ABSTRACT

This chapter looks at a small sample of selected universities in Indonesia, Malaysia, and Kenya and explores whether, at least in some small part, they have becomes sites for the propagation of extremist ideologies, of recruitment for extremist groups, and for the exportation of extremist thought and activities. For intelligence agencies or universities who comply with security measures aimed at national protection, working out how to monitor radicalisation is a complex proposition. The intelligence agency’s head said that radical Islamic groups were targeting universities for new recruits to their cause and that the agency was closely monitoring three universities thought to be at risk of becoming a base for radical groups. In 2015, the chief assistant director of the counter terrorism division of the Royal Malaysia Police announced that Islamic militant groups including Islamic State of Iraq and Syria had been targeting Malaysian students in Higher Education.