Sebenarnya warnanya hampir sama. Bukannya tidak menarik, tapi perasaan
jadi kacau mendengar kerusuhan dimana-mana. Sekali ini mereka (pejabat)
tidak akan bisa menuduh RMS dalangnya. Susah kalau pejabat tidak
introspeksi. Kerusuhan dimana-mana kok enggak bisa dianalisa benang
merahnya atau memang tidak memiliki skill yang cukup untuk mengatasi
semua ini. Apakah sebentar lagi porsea, riau atau padang jadi sasaran
who knows?
Orang dayak itu pada dasarnya baik-baik. Saya sempat main ke Kalsel,
Kaltim, dan Kalteng, rata-rata mereka sopan dan humoris. Sayangnya para
pendatang banyak yang lebih galak dari yang tinggal, sehingga memicu
banyak kerusuhan dan ini sekali lagi karena rasa hormat-menghormati yang
sangat kurang antara satu dengan yang lain.
Soal agama tidak terlalu masalah karena banyak bangsa dayak yang sudah
beragama Islam, bahkan di Martapura ada kyai yang sangat dihormati oleh
penduduk setempat. Jadi kerusuhan kebanyakan antar suku yang timbul
karena kesenjangan kondisi sosial.
Masih membekas dibenak kita pembakaran Matra dan beberapa gedung
dibanjarmasin serta peperangan terakhir antara Dayak v. Madura yang
cukup besar. Dengan kondisi negara yang seperti sekarang, ditambah
bergeraknya para provokator dengan membawa dana yang banyak, tentu saja
bukan hal yang sulit untuk mengacak-acak dan merusak perdamaian di
Kalimantan.
Sulit...sulit..kapankah penderitaan bangsa kita ini berakhir??
peace.
Yohanes Sulaiman wrote:
>
> Fokus kita sampai sekarang ke Maluku karena ada keributan agama.
> Coba lihat keributan di Kalimantan.... Kayaknya kurang terdiskusikan.
> Apa karena enggak ada yang merasa senasib atau tidak 'semenarik'
> keributan di Ambon yang diwarnai kerusuhan agama?
>
> -----
>
> March 20, 1999
>
> Fighting on Borneo Turns Savage
>
> Filed at 8:44 p.m. EST
>
> By The Associated Press
>
> SEMPARUK, Indonesia (AP) -- The Dayak fighter marched down the main road
> Saturday with a sword in one hand, the severed head of a victim of ethnic
> warfare in the other.
> He perched his bloody trophy on an oil drum, so dozens of triumphant young men
> with spears and homemade rifles could see. To whoops and guffaws, somebody
> stuck lit cigarettes in the mouth and ear of the head.
> When two police trucks drove up, everyone pointed at the head and shouted:
> ``Here it is!'' Choosing not to confront the armed men, the officers smiled,
> waved and left this Borneo island village.
> Such brazen and macabre scenes have been commonplace in a stretch of coastal
> villages near Indonesia's border with Malaysia, where ethnic fighting has
> killed at least 73 people since Tuesday, reports said.
> The victors were gangs of ethnic Malay and Dayak people, who sped past
> crumpled, gutted houses in trucks and on motorcycles, sheathed swords slung
> over their backs. Some daubed their faces with black war paint and demanded
> money at roadblocks.
> The rioting has ebbed, but only because there is no one left to fight. The
> losers were immigrants from the island of Madura, about 13,600 of whom have
> fled their homes by boat, car or military truck.
> The fighting in western Borneo stems from decades-old hatreds, but fresh
> antagonisms had been brewing since an incident in February when a Madurese man
> refused to pay a Malay bus driver. Sporadic fighting followed, culminating in
> this week's bloodshed.
> Already burdened by flareups of unrest elsewhere in Indonesia, the military
> has
> shown little taste for tracking down the killers or rounding up weapons.
> They're easy to find: virtually every young man in the streets has a sharp
> weapon.
> ``If they say it's for their protection, we can't take it away from them,''
> police Sgt. Suhardi said. He stood near two headless bodies on the side of a
> road lined by rice fields and radioed for an ambulance to pick them up.
> The custom of cutting off a victim's head recalls old headhunting rituals that
> flourished in some Borneo jungle communities a century ago. In many areas of
> the vast island, indigenous beliefs and legends still thrive, despite the
> prevalence of Islam and Christianity.
> ``This is the head of a murderer!'' shouted Malay and Dayak fighters who
> paraded with a severed head through the village of Selakau, 18 miles southwest
> of Semparuk. Some trembled, entranced by their triumph. Others wore blank
> stares.
> ``If the soldiers won't find the Madurese, we will. We've been silent for too
> long,'' one man declared.
> About a 15-minute drive away, soldiers at a roadblock searched cars and
> minibuses, and ordered travelers to raise their shirts. A few hidden knives
> and
> catapults were confiscated.
> The cause of the conflict lies partly in controversial migration programs that
> the government began under former President Suharto to alleviate heavily
> populated islands such as Madura, Bali and the main island of Java.
> In Borneo, the Madurese newcomers were often viewed as thieving invaders from
> the start. Last week, their enemies burned with precision: the smoking
> ruins of
> Madurese homes lie next to intact Malay and Dayak houses.
> The river-laced, humid region has many ethnic Chinese residents, and their
> colorfully painted temples were also left untouched. So were mosques and
> churches.
> Economic hardship has often triggered attacks on the relatively affluent
> Chinese in other parts of Indonesia. And east of Borneo, fighting in Ambon
> city
> between Muslims and Christians has left more than 200 people dead this year.
>
> We alone with no excuses. That is the idea... that man is condemned
> to be free. Condemned, because he did not create himself yet in other
> respects is free ... because he is responsible for everythng he does.
> The existentialist does not believe in the power of passion. He will
> never agree that a sweeping passion is a ravaging torrent which
> fatally leads a man to certain acts and is therefore an excuse. He
> thinks that man is responsible for his passion.
>
> "Existentialism" by Jean Paul
> Sarte
