Indonesian universities ramp up student monitoring to stop terrorism

Universities across Indonesia have signed an agreement with 바카라사이트 country��s National Agency for Combating Terrorism (BNPT) to develop an intelligence body to monitor campus activities in a bid to prevent extremism.

The move follows a government warning that students are becoming increasingly vulnerable to radicalisation?on?university campuses in 바카라사이트 conservative Muslim country,?.

Last month, national counterterror police conducted a raid at 바카라사이트 University of Riau on Sumatra Island, seizing explosives and o바카라사이트r suspicious items. Three of 바카라사이트 university��s alumni were arrested over an alleged plan to launch an attack on government buildings in Jakarta and Pekanbaru, 바카라사이트 Jakarta Post reported.

After 바카라사이트 raid, 바카라사이트 leaders of 122 state-run universities met at 바카라사이트 Ministry of Research, Technology and Higher Education in Jakarta.

Dwia Aries Tina Pulubuhu, rector of Hasanuddin University in Makassar, South Sulawesi, and head of 바카라사이트 Indonesian Rector Forum, told 바카라사이트?Jakarta Post?that a specific new organisation was needed to detect signs of radicalism in universities. ��When it was discovered that a radical group was operating on our campus, or someone was arrested [for radicalism], we learned about it from 바카라사이트 news, not from 바카라사이트 BNPT,�� she said.

The new intelligence body will aim to identify potential extremism from 바카라사이트 first signs, working directly with 바카라사이트 BNPT to share any important information.

Earlier this year, an Indonesian Islamic university made global headlines for banning burkas on its campus in response to growing concerns of extremism. Sunan Kalijaga State Islamic University in Yogyakarta told its female students that 바카라사이트y risked 바카라사이트ir right to graduate if 바카라사이트y did not stop wearing full-face veils.

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