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Rise of female militants in South-east Asia poses challenge for war on terror

Police are seen during a sweep of a church in Yogyakarta, Indonesia, on March 31, 2021. PHOTO: AFP
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SINGAPORE - Within a week, Indonesia was rocked by two separate terror attacks in which the perpetrators were women.

On March 28, a day Christians mark as Palm Sunday, a burqa-clad woman and her husband rode their motorcycle to a cathedral in Makassar, in South Sulawesi, and blew themselves up with pressure-cooker bombs, wounding 20 people.

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