(Petaling Jaya, Monday): DAPSY strongly condemns terrorist attacks which took place in Bali Island, Indonesia yesterday, killing at least 32 people and wounding about 101 people. DAPSY would like to express our deepest condolences to the families of the victims.

The terrorist attack has again alarmed us that our regional security is in stake. This is the second time such incident took place in Bali Island. Besides Bali, South Thailand and South Philippines are also affected with terrorist attacks lately.

Therefore, there is an utmost urgency for all governments in this region to review their current anti-terrorism mechanisms, especially to consider reconciliation policy as a “soft” move to resolve terrorists’ threats. Thailand government has been using the conventional military action to counter terrorist attacks in Southern Thailand but terrorism has not been resolved until now. Therefore, it is time for

Governments in this region to seriously review their current counter-terrorism strategy.

DAPSY believes that in order to solve the problem, governments in this region must seriously look into the root-cause of the problem. The reason why terrorism can groom into a globalized network is that there are suppressions and oppressions on minority groups, either politically, culturally, economically and religiously. Minority groups are being marginalized, causing narrowing gap in resources distribution on all aspects of national development agenda.

In order to solve the problems, there must be fair treatment towards all groups in their respective countries, allocating assistances to the poor and needy to improve their living standard as to ensure that different groups in their respective nation can play important roles in all nation building agendas.