Prevent Terrorism, BNPT reinforces the collaboration with Antara News Agency

Jakarta – The National CounterRorism Agency (BNPT) continues to strengthen synergy with various stakeholders in efforts to prevent terrorism. One concrete step taken is to establish collaboration with Antara News Agency. “Antara as a BNPT strategic partner to synergize and work together on BNPT prevention programs,” BNPT head Eddy Hartono said in a written statement on Tuesday (9/23/2025). Browse to continue the content, this visit took place on Monday (9/22) between the Jakarta Heritage Center. This activity is an important momentum to unite the vision of presenting a broader, structured and effective terrorism prevention campaign by the mainstream media track. At the event, Eddy emphasized that collaboration with Antara played a strategic role, considering that the media was the main channel to build public awareness. He added that this attempt matched the mandate of the Act Number 5 of 2018, which required the government to prevent terrorism. According to Eddy, this legal foundation is a strong grip for BNPT in the embrace of different elements, including the media, so that prevention messages can reach the community more large. “Where it becomes the mandate of the Act Number 5 of 2018, the prevention of terrorism must be carried out by the government. On this day we come to the campaigns to prevent terrorism in Indonesia,” Eddy said. Meanwhile, the director of the news between Irfan Junaidi said his party welcomed this cooperation. According to Irfan, Synergy with BNPT will further strengthen the function of the media to perform its role, not only as a delivery of information, but also as an agent for public literacy. “We are very open to be able to work together to do educational literacy programs, so that the task of BNPT can also be performed more optimally,” he concluded. (PRF/EGA)