Questions over new Indonesian terror law’s implications for Papua | West Papua Action Network

6.6.18

Questions over new Indonesian terror law’s implications for Papua | West Papua Action Network: ANDREAS HARSONO: But the draft law remained idle until the Surabaya attacks in May 2018, when three Islamic State families of suicide bombers, attacked three Christian churches and the police headquarters, using their own children, as young as eight years old, in the attacks. It shocked the public in Indonesia. It was probably the first suicide attack in the world where father and mother bombers detonating their own children. President Jokowi went to Surabaya, saying that he will issue a presidential decree on counter-terrorism if the parliament does not finish the bill. The media coverage and the public shock put a lot of pressures on the parliament to deliberate the bill, spending less than a week to pass it.
JOHNNY BLADES: Are there concerns among the public or rights groups over particular aspects of the new laws?