Police to Investigate Persons Reportedly Involved in ISIS Network

Jakarta (Antara) - Police reported here on Tuesday that they have been conducting an investigation on persons allegedly involved in the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) network in the country. "Investigation is already underway based on data we had compiled before. So, we are following up on the investigation that had been carried out so far on persons who have been recruited to carry out jihad in Syria," the National Police Command's head of public information division Brigadier General Boy Rafli Amar said. He noted that the police had a list of the persons who had been recruited. He said the police had once handled terrorism cases involving those who had been recruiting people to fight in Syria. "We have been monitoring them but not in our focus of investigation," he pointed out. In view of that, he has appealed to followers of ISIS ideology who had spread a video footage of terrorists calling for people to join ISIS to review their stance. "I appeal to them to stop efforts to establish an organization based on radicalism. Organizations that have been established must be dissolved," he said. (*)