TEMPO.CO, Jakarta - Chairman of academic performance evaluation team from the Ministry of Research, Technology and Higher Education Supriadi Rustad argues that education institution has the possibility of being exposed with radicalism.
“This time, there is the fact that campuses are exposed by radical ideas. As other institutions, campuses are not a completely sterile,” said Supriadi on Monday, June 4.
The police's anti-terror squad Densus 88 had recently arrested three suspected terrorists at the University of Riau on June 2. Police discovered two pipe bombs that were ready to be detonated. The three arrested men originally targeted Riau’s Regional People's Representative Assembly (DPRD).
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Supriadi’s statement strengthened the research conducted by the National Counterterrorism Agency (BNPT) on exposures on radicalism within campus areas. BNPT found that Indonesia’s universities have been exposed to radicalism since 30 years ago.
“Now every campus in the Java Island is exposed to radicalism,” said BNPT Director of Prevention Brigadier General Hamli as quoted from Tempo Magazine’s latest edition.
BNPT’s research also strengthens the research held by Alvara Research Center on October 2017 stating that 23.5 percent supports the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) movement.
Furthermore, 23.4 percent agrees to the country’s preparedness to establish a caliphate. The poll involved 1,800 respondents throughout 25 Indonesian universities.
Supriadi continued to maintain that a revitalized religious education can form a tolerant attitude that can be useful to overcome radicalism within campus areas.
Andita Rahma
