Antiterrorist

Antiterrorist
crisis center

From Warta Kota

The Jakarta provincial administration officially opened its
Antiterrorist Crisis Center on Oct. 24, 2003. Earlier, a
guidebook on the prevention of terrorism had also been published.

The crisis center will receive reports on suspected acts of
terrorism from the public and provide information on terrorist
activity to the public.

I wonder what criteria will be applied to identify terrorist
threats. If a building gets a phone call about an imminent bomb
explosion, is it a terrorist threat, and must it be directly
reported to the center? If someone receives repeated text
messages containing death threats on his cell phone, do they
constitute a terrorist threat?

In my view, the center should specify the criteria for the
sort of things that should be reported as terrorist threats so
that the wrong people are not arrested.

ADI SUPRABA
Jakarta