The Jakarta Post, 7/1/2007 6:18:35 PM
Maluku incident proves separatists still pose threat: legislators
JAKARTA (Antara): An incident in Maluku occurring when President Susilo Bambang
Yudhoyono visited Ambon (Maluku's provincia capital) last week showed that a
separatist group still posed a serious threat on the unitary state of Indonesia, a
legislator has said.
The remarks were made by members of the House of Representatives (DPR)'s
Commission I, Yuddy Crisnandy (Golkar), Effendy Choirie (National Awakening Party)
and Chairman of the National Mandate Party faction at DPR Zulkifli Hasan here over
the weekend.
The peak event of the National Family Day program which was attended by President
Yudhoyono last Friday (June 29) morning was disturbed by a group of irresponsible
persons who performed an unscheduled "Cakalele" dance.
Yuddy said the action showed that separatist groups especially RMS (the banned
South Maluku Republic) had more courages and did not hesitate to create chaos.
"We hope the incident could be made an evaluation on our security system and the
intelligence body's performance," he said.
According to Yuddy, such an incident should not recur and thus relevant authorities
must conduct tighter security control in every state activity.
"We are questioning why such an incident could happen. Thus, the security system
for every state activity must be evaluated," he said.
Effendy Choirie who is chairman of the National Awakening Party faction at DPR
called for the improvement of the intelligence body's performance as such a separatist
act had been committed bluntly.
"The intelligence body might have detected it but measures on the disturbers must be
taken by relevant authorities like the police and military," he said.
Meanwhile, Zulkifli said the incident must be settled thouroughly and stern measures
must be imposed on the perpetrators.
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