Jakarta arrests show failings of radical rehab

JAKARTA - Indonesia's vaunted "deradicalization program" aimed at bringing terrorists back into mainstream Islam has been exposed as a myth by recent arrests of re-offenders, analysts and police said.

Senior police now acknowledge that no such program exists and are issuing increasingly stark warnings that, on the contrary, the mainly Muslim country's prisons are at risk of becoming schools of violent jihad.

The final straw appears to have been the re-arrest on Wednesday of Abdullah Sunata, 32, on suspicion of plotting attacks on the Danish embassy and a police parade.