The threat posed by the Jemaah Islamiah (JI) terror group is "under control" after a series of arrests, the government said today in a detailed report o­n the al-Qaeda-linked network.

The assessment was made in a briefing paper presented to a conference of Asia's top security group, the Asean Regional Forum (ARF), co-chaired by Malaysia and the United States and attended by 118 delegates from 19 nations.

Malaysia said JI, blamed for the Bali bombing in Indonesia last October which killed 202 people, wanted to establish a "Taliban-style" Islamic state spanning Malaysia, Indonesia, Mindanao in the southern Philippines, southern Thailand and Australia.