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Samarinda Church Attack Brings Govt's Deradicalization Program Into Question Jakarta. Questions have reemerged over the effectiveness of the government's deradicalization program, following a recent bomb attack allegedly carried out by a former terror convict on a church in East Kalimantan's capital Samarinda. A man, who police said received a three-and-a-half-year jail sentence in February 2012 for his involvement in a series of bomb threats in Jakarta in 2011, allegedly carried out the attack during a Sunday service on Nov. 13. Police said the attacker was released on parole after receiving a remission in July 2014. "He should have been reporting to the police if he was released on parole. The police should have kept an eye on him," House of Representatives lawmaker Tubagus Hasanuddin said in a statement on Monday (14/11). Authorities have enrolled nearly 250 terror convicts in 72 penitentiaries across the country in its deradicalization program, data from the National Counterterrorism Agency, or BNPT, show. The program also involved nearly 500 former terrorists and people in their networks in 17 provinces across the country, according to the BNPT data. "How could this man end up in Kalimantan and carry out a bomb attack?" Tubagus, the deputy chairman of the House of Representatives' Commission I which oversees defense and intelligence affairs, asked. The attacker, who police said also has links to existing terror networks and was trained in Aceh between 2009 and 2011, threw a petrol bomb that exploded in the parking lot of the church. Police have arrested at least 15 people since the incident, which killed a toddler and injured three other children.
