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Indonesian police monitoring possible spread of radical groups to Batam
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A fully armed police officer on guard in 2016 in an area leading to the house of a suspected terrorist in Batam, Riau Islands.
PHOTO: THE JAKARTA POST/ASIA NEWS NETWORK
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JAKARTA – The Indonesian police are on the alert for the possible spread of radical groups to the South-east Asia region, including Batam, amid the stabilising situation in the Middle East after a peace agreement between Israel and Palestinian resistance group Hamas.
Batam, Rempang and Galang (Barelang) city police chief Zainal Arifin said the alert was reflected in several preventive measures, such as tightened supervision of migration gateways, in coordination with the Batam Immigration Office, although no specific threat was identified.
