Mas Aswat ini kutambahi informasi tentang kerusuhan di Ambon dari kacamata
pertentangan kelas. Kupikir orang akan tambah bodoh bila kerusuhan di Maluku
hanya disebabkan oleh faktor agama. Tapi ternyata ada juga yang tega
mengambil keuntungan dari sisi pertentangan agama. Aksi sejuta umat
misalnya.
MB
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From: 裼 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: Kuli Tinta <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Tuesday, January 18, 2000 8:43 AM
Subject: [Kuli Tinta] Re: KKN berlanjut [was] HASIL TABLIGH AKBAR?
> Pagi ini saya membaca Bernas, ada informasi bahwa Prajogo dan Eka
> Tjipta "bermain" di Maluku dengan membiayai satu kelompok untuk
> membuat kerusuhan.
>
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Back to Home Page Editorial and Opinion November 03, 1999
Will President Abdurrahman Wahid remain a democrat?
George Aditjondro Ph.D who is well-known for his research on the wealth of
Soeharto and Habibie, talked to The Jakarta Post recently in Singapore on
numerous issues, including the current political changes taking place in
Indonesia.
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How do you see the continuing religious clashes in Ambon?
The moment Gus Dur used the term "federalism" in his first speech, I
saluted him, because the word used to be very taboo. This is a good
sign that Gus Dur and Megawati can accommodate people's interest --
local communities, students -- more than just bargaining their
positions with other parties.
They were also right when they said our country is basically a
maritime country, and they want to revive our potential maritime
resources. The concept will have two consequences.
First, Army domination will decline, and the Navy will replace it.
Second, it is also a sign that both Megawati and Gus Dur will pay more
attention to eastern Indonesia development, most of which comprises
maritime provinces. This will decrease the central government's
control over the territory's economic potential.
Maluku, for instance, has been a "playground" of Soeharto's family
businesses for a long time. Bambang Triatmojo, Soeharto's eldest son,
together with businessman Tommy Winata, controlled fishing in Banda
Sea, Maluku.
Businessman Sudwikatmono (Soeharto's close relative) had a company,
Dayaguna Samudra, operating in the southeastern part of Maluku.
In Central Maluku, Barito Pacific not only owned a plywood company,
but also a cement company. In the northern part, Barito Pacific
controls most of the forest in Maluku.
So I think Gus Dur already knew that the root of communal fights in
Maluku does not lie with religion or ethnicity, but with economic
interests spearheaded by Jakarta capitalists, and they were the ones
who orchestrated riots by exploiting ethnic and religious tensions.
What about the Republic of South Maluku (RMS) movement which has
sought independence for a long time?
I would tend to say there is a new RMS because they see how the sea,
forests, all were owned by Jakarta's people. And among the Christian
groups in Maluku, there is a strong consciousness about Maluku
nationalism. The Islamic groups in Maluku can identify themselves as
being part of the central government since the leader (Soeharto) was a
Muslim, and the local authority in Maluku, was also a Muslim.
Thus, the Christian groups in Maluku felt they were double-minorities
since they did not have access in either economics or politics.
Although fighting between villages has been common for a long time in
Ambon, they never burned down places of worship like mosques or
churches (like they do lately).
These places of worship were built by both Muslims and Christians.
This is a testimony to their tolerance of each other, until somebody
engineered riots in the region.
I bet Gus Dur already knows the mastermind of these riots. Rather than
saying it was orchestrated by a certain "General K" he should have
looked at the root of the problem. I think this is the only solution
to the Maluku problem. However, I think the major obstacle for Gus Dur
is not in Ambon, but in Aceh.
Why is that?
I think Gus Dur is too confident to say that he is an Islamic leader
and pretends to know the root of Aceh's problem. He thinks that he can
still persuade the Acehnese to live in unity with the Indonesian
republic. In fact, Acehnese nationalism does not only belong to Aceh
Independent Movement activists in Sweden, or hundreds or thousands of
political refugees in Malaysia, but also to Aceh's middle class or the
educated people. Now the Acehnese are demanding Gus Dur's promise of a
referendum that he once said in Aceh. I'm afraid that Gus Dur would
fail because of the Aceh referendum, just like Habibie failed because
of East Timor's referendum in August.
Weren't human rights violations by the military the real issue in
Aceh? Is a referendum the best way for Aceh instead of investigating
the mass killings during martial law in the 1990s?
I disagree with that kind of argument. For me, the problems in Aceh
are not only military violations on human rights, but more seriously
the military protection of foreign capitalists by violating human
rights. If a Jakarta businessman wanted to expand his forest
concession area, and the local people rejected that proposal, he would
easily label them separatists. That's why the Acehnese reject this
sort of solution.
Second, the Islam practiced in Aceh is culturally different from that
practiced in Java, notably as Gus Dur understands it. So, the seeds of
Acehnese nationalism are based on three things: military repression
(since martial law was imposed), economic inequity and a different
interpretation of Islam. How Gus Dur will manage the Aceh problem
specifically in the future, we have to see.
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