Indonesia tries deradicalization - Middle East Times - 0 views
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Singapore and Malaysia -- does not try to get the extremists to break with their radical, political interpretation of Islamic ideology, but rather to renounce violence, specifically suicide bombings and other mass casualty attacks on civilians.
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O'Brien said that Nasir Abas, one of the former radicals now leading the program, "expected to be beaten and killed" when he was arrested. "They didn't (beat him). They treated him well," O'Brien said of the Indonesian police.
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Indonesia is one of several Southeast Asian nations that are following the lead of Arab countries like Saudi Arabia and launching programs to rehabilitate jailed Islamic extremists -- known as deradicalization.