KUALA LUMPUR: The overall terrorism financing (TF) risk for non-profit organisations in eight Asia-Pacific nations has been assessed as medium scale. The risk assessment report, launched at the Counter-Terrorism Financing Summit here is based on a regional assessment of the TF threat environment, NPO sector vulnerabilities and associated consequences of misuse. “While the regional risk assessment on TF in 2016 assessed NPOs as high risk, it noted there were fewer cases of NPO misuse than expected,” the report said. Indonesia is assessed as high threat, while Australia, Malaysia and the Philippines are medium. New Zealand, Brunei (consistent with each country’s low terrorism risk profile) and the Philippines received none.

Source: New Strait Times November 22, 2017 12:22 UTC