Ref: Salah satu sebab utama adalah akibat aliran garis keras yang dibawa sebagai bekal perantauan oleh sebahagian transmigrasi dari luar Maluku. Selama sejarah rakyat Maluku belum pernah masalah kepercayaan dijadikan jarak pemisah untuk pertumpahan darah di Maluku, malah sebaliknya saling menghargai dan bekerja sama dalam suka dan duka, terkecuali dalam zaman Indonesia merdeka darah mengalir atas unsur agama. Apakah ini kemerdekaan untuk menindas kaum minoritas baik dari segi agama maupun etnik? Apakah rakyat Maluku di Maluku patut hidup dalam keadaan demikian?
Anda mempunya pendapat lain? http://www.thejakartaglobe.com/home/think-tank-warns-of-tensions-in-indonesias-malukus/469661 Think-Tank Warns of Tensions in Indonesia’s Malukus October 05, 2011 Tensions between Christians and Muslims on an Indonesian island group wracked by sectarian violence a decade ago are again reaching worrying levels, a think-tank warned on Tuesday. The International Crisis Group said fresh tensions on the Maluku Islands needed to be urgently addressed after a clash last month in the provincial capital Ambon killed seven and displaced 4,000. The incident likely inspired the suicide bombing of a church on the country’s Java island two weeks later as retaliation, the ICG report said. “Old grievances are being dredged up, and a new narrative of Muslim persecution is taking root that needs urgently to be countered,” said the report, “Indonesia: trouble again in Ambon.” Between 1999 and 2002, more than 5,000 Muslims and Christians were killed in frequent clashes that involved slaughter, savage mutilations and forced religious conversions, leaving Ambon split along religious lines. “Since the earlier conflict ended, it has been almost completely segregated into Christian and Muslim communities, and everyone knows where the borders are between residential neighborhoods,” the report said. Violence resurfaced in Ambon on September 11 when a text message circulated that a Muslim motorcycle taxi driver had been tortured and killed by Christians, a minority group in the Muslim-majority nation. Police said the driver died in a road accident, but photos of the battered victim circulated online and raised suspicions about his death, with relatives saying the man’s body showed what appeared to be stab wounds. Violence broke out at his funeral and gave way to two days of bloody clashes that included shootings, stabbings and severe beatings, prompting Jakarta to send in hundreds of troops. Religious Strife a Daily Reality in Ambon Agence France-Press +++++ http://www.thejakartaglobe.com/home/religious-strife-a-daily-reality-in-ambon/469140 Religious Strife a Daily Reality in Ambon Nivell Rayda | October 02, 2011 A bouquet of freshly picked flowers stands on an unmarked grave in Mangga Dua, Ambon. Darmin Saiman, a motorcycle taxi driver whose controversial death on Sept. 10 brought the city to chaos, lies buried underneath. The religiously charged riot, which killed a total of eight civilians and displaced hundreds, began the day after Darmin died, with dodgy details and theories about his death fueling the violence. Darmin was known among his neighbors in the Waihaong Muslim neighborhood as a kind man and devout Muslim. On Sept. 10, he was found drenched in blood and barely alive in the Christian area of Gunung Nona, where Muslims rarely go. His motorcycle was beside him. Police were quick to say Darmin was a victim of a motorcycle accident at a notoriously deadly section in a the hilly area. He was riding downhill too fast, police said, and lost control as he negotiated a steep curve and slammed into the wall of Yohanes Sahanaya’s house before being thrown several meters into a gutter. But that story seemed to be inconsistent with Darmin’s injuries. Why did he have bruises all over his body, and why was there was a wound on his back deep enough to puncture his heart? Even Yohanes claimed to have heard nothing at the time of the incident. “My police neighbor was first on the scene and found the body. He alerted me that there had been an accident, so I offered to take the man to the hospital in my car,” Yohanes said. “He was already in a coma. It looked like he suffered from internal bleeding. Blood was gushing from his nose and mouth. By the time we got to the hospital, he was already dead.” The official explanation of the wound on Darmin’s back was that it was caused by the barbed wire atop of Yohanes’ wall, according to police. Yohanes’ neighbor who found Darmin was never questioned. Yohanes said he was baffled when the National Commission for Human Rights (Komnas HAM) presented him with pictures of Darmin’s post-mortem examination a week later. “The picture shows stitches running around the top of his left foot. The only injury I found on his foot was a small cut right around his heel,” he said. Yohanes was also shocked to see bruises on Darmin’s head, shoulders, lower ribs and stomach. Police never released the results of Darmin’s post-mortem to his family. The battered and lifeless body of Darmin, with his bloody shirt and a hole in his back, were enough to fuel wild speculation. Some 500 people attended Darmin’s funeral on Sept. 11, and soon the rallying cry of “Allah is great” at the grave site were loud enough to agitate residents of nearby Christian sector of Mangga Dua, which was still traumatized by the 1999-2002 sectarian conflict that had pitted Muslims and Christians. Reymondus Sahertian, a Christian from Kuda Mati, recalled hearing a story that Muslim mourners had harassed and injured a Christian schoolgirl. He and hundreds of others from Kuda Mati and Batu Gantung, another Christian area, descended on Mangga Dua to confront the mourners about the incident. The meeting quickly degenerated into violence, though hospitals in Ambon said there was no record of a young female patient matching the description of the schoolgirl reportedly attacked by Muslims. The Maluku branch of the Indonesian Christian University was set on fire, while rocks were hurled at public minivans coming in from Christian areas such as Kuda Mati and Gunung Nona. “We were provoked by the Muslims,” Reymondus said. All but three alleyways, where the Christians reportedly lived, had only skeletons of homes filled with collapsing roofs, charcoal, ashes and burned plastic. The Christian area of Talake, where at least 400 people lived, is now abandoned with its inhabitants taking refuge in the Christian stronghold of Air Putri. The riot quickly moved downtown to the Silo Church intersection, a buffer zone between the Muslim areas in the southwest and the Christian neighborhoods in the northeast. Amid the chaos, police opened fire on the crowd and injured rioters as well as bystanders. Among the eight fatalities were a 15-year-old and a school teacher. The following morning, dozens of homes in the Muslim area of Mardika on the other side of town were torched. Adi Kaimuddin, a resident from the Waringin Muslim neighborhood, said he was defending Muslims from Christian attacks. Hundreds of men descended on his neighborhood, chasing Muslims away while burning and looting their homes. A curfew has been since been in place as heavily armed soldiers and police guard businesses and homes. “The security presence only makes us more nervous,” Adi said. We are eager to restore our lives and come back to our homes, but authorities told us we can’t. 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