An inside look at how a fledgling democracy is struggling to control the rise of religious extremism.

This episode explores Indonesia's long history of moderation in its practice of Islam, and how Islamist radicals have made the country a flash point in the global war on terror. The film provides an inside look at how this fledgling democracy, with its moderate Muslim majority that practices Islam markedly differently from that in the Middle East, is struggling to control the rise of religious extremism. A potential model for Muslim democracy emerges, if Indonesia can succeed in containing the terrorist threat.

Executive producer: Ann Derry, New York Times Television
Producers: Ken Levis and Calvin Sims