When the government of Indonesia said last week they would leave their former IS fighters in Syria it was hard not to feel a little schadenfreude. But Noor Huda Ismail, who has made a career understanding why his countrymen turn to extremism and reintegrating them when they return, said that’s just emotion talking. Far better to bring them home and know where they are than risk having them sneak back into the country.

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