JAKARTA - Muslim extremists in Indonesia are regrouping despite a decade-long crackdown that has weakened the deadliest networks, the International Crisis Group (ICG) think-tank says in a report.
Islamists are finding each other and building new cells "on the run, in prison and through internet forums, military training camps and arranged marriages", the report said, warning the threat of terrorism was far from over.
Beefed-up anti-terrorism units have divided cells such as Jemaah Islamiah — blamed for the 2002 twin bombings on Bali that killed 202 people — but smaller groups have formed and carried out low-impact attacks.
"Fortunately for Indonesia, most of these would-be terrorists have been singularly inept," ICG senior adviser Sidney Jones said in a statement on Monday.