DERADICALIZATION AS A PENAL INSTRUMENT FOR TERRORISM PERPETRATORS

Abstract

Not all terrorism convicts have already been deterred after they underwent their sentence as the consequence for the crime that they have committed. The statement has been confirmed from the fact 116 ex-terrorism convicts of total 1,036 ex-convicts who have undergone their sentence turn into recidivists. 19 out of these 116 recidivists have still been in the correctional facility. Hence, such a high figure of terrorism recidivist certainly becomes concerning. On the contrary, deradicalization as a program that aims at changing individuals with radical understanding into the ones with moderate understanding cannot be forced to the terrorism convicts since this program is not compulsory for them. Hence, the current descriptive qualitative study will review the case from the legal perspective and the terrorism handling aspects so that deradicalization can be turned into the compulsory instrument in the terrorism perpetrator punishment. If the deradicalization can be turned into a compulsory instrument, then it can be expected that the case of terrorism recidivism can be reduced and the success rate of deradicalization can be improved for both the terrorism and the ex-terrorism convicts.