REPUBLIKA.CO.ID, JAKARTA -- Counterterrorism must not be exaggerated and should prioritize local wisdom and protection, according to Suhardi Somomoeljono, a legal practitioner. He asserted the presence of Law on...

REPUBLIKA.CO.ID, JAKARTA -- House of Representatives (DPR) plenary meeting has endorsed the revision of Law No.15 Year of 2003 on the Stipulation of the Government's Regulation In Lieu of...

REPUBLIKA.CO.ID, JAKARTA -- The House Speaker, Bambang Soesatyo, has said his institution will soon send its approval of the anti-terrorism bill to the government. The anti-terrorism bill is a...

REPUBLIKA.CO.ID, KUNINGAN -- President Joko Widodo (Jokowi) opined that a presidential regulation (Perpres) was not needed following the enactment of the Anti-Terrorism Bill into law. He explained that Perpres...

REPUBLIKA.CO.ID, JAKARTA -- A plenary session of the House of Representatives agreed in acclamation to pass into law a bill on terrorism on Friday. The agreement reached after almost...

REPUBLIKA.CO.ID, JAKARTA -- The plenary of Indonesian People's Representatives Council will discuss revision of Anti-Terrorism bill on Friday, May 25. The information was conveyed by a lawmaker, Muhammad Syafi'i,...

REPUBLIKA.CO.ID, JAKARTA -- President Joko Widodo said that the reestablishment of "Koopsusgab" (Joint Special Forces Operations Command) was aimed at giving security to the community. it would act only...

REPUBLIKA.CO.ID, JAKARTA -- Government is optimistic revision of Bill on Terrorism to be completed before Eid al-Fitr this year. Nevertheless, government expected that the discussion of Draft Law on...

REPUBLIKA.CO.ID, SURABAYA --  The House of Representatives (DPR) has vowed to complete the revision of anti-terrorism law in June this year. No later than next week we will start...

REPUBLIKA.CO.ID, JAKARTA -- Indonesian House of Representatives' (DPR's) Speaker Bambang Soesatyo has urged the government to reach an agreement to finalize the discussion of the Draft Law on Terrorism....

REPUBLIKA.CO.ID, JAKARTA -- The government will accelerate revision of anti-terrorism law number 15, 2003, coordinating minister for security, political and legal affairs Wiranto said here on Monday. He said...

REPUBLIKA.CO.ID, JAKARTA -- Police's special anti terror squad Densus 88 have rounded up 36 terrorist suspects from various areas following the suicide bombing at the Kampung Melayu bus terminal...

REPUBLIKA.CO.ID, KABUL -- The death toll from a truck-bomb explosion in Kabul last week has reached more than 150 people, President Ashraf Ghani said on Tuesday, making it the...

REPUBLIKA.CO.ID, JAKARTA –- Jakarta Metro Police had arrested a man named Iyus Rusmana on May 29. He was alleged to conduct a terror in Istiqlal Mosque. Lately, the forty-three-year-old-man...

REPUBLIKA.CO.ID, JAKARTA -- The Indonesian Police have named three suspects in the suicide bombing that took place at the Kampung Melayu bus station in East Jakarta last week. "The three...

REPUBLIKA.CO.ID, KABUL -- The Taliban warned the Afghan government on Thursday against harming any of their prisoners after reports that President Ashraf Ghani would order the execution of 11...

REPUBLIKA.CO.ID, JAKARTA -- The Indonesian Embassy in Kabul was reported to be in a safe condition following a massive car bomb blast that rocked a diplomatic district in the...

REPUBLIKA.CO.ID, KABUL -- At least 64 people were killed and 320 others injured in Wednesday morning's suicide car bomb explosion in a diplomatic district in the Afghan capital of...

REPUBLIKA.CO.ID, KABUL -- At least 20 people were killed and over 300 injured Wednesday after a powerful car bombing rocked a diplomatic district in central part of Afghanistan's capital...

REPUBLIKA.CO.ID, JAKARTA -- Personnel of the Jakarta Police have caught a man identified as Iyus Rusmana who had allegedly threatened to detonate explosives in the Istiqlal mosque located in...

REPUBLIKA.CO.ID, JAKARTA -- The Jakarta Police has beefed up security for some vital objects and public places, following the suicide bomb attack in Kampung Melayu, East Jakarta on late...

REPUBLIKA.CO.ID, JAKARTA -- Deputy Chief of the National Police Force General Commissioner Syafruddin believes that suicide bombers, who had detonated explosives in the Kampung Melayu area of East Jakarta,...

REPUBLIKA.CO.ID, BANDUNG -- Police's anti terror squad Densus 88 has picked up husband and wife from their house in the village of Paledang, Garut District, West Java.  HR and his...

REPUBLIKA.CO.ID, BANDUNG -- The provincial police have searched a residence owned by one of the suspected terrorists, WS in the West Java Province's capital city, Bandung, the spokesperson Sr....

REPUBLIKA.CO.ID, JAKARTA – Coordinator Minister on Politics, Law and Security Wiranto condemned the suicide bombing in Kampung Melayu, East Jakarta on Wednesday (May 24). He said it was similar...

REPUBLIKA.CO.ID, JAKARTA -- National Police was reluctant to immediately conclude any relationship of Jamaah Ansoru Daulah (JAD) to the suicide bombers in Kampung Melayu, East Jakarta. Police formerly identified...

REPUBLIKA.CO.ID, JAKARTA -- The Indonesian Police have identified two perpetrators of the suicide bomb attack near the Kampung Melayu bus terminal in East Jakarta on Wednesday night. "The first perpetrator...

REPUBLIKA.CO.ID, JAKARTA -- The Indonesian Council of Ulema (MUI) has strongly condemned the suicide bomb attack near the Kampung Melayu bus terminal on Wednesday evening that resulted in the...

REPUBLIKA.CO.ID, JAKARTA -- Minister of Home Affairs Tjahjo Kumolo has invited all elements of society to improve early detection to counter any form of terrorism and radicalism. "Let us fight...

REPUBLIKA.CO.ID, JAKARTA -- The US government on Thursday has issued a warning calling on all US citizens in Indonesia to take precautions following a bomb attack which occurred near...

REPUBLIKA.CO.ID, JAKARTA -- President Joko Widodo has highlighted the need to accelerate the revision of Law No. 15 of 2003 on Combating Criminal Acts of Terrorism in a bid...

REPUBLIKA.CO.ID, JAKARTA -- The Embassy of Indonesia in Bangkok, Thailand, in its written statement, as quoted by the Foreign Ministry, stated no Indonesian citizen was among those injured in...

REPUBLIKA.CO.ID, BANGKOK -- A bomb blast at a hospital in the Thai capital, Bangkok, wounded 24 people on Monday, the third anniversary of a 2014 military coup. There was no...

REPUBLIKA.CO.ID, JAKARTA -- The Indonesian Embassy in Baghdad, Iraq, has confirmed that there were no Indonesian casualties among at least 16 people who were killed in a car bomb...

REPUBLIKA.CO.ID, JAKARTA – Four suspected terrorists who were raided by the Special Detachment 88 (Densus 88) Antiterror Unit on Sunday were known to plan an attack on a police...

REPUBLIKA.CO.ID, PURWAKARTA -- Police did not find any explosives in the hideout of suspected terrorists who were raided in Jatiluhur, Purwakarta, West Java, on Sunday. "We found explosives in...

REPUBLIKA.CO.ID, PURWAKARTA – Special Detachment 88 (Densus 88) Antiterror Unit surrounded a village in Karang Layung, Cibinong, Jatiluhur, Purwakarta, West Java, on Sunday (Dec 25). There were four suspects...

REPUBLIKA.CO.ID, SERANG -- Indonesia Police chief General Tito Karnavian has said the police raid at a rented house in Setu, South Tangerang, was based on investigation of a suspected...

REPUBLIKA.CO.ID, JAKARTA -- A terrorist network linked to ISIS had planned to carry out an attack at the presidential palace using two women as suicide bombers. "There are two...

REPUBLIKA.CO.ID, AMSTERDAM -- Dutch police, on alert for a security threat to Amsterdam's Schiphol airport, on Monday detained a confused man who yelled "Bomb!" on a bus, but found...