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Poll: 95% of Indonesians reject Islamic State
Jakarta Globe - January 22, 2016
Ninety-five percent of the 1,220 people nationwide polled by Jakarta-based Saiful Mujani Research and Consulting said they rejected the presence of the group in Indonesia. Around 90 percent said they felt Islamic State posed a threat to the country, against 4 percent who said it was not a threat.
Less than 1 percent said they found the group's ideology acceptable, according to Djayadi Hanan, the SMRC executive director. The survey's margin of error is 3 percent.
The poll was carried out in December, weeks before the Jan. 14 terrorist attack in downtown Jakarta that killed four civilians and four perpetrators and was blamed on Islamic State.
"The figures show that Indonesians in general are aware of ISIS, but at the same time disagree with what the movement is fighting for," Djayadi said in a statement. "They see the ISIS movement as threat and reject its existence in Indonesia."
He added the results of the SMRC poll aligned with a similar survey by the Pew Research Center, released in November, which showed that only 4 percent of the 1,000 Indonesians polled supported the radical movement.
"In other words, ISIS is [seen as] the enemy of Indonesians, for both Muslims and non-Muslims, whatever their ethnicity, education level, gender, social class or domicile," Djayadi said.
In light of last week's attack, the administration of President Joko Widodo has called for urgent revisions to the 2003 Anti-Terrorism Law to allow security agencies to take more proactive measures to counter perceived threats from Islamic State sympathizers.
Source: http://jakartaglobe.beritasatu.com/news/poll-95-indonesians-reject-islamic-state/.
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