ISIS AND THE SHIFT OF

TERRORISM MOVEMENT IN
INDONESIA (2014-2018)
Yon Machmudi
 INTRODUCTION
• The diminishing power of ISIS in Iraq and Syria does not
necessarily reduce the intensity of global terrorist. Instead, it
poses another threat to other countries with the return of the
ISIS militant FTFs who will act in their respective countries.
• Despite being relatively smaller in terms of scale and
casualties, the act of terrorism is demanding and intense. In
this period, acts of terror differed from the previous period,
both in terms of targets, patterns of movement, motivation,
and the actors involved.
 INDONESIA IS THE VICTIM
• Robert A Pape (2005), Dying to Win: The Strategic Logic of Suicide Terrorism
compiled 315 terrorist attacks in all around the globe (1980-2003).
• The data showed there is little connection between suicide terrorism and
Islamic fundamentalism rather all attacks have in common a specific secular
and strategic goals to compel modern democracies to withdraw military
forces from the territory that the terrorists consider to be their homeland
• Terrorist is about territory
Invasion of Afghanistan  Al Qaedah Jemaah Islamiyah
Invasion of Iraq  ISIS  Jamaah Ansharud Daulah (JAD)
Widely spread in Syria, Yemen, and Libya while its root in Southeast Asia
 WHY INDONESIA?
• The social logic of terrorism to launch mass campaign
1. A national community is occupied by a foreign power
2. The foreign power is of a different religion
3. The foreign power is a democracy
- Indonesia is the largest Muslim country often influenced by the conflict in the
Middle East and fall in trap of terrorism logic when considers it as religious
issues.
- ISIS attracted some Indonesians to fight against the infidels and democratic
occupiers for the establishment of the Islamic state organized groups
against democracy/NKRI to establish a Islamic state
 WHEN ISIS IS COLLAPSED
• The abandon the tanzim (organization) to start with individual terrorism (the
lone wolf terrorism), demonstrative terrorism no command and low casualty
• Shift of motivation, to exploit the religious, historical and ideological
connotations in order to impress the resurrection of a caliphate system
• The spread of takfiri, the determining of the position of muslim society
(members), who is real believer or infidel
• The use of tahlili dam (the easy to spill human blood).
• Shift in recruitment method: internet and social media, limit the offline
recruitment process, targeting the women and children
 CONCLUSION
• The returnee of foreign fighters still the main of security
threat
• Try to find a new conflict ground to develop while relying on
social media and internet
• Demonstrative terrorism still become a phenomenon to gain
the attraction not the matter of how many people die but
how many people watch
• Destructive and suicide terrorist develop in the conflict area.