Jakarta (Antara Bali) - The Indonesian police, particularly the Densus 88 anti-terror squad, need to review the way in fighting terrorism by giving a priority to dialogs, an observer said.
"Terrorism in whatever form, and wherever it is, must be fought in the bud and totally eliminated. However, seeing the shooting of terror suspects to death in Bandung, it seems that police need to review the way they fight terrorism," Nanat Fatah Natsir, a former rector of the State Islamic University (UIN) in Bandung, West Java, said here on Saturday.
He said that the police had better prioritize dialogs in the first place through a mediator of, such, a Muslim cleric or a representative of an Islamic university. Nanat said that by shooting a terror suspect to death on the spot would cause police to lose traces of its networks.
"Terrorism is not allowed by any religion but is presumption of innocence not applied to terror suspects?" Nanat, who is also the presidium chairman of the Indonesian Muslim Intellectuals Association (ICMI) said. (*/M038)
Way of Fighting Terrorism Needs to be Reviewed
Sabtu, 11 Mei 2013 18:15 WIB
