Archivo etiqueta «Indonesia»
By Stanley A. Weiss, the founding chairman of Business Executives for National Security, a nonpartisan organization based in Washington (THE NEW YORK TIMES, 30/08/10):
It was 62 years ago this week — on Sept. 2, 1948 — when the principles underlying Indonesia’s foreign policy were first articulated. In a Cold War speech to the young republic just emerging from Dutch rule, future Prime Minister Mohammad Hatta asked, “Do we, Indonesians, in the struggle for the freedom of our people and our country, only have to choose between Russia and America?” No, he answered: “We must remain the subject who … Seguir leyendo
By Suciwati, who was married to Indonesian human rights activist Munir Thalib, who was killed in 2004 (THE WASHINGTON POST, 24/07/10):
In announcing this week that the United States would lift a 12-year-long ban on providing military assistance and training to Indonesia’s special forces unit, Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates spoke about the Indonesian military’s reforms and said it is prepared to ensure accountability for any human rights abuses by its soldiers. My experience with Indonesia’s special forces and its justice system lead me to think President Obama is making a dangerous mistake.
My husband, the late Munir … Seguir leyendo
By Fadjroel Rachman, a political economist who was jailed during the Suharto regime, is the chairman of the Research Institute of Democracy and Welfare State in Jakarta (THE NEW YORK TIMES, 07/02/10):
Nelson Mandela has won the battle, I said to myself in my cold, tiny cell in the military prison in Bandung, West Java, Indonesia. Thank God, at last justice and freedom win.
The news of Mr. Mandela’s release had just come over the radio that stood on a shelf in the canteen for prison guards directly in front of my cell. Tears rolled down my cheeks. Justice … Seguir leyendo
Nuevos atentados de Yakarta: algunas consideraciones sobre los riesgos y las amenazas terroristas en Indonesia. Por Fernando Reinares, investigador principal de Terrorismo Internacional y director del Programa de Terrorismo Global en el Real Instituto Elcano, y catedrático de Ciencia Política en la Universidad Rey Juan Carlos (REAL INSTITUTO ELCANO, 28/07/09):
Tema: Este ARI se aproxima a los atentados del 17 de julio en la evolución reciente del terrorismo internacional que afecta a Indonesia y señala hacia sus probables autores, teniendo en consideración el contexto nacional y los problemas de seguridad que existen en dicho país surasiático.
Resumen: Podríamos … Seguir leyendo
Par Jean-Claude Buhrer, journaliste (LIBERATION, 27/07/09):
Pendant qu’en France on disserte sur la burqa, en Indonésie, qui se réclame d’un islam tolérant, les minorités religieuses s’inquiètent des conséquences pour leurs libertés d’une nouvelle loi antipornographie, adoptée sous la pression des partis islamiques alliés au président Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, dit «SBY», largement réélu pour un nouveau mandat de cinq ans le 8 juillet. Cet ancien général, spécialiste des questions de sécurité, qui se targuait d’avoir rétabli la stabilité dans le plus grand pays musulman du monde, n’a guère eu le temps de savourer sa victoire. A peine avait-il remercié Dieu de son succès … Seguir leyendo
Asia Briefing N°94 (CRISIS GROUP, 24/07/09):
OVERVIEW
On 17 July 2009, suicide bombers attacked two hotels in the heart of a Jakarta business district, killing nine and injuring more than 50, the first successful terrorist attack in Indonesia in almost four years. While no one has claimed responsibility, police are virtually certain it was the work of Noordin Mohammed Top, who leads a breakaway group from Jemaah Islamiyah (JI), the regional jihadi organisation responsible for the first Bali bombing in 2002. One of the hotels, the Marriott, was bombed by Noordin’s group in 2003; this time, a meeting of mostly … Seguir leyendo
By Endy M. Bayuni, the chief editor of The Jakarta Post (THE NEW YORK TIMES, 03/05/09):
In April, while Americans were obsessing about President Obama’s first 100 days, people in countries around the world were going to the polls to vote for their own kind of change. Writers in India, Indonesia and South Africa report on their recent Election Days — as well as the mornings after.
In the days and weeks after the April 9 parliamentary elections in Indonesia, employees at the mental hospital in Surakarta, in Central Java, have been working double shifts. “We’ve been overwhelmed with … Seguir leyendo
Asia Briefing N°90 (CRISIS GROUP, 23/03/09):
Tensions in Aceh are high as elections approach, although they have receded somewhat from a peak in mid-February. The murders of three former combatants of the Free Aceh Movement (Gerakan Aceh Merdeka, GAM), other shootings and numerous grenade attacks over the last two months – all with unidentified perpetrators – have set the province on edge, and there remains a risk of sporadic, low-level violence before and after general elections on 9 April. Disputes over the results, with 44 parties competing for seats in district, provincial and national legislatures using a new and complicated … Seguir leyendo
By Michael Fullilove, the program director for global issues at the Lowy Institute in Sydney, Australia and a visiting fellow at the Brookings Institution (THE NEW YORK TIMES, 15/12/08):
During the presidential campaign, Barack Obama promised that in the first 100 days of his administration he would “travel to a major Islamic forum and deliver an address to redefine our struggle.”
Egypt, Turkey and Qatar have been suggested as possible sites for such a speech. But the best candidate is the country in which Mr. Obama lived as a child: Indonesia.
Choosing Indonesia would throw light on the diversity … Seguir leyendo
By John Pilger (THE GUARDIAN, 28/01/08):
In my film Death of a Nation, there is a sequence filmed on board an Australian aircraft flying over the island of Timor. A party is in progress, and two men in suits are toasting each other in champagne. “This is an historically unique moment,” says one of them, “that is truly uniquely historical.”This was Gareth Evans, Australia’s then foreign minister. The other man was Ali Alatas, the principal mouthpiece of the Indonesian dictator General Suharto, who died yesterday. The year was 1989, and the two were making a grotesquely symbolic flight to celebrate … Seguir leyendo
By James Castle, who founded CastleAsia, a Jakarta consultancy and Craig Charney, president of Charney Research, a New York polling firm. They co-authored “Indonesia Outlook Survey 2007.” (THE WASHINGTON POST, 01/08/07):
Ten years ago this summer, Asia‘s financial crisis hit Indonesia. Within a year, Southeast Asia‘s largest “tiger” economy had collapsed: Gross domestic product fell 14 percent, the currency dropped from 2,250 to 17,500 to the dollar, and the Jakarta Stock Exchange plunged 91 percent in dollar terms. Millions lost jobs as most large banks and many domestic firms went bankrupt. Protests brought … Seguir leyendo
Asia Briefing N°63 (CRISIS GROUP, 03/05/07):
OVERVIEW
In late March 2007, arrests by Densus 88, the police counter-terror unit, netted seven detainees in Central and East Java (an eighth was killed); a huge cache of explosives and weaponry; and documents that seemed to suggest a new military structure for Jemaah Islamiyah (JI), the region’s largest jihadist organisation. The arrests followed directly from information obtained from operations in Poso, Central Sulawesi, in late January.
Wildly differing assessments of JI’s state in the aftermath of the March raids suggest a more systematic stock-taking is in order. What remains of the organisation today? … Seguir leyendo
By Birute Mary Galdikas, president and co-founder of Orangutan Foundation International in Los Angeles and a professor at Simon Fraser University in British Columbia (THE NEW YORK TIMES, 06/01/07):
Once again, I am driving, under the blazing equatorial sun, down an uncomfortable, rutty relic of a road into the interior of central Borneo. With me are two uniformed police men, one armed with a machine gun. The landscape is bleak, no trees, no shade as far as the eye can see. Our mission is to confiscate orangutan orphans whose mothers have been killed as a result of the sweeping … Seguir leyendo
Asia Briefing N°53 (CRISIS GROUP, 05/09/06):
OVERVIEW
No part of Indonesia generates as much distorted reporting as Papua, the western half of New Guinea that has been home to an independence movement since the 1960s.
Some sources, mostly outside Indonesia, paint a picture of a closed killing field where the Indonesian army, backed by militia forces, perpetrates genocide against a defenceless people struggling for freedom. A variant has the army and multinational companies joining forces to despoil Papua and rob it of its own resources. Proponents of this view point to restrictions on media access, increasing troop strength in Papua … Seguir leyendo
Asia Report N°114 (CRISIS GROUP, 05/05/06):
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
The Indonesian police are closing in on Noordin Mohammed Top, South East Asia’s most wanted terrorist. In a dramatic pre-dawn raid on 29 April 2006 in Wonosobo, Central Java, they shot and killed two members of his inner circle and arrested two others. If and when they capture Noordin, they will have put the person most determined to attack Western targets out of commission. But the problem of Noordin’s support structure will still have to be tackled.
For four years Noordin has tapped into jihadist networks to build a following of diehard … Seguir leyendo