by editor | Oct 24, 2010 | Education, Indonesia, Islam, Religion, Southeast Asia
by Steven R. Corman Readers of this blog will be interested in an article by Mark Woodward (a frequent contributor to this blog) and his colleagues Inayah Rohmaniyah, Ali Amin and Diana Coleman in the most recent issue of Perspectives on Terrorism. The paper, based...
by editor | Sep 8, 2010 | Analysis, Image, Indonesia, Islam, Media, Narrative, Politics, Religion, Southeast Asia
by Steven R. Corman, Jeffry R. Halverson, and Chris Lundry This is the second of a four-part series of posts on foreign reactions to recent anti-Muslim rhetoric in the U.S. In Part I we looked at the Park51 project, also known as the “Ground Zero Mosque,”...
by lundry | Aug 25, 2010 | Counterterrorism, Indonesia, Media, Southeast Asia, Uncategorized
by Chris Lundry Indonesian police have charged Indonesian cleric Abu Bakar Basyir with supporting terrorism for his role in the the Jemaah Islamiyah training camp in Aceh. He has been accused of participating in planning and funding the project and ordering others to...
by lundry | Jul 13, 2010 | Indonesia, Islam, Media, Obama, Southeast Asia
by Chris Lundry While in Singapore for the ICA conference with colleagues from the CSC, interesting news kept coming in from Indonesia concerning its ongoing fight against terrorism. It was quite a contrast to what appeared to be the biggest story in Singapore: the...
by editor | May 13, 2010 | Analysis, Counterterrorism, Indonesia, Movements, Southeast Asia
by Steven R. Corman The Consortium for Strategic Communication has released a new white paper by Mark Woodward, Ali Amin, and Inayah Rohmaniyah entitled Lessons from Aceh Terrorist De-Radicalization. The full white paper can be downloaded here. The executive summary...
by lundry | May 11, 2010 | Indonesia, Southeast Asia
by Chris Lundry Indonesian police have continued to make arrests of those with suspected ties to terrorism, including 14 people in the last week. Remarkably, many of those arrested have direct ties to firebrand cleric Abu Bakar Basyir and the organization he founded...