[3][4] In January 2025, BNPT plans to establish the National Preparedness Center in West Jakarta, according to Fanfan Infansyah, head of the agency's general affairs bureau.

[8] Social psychologist M. Brooke Rogers and others wrote that extremist religious fundamentalism can be closely linked to carrying out acts of violence and terror in the name of revenge or honor.

[14] Jemaah Ansharut Daulah is the terrorist group behind the 2018 Surabaya bombings[15] and have admitted to be associated with Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant.

[17] In July 2018, a court ruling provided legal justification for arrests of individuals associated with JAD through the establishment of Article 12A in the Terrorism Law.

[25] One of the bombings was carried out in a Starbucks store close to the United Nations building which hosted multiple foreigners and expats, two of whom have been killed.

[32] The leader of BNPT, Suhardi Alius, believes it is a successful effort as only 3 criminals out of the approximate 600 have gotten involved with terrorism after completing the program.

[35] The Chapters consists of:[35] This law grants BNPT and other government organizations the permission to detain anyone they deem as a suspect for up to 6 months without a trail, using intelligence reports as evidence and intercept phone calls which they deem would allow them to gain access to information crucial to solving and preventing terrorism cases.

[36] This law concerns State Intelligence and their role to intercept and conduct surveillance on any kind of communication that they deem may potentially threaten national security.

The newer law was created right after the Bali bombings to fill in existing gaps in the criminalization of terrorism funding.

[3] Terrorism observer, Al-Chaidar believes the de-radicalization program is not effective and is strongly against the fact that these criminals are then released to the community.

[33] In John Sidel's book "The Islamist Threat in Southeast Asia: A Reassessment", he states that he does not believe strong security approaches will have any effect on preventing terrorism.

[39] Bilveer Singh, an Associate Professor of Political Science at Nanyang Technological University of Singapore, concurs that the anti-terrorism laws in Indonesia are still weak despite efforts to improve them after the events in 2002 and 2009.