International Religious Freedom Report 2003, U.S. Department of State,
December 18, 2003 The Government made considerable progress in some areas, such as
reducing interreligious violence in the Maluku islands and Central
Sulawesi, and arresting and prosecuting terrorists and religious
extremists for carrying out religiously motivated attacks. However, in
several cases the Government failed to hold religious extremists
responsible for murder and other crimes.
Jemaah Islamiyah in South East Asia: Damaged but Still Dangerous Click here to view the full report as a PDF file in A4 format from The
International Crisis Group (ICG) Report, 26 August 2003 Afghanistan veterans became the trainers of a new generation of
mujahidin when JI set up a camp in Mindanao from 1996 to 2000 in a
reciprocal arrangement with the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF).
The recruits trained in everything from explosives to sharp-shooting and
included not only JI members but also members of like-minded jihadist
organisations from other parts of Indonesia, especially South Sulawesi
and West Java. This means that Indonesia has to worry about other
organisations as well, whose members have equally lethal skills but do
not operate under the JI command structure. This background report
describes the emergence of one such organisation in South Sulawesi
that was responsible for the bombing of a McDonald's restaurant and a
car showroom in Makassar in December 2002.
Indonesia Backgrounder: How The Jemaah Islamiyah Terrorist Network
Operates in Poso and Maluku The International Crisis Group (ICG) Asia Report No. 43, 11/12/2002 [Only part of Jihad in Poso, Maluku and the Conclusion] [Click here for the full report in a PDF file] VIII. JIHAD IN POSO AND MALUKU
If they differed on other issues, JI and the MMI moderates were in total
agreement on means and ends in Maluku and Poso. The Laskar
Mujahidin, the armed forces of the Ngruki network, totalled at its height
in late 1999 and early 2000 some 500 men - much smaller but
better-trained than the Laskar Jihad troops, with whom they did not
cooperate and sometimes clashed. (A particularly virulent enmity
existed between Fikiruddin alias Abu Jibril of Laskar Mujahdin and and
Ja'far Umar Thalib of Laskar Jihad, and the two nearly came to blows
three times, once in the Middle East, once in Afghanistan, and once in
Ambon, according to an ICG source.) The commander of Laskar
Mujahidin forces through October 2000 when he was killed in Saparua,
was Haris Fadillah alias Abu Dzar, a former Darul Islam figure from
Bogor, West Java, but perhaps better known now as Omar al-Faruq's
father-in-law.
Utopian Visions And Kinship Divisions Ideological Perceptions Of Ethnic Conflict In Ambon By Kathleen Turner (Kathleen Turner is a Ph.D Research Scholar in the
School of Politics & International Studies at Murdoch University, Western
Australia. She completed her Bachelor of Asian Studies degree at the
Australian National University in 1996. Her current research for her dissertation
focuses on ethnic conflict in the Moluccas in Eastern Indonesia) The island of Ambon, in the Eastern Indonesian province of Maluku, has
been wracked by prolonged and violent outbreaks of conflict since
early 1999. The island had previously enjoyed peaceful coexistence
between local Muslim and Christian communities as a result of the
traditional alliance system known as pela with only occasional sources
of tension based on local land boundaries and property rights.
Jubilee Campaign Indonesia Trip Report Kie-Eng Go and Ann Buwalda (Long Report) More than 97,000 refugees in Poso and more than 350,000 refugees in
Maluku are in desperate need of basic life necessities, including basic
education for children. Before the violence erupted, both the Muslim
and Christian IDPs (Internally Displaced Persons) had lived with very
adequate lifestyles and income, but now they exist in conditions that
are a shocking change for them. Central Sulawesi and Maluku, both
rich with natural resources, had in the past attracted a good deal of
international commerce.
Consolidated Inter-Agency Appeal 2002 for Internally Displaced Person
in Indonesia OCHA, UN (Long Report, 152 pages)
The collapse of the Soeharto regime in 1998 permitted a series of
violent conflicts to resurface across the archipelago. In less than three
years, six different internal conflicts have erupted forcing more than 1.3
million people to become internally displaced (IDPs). This consolidated
appeal (CA) focuses on these IDPs from the provinces of Aceh, West
Kalimantan, Central Kalimantan and Madura, Central Sulawesi,
Malukus and Papua.
AL-QAEDA, ATAU PERMAINAN TENTARA? KEPENTINGAN MILITER DI BALIK 'KONFLIK ANTAR AGAMA' DI POSO,
SULAWESI TENGAH George J. Aditjondro Selama tiga tahun terakhir, kawasan Indonesia Timur, telah dilanda
berbagai kerusuhan sosial yang sepintas lalu bercorak inter-etnis,
bahkan inter-religius. Secara khusus dapat disebutkah Kepulauan
Maluku, yang kini sudah dipecah menjadi dua propinsi, dan di
Kabupaten Poso, Sulawesi Tengah, di mana kerusuhan sosial telah
berkecamuk selama tiga tahun.
ORANG-ORANG JAKARTA DI BALIK TRAGEDI MALUKU
Berbeda dengan pandangan umum, penelitian kepustakaan dan
wawancara-wawancara GJA dengan sejumlah sumber di Maluku dan
di luar Maluku menunjukkan bahwa tragedi itu secara sistematis dipicu
dan dipelihara oleh sejumlah tokoh politik dan militer di Jakarta, untuk
melindungi kepentingan mereka. - George J. Aditjondro. download artikel in print friendly version
