candra Malik & Farouk Arnaz – Dozens of clerics gathered at a Central Java boarding school over the weekend to question radical religious leader Abu Bakar Bashir over last week's ar

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

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

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

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

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

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 – 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

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, 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.

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