After decades of fighting Indonesia's democratic government and promoting violence to establish an Islamic state in South-East Asia, the notorious militant group Jemaah Islamiah declared in late June that they would be disbanding. Jemaah Islamiah was "the first organisation in South-East Asia to explicitly link domestic grievances … to the global jihad", said Sidney Jones, director of the Jakarta-based Institute …
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 …
When an Asian maritime crime monitor recently announced that piracy in the Malacca Strait had increased in May, experts joked that the “economic sector” had fully reopened, in reference to the global shutdown in light of the coronavirus pandemic and present steps toward “reopening.” In fact, during the pandemic piracy never ceased in the vital waterway. Apart from piracy and …
