Abstract
The Indonesian deradicalization program conducted by Indonesian National Counterterrorism Agency (BNPT) comes under public scrutiny due the number of terrorist recidivism with a total of 47 individuals during 2018 until 2020. This indicates that the ongoing deradicalization program has not been successful and effective and it requires a massive change across all levels. This article aims to analyse the Indonesian deradicalization programs which has been adopting the peacemaking criminology approach and how it is implemented. Employing a qualitative study through desk research and informal interviews as the data collection techniques, this article examines various problems and challenges that are hampering the peacemaking-based deradicalization programs in Indonesia, including the problem of database on the ex-convicts, methods of approach and assessment, reliance on the top-down approach conducted by government institutions, pandemic challenges, and inconsistencies with the legal or judicial aspects. Adapting to the social change approach by including the involvement of the non-government stakeholders is important for deradicalization program to work. This article recommends that the evaluation of deradicalization policies in Indonesia should consider the re-focusing of deradicalization goals by aiming at behavioural changes rather than mindset and ideological changes, incorporating gender aspects in deradicalization programs, research-based programs formulation based on intersecting multidiscipline research fields and the possibility for the deradicalization as well as disengagement privatization programs to increase the effectiveness and reduce inefficiency.
Highlights
Terrorism still poses as a serious problem for many countries in the world, including Indonesia
This article aims to review the implementation of Indonesian deradicalization program which had adopted the peacemaking criminology approach in mainstreaming the peaceful means to control terrorism crimes
As a series of programs aimed at dealing with radicalism that leads to violent extremism, the deradicalization program requires the collaboration of various stakeholders, including government institutions, religious organizations, non-governmental organizations, civil society, and the program’s participants (Muhammad & Hiariej, 2020)
Summary
Terrorism still poses as a serious problem for many countries in the world, including Indonesia. Terrorism acts were at its highest point in in 2014 with 33.000 fatalities recorded in a year (Institute for Economics & Peace, 2020). Scholars and practitioners in terrorism field have attempted to define terrorism and fails to agree on a single definition. The underlying tenet of terrorism is that it aims to achieve a political goal by using violent means and creating fear and potentially resulting in the loss of lives and wellbeing of the innocent victims (Ghosh, 2014 p.91). The combination between various factors behind its occurrence and its massive destructive impacts have put terrorism as a complex criminal as well as political act. Women and children have been involved as perpetrators in some terrorism
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