FILE PHOTO: Motorists using a bridge connecting Batam with surrounding islands in 2023. Indonesian Police monitoring spread of radical groups in Batam Police alertness is based on migration and dispersion theory, which purports that foreign terrorist fighters may return to their countries of origin when radical groups lose their territories or when a situation is stabilised. - AFP
JAKARTA: The police are on alert, facing the possible spread of radical groups to the South-East Asia region, including Batam, with the stabilising conditions in the Middle East after a peace agreement between Israel and Palestinian resistance group Hamas.
Batam, Rempang and Galang (Barelang) City Police chief Sr. Comr. Zainal Arifin said the alertness had been materialised in several anticipative measures, such as tightening the supervision of migration gateways in coordination with the Batam Immigration Office, although no specific threat was identified.
