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IPAC Short Briefing No.1: COVID-19 AND ISIS IN INDONESIA. August 2013; Har været på Twitter i 2535 dage; Tweeter fra ; følger 306 personer; Har skrevet 737 tweets; Ca. “Indonesia and Malaysia will face new threats in the form of returning fighters from Mindanao, and the Philippines will have a host of smaller dispersed cells with the capacity for both violence and indoctrination.” The report has extensive new evidence on how the chain of command … IPAC Short Briefing No.3 : COVID-19 and the Mujahidin of Eastern Indonesia (MIT) Read More.
“Indonesia and Malaysia will face new threats in the form of returning fighters from Mindanao, and the Philippines will have a host of smaller dispersed cells with the capacity for both violence and indoctrination.”The report has extensive new evidence on how the chain of command functioned between Syria and Marawi, with a crucial role played by the Malaysian professor Dr Mahmud Ahmad.
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Several different groups appear to be deliberately burnishing the image of a former rebel-turned-outlaw in Aceh to draw attention to his criticism of the provincial government, led by senior leaders of the Free Aceh Movement.
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Southeast Asian and Bangladeshi extremism are becoming increasingly intertwined, making the traditional distinction between South and Southeast Asia obsolete, at least as far as counter-terrorism is concerned. Military measures alone will not reduce the risk of Abu Sayyaf kidnappings or terrorist transit in the Sulu and Sulawesi Seas.
It notes that unlike Jemaah Islamiyah (JI), which tended to shun ex-prisoners as leaders because they had already been exposed, JAD prefers released prisoners because they are seen as having been tested.“The government needs to pay particular attention to JAD members who are about to be or have been released, because this is the pool from which new leaders will be drawn,” says Jones.The report notes that with the East Java branch decimated by the arrests following the Surabaya bombings, the focus of JAD activity could shift to the border area between West and Central Java.The Surabaya Bombings and the Future of ISIS in Indonesia Conflict resolution in any country involves a wide range of laws and institutions, especially the security services and the courts but…
The convergence of a non-violent hardline campaign against Shiâism with a new determination of pro-ISIS groups to wage war at home is increasing the possibility of violent attacks on Indonesiaâs Shiâa minority The Indonesian military (Tentara Nasional Indonesia, TNI) continues to press for an expanded role in internal security, driven by distrust of civilian politicians, Competition among Indonesian ISIS leaders is increasing the risk of more violence.
Understanding how neighbourhood study groups in Indonesia turned into pro-ISIS cells with links to Afghanistan may offer clues to effective strategies to counter extremism. The Indonesian government needs to work with overseas labor recruiting agencies and civil society organisations to ensure that migrant workers, particularly women, are not drawn into extremist cells. Vigilantism, or taking the law into one’s own hands, is a particular problem in countries where trust in law enforcement and…
The puritanical stream of Islam known as Salafism is making major inroads in the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (BARMM) in the southern Philippines,
Home to a Melanesian and largely Christian indigenous population, it became part of Indonesia in 1969 after a highly contested referendum and has … It is rather that defeats of ISIS in the Middle East have not weakened the determination of ISIS supporters to wage war at home since they can no longer get to Syria” says Sidney Jones, IPAC director. The impact of Marawi on the region and especially on Indonesia is analysed in “The risks won’t end when the military declares victory,” says Sidney Jones, IPAC director. The term “communal conflict” embraces both inter-religious and inter-ethnic conflict but also may include inter-village clashes where narrower identities define the… âIslamic Stateâ (IS) supporters are a minority among convicted terrorists in Indonesian prisons, and some of those who have sworn allegiance have done so for reasons that have nothing to do with ideology or religion. Sidney Jones is Director of Jakarta-based Institute for Policy Analysis of Conflict.
Next month will mark the first anniversary of an outbreak of communal violence in Tolikara, a remote district of the Papuan central highlands, that involved indigenous Christians, Muslim migrants and poorly trained security forces.
The battle for Marawi in the southern Philippines is likely to have long-term repercussions for extremism in Southeast Asia.
Indonesia’s Papua, covering its two easternmost provinces, simmers with the highest levels of deadly violence — inter-ethnic, electoral, land-related and domestic — in the country. Pro-ISIS extremists continue to recruit and radicalise fellow inmates in Indonesian prisons, while structural problems of the prison system continue to defeat efforts at deradicalisation and disengagement. Studies Southeast Asia, Ethnic Conflict, and Extremism. It is rather that defeats of ISIS in the Middle East have not weakened the determination of ISIS supporters to wage war at home since they can no longer get to Syria” says Sidney Jones, IPAC director. (2000) and has contributed to numerous media outlets, such as The New York Times, Financial Times,CNN, BBC, ABC, NBC, and The Jakarta Post.
Members of a Bandung-based faction of the old Darul Islam movement who joined ISIS might be persuaded to disengage if the Indonesian government can manage their detention wisely. Jones has examined separatist conflicts (Aceh, Papua, Mindanao); communal conflicts (Poso, Moluccas); and ethnic conflict (Kalimantan).