{"id":23701,"date":"2016-07-26T16:08:04","date_gmt":"2016-07-26T20:08:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/?p=23701"},"modified":"2021-02-03T17:42:00","modified_gmt":"2021-02-03T22:42:00","slug":"hefner-interviewed-on-death-of-indonesian-terrorist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/2016\/07\/26\/hefner-interviewed-on-death-of-indonesian-terrorist\/","title":{"rendered":"Hefner Interviewed on Death of Indonesian Terrorist"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"\/pardeeschool\/files\/2016\/07\/Santoso-525x300.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/pardeeschool\/files\/2016\/07\/Santoso-525x300-515x300.jpg\" alt=\"Santoso-525x300\" width=\"515\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-23702\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/profile\/robert-hefner\/\">Robert Hefner<\/a><span>,\u00a0<\/span><span>Professor of Anthropology and International Relations at the <\/span><span>Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies at Boston University and<\/span><span>\u00a0Director of the <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cura\">Institute on Culture, Religion and World Affairs,<\/a>\u00a0was recently interviewed <span>on the killing of Santoso (real name Abu Wardah), the most-wanted terrorist in Indonesia, who died in an anti-terrorist raid.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Hefner was interviewed for a July 19, 2016 segment on\u00a0<span>Singapore\u2019s\u00a0\u201cFirst Look Asia\u201d a program on\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.channelnewsasia.com\/news\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Channel News Asia<\/a>. He\u00a0addressed questions on\u00a0whether Santoso\u2019s death represents a turning point in the fight against terrorism and ISIS in Indonesia.<\/p>\n<p>Hefner\u00a0suggested the event was a testimony to the skill and professionalism of the Indonesian police and anti-terror units, but said that, unfortunately, the war against ISIS still had a very long way to go.<\/p>\n<p><span>Robert Hefner has directed 19 research projects and organized 18 international conferences, and authored or edited nineteen books.\u00a0 <\/span><span>He is former president of the Association for Asian Studies.\u00a0 At CURA, he has directed the program on Islam and civil society since 1991; coordinated interdisciplinary research and public policy programs on religion, pluralism, and world affairs; and is currently involved in two research projects: \u201cThe New Western Plurality and Civic Coexistence: Muslims, Catholics, and Secularists in North America and Western Europe\u201d; and \u201cSharia Transitions: Islamic Law and Ethical Plurality in the Contemporary World.\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/profile\/robert-hefner\/\">You can read more about him here<\/a>.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prof. Robert Hefner discussed the death of the most-wanted terrorist in Indonesia, who died in an anti-terrorist raid.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11588,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8410],"tags":[9287,9535,9632,8859,8625,8577,9633],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23701"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11588"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23701"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23701\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47798,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23701\/revisions\/47798"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23701"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23701"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23701"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}