Home Minister Muhyiddin Yassin today acknowledged Malaysia's problem as a transit for terrorism but said the government was constantly curbing such elements.

He said this in response to a US State Department report which said Malaysia remained a "source and transit point" for terrorist groups like the Islamic State and Abu Sayyaf.

"What is important and what we are doing is to ensure that these elements are not left alone. That is why the Royal Malaysian Police is important to determine whether there are such elements and if there are, we will move to arrest them," he told a press conference in Serdang today.