IPAC Report: Learning from Extremists in West Sumatra

Understanding how neighborhood study groups in Indonesia turned into pro-ISIS cells with links to Afghanistan may offer clues to effective strategies to counter extremism.

In its latest report, “Learning From Extremists in West Sumatra,” the Institute for Policy Analysis of Conflict (IPAC) examines how two groups in the cities of Padang and Bukittinggi expanded their networks over a decade through trading and migration networks, direct exposure to radical clerics, and the process of fleeing to new areas to evade the police. 

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