Student Network for Human Security (SNHS) Blog

Without his permission, and important message:

Dear all

At July 8th 2009, there was presidential election in Indonesia that more than 100.000.000 Indonesians voted one of three candidates. It been assumed that will be chaos after the elcetion process due to some political scandals colored it. But it never happened fortunately

At July 17th 2009, two bombs exploded on two ritzy-hotels in Jakarta and shocked the country effectively after 4 years stability on domestic security. It related to the one's who joins to Al-Qaeda network and been doing mission for weakening the country by suicide-bombings like past in Jakarta and Bali. Public argued it happended because there was an idleness of country secuity during election's process, even the terrorists used new method for doing the bombing that out of predictions.

(For your information, the suicide-bombers usually Indonesians, moslem-extrimist that indoctrined to be terrorist by foreigners, they usually come from poor-class of economy and been alienated. That fact make them really vulnerable to be indoctrined as extrimist.Now it become popular topic to counter terrorism from its root)

The bombs hurted the citizens here. But it only affected not very on economical and tourism sector, later the spirit declared to rise-up "WE ARE NOT FEAR, WE WILL NOT GO DOWN" for countering terrorism. It only days after the evidence.From government to citizens to unite for countering terrorism. Here some actions-plan have been doing and will be done:
1. Public-medias demand for guidance to be published by government. The guidance for facing the bomb-explosion and its recovery process as well as the other disaster's guidance based on experiences.
2. The need to pay more attention into poor people and moslem that vulnerable to be suicide-terrorist. It called by the former chief of special police of terrorism.
3. The need to raise citizens's awareness bout terrorism and the stranger and suspicious person on their environment
4. Demand for civic education on identifying someone's psychological related to suspicious person around, to raise public awareness bout suicide-bombing
5. For citizens doing their activities normally after the evidence and not to be panic on domestic security. It helps the country recover soon
6. To renew the technology for identifying bombs on public spaces

Several days recent, I noted that even the country like Indonesia that not belonged to hi-tech country, but has great power from its social capital for recovering and countering disaster and another human security risks like earthquake and so on. Social capital is something important to build human security, and cheaper than hi-tech.

Later, I would like to hear your opinion as we ever met on human security conference.