International Counter Terrorism Cooperation Efforts in Handling the East Turkestan Islamic Movement (ETIM)

This article aims to analyze and describe counter terrorism efforts that have been carried out through international cooperation in the handling of East Turkestan Islamic Movement (ETIM) terrorist organization. This study applies a qualitative method with secondary data collection to produce a descriptive analysis. The concepts used are terrorism and counter terrorism. The results of this study show the ETIM landscape spread across the Middle East, Central Asia, and Southeast Asia as well as international counter terrorism efforts to overcome them. One of the international counter terrorism efforts that have been carried out is through the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) with the assistance of the Regional Anti-Terrorist Structure (RATS).