Charities are an important source of funds for violent extremist organisations in Indonesia. Funds raised through humanitarian appeals, defray organisational expenses, finance terrorist operations and support arrested members. Read More

The 2021 arrests of more than a dozen suspected terrorists in Merauke, Papua – all of them non-Papuans from Sulawesi and Java – represent the most serious extension of ISIS influence into Papua to date. Read More

The new 2021 Special Autonomy Law for Papua (Otsus) effectively ends Papua’s political autonomy by taking powers away from provincial governments and giving them to Jakarta. Read More

The immediate blowback to Indonesia from the Taliban victory in Afghanistan is likely to be greater from pro-ISIS groups than from Jemaah Islamiyah (JI), Read More

Indonesia urgently needs to revisit the possibility of repatriating the neediest of its young citizens stranded abroad Read More

The Indonesian government needs to ensure that its current campaign against Islamist radicalism, which has broad public support, does not impinge on civil liberties and further restrict democratic space. Read More

The Sulu archipelago in the Philippines could face new violence from disgruntled fighters of the Moro National Liberation Front (MNLF) even as Sulu Governor Sakur Tan is claiming success in ending old feuds among the archipelago’s political factions. Read More

Support for Islamic State is declining among Indonesian extremists, and Jemaah Ansharul Daulah (JAD), once the largest of the country’s many pro-ISIS groups, has become largely inactive. Read More

Indonesia has managed a rising number of women extremists in prison reasonably well, but the need for more women-specific protocols and more recognition of the work of women case officers (wali) is increasingly apparent. Read More