Category: IPAC
IPAC Report No: 63
STOPPING ABU SAYYAF KIDNAPPINGS: AN INDONESIAN-MALAYSIAN CASE STUDY To visit IPAC website, click image The best hope for reducing kidnapping and terrorism in the Sulu Sea may lie in the domestic policies of the three countries involved – Indonesia, Malaysia and Philippines. Improving transnational information-sharing is still essential, but each country has much homework to […]
IPAC Report No: 62
LEARNING FROM EXTREMISTS IN WEST SUMATRA To visit IPAC website, click image “The West Sumatra study calls into question the wisdom of the Indonesian government’s approach of treating radicalism as a problem of insufficient nationalism, curable by indoctrination in the state ideology, Pancasila,” says Sidney Jones, IPAC director.
IPAC Report No: 61
THE GROWING INFLUENCE OF SALAFISM IN MUSLIM MINDANAO To visis IPAC website, click image The puritanical stream of Islam known as Salafism is making major inroads in the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (BARMM) in the southern Philippines, in a way that could foster greater social conservatism in areas such as education, freedom of […]
IPAC Short Briefing No.1
COVID-19 AND ISIS IN INDONESIA To visit IPAC website click image Prison administrators, fearing an outbreak of COVID-19, have suspended visits and made otheradjustments, but the potential for prison unrest is high, as has happened in other countries hit by thevirus. Indonesia urgently needs procedures in place to handle violence or attempted escapes occur.”
IPAC Report Short Briefing No: 2
COVID-19 and Conflict in Papua To visit IPAC website click photo The virus arrived in Papua as tensions left over from deadly communal violence in August-September2019 remained high, and pro-independence guerrillas from the Free Papua Organisation (OrganisasiPapua Merdeka, OPM) were intensifying attacks in the central highlands.”
IPAC Report 60: Numbers Matter: The 2020 Census and Conflict in Papua
Inflated population statistics in Papua are a source of corruption, conflict and power struggles, but unlike many of Papua’s troubles, this one has a possible fix: a major effort by the new Jokowi government to ensure that the 2020 census produces an accurate head count.
IPAC Report 59: Indonesia: Urgent Need for a Policy on Repatriation of Pro-ISIS Nationals from Syria
As the security situation in Syrian camps & prisons deteriorates, the Indonesian gov’t could focus on repatriating its most vulnerable citizens.
IPAC Report 58: Indonesian Islamists and Post-Election Protests in Jakarta
Why the mobilising capacity of the groups that brought down Jakarta governor Ahok in 2016 was not as much in evidence in 2019; with a caution that Islamists are far from a spent force.
IPAC Report 57: Explaining Indonesia’s Silence on the Uyghur Issue
Report 57 examines the local dynamics affecting how the issue of Uyghur repression is perceived.
IPAC Report 56: The Ongoing Problem of Pro-ISIS Cells in Indonesia
The new report examines the emergence of independent cells that have no affiliation to the largest pro-ISIS coalition in the country, Jamaah Ansharul Daulah (JAD).
