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Bali bombmaker Umar Patek says he is committed to assisting the Indonesian government deradicalising other extremists after he is released from prison. So, what is a deradicalisation program and do they work?

A senior Malaysian counterterrorism official has warned that religious and ethnically motivated violent extremism is the most significant terrorism -related danger the country faces, while Indonesia, the Philippines and Singapore are most concerned by groups linked to al-Qaeda and Islamic State (Isis) . The comments from officials and analysts came as This Week in Asia asked security agencies in the...

Some praise the Taliban victory in Kabul; security experts warn that it could energize extremists.

JAKARTA - Generous Indonesians donating their spare change to the poor and needy are unwittingly helping finance deadly terror attacks and jihadist training camps, in a scam that has netted big money for extremist groups.

April 05, 2021 Zakiah Aini. Twitter Last Wednesday (March 31)  morning, 25-year-old Indonesian university dropout Zakiah Aini wrote a letter saying goodbye to her family and headed out of the house. As morning turned to dusk, the quiet millennial’s parents began to worry – there had been no word from Zakiah, who rarely left the family home. They became even more anxious when her sister found the goodbye note. “Her sister wanted to report her [missing] but didn’t quite know where to rep...

Kusumasari Ayuningtyas/BenarNews Radical cleric Abu Bakar Bashir, a co-founder of the group blamed for Indonesia’s deadliest terrorist attack, returned home to his Islamic boarding school in Central Java upon being freed Friday after almost a decade behind bars on militancy-related charges. The former spiritual leader of al-Qaeda-linked Jemaah Islamiyah (JI) left a maximum-security prison in Bogor, south of Jakarta, in a van in the early morning, a spokeswoman for the Directorat...