The Jakarta bombings and the arrest of a Islamic State sympathiser planning a suicide attack in Kuala Lumpur last week has led our Inspector-General of Police to raise Malaysia’s terror alert to the "highest level.” Thomas K. Samuel, the Director of Research and Publication at the Southeast Asia Regional Centre for Counter-Terrorism, explains how we can prevent terrorism from infiltrating our country and what we can do to counter the terrorist narrative.

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Tags:  counter-terrorism,  terrorism,  terrorist,  terrorist attacks,  bombings,  Jakarta bombings,  Politics, Current Affairs