Long Road to Deradicalization

Apart from issues related to the use of violence and force, a number of other derivative issues are caused by terrorism.

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The suicide bombing at the Astanaanyar Sector Police Headquarters, Bandung on December 7, 2022, proves that deradicalization is not easy.

One of these issues concerns the children of terror convicts. Most such children are psychologically traumatized by the incidents they have experienced that involved their family members, especially their parents. Some witnessed their parents carry out suicide bombings, while others watched their parents be arrested by law enforcement.

This is the true story of Ais, the child of a family that carried out a suicide bombing attack in May 2018 in Surabaya, East Java. Ais, who was 8 years old at the time, survived the blast. Over time, Ais was placed in a social rehabilitation center in Surabaya, where it was determined that she was experiencing serious psychological impacts, including severe trauma (Kompasi.id, 13/2/2023).