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