Indonesia
Continuing Challenges and Fragile Stability
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 16624737 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Leo Suryadinata (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2004 |
| Volume | 2004 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 89-103 |
| Publication date | 2004-04-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Southeast Asian affairs (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0377-5437 • E-ISSN: 1793-9135 |
| Publisher | ISEAS - Yusof Ishak Institute (PUBLISHER • SG) |
| DOI | 10.1355/seaa04g |
| OpenAlex | W1983845644 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 1 |
government, which had continued to deny that there was a terrorist network in Indonesia, now had to openly admit its existence. This led to an anti terrorist law being issued, known as Perpu No. 1/2002, giving the police more power to detain terrorist suspects. In 2003 this law was replaced by Undang Undang No. 15/2003 tentang Pemberantasan Tindak Pidana Terrorisme [Law No. 15/2003 on the Elimination of Terrorism]. Nevertheless, the new anti-terrorist law did not stop another terrorist attack on the JW Marriott Hotel in Jakarta on 5 October 2003. This bombing was the largest since the Bali bomb blast, which resulted in twelve people dead and 147 wounded. Like the Bali bombing last year, the attack was carried out by Jemaah Islamiyah (JI), a terrorist organization using Islam as its ideology. Many believe that the JI is not only a regional organization but is linked to Al-Qaeda of Osama bin Laden. Unlike the Bali bomb blast in which the majority of the victims were foreigners, espe cially Australians, the majority of the Jakarta victims were Indonesians. The Jakarta bombing had two consequences: on the one hand, it instilled fear among Indonesians that the JI would be able to strike any time; on the
Geography · Government (linguistics · Ideology · Islam · Political science · Politics · Terrorism · Asian Studies and History · Islamic Studies and Radicalism · Law · Legal Studies and Policies
| Citations per year | 0.12 |
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| Citation span | 2009 - 2023 (15) |
| Highly cited | No |