U.S. Needs More Focus on Terrorist Threat in Indonesia

By Alasdair Gordon

Alasdair Gordon served for 32 years in national security with the Australian Government. He has had extensive experience in South East and North Asia, and in the South Pacific. He has also held senior positions in national security in Canberra. He is currently CEO of Shearwater LLC, based in Washington DC.

Cipher Brief Expert and former senior national security officer for the Australian Government, Alasdair Gordon, weighs on on the risks of the U.S. not placing more focus on the growing terrorist threat in Indonesia.

Recent terrorist incidents in Indonesia, the largest Muslim country in the world, with a population of 260 million, have again raised concerns about growing extremist Islamist influence in the archipelago.

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