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Expanding Military’s Role in Tackling Terrorism

Monday, January 19, 2026

The government is drafting a presidential regulation that grants the military authority to engage in counterterrorism. The police are attempting to thwart this through regulations.

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AFTER completing the revision of the Indonesian Military (TNI) Law in March 2025, the Ministry of Defense moved quickly to prepare implementing regulations for the new statute. One of them is a Presidential Regulation on the Duties of the Indonesian Military in Addressing Acts of Terrorism.

Chief of the Defense Information Bureau at the Defense Ministry Brig. Gen. Rico Ricardo Sirait said his office involved several other institutions in draftin

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Francisca Christy Rosana, Daniel Ahmad Fajri, Hussein Abri Dongoran, and Sultan Abdurrahman contributed to the writing of this article.

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