Despite the wave of violence that has swept Indonesia in recent years, the country’s police have enjoyed “remarkable success” in cracking down on domestic terrorism, according to national police chief Tito Karnavian in an interview with Channel News Asia. An Indonesian Islamic State (IS) leader in Syria and influential online recruiter and bomb-making instructor, Bahrum Naim, 34, has been killed in a drone strike in Syria, according to security sources. His propaganda via the Internet radicalised and influenced many Indonesians to join IS in Syria, writes Amy Chew. An Indonesian court sentenced an Islamic State-linked cleric to death last month, a rare decision that underscores a hardening mood against terrorists in the world’s most populous Muslim-majority nation, the Wall Street Journal reports.