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Since the mid-1960s Southeast Asia has faced a potentially wide-ranging security threat. Well before the events of September 11, the region was enduring a slump in exports and a falloff in foreign investment as Western firms headed to China. Even Singapore's economy, the region's strongest, probably shrank by 2% in 2001, while Indonesia, the weakest player, is struggling to avert a new foreign debt crisis.
Now the region is being seen overseas as a breeding ground for international terrorists. Foreign businesses have stopped sending execs to the region to explore new opportunities, while companies are beefing up security at their offices and homes. Clearly, the region's governments need to show the world they can keep the peace. That requires achieving a tricky balancing act: Authorities must provide adequate security to foreign firms without being alarmist and scaring them off completely.
Also vexing for Southeast Asian governments is how to deal with US offers of military assistance. Nations with large Muslim populations cannot afford to make open appeals to the US for help. Nowhere is this more true than in Indonesia, the most likely spot for A1 Qaeda to operate. Indonesia is resisting pressure from the US because it can ill afford a nationalist revenge.
Southeast Asia's ailing economies won't easily weather another round of investor disenchantment. As it is, foreign businesspeople are becoming increasingly jittery. The perceived growth of radical Islam is clearly having a deleterious impact on the Indonesian economy. To be sure, the weak global economy is responsible for some of the dropoff in orders. But the numbers make grim reading. Indonesian exports fell from $3.6 billion in October to $3 billion in November, 2001, a drop of 16% in one month, according to the Central Bureau of Statistics. Foreign direct investment plunged from $1.9 billion in November, 2001 to $630 million in December of the same year.
Meanwhile, Indonesia's domestic economy is feeling increasingly vulnerable. Wanandi, the CEO of an auto assembling company, believes the government is not doing enough! Like most Indonesians, Wanandi agrees that inviting in US troops is politically impossible. He is calling instead for the Indonesian military to be given greater powers to crack down on militant groups. "There is a lot of competition between the army and the police," he says. "That's why a lot of bombing is going on. No one is being punished."
The trouble is, the foe is maddeningly elusive. But until the threat fades, Southeast Asia will have to deal with declining foreign investment, jittery execs, and, in Indonesia, rising poverty and instability — the very environment in which terror groups thrive.

填空题 The best title for this brief passage should be ______.
A. Indonesia: Grim Economic Prospects in 2002
B. Why is Jakarta resisting US Military Aid
C. The Link of Indonesia Terror Groups to al Qaeda
D. Southeast Asia: Terror's New Front

填空题 The word "deleterious" (Para. 4, Line 3) most probably means ______.
A. harmful B. noticeable C. decreasing D. benign

填空题 According to the passage, Indonesian government is resisting pressure from the US because ______.
A. of the economic slowdown
B. of its fear of the nationalists' revenge
C. of the dropdown in foreign investments
D. the government is at war with the US

填空题 Which of the following statements is true about Wanandi?
A. He is a government official.
B. He is an Islamic radical.
C. He believes the Indonesian government should call in US troops for help.
D. He believes the Indonesian government should keep a tight hand on the domestic trouble-making military groups.

填空题 With which of the following statements would the author most probably agree?
A. Terror groups are only likely to grow in countries with a weak domestic economy.
B. The terror groups can be very easily identified.
C. Government intervention is not very likely to result in the crackdown of the terror groups.
D. The presence of terror groups will largely hinder the economic growth of the Southeast Asia region.