JAKARTA—Indonesian President Joko Widodo said on Oct. 11 he had ordered tighter security for state officials a day after a suspected Islamist extremist stabbed the chief security minister as he was greeting crowds in a provincial town.
Indonesia, which is the world’s biggest Muslim-majority country, is grappling with a resurgence in extremism and militancy, and hundreds of suspects have been detained under tighter new anti-terrorism laws since the beginning of 2019.
