Surabaya Mayor to Provide Counseling for ISIS Sympathizers
13 March 2015 20:38 WIB
TEMPO.CO, Jakarta- Surabaya Mayor Tri Rismaharini said she would use personal approaches in dealing with Surabayans who had recently been found by the Turkish authorities after disappearing in the country in what many suspected as an attempt to join the Islamic State of Iraq and Greater Syria (ISIS). The mayor added she would also provide them with counselors.
"We can approach them, and later we can see if we can give them counseling,” Risma said after attending the 2014 City Management Innovation Award at the Surabaya City Hall on Thursday, March 12, 2015.
Risma added she was unaware that eight of the 16 Indonesians who once went missing in Turkey hailed from Surabaya. She said she would check with the Indonesian Embassy in Turkey. “Yes, we will see. I will communicate with the embassy in Turkey,” she said.
The mayor said she did not mind if the city administration had to cover the Surabayans’ airfares. According to latest data, eight of the 16 Indonesians who once went missing in Turkey were Surabayans—six of them are of a family and a one-year-old baby.
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