The defeat at end of March of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, ISIS, had impact on Indonesia. Some 500 former ISIS sympathizers originally from Indonesia are in disarray in various refugee camps around Syria. Some of them contacted their families saying they wished to return home.

Chief of the National Counterterrorism Agency (BNPT) Comsr. Gen. Suhardi Alius stated that the government is acting on this request. But this is no ea