BNPT: Collaboration And Synergy Are Necessary As Efforts To Counter Terrorism

Police Commissioner General (Komjen) Boy Rafli Amar/Photo: Antara

JAKARTA - Head of the National Counter-Terrorism Agency (BNPT) Commissioner General (Komjen) Police Boy Rafli Amar said the integrated archipelago (KTN) area initiated by his institution was aimed at countering terrorism based on welfare. ," said Head of BNPT Komjen Police Boy Rafli Amar in a written statement received in Jakarta, Friday, March 25. He explained that KTN is a form of soft approach that prioritizes welfare aspects by providing facilities to deradicalization partners, survivors and the community to develop economic productivity. The area is used as a means of social reintegration for deradicalization partners to have economic independence. In the long term, KTN is expected to be able to prevent radicalism and terrorism through mindset transformation.

Within the KTN area, welfare-based de-radicalization efforts will also be revived through dialogical activities instilling national values with the concept of a container for the harmonious business of conscience to inflame the Republic of Indonesia (Warung NKRI). "Indonesia has four pillars of nationality that have been inherited by our ancestors. together," he said. BNPT itself has launched the first KTN in Turen District, Malang Regency, East Java Province. At that location, there are corn farms, goat farms and the KTN post which are a synergy of the BNPT, Malang Regency government, Malang Islamic University and several other parties. , cultivation of non-food crops and so on. The plantation products will be sold to the wider community.