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,
![General Moeldoko (left), commander of the Indonesian armed forces (TNI), affixes a patch on a soldier's uniform during the December 1st opening ceremony of Tri Matra IX, a joint exercise among TNI's different branches at Halim Perdanakusuma Airport in Banten Province. [Courtesy of TNI]](/shared/images/2014/12/17/141217_ID_ADITYA_MOELDOKO-100_67.jpg)
![Christians carry a giant egg papered with messages for the president after an Easter service outside the presidential palace in Jakarta on March 31st, 2013. Now, the new government is drafting a bill to shield Indonesia's religious minorities and unofficial religious groups from intolerance, Minister of Religious Affairs Lukman Hakim Saifuddin says. [Adek Berry/AFP]](/shared/images/2014/12/16/141216-ZAHARA-ID-TOLERANCEBILL-100_67.jpg)
![Wawan Purwanto, an intelligence and security analyst at the National Counterterrorism Agency (BNPT), addresses a forum at Maulana Malik Ibrahim Islamic State University in Malang, East Java, on November 19th. He said about 300 Indonesians were fighting for the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) in the Middle East. Since, the number has grown to 514, according to the BNPT. [Aditya Surya/Khabar]](/shared/images/2014/12/13/141213-ADITYA_RESISTED_ISIS2-100_67.jpg)
![Malaysia Prime Minister Najib Razak addresses parliament October 10th. On Wednesday (November 26th), he introduced a white paper in parliament that proposes tougher anti-terrorism legislation. [Mohd Rasfan/AFP]](/shared/images/2014/11/27/141127-ALISHA-RAZAK-MY-100_67.jpg)
![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]](/shared/images/2014/12/09/141209_GLOBALTERROR_KSEA_ID_JAKARTARITZ09_PE1-270_180.jpg)
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