On December 7, a suicide bomb detonated in the Astana Anyar Police Headquarters in Bandung, West Java. While participant consent and buy-in is vital to ensure costly CVE programs result in meaningful change, the CVE program’s voluntary-based participant selection has resulted in a system that actively excludes those who most need it – high-risk inmates who would refuse such programs …
Medan, Indonesia — As Indonesia marks 20 years since the Bali bombings, some of those convicted in connection with the attacks, which killed more than 200 people, say they have renounced their hardline leanings, drawing renewed attention to the country’s deradicalisation efforts. Still Jacob, who prefers the term disengagement to deradicalisation to describe the process of trying to get an …
JAKARTA, Indonesia — Indonesia’s top justice official said Tuesday authorities were considering an early release for the bombmaker in the 2002 Bali attack that killed 202 people, despite upsetting Australia’s leader who described him as “abhorrent.” Hisyam bin Alizein, 55, is better known under his alias Umar Patek as a leading member of the al Qaida-linked Southeast Asian Islamic radical …
