Indonesian president Joko Widodo. - Reuters
JAKARTA (The Jakarta Post/ANN): President Joko 'Jokowi' Widodo has decided to ban Indonesian nationals who joined the Islamic State (IS) movement in Syria from returning to Indonesia, calling them “ex-citizens”, as he instructed his aides to immediately sort out their identities and put them on the immigration database.
The move followed the government’s decision not to repatriate some 689 Indonesian IS supporters currently stranded abroad, with the government saying that it would prioritiSe the safety of the hundreds of millions of citizens at home.
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