Presidential Regulation on Action Plan to Prevent Extremism and Strengthen BNPT Takes Effect
The President of the Republic of Indonesia has signed Presidential Regulation (Perpres) No. 8 of 2026 on the National Action Plan for the Prevention and Handling of Violent Extremism Leading to Terrorism (RAN PE) for 2026-2029. The regulation sets out national policies encompassing a strategic framework, directions, and priorities for preventing and addressing extremism leading to terrorism in the country.
Under the RAN PE Perpres, terrorism is defined as acts that use violence or threats of violence to create an atmosphere of terror or widespread fear, potentially causing mass casualties and/or damage or destruction to vital strategic objects, the environment, public facilities, or international facilities, motivated by ideology, politics, or security disruptions.
The RAN PE comprises nine themes: national preparedness, community and family resilience, education, community skills and job facilitation, protection and empowerment of women, youth, and children. Additionally, it focuses on strategic communication, media, and electronic systems, deradicalisation, human rights, good governance and justice, witness protection and victim rights fulfilment, as well as partnerships and international cooperation.
The background for issuing the RAN PE includes the development of terrorism as a global threat, paralleling the increasing conditions that foster extremism, particularly the ease with which extremist groups can spread their ideologies both offline and online.
To this end, the RAN PE focuses on addressing the triggers, including conducive conditions and structural contexts that drive it, as well as the radicalisation process itself. Key factors identified as backgrounds for the growth and development of Violent Extremism Leading to Terrorism include the high potential for communal conflicts based on primordial and religious sentiments.
There are also factors such as economic disparities, differing political views, unfair treatment, and intolerance in religious life. Therefore, regional governments must prepare regional action plans (RAD PE) at the latest one year after the issuance of the Perpres.
The Perpres also regulates the establishment of a joint RAN PE secretariat to ensure synchronisation and implementation by relevant ministries/institutions together with regional governments. Its tasks include formulating implementation policies for RAN PE, coordinating implementation, monitoring and evaluating implementation, and preparing achievement reports as well as evaluation results.