A global ranking, revealing the countries most at risk from terrorist attacks, has rated Indonesia outside the extreme risk category despite last year’s twin bomb attacks targeting international hotel chains.
The latest Terrorism Risk Index (TRI), developed by London-based Maplecroft for companies to assess terrorism risks to their international assets, saw Southeast Asian neighbor Thailand join the rank of most dangerous countries for the first time. Thailand ranked 11th last year.
Iraq (1), Afghanistan (2), Pakistan (3) and Somalia (4) top the ranking of 162 countries and are rated, along with Lebanon (5), India (6), Algeria (7), Colombia (8) and Thailand (9), as the only extreme risk nations.
The index measures not only the risks of an attack, but also the chances of mass casualties occurring.
To provide a comprehensive picture of worldwide terrorism risk Maplecroft analyses terrorist incidents every six months for their frequency, intensity and number of victims, plus the proportion of attacks that were 'mass-casualty' in each nation. A country's historical experience of terrorism was also factored in along with threats made against it by groups such as al-Qaeda.
Following the Jakarta twin hotel bomb blasts that killed nine people in July last year, Indonesian counterterror squad conducted endless crackdown on terror suspects, killing long-time top fugitive Noordin M. Top and his close accomplices in the process. The court is trying two suspects in the terror attacks.
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