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This paper discusses the dynamics driving the Jemaah Islamiyah (JI) regeneration process. It examines the processes by which ordinary young Muslim men are transformed into indoctrinated JI militants. It states that the intersection of four factors are especially important in the creation of new cohorts of indoctrinated JI: radical Islamist ideology of Qaidaism; the historical, political and sociocultural backdrop of Southeast Asia and especially Indonesia; the individual make-up of JI terrorists; and the "in-group space" within which individual terrorists are enmeshed.