<![CDATA[This article examines how contemporary Indonesian security discourse increasingly frames anarchism through the categories of radicalism, extremism, and national security threats. Responding to the emergence of academic and security-oriented narratives that position anarchism as a form of anti-state extremism, this article asks how anarchism is represented and securitized within contemporary Indonesian criminological and security discourse. Using a qualitative critical-discourse analysis approach, this article draws upon perspectives from Anarchist Criminology and Cultural Criminology to examine the construction of anarchism within contemporary Indonesian security narratives. The findings demonstrate that anarchism is frequently reduced into a simplified and homogeneous category of extremism through state-centric and Western-centric security frameworks, particularly by linking anarchism to dominant genealogies of modern terrorism. Furthermore, activities such as digital activism, alternative media production, mutual aid practices, and anti-authoritarian political expression are often represented through narratives of deviance, agitation, radicalization, and propaganda. This article argues that such representations contribute to the criminalization of political dissent by expanding the logic of securitization into the realms of youth subculture, digital activism, and alternative politics. Rather than understanding anarchism solely as a security threat, this article concludes that anarchism should be situated within its broader historical and political context as a diverse anti-authoritarian tradition that cannot be simplistically reduced to extremism.]]>
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