Analysis of the classification of terrorist attacks in Indonesia

Abstract

Terrorist attacks are now being global issue both in developing and developed countries. There are more than 180,000 terrorist attacks in 1970-2017. Indonesia is one of the countries attacked by terorist. Bombings and firearms cause fatalities. Classification of terorist attacks can be performed based on either the attack succed or not. Succed attack is defined as an unavoided action that caused fatalities. There are seven attributes studied in this paper: year, month, attack type, terorist name, target attack, city, and weapon type uses to attack. Evaluations shows that k-NN classiefier exerts the highest accuracy of 90.79%, followed by naive bayes 80.45%, and C4.5 of 88.825%. Keywords: Indonesia Terrorist, Classification Algorithm, Terorist Algorithm Classification.