Police Continue to Hunt Terrorists despite ISIS' Fall
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25 March 2019 18:01 WIB
TEMPO.CO, Jakarta - Indonesian National Police’s counterterrorism squad Densus 88 announced that it would continue to hunt down terrorist groups affiliated to ISIS despite the Syrian Democratic Forces' (SDF) recently announcing the fall of ISIS.
National Police spokesman Brig. Gen. Dedi Prasetyo said Densus 88 continued to keep an eye on all ISIS-affiliated terrorist network in the country.
“The team constantly conducts profiling and mitigations through preventive strikes in order to anticipate lone wolf terror acts,” said Dedi at the Indonesian National Police (Polri) headquarters today. Dedi also announced that terrorist sleeper cells are under the police’s scrutiny.
Read: ISIS "Caliphate" Defeated, but Threat Persists
Previously, the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), initiated by Kurdish militias, officially announced the collapse of ISIS after obliterating the last ISIS-controlled area of Baghouz, Syria, just last week. ISIS first declared their caliphate in 2014 by controlling Iraq and Syria.
ANDITA RAHMA
