Police to probe terrorist propaganda videos

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The Jakarta Post   WED, 3 FEB, 2016 2:14 PM

JAKARTA – Police have said they will investigate several propaganda videos allegedly circulated by the Islamic State (IS) group via the internet.

Several videos had been brought to the attention of the police, National Counterterrorism Agency (BNPT) chief Comr. Gen. Saud Usman Nasution said on Tuesday, adding that the force would study them to gauge their authenticity and provenance.

Saud said the police’s cybercrime division would handle the investigation, as it was not under the BNPT’s jurisdiction. “They have a special team. It’s not under our remit, but the remit of the police,” Saud said on Tuesday as quoted by kompas.com.

The videos in question appear to contain threats, in Indonesian, against police and government officials. The security officers believe that the videos were released by IS.

The extremist group also recently released a threatening video to the Malaysian government, which is currently stepping up operations to detect and detain suspected IS-affiliated individuals.

As previously reported by The Straits Times, in a video in the Malay language, the Malaysia-Indonesia IS unit -the Katibah Nusantara – said it would take revenge for the capture of its members.

Entitled “Mesej Awam Kepada Malaysia” (A Public Message for Malaysia), the video warns: “If you catch us, we will only increase in number, but if you let us be, we will draw closer to our goal of bringing back the rule of the caliphs.”

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