Exporting Prevent: The UK government’s complicity in rights-violating counter-extremism programmes in Indonesia

The UK is helping Indonesia violate the freedom of religion and risks complicity in other abuses such as torture and disappearances by exporting its ‘Prevent’ counter-extremism strategy to the country, Rights & Security International concludes in a new report released today.

The report shows that the UK supports harmful counter-extremism practices in Indonesia – the world’s largest majority-Muslim country – even though the Indonesian government has official policies of repressing non-approved faiths. The UK is also training police and military officers from departments and units that have allegedly gone on to commit serious crimes.

For more information, see the attached report and press release.

For media enquiries, please contact Renee Karunungan at rkarunungan@rightsandsecurity.org.