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> Date: Tue, 10 May 2005 17:23:01 +1000 (EST)
> Subject: [IHRC-NZ] (GLW) Troubled times for
> Yudhoyono
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> http://www.greenleft.org.au/back/2005/626/
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> Troubled times for Yudhoyono
>
> Jon Lamb
> Six months after his election, the cracks are well
> and truly appearing in the promises and policies of
> Indonesian president Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono. The
> half-hearted support of the Indonesian masses for
> his presidency is rapidly evaporating as he
> continues to implement World Bank and International
> Monetary Fund austerity measures. The humanitarian
> crisis and heavy-handed response of the Indonesian
> military to the pro-independence movement in Aceh
> are fuelling additional political problems.
> Green Left Weekly spoke to People�s Democratic Party
> (PRD) international affairs representative Zely
> Ariane, a guest speaker at the Asia Pacific
> International Solidarity Conference held in Sydney
> at Easter, about these and other issues surrounding
> Yudhoyono�s presidency.
> �The people now know that the president has lied and
> has lied many times�, said Ariane. �The first lie
> relates to Aceh. Since November 19, Yudhoyono has
> placed Aceh under a state of emergency. Then he
> continued the policy of sending more troops to Aceh.
>
> �Then on the issue of corruption, he promised within
> three months that there would be a major crackdown
> ... but no-one has been charged or jailed. The
> cronies and corrupt business leaders, especially
> those linked to the family of ex-president Suharto,
> knew that they would not be jailed. So people know
> the president is lying on this issue as well.� Fuel
> price rises
> To help offset the impact of the economic reforms,
> such as the removal of subsidies on fuel, Yudhoyono
> promised to improve welfare and to lower the prices
> on certain goods and services. But these
> improvements have either failed to materialise or
> have not made a difference to those people whom they
> are supposed to assist.
> �In the first month after he was elected, the people
> still had much hope in Yudhoyono� and believed that
> �he should be given some more time and opportunity
> because of the situation he inherited from the
> former government under Gus Dur and Megawati
> Sukarnoputri�, Ariane said. �But after the fuel
> price hike, the situation is completely different.�
> Ariane explained: �Even as early as November and
> December, the government announced that there would
> be a fuel price hike soon, but it was not confident
> to say when because it knew how the people would
> respond to this increase. SBY [Yudhoyono] tried to
> hide the fuel price hike through various policies,
> so the people knew he was not to be trusted.�
> The fuel price increase �is a very critical issue
> for people�, yet has been met with a mixed response.
> The organised movement among student and activist
> groups has so far been unable to tap the discontent
> and spontaneous response from the hardest hit
> sectors of Indonesian society.
> �The fuel price movement has not been able to
> respond strongly because it is weak at the moment.
> It is mostly student groups who have been the main
> force behind it, who have been used by the
> parliamentary elite. Their political independence is
> not strong. After the parliament approved the fuel
> price hike, the student movement became less active,
> especially some of the Islamic student groups linked
> to parties in the parliament.
> �It is a difficult situation, because those outside
> the organised student movement, the spontaneous
> movement � especially amongst the urban poor and
> those such as drivers and small vendors � they are
> ready to fight this fuel price hike, but they have
> no partner in the form of the student
> organisations.� Aceh
> Ariane believes that the situation in Aceh is
> another sign of the ongoing erosion of human rights
> and democracy in Indonesia under Yudhoyono. The
> tsunami disaster has been used by the Indonesian
> military (TNI) to further strengthen its presence in
> Aceh and hound the guerilla fighters of the Free
> Aceh Movement (GAM). Through her involvement with
> SEGERA, a coalition of Aceh solidarity
> organisations, Ariane has seen firsthand the role of
> the military in Aceh.
> �The day after the tsunami, the head of the military
> lied when he said 40,000 troops would be sent to
> Aceh and the troops would be divided equally between
> humanitarian help and operations seeking GAM. In
> fact, they only mobilised 10,000 troops to help the
> people and 30,000 to chase GAM in the mountains.
> �SEGERA recorded the TNI activities in Aceh after
> the tsunami until the end of February ... it is
> clear that TNI forces are the ones that are starting
> the conflict.�
> The arrival and large presence of foreign aid
> workers and international troops made a big
> difference. According to Ariane, �They helped a lot,
> because the Indonesian military was unable to do so
> ... these 10,000 TNI were not really helping ... we
> could not readily see them helping in the streets.
> If we did see them, they were going everywhere with
> their guns, even when recovering dead bodies.�
> Under pressure from the Indonesian government,
> countries that sent troops to help with aid and
> reconstruction efforts have, or are in the process
> of, completely withdrawing their troops. Significant
> restrictions have been imposed on the movements of
> foreign aid workers and journalists outside the
> capital, Banda Aceh.
> �On this issue of the international troops leaving
> quickly, this is a very contentious one for Jakarta.
> Especially because the actual humanitarian role of
> the TNI is not a high profile one ... for example,
> the US troops were the first to make contact with
> the city of Meulaboh, not the TNI.�
> Yudhoyono and the Indonesian government are
> extremely sensitive to outside perceptions about the
> TNI�s role in Aceh, hence some tense debates and
> public discussion over the latest round of
> negotiations in Helsinki with GAM representatives.
> Ariane believes: �The approach to negotiate with GAM
> in Helsinki is a tactical differentiation by the
> military and the government towards the GAM
> leadership in Sweden and the GAM based in Aceh.
> That�s why they have agreed to the proposal of
> talks.�
> �There is a lot of hope for these talks�, explained
> Ariane. GAM �decreased its demands� in the first
> round. �It didn�t insist on independence�, but
> proposed �self-government through autonomy, the
> involvement of local political parties and that the
> Indonesian government must withdraw troops. It is a
> start.�
> �We support this process and campaign around it in
> Jakarta, through SEGERA and in Aceh through FPDRA
> [the Acehnese People�s Democratic Resistance Front].
> But it seems the Indonesian government and the
> parliament doesn�t want this process to continue.
> TNI does not want the negotiations to continue. We
> are sure of that. They do not want peace in Aceh.
> �The negotiations and ceasefire issue was �accepted�
> by the government after the international troops
> arrived in Aceh. The Indonesian government was under
> pressure to open Aceh. But there was not a united
> voice to solve the situation in Aceh peacefully.
> That is why when President SBY and the government
> partook in the Helsinki talks, the parliament was so
> angry � �You cannot have a meeting in Finland, it
> must be in Indonesia!�.�
> �Still during the negotiations in Helsinki, the
> statements of the military and the parliament in
> Jakarta are completely contradictory. [TNI chief
> General Endriartono] Sutarto said that if the
> Acehnese insist on self-government and they insist
> on local political parties, then this means war.�
> True to his words, TNI forces killed six suspected
> GAM members within two days of the latest round of
> talks, which began on April 12. There have also been
> reports of troops kidnapping family members of GAM
> fighters. The TNI announced on April 14 that an
> extra 3000 troops would be sent to Aceh (plus three
> battalions to West Papua, which is also under
> extreme military repression). Military ties
> The US announced in late February that it would
> resume the International Military Education and
> Training program (IMET) with Indonesia. (The program
> was suspended in 1991 and then completely halted in
> 1999.)
> Ariane is adamant that Australian-Indonesian
> military ties should not be strengthened. �The TNI
> hasn�t changed ... the way they acted in East Timor,
> the way they behaved under Suharto has not changed.
> Their activity in Aceh and the secret war in Papua
> reveal the genuine character of the TNI.
> �I think if the Australian people were really aware
> of what�s going on, then they would demand that aid
> goes to the people, not the military. The aid must
> be in the hands of the people, not the control of
> the military. We can�t trust the TNI ... so we call
> for pressure to stop the war in Aceh and the war in
> Papua.�
> From Green Left Weekly, May 11, 2005.
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