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.

<p>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&rsquo;s terror alert to the "highest level.&rdquo; 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.</p>

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