-Cavet Lector- <A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/">www.ctrl.org</A> -Cui Bono- Once the country's wealth was looted by its corrupt elites and their overseas Rich pals, the country could sustain poverty, diversity of religions, and the desire for ethnic independence. Unlike Yugoslavia which was broken up by the US and Germany, Indonesia is disintegrating because of the failure of the NWO's policies of " free trade." For those of you familiar with " Sarkar's Laws of Social Cycles ", this is a textbook example. Joshua2 ----- International Herald Tribune, Jan. 10, 2000 Indonesia Is Falling Apart The forces of dis-union are spreading around the world. SINGAPORE - The Indonesian military, discredited by widespread human rights abuses and overstretched by having to deal with multiple separatist and sectarian conflicts, may no longer be able or willing to control the forces that threaten to fragment the world's fourth most populous nation, some officers and analysts say. They worry that the army and police - far from being poised to take power from the first democratically elected government in Indonesia in decades, as Indonesian news organizations have reported recently - will not be effective in restoring peace and maintaining order in such violence-prone regions as the Moluccas and Aceh because many of their combat and crowd-control units are poorly trained, disciplined and paid. While there have been signs of tension between President Abdurrahman Wahid and senior military officers over how to handle the restive regions and generals accused of human rights excesses, military morale is also being eroded by open disagreements between conservatives and reformists in the army. Major General Agus Wirahadikusuma, a leader of the reform group that wants to make the armed forces more professional and take them out of Indonesian politics, said last week that the Indonesian military was in no position to mount a coup. ''That kind of thing is no longer fashionable,'' he said. ''And besides, can we really fight against the people?'' Referring to the capital of the Moluccas in eastern Indonesia, he added: ''We can't even take care of Ambon. How can we launch a coup?'' Morale in the Indonesian security forces has reached an all-time low, Alan Dupont, director of the Asia-Pacific security program at the Australian National University's Strategic and Defense Studies Center in Canberra, said Sunday. ''Fear that the army might stage a military coup,'' he said, ''has been supplanted in recent weeks by a diametrically opposed concern: that a weakened, demoralized military leadership has been sapped of the will to take decisive action in situations where legitimate military force is required to restore and maintain law and order.'' The failure of the security forces to halt the fighting between Muslims and Christians in Ambon, ''suggests a lack of commitment rather than a lack of manpower or resources,'' Mr. Dupont said. Both Ambon and predominantly Muslim Aceh, Indonesia's westernmost province where many Acehnese have been demanding independence, are reported to have been peaceful over the past few days, as Muslims celebrated the religious festival of Eid al Fitr that marks the end of the fasting month. But two Indonesian policemen were killed, and two others wounded, by suspected separatist guerrillas in Aceh on Saturday, the official Antara news agency reported Sunday. Residents and military officers in both regions are pessimistic about prospects for an early settlement. ''What we have now is a vicious conflict rapidly spiraling out of control with both sides wanting to take revenge for past attacks and wipe the other out, while the military is stuck in the middle,'' said Richard Mowat, the regional coordinator of the medical aid group Medecins Sans Frontieres in the Moluccas and one of the few foreigners left in Ambon. Adding to the military's morale problem is the feeling among many serving and retired officers that the army is being unfairly blamed by the government for human rights abuses, when in fact troops are being put in situations where they have to kill or be killed because of the government's failure to advance political solutions to the violence. In an implicit rebuke to the military, President Wahid declared during a recent visit to the restive easternmost province of Irian Jaya, ''I am officially conveying my apology for the human rights violations in Papua, Aceh, Ambon and other provinces.'' For more than three decades under former President Suharto, the military wielded almost unchecked power in many parts of the country, insisting that strong rule was essential to hold the world's largest island-nation together. Reflecting a view that is widely held in the military, a former army chief of staff, Rudini who like many Indonesians uses only one name, said Mr. Wahid's government was not consistent on the issue of human rights. ''The government says it is against human rights abuses, but it says nothing when a soldier is found hung on a tree or when a major's throat is slit open,'' he said. ''Why does the government keep quiet on these things?'' Colonel Syarifuddin Tippe, one of two Indonesian army commanders in Aceh, said that the military and guerrillas of the Free Aceh Movement were ''heading for a bloody confrontation, because the political elite have not found a solution to the Aceh problem.'' He said that things would get worse after the fasting period ended. ''If we kill a separatist, they will kill one of us in brutal revenge attacks. That will only incite the troops to crack down harder. Both sides will be crying out for blood.'' In Aceh, Mr. Wahid's government hopes to set peace talks on track by organizing a meeting of about 400 Acehnese representatives in neighboring North Sumatra Province late January or early February. Jakarta has offered outlying regions autonomy, but ruled out independence, fearing that Aceh and some other resource-rich provinces might follow East Timor in breaking away from Indonesia. Although Mr. Wahid and his vice president, Megawati Sukarnoputri, visited Ambon last month and appealed for peace between warring Muslims and Christians, no lasting truce is in sight. This has increased concerns that conflict between Muslims and Christians will spread to other parts of Indonesia, where about 90 percent of the 210 million population professes adherence to Islam. 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