Extreme Ideologies, Communism Must Be Watched: Budi Gunawan
7 September 2016 19:12 WIB
TEMPO.CO, Jakarta - National Police Deputy Chief Comr. Gen. Budi Gunawan said that external threats to national security were getting complex and without patterns.
“They’re asymmetrical and without patterns,” Budi said at the Senayan Parliamentary Complex in Jakarta on Wednesday, September 7, 2016.
Budi expressed his opinion related to the topic during the fit and proper test as the National Intelligence Agency (BIN) chief candidate before the House of Representatives. During the vision statement session, Budi suggested that BIN must anticipate several strategic threats to national security.
Conflicts around the globe, Budi viewed, could pose threats to national security. He added that global competition in political, legal and security sectors could take forms of proxy wars. Another factor that could trigger such treats was technological advances, said Budi.
“Infiltrations through cyber wars could escalate,” he said.
Budi, who previously served as the head of the National Police Education and Training Institute, also warned about the spread of extreme ideologies that could trigger radicalism and terrorism, “such as ISIS and the Santoso terrorist group.”
He revealed that foreign threats posed by armed groups in the Philippines could be dangerous for Indonesian people. He also called communism as a threat to the country’s stability.
AHMAD FAIZ