ABSTRACT
This chapter considers the treatment of terrorist prisoners, and focuses on the rehabilitation element of the Saudi counselling programme. Many countries that have incarcerated individuals for terrorist offences have implemented programmes attempting to dispossess these individuals of the ideologies that drove them. The chapter highlights the diversity of practices employed in these programmes through a discussion of a select few. It describes that emphasise psychological care, religious dialogue, the cooperation of former terrorists, and physical isolation. Programmes for addressing radical prisoners are often framed as ‘de-radicalisation’ initiatives. The counselling component was the crux of the original Saudi programme, and was designed to promote communication between programme personnel and prisoners who adhered to radical beliefs and attitudes. As in Yemen and Saudi Arabia, Indonesian security forces have been forced to contend with an ongoing terrorist threat. Militant Islamist terror group Jemaah Islamiyah has performed violent attacks in and around Indonesia since its emergence in the mid-1990s.
