Indonesia

Modified 30 May 2005

Quoting from Ft Bragg's great threat information resource at http://www.bragg.army.mil/sid/aindex.htm ``In the past 18 months nearly 4,000 people of both faiths [Christianity and Islam]have been killed in sectarian violence across the Malukus, a remote archipelago known as the Spice Islands during Dutch colonial times. Animosity between Christians and Muslims has been stoked by an influx of Muslims from other parts of the country'' [07/24/2000] and ``Thousands of security personnel have been deployed to end the unrest in Maluku but have been unable, or unwilling, to do so. Both sides accuse the police and army of incompetence and joining the fighting in the islands'' [07/17/2000] and ``Over the past 18 months more than 3,000 Christians and Muslims have been killed in a bloodbath of sectarian violence in Maluku and North Maluku Provinces, the former Moluccas or Spice Islands. Street battles, rampaging mobs, arson and sniper attacks all have involved extremists of both faiths and government troops assigned to maintain peace allegedly have been either too afraid to intervene or have taken sides.'' [07/14/2000]

• Brigade Istimata Internasional -- On 26 May 2005 the US Embassy in Jakarta was closed because of "what officials would describe only as an unspecified security threat" [NYT], which was revealed to be a diagram of the embassy and details on how best to attack it on the Brigade Istimata Internasional website: http://www.istimata.co.nr/
• Laskar Jihad Online -- Suarakan Fakta Tegakkan Kebenaran -- http://www.laskarjihad.or.id/
• Jihad in Maluku (Molucca) -- I can't read Indonesian, but these seem to have very similar makeup, down to using the same clipart, and were found on one list of links at: http://qital.tripod.com/
  • Laskar Jihan Ahlus Sunnah wal Jama'ah -- http://laskarjihad.cjb.net/
  • ``The Truth From Molucca'' -- http://connect.to/maluku
  • Suara Ambon -- http://www.come.to/suaraambon
  • Jihad in Indonesia -- http://www.ummah.net/sos/indonesia.htm
  • Maluku Tragedy -- http://www.malu.ku.org/
  • Berita (Al-Sofwah)-- http://www.alsofwah.or.id/html/berita.html
• Free Aceh Movement or Aceh Sumatra National Liberation Front (ASNLF) -- the armed wing of Gerakan Aceh Merdeka (GAM) -- Fighting for independance for the north-western end of the island of Sumartra. There were reports that Osama bin Laden considered moving his headquarters from Afghanistan to Indonesia in 2000, as the ASNLF was providing support to al-Qaida. However, GAM/ASNLF themselves have denied this [CNN, 9 July 2002 and 14 Jul 2002]. ASNLF/GAM background:
  • Copies of several papers by ASNLF/GAM supporters: http://acehnet.tripod.com/asnlf.htm
  • http://www.aceh.org/gam/index.html
• A site for overseas Chinese highlights recent atrocities against Chinese citizens of Indonesia, although it must be said that some of the images are really from other atrocities in other places and times.... http://www.huaren.org
• Also see the East Timor section.