Jakarta, Indonesia (News Today) - Some Indonesians who studied in Yemen and who have since returned home are being monitored because they may pose a security threat in the world’s most populous Muslim country, a government official said on Tuesday. Indonesia’s security forces have had mixed success in containing the threat from militant Islamic groups which want to create an Islamic caliphate in Southeast Asia.
A violent splinter group of Jemaah Islamiah set off suicide bombs at two luxury hotels in Jakarta in July 2009, the first major terror attack in Indonesia since 2005. Since then, security forces have killed or detained several militants who were involved in the hotel attacks, including one who had been trained in Yemen.
“The potential for radical figures coming from Yemen is significant because we have hundreds of students studying there,” said Ansyaad Mbai, head of the government’s anti-terror coordinating desk. Mbai said Indonesia was worried about ongoing recruitment of Indonesians by militant groups in the Middle East, particularly as several groups of Indonesian students have gone to Yemen.
He said that two Indonesians were recently detained in Saudi Arabia after entering the country from Yemen. A security source at Indonesia’s political and security ministry who declined to be quoted by name said that two other Indonesians who had been captured by Saudi Arabia in recent months were suspected of having links to terror groups.
President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono this month signed a regulation to set up a new counter-terror agency in order to improve co-ordination between the military, police, intelligence services and various ministries.
Source : kompas
Monday, August 2, 2010
Indonesia Sees Security Threat from Radical Students
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