DPR Member Farah Puteri Nahlia Concerned About Terrorists Now Young, Suggest This To BNPT

Anggota Commission I DPR Farah Puteri Nahlia (DOK Instagram added)

JAKARTA - Young legislators in the DPR are concerned that the alleged perpetrators of the terrorist acts in front of the Cathedral Church, Makassar, and at the National Police Headquarters are from young people. Even though young age is the age of hope for the future.

"Especially when referring to BPS data for 2020, the total percentage of the population of productive age reaches 70.72 percent and that figure should reflect the age of the future generation of the Indonesian nation," said member of Commission I DPR Farah Puteri Nahlia, Thursday, April 1.

The deputy secretary general of the DPP PAN reminded that the National Counterterrorism Agency (BNPT) program related to deradicalization and prevention of intolerant terrorism-radicalism needs to be increased, especially by encouraging the strengthening of approaches that target the younger generation.

According to him, approaches such as the Coordination Forum for the Prevention of Terrorism (FKPT) involving students that have been carried out by BNPT must be strengthened by innovative counter-radical creative approaches.

"The implementation of Law No. 5 of 2018 concerning the Eradication of Criminal Acts of Terrorism is the key word to ensure that Bhineka Tunggal Ika is still a pillar of the country as a manifestation of the deradicalization program," he explained.

According to Farah, the fact that some children and adolescents are connected in the vortex of terrorism is certainly a threat in itself as a form of generational vulnerability.

He considered the findings that show terrorists from among the younger generation as evidence that acts of violence and indoctrination of radicalism threaten all generations of ages without exception.

"Young people who should be preparing and struggling to achieve their goals, including the phases of finding their own identity, are in danger of killing themselves, killing their own future, such as with a suicide bombing," he said.