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From: The Wisdom Fund <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Monday, January 17, 2000 10:40 PM
Subject: Media Show Bias in Coverage of Violence in Indonesia
[THE WISDOM FUND: News & Views]
Released January 15, 2000
The Wisdom Fund, P. O. Box 2723, Arlington, VA 22202
Website: http://www.twf.org -- Press Contact: Enver Masud
Article: http://www.twf.org/News/Y2000/0115-Bias.html
Media Show Bias in Coverage of Violence in Indonesia
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- The U.S. media's anti-Muslim bias
shows once again in their reports on the violence in
Indonesia, where calls of "jihad" receive widespread
newspaper and television coverage, but the massacre and
burning of dozens of Muslims by Christians -- the reason
for the call to "jihad" -- gets little or no coverage.
Richard Lloyd Parry, Asia Correspondent for the
Independent, reported on January 11, 2000 that, "Aid
workers say they have found the bodies of large numbers
of Muslims massacred and burnt by Christians in the
ongoing violence in the Indonesian Spice Islands."
Mr. Parry reports, "A doctor with the aid team said he
had seen a mosque in the village of Popilo in which
bodies lay five deep. More bodies, including those of
young children, were bulldozed into the ground near by.
'I think it was about 200 bodies,' he was quoted as
saying. 'I saw some dried blood in the mosque, so I
assume ... that the victims were slaughtered inside the
mosque.'"
On January 5, 2000, Irwin Firdaus of the Associated
Press had written, "Media reports in Jakarta said up to
10,000 people on Halmahera [in the Spice Islands] were
seeking shelter in military barracks while waiting to be
evacuated. The Indonesian Observer daily quoted local
residents as saying most of those fleeing were Muslim,
and that Christian militias had gone on a killing spree
throughout the island."
Yet, as far as we can tell, this Christian killing spree
was not covered by U.S. media. Instead U.S. media paid
far greater attention to Muslims calling for "jihad" in
the Indonesian capital, Jakarta.
They did not report why Muslims were calling for
"jihad," nor the various meanings of jihad (or
struggle), thereby, leaving the impression of a
blood-thirsty Muslim majority out to kill Christians --
just because they are Christian.
The truth is considerably more complex, and neither
Muslims nor Christians are blameless.
The 1000 plus islands comprising the Moluccas (or
Maluku) in Indonesia, stretch from Halmahera in the
north to Wetar off the north-eastern end of Timor. The
largest of the islands, Halmahera and Seram, are the
most undeveloped and underpopulated. The smallest, Ambon
and the Bandas, are the most developed and populated.
The Moluccas -- the fabled Spice Islands -- to which
Indian, Chinese, Arab, and Europeans came in search of
cloves, nutmeg, and mace, bore the brunt of the first
European attempts to colonize Indonesia.
The Portuguese were the first to arrive in 1509,
followed by the Dutch in 1599. By 1630 the Dutch were
established in Ambon, and they had their headquarters in
Jakarta.
After a brief occupation by the British, the Dutch
returned in 1814, but encountered resistance. The leader
of the rebellion, Pattimura, was captured and executed.
He is regarded as one of Indonesia'a national heroes --
Ambon's university and airport are named after him.
When the Dutch left Indonesia after World War II, the
mainly Christian population of Ambon in the Moluccas,
proclaimed an independent Republic of the South Moluccas
(RMS) rather than join with Indonesia.
In 1950 Indonesian troops occupied the islands, and the
RMS fled to the jungles of Seram. From there about
12,000 were taken to the Netherlands by the Dutch
government. And from the Netherlands they continue their
resistance to Indonesian rule. Many have returned to
retire or do business.
The violence in the Moluccas has come amid increasing
religious tensions, fueled in part by Muslim migration
to the islands, which have long had a Christian majority
descended from its former Dutch rulers, and converts to
Christianity.
Adding to the religious tensions is the prospect of
wealth for some.
According to AFP (January 11, 2000), Indonesian
President Abdurrahman Wahid said that the most recent
bloody Muslim-Christian battles on Halmahera island in
North Maluku, which have left hundreds killed, were
"perpetrated by someone who wants to be the governor of
the province," as well as "the prospect of a gold mine"
in the area.
Others, rumored to be after the oil on Seram, may be
fueling the violence which has taken about 2,000 lives
in the past year.
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Provided that it is not edited, and author name,
organization, and web address (http://www.twf.org) are
included, this article may be printed in newspapers and
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