"That's not a matter for debate anymore, we need military involvement," Muhammad Syafi'i, the chairman of a special committee at the parliament tasked with deliberating the revisions to the anti-terrorism law, said as quoted by the Jakarta Globe newspaper.
According to the newspaper, he added that military personnel should be able to detain terrorists and actively participate in anti-terrorism operations instead of being a back-up force on stand-by.
The new counter-terror bill also reportedly proposes longer detention for terrorism suspects, citizenship revocation and wiretapping without court order.
The government undertook the revision of the anti-terrorism laws following a January 14 Jakarta attack, when a series of explosions hit Indonesia’s capital, leaving at least seven people dead and another 26 injured.
On July 5, a suicide bomber attacked a police station in the city of Solo, killing himself and injuring one officer. The attack was reportedly plotted by a network coordinated by Bahrun Naim, an Indonesian believed to be fighting alongside the Islamic State terrorist group outlawed in Russia and many other countries.
