SEARCCT’S SELECTION OF ARTICLES 2020 Editor-in-Chief CHUAH TEONG BAN Managing Editor KHAIRI BIN OMAR Editorial Committee ZURINA AHMAD TEJUDDIN JASMINE JAWHAR SITI FATIMAH NURAIN MOHAMAD PUBLISHER Southeast Asia Regional Centre for Counter-Terrorism (SEARCCT), Ministry of Foreign Affairs, No 516, Persiaran Tuanku Ja’afar, Bukit Persekutuan, 50480 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Tel: (603) 22802800 Fax: (603) 22742734 E-mail:
[email protected] First published in 2020. ISBN: 978-967-15656-2-9 SEARCCT is dedicated to advocating the understanding of issues pertaining to terrorism and counter-terrorism and contributing ideas for counter-terrorism policy. The Centre accomplishes this mainly by conducting capacity building, research, counter- messaging and public outreach. All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored, transmitted or disseminated in any form or by any means without the prior written permission of the publisher. All statements of facts, opinions and expressions contained in this work are the sole responsibility of the author and do not necessarily reflect those of the Government of Malaysia. The Government of Malaysia assumes no responsibility for any statements of facts or opinions expressed in this work. Articles in this publication were commissioned in November 2019, and may not reflect Malaysia’s current political environment. 2 CONTENTS 1 ISLAMIST VIOLENCE IN MALAYSIA: REFLECTIONS 05 - 24 FROM THE PRE-GWOT ERA WITH SPECIAL REFERENCE TO THE MEMALI AND AL-MAU’NAH CASES Ahmad Fauzi Abdul Hamid 2 APPLYING