Banjarmasin, South Kalimantan (AntaranewsKalsel) - Army Chief of Staff Gen. Gatot Nurmantyo praised peace and security of South Kalimantan which sustained over the years.


This was delivered at the Chief of Army Staff talkshow with Youth and All Nations Components throughout South Kalimantan in Sultan Suriansyah Building, Banjaramsin, on Thursday.

According to Gatot, South Kalimantan is known as a region that is highly conducive, because people are more active to maintain security and order.

"So I observe, why public order and safety conditions in this area is always awake, not only of the role of the police, military, and head of the region, but because of the attitude of people who raise the tradition of the values ​​of local wisdom in everyday life," he said.

According to the Army Chief of Staff, cultural wisdom of peace and a high sense of brotherhood, to continue to both maintain security and order in this country should be emulated elsewhere.

"This is evident in the area of ​​South Kalimantan is almost unheard of a conflict, so that the good of fostering security of this area needs to be developed and transmitted other stricken, who often experience conflict-prone," he said.

Moreover, he added, the current influence of radicalism have started entering Indonesia, which affects a handful of people  to be a terrorist, as already indicated with followers of ISIS.

"ISIS has become a common enemy, because it undermines the Unitary State of Republic of Indonesia," he said.

Therefore, firmly Gatot, it is important to wake public awareness of heresy of the radical movement that despised by almost all countries in the world.

"Here ends the area of ​​security enforcement plays an important role, in the military there is Babinsa, Babinkantibmas in the Police, and in the ranks of the government there are head of the village. Well, these three spearheads together with community leaders, youth, and the elements of the villagers maintain the security from things that threaten the sovereignty of the state, must be handled and anticipated, "he said.


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Editor : Mahdani


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