Former jihadist now wages a campaign for peace

Dogged by suspicion and financial hardship, a former JI and NII member now supports deradicalisation efforts in Indonesia.

By Zahara Tiba for Khabar Southeast Asia in Jakarta

December 08, 2012

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 Malaysia Police Chief Khalid Abu Bakar addresses a press conference in Sepang on March 11th. On December 15th, he announced the recent capture of seven Indonesians with their five children. Allegedly, they were en route from Malaysia to Syria, seeking to join the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS). [Manan Vatsyayana/AFP]
Malaysia deports suspected ISIS supporters
Kuala Lumpur hands over to Jakarta seven alleged ISIS supporters who had planned to travel to Syria with five children in tow.
 Student volunteers from Ramkhamhaeng University in Bangkok form a human chain as they help build an Islamic study centre in a remote Narathiwat Province village. The centre is due to open today. [Rapee Mama/Khabar]
Thai students go on Deep South goodwill mission
University volunteers from Bangkok with assistance from the Royal Thai Army, undertake a building project benefitting a village in the troubled far southern region
 A Yazidi girl who fled her home when Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) militants attacked the town of Sinjar, Iraq looks on August 16th inside a partially-completed building where she lives outside Dohuk, in autonomous Kurdistan. A recent ISIS pamphlet tells its fighters it is
ISIS document authorising rape of 'non-believers' draws revulsion
Indonesians express disgust at the extremist group's pamphlet permitting its fighters to rape captured women and even pre-pubescent girls.

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 A woman reacts outside Jakarta's Ritz-Carlton hotel on July 17th, 2009 after bomb blasts tore through it and the nearby JW Marriott. Two suspected Jemaah Islamiyah suicide bombers killed at least six people and injured more than 40 others. [Arif Ariadi/AFP]

The Global Terror Threat: Southeast Asia

Southeast Asia has been both a source and a target of global terrorism. Al-Qaeda affiliates Jemaah Islamiyah in Indonesia and Malaysia and Abu Sayyaf in the Philippines are among regional groups that terrorise their home countries with bombings, ambushes,