The car bomb explosion in Jakarta on August 5, 2003, which killed 13 persons, one of them a Dutch bankingexecutive, and injured over a hundred others, including some foreigners, is a reminder that the motivation ofthe jehadi terrorists spearheaded by organisations such as the Jemmah Islamiyah (JI) remains as strong as ever,despite the determined action taken by the governments of the region against them and the large number ofarrests of their hard core members.