Southeast Asia as the 'second front' in the war against terrorism: evaluating the threat and responses

Tan, Andrew T. H.

doi:10.1080/09546550312331293067

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“…Terrorism has become a significant policy concern for some Southeast Asian countries, such as Singapore, Malaysia and Indonesia. After the Bali bombings in 2002, Southeast Asia was viewed by the US as the second layer in the global war against terrorism (Aslam et al, 2016;Tan, 2003). Since that proclamation in 2002, the terror threat in Southeast Asia has increased exponentially and become multidimensional.…”

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Critical Reflections on De-Radicalisation in Indonesia

Ilyas

2020

otoritas

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Since 9/11 western and non-western governments have implemented counter-counter terrorism and de-radicalisation programs to “inoculate Muslim populations” and de-radicalise those deemed as radicalised through securitization and “moderate Islam”. The Indonesian government and civil society organizations have attempted to address radicalisation by setting up counter-radicalisation and de-radicalisation programs. This paper will critically reflect on the Indonesian de-radicalisation programs. It will first critically discuss the terms radicalisation and de-radicalisation. Then critically assess the Indonesian de-radicalisation programs. In the final section, the author suggests that Indonesia needs to introduce humanitarian activities to make the de-radicalisation programs more effective and overcome labelling and stigmatization.

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Critical Reflections on De-Radicalisation in Indonesia

Ilyas

2020

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“…The threat of terrorism has spread worldwide and is a global issue (Horgan, 2005;Tan, 2003). In Indonesia, after the Bali bombing incident in 2002, the threat of terrorism is strongly linked to the actions of Islamist activists, rather than other groups of activists (e.g., separatists, socialists, communists, criminals, etc.)…”

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Basic concepts and reasons behind the emergence of religious terror activities inIndonesia: An inside view

Putra

Sukabdi

2013

Asian J of Social Psycho

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This study aims to understand the fundamental concepts and reasons behind the emergence of religious terror activities in Indonesia, providing an 'insider' rather than an 'outsider' view. Data were collected from a total of 40 religious terror activists in Indonesia using a set of focused group discussions and interviews. The reasons they provided for their terror activities were as follows: (1) Indonesia is seen as being in a state of war (thus justifying a defensive attack); (2) Suicide bombing is believed to be noble; (3) The West (as a whole) is targeted as it is considered the invader of Muslim countries and a representative of evil; the Indonesian government is viewed as its corrupt ally.

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“…Located within the AsiaPacific security complex, Thailand played a pivotal role in the post-9/11 US strategy that framed Southeast Asia as the Bsecond front on the war on terror,^with the Middle East as the first front (Gershman 2002;Tan 2003). Foreign policy elites within the USA and the Asia-Pacific region viewed at that time that post-9/11 transnational terrorism posed a grave threat to the long-established American economic and political interests in the region.…”

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Does US Foreign Aid Undermine Human Rights? The “Thaksinification” of the War on Terror Discourses and the Human Rights Crisis in Thailand, 2001 to 2006

Regilme

2017

Hum Rights Rev

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What is the relationship between Thailand's human rights crisis during Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra's leadership (2001)(2002)(2003)(2004)(2005)(2006) and the USA-led post-9/11 war on terror? Why did the human rights situation dramatically deteriorate after the Thaksin regime publicly supported the Bush administration's war on terror and consequently received US counterterror assistance? This article offers two conceptual arguments that jointly demonstrate a constitutive theoretical explanation, which shows that counterterror and militaristic transnational and national discursive structures enabled the strategy of state repression in Thailand under Thaksin. The first concept refers to strategic localization, which refers to how the Bush administration's global war on terror-and its consequent overarching emphasis on military security-provided an opportunity for the Thaksin administration to strategically localize the global threat of terrorism in ways that could seem relevant to the local Thai context. The second concept pertains to resource mobilization, which shows how converging US and Thai discourses on military security facilitated Thaksin's strategy of increased state repression that led to the proliferation of state-led human rights abuses. This research article contributes to the human rights literature in two ways: (1) by highlighting how foreign aid programs and its constitutive political discourses shape recipient countries' domestic human rights situation (2) and by tracing the macropolitical factors that lead to the eventual democratic decay of contemporary Thailand. Hum Rights Rev (2018) 19:73-95 https://doi

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Southeast Asia as the 'second front' in the war against terrorism: evaluating the threat and responses

Cited by 13 publications

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Critical Reflections on De-Radicalisation in Indonesia

Critical Reflections on De-Radicalisation in Indonesia

Basic concepts and reasons behind the emergence of religious terror activities inIndonesia: An inside view

Does US Foreign Aid Undermine Human Rights? The “Thaksinification” of the War on Terror Discourses and the Human Rights Crisis in Thailand, 2001 to 2006

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