(FTFs) Foreign Terrorist Fighters in Indonesia

Over the past four years, ISIS has rapidly become the most dangerous of transnational influences on jihadism in Southeast Asia. It has recruited and mobilized hundreds of Southeast Asian fighters for military and other services in Syria and Iraq and has drawn pledges of loyalty from several thousand jihadists in the region. This research explains the motivation of foreign terrorist fighters Indonesia joining ISIS (Islamic State of Iraq and Syria). There are three factors which influenced most youth people becoming FTFs in Syria: ideology, financial incentive and material rewards, and internet. To decrease the number of Indonesian FTFs to go to Syria, this study recommends the government to Reinforced Check at External Border; Reformulate Combating Terrorism Criminal Act; socialize deradicalization and mismanagement, and strengthening economic empowerment. This study is a qualitative research and using descriptive analysis method.