On Saturday 2 January 2015, Saudi Arabia’s Interior Ministry confirmed the Kingdom had executed 47 individuals, who were supposedly executed for adopting takfiri ideology, joining “terrorist organisations” and implementing various “criminal plots.”
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Indonesian President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo refrained from openly rejecting the idea of joining the Saudi Arabia-led military coalition of 34 countries to fight terrorism, but his chief security czar announced the government’s decision to distance itself from the anti-terrorist coalition.
