Country Report on Terrorism 2023- Chapter 4 - Malaysia

Malaysia:  The government continued efforts to deny terrorists the use of the Sulu and Celebes Seas region as a safe haven by working with Indonesia and the Philippines to address the movement of foreign terrorists through the region.  Officials told the press that possible terrorist transit through sea routes and porous borders remained a concern in Malaysia.  The Eastern Sabah Security Command, a multiagency Malaysian government entity that provides additional security along the country’s eastern maritime and terrestrial border with the Philippines and Indonesia in the Sulu and Celebes Seas, enforced a dusk-to-dawn curfew at sea in some areas and conducted maritime patrols to safeguard against cross-border threats by criminals or terrorist groups.  The government was not known to support or facilitate the proliferation or trafficking of WMD in or through its territory.