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It had done this in the religious violence in eastern Indonesia in the late <\/span><\/span>1990s, and communal strife was what JI had planned to foment within and between Singapore and Malaysia <\/span>as well. \u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n This is why today\u2019s various grassroots initiatives, ranging from the Inter-Racial and Religious Confidence Circles (<\/span><\/span>IRCCs) to the current <\/span>SG Secure campaign, have been designed precisely to strengthen the social resilience of Singapore\u2019s multicultural fabric in the event of a terror strike.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n With the rise of social media today, the tech-savvy propagandists of the Islamic State \u2013 an Al-Qaeda offshoot and global rival \u2013 promote the current significant threat of self-radicalisation. <\/span><\/span>Violent ideology can thrive in a vast online space that often makes monitoring a deadly cat and mouse game. <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n Even more recently, the relatively nascent challenge of far right extremism has emerged in Singapore <\/span><\/span>as well. <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n Adding to the complexity of the threat picture, JI itself, following its near-decimation by regional security forces in the 2000s, is gradually re-emerging, emphasising not violence but rather low-key infiltration of societal and political <\/span><\/span>institutions. Ominously, JI appears to retain regional <\/span>ambitions. <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n Twenty years after Bali, the threat of transnational <\/span><\/span>terrorism remains but continues to evolve. So does the need for continued vigilance and not taking our social resilience for granted.<\/span> <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n Professor Kumar Ramakrishna is Associate Dean and Head of the International Centre for Political Violence and Terrorism Research at the S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore.<\/span><\/span><\/em><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n [ad_2]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" [ad_1] It had done this in the religious violence in eastern Indonesia in the late 1990s, and communal strife was what JI had planned to foment within and between Singapore and Malaysia as well. \u00a0 This is why today\u2019s various grassroots initiatives, ranging from the Inter-Racial and Religious Confidence Circles (IRCCs) to the current SG […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5988,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40,64,6,45],"tags":[530,112,536,135],"class_list":["post-5987","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-asia","category-commentary","category-news","category-singapore","tag-2002-bali-bombings","tag-indonesia","tag-jemaah-islamiyah","tag-terrorism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asiaposts.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5987","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asiaposts.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asiaposts.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asiaposts.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asiaposts.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5987"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.asiaposts.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5987\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asiaposts.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5988"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asiaposts.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5987"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asiaposts.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5987"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asiaposts.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5987"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}A RE-EMERGING THREAT<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/h2>\n