Indonesia
Modified 30 May 2005
Quoting from Ft Bragg's great threat information
resource at
http://www.bragg.army.mil/sid/aindex.htm
``In the past 18 months nearly 4,000 people of both faiths
[Christianity and Islam]have been killed in
sectarian violence across the Malukus, a remote
archipelago known as the Spice Islands during
Dutch colonial times.
Animosity between Christians and Muslims has been
stoked by an influx of Muslims from other parts
of the country'' [07/24/2000]
and
``Thousands of security personnel have been deployed to
end the unrest in Maluku but have been unable, or
unwilling, to do so.
Both sides accuse the police and army of incompetence
and joining the fighting in the
islands'' [07/17/2000]
and
``Over the past 18 months more than 3,000 Christians and
Muslims have been killed in a bloodbath of sectarian
violence in Maluku and North Maluku Provinces, the
former Moluccas or Spice Islands.
Street battles, rampaging mobs, arson and sniper
attacks all have involved extremists of both faiths
and government troops assigned to maintain peace
allegedly have been either too afraid to intervene
or have taken sides.'' [07/14/2000]
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Brigade Istimata Internasional --
On 26 May 2005 the US Embassy in Jakarta was closed
because of "what officials would describe only as
an unspecified security threat"
[NYT],
which was revealed to be a diagram of the embassy
and details on how best to attack it on the
Brigade Istimata Internasional website:
http://www.istimata.co.nr/
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Laskar Jihad Online --
Suarakan Fakta Tegakkan Kebenaran --
http://www.laskarjihad.or.id/
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Jihad in Maluku (Molucca) --
I can't read Indonesian, but these seem to have very
similar makeup, down to using the same clipart,
and were found on one list of links at:
http://qital.tripod.com/
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Free Aceh Movement or
Aceh Sumatra National Liberation Front (ASNLF) --
the armed wing of
Gerakan Aceh Merdeka (GAM) --
Fighting for independance for the north-western end
of the island of Sumartra.
There were reports that Osama bin Laden considered
moving his headquarters from Afghanistan to Indonesia
in 2000, as the ASNLF was providing support to al-Qaeda.
However, GAM/ASNLF themselves have denied this
[CNN, 9 July 2002 and 14 Jul 2002].
ASNLF/GAM background:
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A site for overseas Chinese highlights recent atrocities against
Chinese citizens of Indonesia, although it must be said that some
of the images are really from other atrocities
in other places and times....
http://www.huaren.org
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Also see
the East Timor section.
