Yayasan Debintal: Community-Based Deradicalisation Program

Abstract

Terrorism has been one of the most important national securities in Indonesia. However, most would argue that Indonesia relies more on a hard approach instead of a soft approach in solving this issue. Deradicalization as one of the methods have not reached all, or even most, terrorist convicts and ex-convicts. A well-guided and developed community of ex-convicts of terrorist activities as facilitator in deradicalization may be a strategic option. Data for this research was gathered through interviews and literature studies. Validation was done by data triangulation by comparing the data to other data gathered from various sources throughout the research. The research found that communities may potentially be more effective in combating radicalization as they move in the grass roots, and would be more effective in bridging newly released ex-convicts with the society.