Terrorism Alert, Increase Monitoring

JAKARTA - A bomb exploded at the Medan Police Headquarters, North Sumatra, Wednesday, November 13 at 08.45 WIB. The perpetrator is known as Rabbial Muslimin Nasution (24).

The police did not detect the presence of the bomb when the perpetrator entered the Medan Police Headquarters. The bomb was tied around his waist. Meanwhile, the perpetrator's body was wrapped in an online motorcycle taxi jacket.

As a result of the explosion, six people were injured, four of them were police, one was a daily worker, and the rest were civilians. They were treated at the Bhayangkara Medan Hospital for healing.

Vice President Ma'ruf Amin highlighted the online motorcycle taxi jackets used by the perpetrators. It is not impossible, for Ma'ruf this is a way for terrorists to trick the authorities.

"Right now, suspicion is needed because it turns out that the suicide bomber also wore the ojol attribute," he said.

He asked the public to take the role of monitoring for early detection of terrorism efforts. "We also function RT and RW in the direction of being able to monitor the surrounding conditions. So that the possibility of (terrorism) can be prevented, can be detected early. I think we need to increase vigilance, ”said Ma'ruf.

Coordinating Minister for Political, Legal and Security Affairs (Menko Polhukam) Mahfud MD asked the public not to speculate that the authorities were cheating. He assured the public that the authorities had acted to prevent terrorism from occurring.

"We have done prevention. There is intelligence, information. If there is no prevention there will be more like this, "said Mahfud.

On the other hand, Mahfud asked the apparatus to work measuredly when taking action against terrorism cases so as not to raise the opinion that handling terrorism was slow.

TNI Commander Marshal Hadi Tjahjanto will synergize with the National Police and other ministries to deal with this. This is because the threat of terror in the era of the industrial revolution 4.0 has three characteristics, namely escalative, mixed with others, and with a short tempo.

Meanwhile, the Minister of Communication and Information Technology (Menkominfo) Johnny G Plate will block content related to acts of terrorism. "If it is written clearly, 'this is how to make a bomb', then we take it down. Obviously it's terrorism," said Johnny.

However, his latest finding, such titles are rarely found and are disguised by other terms. "And these codes must be analyzed. For example, 'How to cook lodeh vegetables'. This is code language. So we have to watch and guard it right. But if we know, we will take steps to implement the law such as blocking or legal action. , "He explained.