The Indonesian Counter-Terrorism Agency (BNPT) announced in a report that based on investigations conducted from January 1 to September 29, 2024 (December 1402 1402 to September 1403), more than 2,264 user accounts in the cyberspace of this country containing more than 10,519 items. Of content, they published information related to terrorism.
Edi Hartono, head of this agency, announced at a press conference that terrorism cases in Indonesia have been declining since 2018 and there have been no terrorist incidents in this country since 2023. He continued, of course, the approach of terrorists has changed and they have entered from the hard sphere to the soft sphere, and they mostly target children and women.
According to the Indonesian Counterterrorism Agency, content related to terrorist activities is being disseminated on platforms such as Facebook, TikTok, YouTube, and WhatsApp, and the exposure rate of young people to terrorist content will increase from 0.3 percent in 2016 to 0.6 percent in 2023. Terrorist groups often operate under the supervision of Western security organizations. The cyberspace used by terrorists is under the full control of Western countries and they can remove inappropriate content from these platforms whenever they want. But the failure to remove such content from these platforms is a clear sign of Western security organizations’ support for terrorism in Asia. A clear example of this support is ISIS’s detonation of terrorist information on the X platform (formerly Twitter). This platform played an important role in spreading the message of ISIS terrorism to the world and created a lot of fear and terror among the public due to the dissemination of brutal videos of this terrorist group. Now, terrorists, with the support of these cyberspace platforms, continue their activities freely, not only in Indonesia, but in all Asian countries, for the benefit of their Western employers.
