Al-qaeda India: Implications For Indonesia?
Sidney Jones*
Ayman Al-Zawahiri's announcement last week that al-Qaeda had established a new franchise on the Indian subcontinent will have little effect on Southeast Asia. It is the Islamic State (IS), formerly known as ISIL or ISIS, that is the problem for Indonesia, because unlike al-Qaeda, it is attracting young people by social media and because many of its supporters here support violence at home.
Does that mean we can safely ignore al-Qaeda India? Not necessarily, because it raises some interesting questions about where extremism in Indonesia is headed. We can start by looking at al-Qaeda's historic links to Indonesia and how they have evolved.
September 16, 2014
Sidney Jones*
Ayman Al-Zawahiri's announcement last week that al-Qaeda had established a new franchise on the Indian subcontinent will have little effect on Southeast Asia. It is the Islamic State (IS), formerly known as ISIL or ISIS, that is the problem for Indonesia, because unlike al-Qaeda, it is attracting young people by social media and because many of its supporters here support violence at home.
Does that mean we can safely ignore al-Qaeda I
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