| Issue - 2025 | Page No - 36 |
| COUNTER-TERRORISM EFFORTS IN SOUTHEAST ASIA: COMBATING THE PERSISTENT THREAT OF TERRORISM | |
| Author's Name : Sarika Ram Nath | |
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Extremist groups in Southeast Asia, with their diverse beliefs, fuel the ever-shifting threat of terrorism. Southeast Asian nations face meaningful challenges in their counterterrorism efforts. This abstract examines these challenges and the strategies to address them. It examines how community involvement and intelligence sharing can help lessen the threat. Regional cooperation can also reduce this threat. Southeast Asian nations must considerably improve their intelligence capabilities, encourage greater regional cooperation and tackle the root causes of extremism through all-embracing governance and large socioeconomic development. CVE programs build community resilience. They also challenge extremist narratives.
Strong governmental counterterrorism efforts have been in place since 9/11 and the Bali bombings. However, Southeast Asia remains threatened by terrorism. The Marawi occupation and later attacks in several Indonesian areas show this. Regional defence authorities agree that ASEAN must improve its collaborative counterterrorism efforts. Security experts concur, suggesting military deployments are necessary.
This abstract examines the development of terrorism, its expansion into cyberterrorism and international networks and the influence of social media on the dissemination of extremism. In short, a thorough strategy dealing with terrorism's root causes—poverty, inequality and political grievances—is important, respecting all human rights and upholding the rule of law.
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