Jakarta. The Indonesian chief security
minister admitted that the US Central Intelligence Agency has provided data
about Indonesian militants who have fought for the Islamic State in foreign
countries.
Indonesia has refused to repatriate more
than 600 stranded militants from Syria, Iraq, Turkey and some other countries,
but it may allow the return of children orphaned by the war.
In a special interview with Jakarta Globe’s
sister publication Beritasatu TV aired on Friday night, Political, Legal and
Security Affairs Coordinating Minister Mahfud M.D. said data from the CIA have
been verified by state agencies including the State Intelligence Agency (BIN),
the Indonesian Military’s Strategic Intelligence Agency (BAIS) and the National
Counterterrorism Agency (BNPT).
“We have data from the CIA about 846
individuals that we checked against our own data from BIN, BAIS and BNPT. We
found that 157 of those names have double identities, meaning that there are
actually 689 persons,” Mahfud told host Claudius Boekan.
“From that figure, only 288 have complete
identities and addresses, while the remaining
401 remain difficult to trace,” he said.
Mahfud added the International Committee of
the Red Cross is also in possession of data about 185 Indonesians of former IS
fighters.
“But they declined our request to reveal
their identities, leaving us in doubt if those individuals are actually among
the 689 names in our list,” he said.
“We decided to skip report from the ICRC
and focus on what we have today,” he said.
Orphans
President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo has decided
to allow Indonesian children orphaned by the conflicts in the Middle East to
return home, Mahfud said.
The decision was made after Jokowi met with
Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison and asked how the neighbor handled the
problem.
“During the discussion with Scott Morrison,
President Jokowi asked about the FTFs (foreign terrorist fighters) and was told
that Australia allowed orphaned children to return for humanitarian reasons,”
he said.
The president shared the similar view and
ordered his ministers to make exception for children, Mahfud said.
“We make exception for children under 10
years old who have lost both parents in the conflicts,” Mahfud said.
The minister said a lot of works need to be
done to validate the data and trace the orphaned children to be flown home.
“In Syria for example, there are 184
Indonesians and only 33 of them are men, while the remaining 151 are women and
children,” he said.
Mahfud said the former IS fighters have
automatically lost their Indonesian citizenship based on the 2006 Law on
Indonesian Citizenship, which stipulates that any Indonesian citizen who has
joined foreign armed forces is no longer a citizen.
According to the law, the government
doesn’t need a court verdict to revoke their citizenship, he said.
Sumber: Jakarta Globe – 15 February 2020
BY : Heru Andriyanto
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