Students And The Young Generation Are Vulnerable To Radicalism And Terrorism, This Is The Cause

Director of Prevention of the Indonesian National Counterterrorism Agency (BNPT) Brigadier General Pol R Ahmad Nurwakhid/Photo: Antara

JAKARTA: Director of Prevention of the National Counterterrorism Agency (BNPT) RI Brigadier General Pol R Ahmad Nurwakhid said students and the younger generation in general are included in the category of groups that are vulnerable to being exposed to radical terrorism. they are still growing and developing, the values of their national insight are still in the process of maturation, they like new things, new challenges," said Nurwakhid in a statement received in Jakarta, Wednesday, January 26. the basic character of radicalism that animates all acts of terrorism. All terrorists must have radical ideas, although not all individuals or groups with radical views will automatically become terrorism.

He even said that BNPT conducted a pretest on the potential for radicalization within five minutes to students. He gave questions that are often used by radical groups in indoctrinating the younger generation, for example, the dichotomy of state law and religion. In response to this, the former Kabagbanops Densus 88 Polri is of the opinion that students are very vulnerable to being infiltrated by radical ideas because they still have unstable emotional control which has the potential for radicalization. radical ideology, it will be embedded in the mind and subconscious," he explained when speaking as a resource person at the Seminar on Building Harmonization of National and State Values for the Millennial Generation in Jakarta, Tuesday, January 25. According to him, the radical ideology of terrorism cannot be seen but can only be seen. dira sakan. This understanding is very dangerous like a virus that has the potential to affect every individual human being. "Terrorism has nothing to do with any religion because there is no one religion that justifies all of its actions, but it is related to religious understanding and ways that are wrong and deviate from religious persons, "After practicing the method of indoctrinating radical terrorism groups, Nurwakhid also vaccinated against radical terrorism by carrying out ideological rehabilitation. After that, we will only give vaccinations for the development of religious insight and national insight as an ideological vaccine," said the former Deputy Commander of the Taruna Regiment (Wadanmentar) of the Police Academy.