News Reporting mid term

Terrorism Issue

Terrorism issue is one of the biggest issues in Indonesia, besides drugs abuse and also corruption. This issue was also discussed in the Asian African Conference Commemoration 2015, which was held last week in Bandung. Indonesia tried to persuade the AAC’s members to discuss about this matter since it was categorized to be handled as soon as possible, as what had been told by the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Retno Marsudi.

Terrorism should be banned, however, in order to make a country feels safe. “Terrorists are actually a group of people who are dangerous since they are threating another communities”, said M. Aulia Rudi, a student of governmental science major in Diponegoro University. In the previous interview with him today, 30^th April 2015, he explained some informations related to his experience about terrorism in his activity related to terrorism itself.

“In my recent activities, I joined an event in Surabaya which its theme was about peace across religion. It was attended by 7 communities, each community was represented by one person. I was the representative of my community, Indonesia Youth Political Institiute, to discuss about religion conflict. However, we also talked about the terrorism done by ISIS, too” Rudi explained about his recent activity.

According to him, terrorism actually should be banned, since it will harm the society which had no relation with them.  “It should be banned, terrorism. But, regarding to the media itself, I can’t agree with the stereotype given to society as terrorists are those who are coming from Asia or Africa. It should be in the last AAC, they should discuss how to decrease the effects of terrorism in the area of Asia and Africa”, Rudi declared to the issue of terrorism regarding to the recent AAC.

Furthermore, he also explained any kinds of factor might happens for telling society that terrorists are Asian and African people. “It might be any reasons for telling society that terrorists are Asian and African people. It might be that there is a propaganda, or some other reasons which has not revealed yet”, said Rudi to this.

However, in order to decrease the impact of terrorism itself, the commitment among countries in this world should be reached first. “No matter how, in order to make a decreasing point of terrorism, the govenment should reach a commitment to other country leaders to do this. Do not ban the terrorism in an open way, since if this happens, the terrorists will have revenge to the government and to the world. This should be avoided if we want to have a peace. This is what I discussed in the event, too”, Rudi gave a more explanations towards this issue, regarding to his experience.

In the end, Rudi only said that actually terrorists should have a motive behind their activity. It is the government’s duty to acknowledge their motives as well as try to solve what kind of motive they want to apply. This is the most important thing, as it should be discussed in the international meeting like the recent ACC.

By: pustaka sari