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National scene: Police monitor 300 IS supporters
JAKARTA: National Police Chief Gen
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AKARTA: National Police Chief Gen. Badrodin Haiti said that police were currently monitoring 300 Indonesians who had allegedly joined the Islamic State (IS) movement.
'We have monitored those who have pledged their support for IS. We have data on around 300 people. Some have left [to Syria], some have returned and some died there,' Badrodin told reporters on Friday.
He said that the police had assigned the counterterrorism unit Densus 88 to keep a close eye on those who had returned from Syria.
'We have to be vigilant. They might be harmless now but they could change their minds in the future,' he said.
On Thursday, the National Counterterrorism Agency (BNPT) confirmed that 149 Indonesians had returned to the archipelago from war-torn Syria.
BNPT chief Comr. Gen. Saud Usman Nasution said that many of the 149 had been deported or arrested at state boundaries, though some had returned to Indonesia on their own accord.
