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Online push by terror group ISIS for followers in S-E Asia to take up arms raises alarm: Experts
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Indonesia's Densus 88 counter-terrorism unit conducting a raid in Cikarang, West Java, in 2021.
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- ISIS's online presence in South-east Asia is growing, as the terror group repackages propaganda to exploit local issues.
- Experts warn that with ISIS focusing on remote radicalisation, individuals can pledge their allegiance online, decreasing the need to travel to join the group and complicating counter-terrorism efforts.
- Counter-terrorism requires vigilance from governments, tech companies and society, say experts.
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SINGAPORE - The threat of an online caliphate led by terror group ISIS is rising in South-east Asia, Singapore’s latest terrorism threat report has warned, and regional experts say the absence of attacks does not mean an absence of danger.
Even as the terror group’s physical strongholds in the Middle East have crumbled, its ideological reach has migrated online, where propaganda is being repackaged in local languages and weaponised to exploit regional grievances.
