Last October, the United States designated the Jemaah Islamiyah Islamic (JI) group a terrorist organization.
More problematic for the US and its allies are trans-national groups, such as Jemaah Islamiyah.
The United States has dubbed Jemaah Islamiyah, an Indonesian Islamic group implicated in the attack, a foreign terrorist organisation.
Bandung and surrounding areas have traditionally been a regional base for Jemaah Islamiyah and groups associated with it, Mr. Taufiqurrohman said.
Even if her own security advisers point their fingers at Jemaah Islamiyah, Ms Megawati may not know for sure they are right.
That attack is believed to have been the work of Jemaah Islamiyah, a South-East Asian network of extremists with links to al-Qaeda.
Jemaah Islamiyah's October 2002 attack in Bali killed 202, including American tourists.
Groups linked to al Qaeda such as Jemaah Islamiyah and Abu Sayyaf have targeted Indonesia and used its territory as a staging ground for attacks.
Among these groups are the Abu Sayyaf movement in the Philippines, Jemaah Islamiyah in Indonesia, al Qaeda in Iraq and al Qaeda of the Arabian Peninsula.
Jemaah Islamiyah and Abu Sayyaf group are -- were affiliates of al Qaeda, to include sanctuary that was being provided for purposes of financing and other endeavors.
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Several Indonesians arrested in the Philippines on explosives charges have been linked to Jemaah Islamiyah, as have several Singaporean terrorist suspects whom the authorities claim have fled to Indonesia.
The men, all arrested between December 9 and 24 under the Internal Security Act, were members of the Jemaah Islamiyah -- a clandestine Islamic Group with links to other Southeast Asian nations.
We're laid down in the southern Philippines, continuing to contain the Abu Sayyaf group and Jemaah Islamiyah, two extremist organizations that threaten both the stability of the southern Philippines and the region.
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Malaysia and Singapore have wanted Indonesia to arrest Abu Bakar Bashir, a Muslim cleric who leads Jemaah Islamiyah, an militant group which wants to create an Islamic state through a swathe of South-East Asia.
Amid concerns that it could be a target for Islamic terror groups such as the Jemaah Islamiyah, the prosperous south-east Asian city-state has launched its own war against terrorism -- a war largely driven by technology.
Indeed their relationship with America, Israel, and the West, and their melting pot society has made them the repeated target of the Jemaah Islamiyah terrorist group, and the authorities are willing to do what is necessary to protect their people.
"In the wake of the recent terrorist bombings in Saudi Arabia, there is concern that similar attacks may be made in Southeast Asia by Jemaah Islamiyah, which is known to have links to al Qaeda and other extremist organizations (there), " New Zealand Foreign Minister Phil Goff said in a statement issued Thursday.
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