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How should Muslim countries tackle Islamic extremism?

In 2002 Indonesia was struggling to cope with violent extremists.

The Jemaah Islamiyah network was seen as a major threat in the region and more than 200 people were killed in the Bali bombing that year.

Despite a second attack in 2005, the threat posed by Islamic extremists in the country appears to have waned.

Pakistan however is struggling to cope with the extremist threat and has faced a recent upsurge in violent attacks and the 'Talibanisation' of areas adjacent to Afghanistan.

Has Indonesia found methods of dealing with extremism that Pakistan could learn from?

Reports from Peshawar say Taliban influence in one of Pakistan's biggest cities is growing, with a recent increase in bombings of girls' schools and video stores.

There is widespread concern about how the militants in Pakistan are gaining in strength, but elsewhere the success of other Islamic militant groups has been stemmed.

The waning threat of Southeast Asia's Jemaah Islamiyah group is a case in point.

In large part perhaps that has been due to the fact that the man who trained the Bali bombers, Nasir Abbas, was arrested in early 2003 and since then has worked with the authorities in Indonesia and elsewhere to undermine militant groups.

In a rare interview he spoke to the ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½'s Claire Bolderson.

Another area Claire Bolderson has been looking at in Indonesia is the growth of radical publishing houses.

They have been set up by people affiliated with Jemaah Islamiyah.

First broadcast 19-20 May 2009