Jemaah Islamiah

Jemaah Islamiah (Arabic: الجماعة الإسلامية‎, al-Jamāʿat ul-Islāmíyatu, meaning "Islamic Congregation", frequently abbreviated JI), is a Southeast Asian militant Islamist terrorist group dedicated to the establishment of a Daulah Islamiyah (regional Islamic caliphate) in Southeast Asia.

On 25 October 2002, immediately following the JI-perpetrated Bali bombing, JI was added to the UN Security Council Resolution 1267 as a terrorist group linked to al-Qaeda or the Taliban.

JI is a transnational organization with cells in Thailand, Singapore, Malaysia and the Philippines.

In addition to al-Qaeda the group is also thought to have links to the Moro Islamic Liberation Front and Jamaah Ansharut Tauhid, a splinter cell of the JI which was formed by Abu Bakar Baasyir on 27 July 2008.

The group has been designated as a terrorist groups by the United Nations, Australia, Canada, Kazakhstan, Russia, the UAE, the United Kingdom and the United States.

It remained very active in Indonesia where it publicly maintained a website as of January 2013.

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