bmolsson
11-27-2005, 05:40
Maybe this is the right approach if they succeed to keep it running.....
Indonesia plans 'ideological war' to prevent terrorist acts
JAKARTA (Bloomberg): Indonesia, which has suffered from suicide bombings each year since 2002, plans to wage an "ideological war" against terrorists to prevent them from influencing its people, the country's vice president said.
Indonesia, which has the world's largest Muslim population, plans to set up a panel of Muslim clerics next week that will attempt to counter terrorist ideology through their sermons, said Vice President Jusuf Kalla, 63.
Kalla " is trying to provide some sort of leadership," after criticism the nation lacking direction in its fight against terrorism, said Bruce Gale, a political risk analyst at Hill & Associates Ltd. in Singapore. "I would say that this is apositive stance."
The move comes after police found videos left behind by three suicide bombers who detonated bombs in Bali on Oct. 1 that killed at least 20 people, claiming their attacks would help them get into heaven, and amid indications that terrorists are planning further attacks.
"Most important, is the ideological war," Kalla said in an interview on Saturday at his official residence in Jakarta. "You can win the ideological war only if you know their thinking, and know why our" thinking is better.
The clerics will be asked to ensure that correctinterpretations of Islam reach every province in the world's largest archipelago, Kalla said.
Indonesia plans 'ideological war' to prevent terrorist acts
JAKARTA (Bloomberg): Indonesia, which has suffered from suicide bombings each year since 2002, plans to wage an "ideological war" against terrorists to prevent them from influencing its people, the country's vice president said.
Indonesia, which has the world's largest Muslim population, plans to set up a panel of Muslim clerics next week that will attempt to counter terrorist ideology through their sermons, said Vice President Jusuf Kalla, 63.
Kalla " is trying to provide some sort of leadership," after criticism the nation lacking direction in its fight against terrorism, said Bruce Gale, a political risk analyst at Hill & Associates Ltd. in Singapore. "I would say that this is apositive stance."
The move comes after police found videos left behind by three suicide bombers who detonated bombs in Bali on Oct. 1 that killed at least 20 people, claiming their attacks would help them get into heaven, and amid indications that terrorists are planning further attacks.
"Most important, is the ideological war," Kalla said in an interview on Saturday at his official residence in Jakarta. "You can win the ideological war only if you know their thinking, and know why our" thinking is better.
The clerics will be asked to ensure that correctinterpretations of Islam reach every province in the world's largest archipelago, Kalla said.