Roundup: Indonesia beefs up security after Paris terror attacks

Indonesia has taken precaution measures by ordering troops to intensify joint patrols, surveillance in areas considered prone to being targeted by radical groups and collecting information on suspicious activities possibly carried out by radical groups to prevent terror-linked violence from occurring in the country.

The order was issued by Indonesian Military Commander Gen. Gatot Nurmantyo as a response to the deadly Paris terror attacks on Friday which killed more than 100 people and injured hundreds of others.

"Should suspicious situation happens on the scene it must be reported immediately so as to get quick response from the military and police in an effort to provide security for the people," the highest commander of the Indonesian forces said in his statement released by the military headquarters on Monday.

The attacks in Paris occurred in multiple locations. The Islamic State (IS) claimed responsibility for them, saying it was a revenge for France's involvement in airstrikes against IS strongholds in Syria.

An Indonesian legislator said that the attacks in Paris have the similar motive and message in the previous attacks in Indonesia's Bali and New York, the United States.

"This is a global warning that a new terror group after Al Qaeda has emerged. That group is Islamic State (IS)," Prananda Paloh, a legislator from the National Democrat (Nasdem) party, said in the parliament building Monday.

He said that the attacks in Paris would unite the international community to make joint efforts to fight terrorism.

According to the legislator, the attacks were not related to any teaching or religion. There were merely based on strayed beliefs, intolerance and inhumane stances.

"Therefore all countries in the world should also be responsible to prevent the spread of strayed beliefs and ideology, arrest those spreading the ideology and dictating the people to follow them," Prananda said.

Indonesia has witnessed series of terror attacks that killed hundreds of civilians in the last decade. The deadliest attacks occurred in the leisure island of Bali in October 2002 that killed 202 westerners and locals who spent their night out in two cafes bombed by terrorists.

Besides Bali, capital Jakarta also saw several attacks by terror groups which targeted western country's representative objects.

JW Marriott, Ritz Carlton hotels and the Australian embassy were part of those attacked by the terrorist group led by Malaysian radicals, Azahari Husin and Nurdin M Top, who recruited members from Indonesia in 2003, 2005 and 2009.

All of those attacks were conducted with high explosive bombs. Reports said that the terror group led by the Malaysian radicals in Indonesia was linked to Al Qaeda.

To crackdown on terrorism, the Indonesian authorities have arrested and sentenced some terror operatives to death penalties and have also foiled several terror plans to attack civil targets.

Indonesian police's anti-terror squad of Special Detachment 88 (Densus 88) killed Azahari Husin, a Malaysian radical who led a terrorist group in Indonesia, in November 2005 in an operation to raid his hideouts in East Java.

Azahari's deputy Nurdin M Top was killed by the Densus 88 personnel when he was ambushed in his hideouts in Surakarta, Central Java in September 2009. Endit