Almost 10 years on from the Bali bombings, it appears Muslim extremists are regrouping in Indonesia, despite a crackdown by authorities.
The International Crisis Group says the deadliest networks have been weakened but Islamists are finding each other and building new cells on the run, in prison and through internet forums.
The organisation's South East Asian analyst Sidney Jones says that while improvements have been made, the threat of extremism hasn't gone away.
“I think we've looked at what happened to groups over the last two years and found that there's a steady process of grouping, re-grouping, re-alignment and so on. “
“The interesting thing is the process by which this takes place, because much of it involves visits with people in prison, or even alliances with people in prison.”
Ms Jones says extremists still manage to avoid authorities and escape prosecution using a number of loopholes in parts of the counter-terrorism system.
“They're still posing a threat because they're able to meet, find partners, cross the country on false documents, buy arms, buy ammunition.”
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