Abstract
In Indonesia, the acute threat predictions of the early 2000s concerning militant Islamist ascendancy have largely failed to materialize, at least strategically. This outcome raises some interesting questions about the ways in which Indonesia’s counterterrorism policy responded to the threat. The chapter considers the character of the localized policy responses to Islamist militancy in Indonesia. By drawing on work related to “social imaginary” and “reservoirs of violence,“ it shows that rather than relying exclusively on punitive action, Indonesia’s use of various nontraditional security responses also plays a role in containing such threats.
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Carnegie, P.J. (2017). On the Horns of a Dilemma: State, Security, and Militancy in Indonesia. In: Romaniuk, S., Grice, F., Irrera, D., Webb, S. (eds) The Palgrave Handbook of Global Counterterrorism Policy. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-55769-8_34
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