Terror groups increasingly channelling funds into South-East Asia

This picture shows Salman, aka Opik (left), on duty guarding East Indonesia Mujahidin (MIT) leader Santoso, aka Abu Wardah (right), in a forest in Poso, Central Sulawesi. (Courtesy of the Operation Tinombala Task Force/-)

BALI: More than US$763,000 (RM3.05mil) was transferred to fund terrorism in Indonesia between 2014 and last year, according to Indonesia’s financial intelligence agency.

The report stated that given only small sums are required to stage a deadly attack, even modest amounts of funding from foreign terrorist groups pose a significant risk to the region’s security.