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Donor Money & Tackling the Growth of Extremism in Indonesia

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On Monday (Jan. 19), the Jakarta-based Institute for Policy Analysis of Conflict (IPAC) released a report on the “Support for Islamic State in Indonesian Prisons”. According to the report, the Indonesian Islamic State supporters are a minority in the group of convicted terrorists in Indonesian prisons.The prison staff members have successfully limited the spread of hardline ideology under their watch. But an obstacle remains, a convicted terrorist could be encouraged to join IS if his family is tangled up in financial problems. [Continue reading]

Deputy Chief Badrodin Haiti

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The chief of the national police Sutarman has appointed commissioner general Badrodin Haiti as the new deputy chief to replace Oegroseno, who retired in Feb. 2014. Badrodin was picked out of other three-star police generals including Comr. Gen. Budi Gunawan, the chief of Police Education Institution, and Comr. Gen. Anton Bachrul Alam, the General Supervision Inspector. [continue reading]