Singapore minister sees increased threat of extremist attack

Singapore's Foreign Minister K. Shanmugam addresses the 69th United Nations General Assembly at the U.N. headquarters in New York, September 29, 2014. REUTERS/Shannon Stapleton/File Photo

SINGAPORE (Reuters) - A Singapore minister said on Friday the threat of an extremist attack was higher now than earlier this year as hardline Islamists are increasingly pushing their agenda in neighbouring Indonesia.

Law and Home Affairs Minister Kasiviswanathan Shanmugam, speaking to the Foreign Correspondents Association in Singapore, did not specify whether the threat had increased just in the city state or in Southeast Asia generally.