BNPT Conducts Terrorism Risk Index Survey In Central Sulawesi

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JAKARTA - The Central Sulawesi Terrorism Prevention Coordination Forum (FKPT) helped the National Counterterrorism Agency (BNPT) carry out a terrorism risk index (IRT) and radical potential index (IPR) survey in 2022 in Central Sulawesi.

Head of Research Division of FKPT Central Sulawesi Irfan Mufti said research on IRT and IPR is an annual program of BNPT through FKPT to find out field conditions related to the potential for radicals and terrorism.

"So the research results will be a reference for implementing prevention and deradicalization programs," said Irfan Mufti coaching enumerator of the terrorism risk index survey through the Central Sulawesi FKPT, in Palu, Saturday, August 13, quoted from Antara.

Irfan, who is an academic at Tadulako University in Palu, said that BNPT and FKPT have determined areas in Central Sulawesi to be research targets, including Banggai, Morowali, North Morowali, Poso, Donggala and Palu City.

"BNPT and FKPT form a team of enumerators or field teams who will be tasked with carrying out research," he said.

He said that the field team before being assigned to carry out research was first given reinforcement related to research contents.

In this regard, the Head of Sub-Directorate for Community Empowerment of BNPT, Colonel Czi Rahmad Suhendro, explained that in 2022, BNPT will involve FKPT in 34 provinces throughout Indonesia to carry out surveys in 227 districts/cities.

"This survey is to obtain an overview of the terrorism risk index in 2022," said Rahmad.

He explained that the IRT survey was divided into two dimensions, namely from the supply dimension of the actors.

"This relates to how big the emergence of terrorist actors in an area," said Rahmad.

Then, he said, judging from the target dimension, namely how big an area has the potential to become a target or target for terrorist acts.

Currently, BNPT and FKPT Central Sulawesi have carried out several stages of activities including the preparation of measurement instruments, determining the sample of selected locations, determining enumerators to preparing questionnaires.