Archivo etiqueta «Indonesia»
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
Asia Briefing N°50 (CRISIS GROUP, 04/05/06):
OVERVIEW
The legacy of “losing” Timor-Leste (East Timor) continues to haunt Indonesia, affecting attitudes toward Aceh and Papua, heightening suspicions about foreign intervention, complicating relations with Australia and perpetuating fears for territorial integrity. Despite this legacy, the shared land border has been mostly peaceful: the policy focus there should be as much on establishing the infrastructure for legal trade as on improving security.
Along the border of Timor-Leste and Indonesian West Timor, the main impact of that legacy is a fear that each new spat between neighbours and each new sign of organising … Seguir leyendo
Asia Briefing N°48 (CRISIS GROUP, 29/03/06):
Converging problems call for renewed leadership from Jakarta and for international donor vigilance to prevent any backsliding on the August 2005 peace deal between the Indonesian government and the Free Aceh Movement (Gerakan Aceh Merdeka, GAM). Confidence in peace remains high, but a series of differences have arisen between the central government and the Acehnese. These include disagreement over the concept of self-government reflected in disputes over the draft law on Aceh’s governance; efforts to divide the province; questions over who can run in local elections and when those elections take place; and the urgent employment needs of returning GAM members. Finally, since local elections seem to be delayed until late July or August, the European Union-led Aceh Monitoring Mission should postpone its scheduled June departure to ease fears of pre-election violence.
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Asia Briefing N°47 (CRISIS GROUP, 23/03/06):
he Papuan People’s Council, the key institution charged with easing tensions between Papuans and Indonesia’s central government, may be about to collapse, with grave consequences given the region’s current volatility. Created in late October 2005 as the centrepiece of the autonomy deal, the Council was almost immediately confronted with two major crises: stalled talks over the legal status of West Irian Jaya and riots over the giant Freeport mine. If the Council can now manoeuvre its way through the two crises, it may yet be able to take on other outstanding grievances and become what Papua has always lacked, a genuinely representative dialogue partner with Jakarta. If it fails, local resentment against the central government will almost certainly increase. The central government should realise it is in its own interest to help the Council succeed.
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Del maremoto a la paz en Aceh. Javier Solana, alto representante para la Política Exterior y de Seguridad Común de la UE (LA VANGUARDIA, 14/10/05).
By Kyai Haji Abdurrahman Wahid, a former president of Indonesia. From 1984 to 1999 he headed Nadhlatul Ulama, the world’s largest Muslim organization, with nearly 40 million members and C. Holland Taylor, chairman and chief executive of Libforall Foundation, a nonprofit that works to reduce religious extremism and discredit the use of terrorism. Dhani serves on the foundation’s board. The authors can be reached (THE WASHINGTON POST, 07/10/05):
The latest suicide bombings on the resort island of Bali appear to have been carried out by young Indonesian Muslims indoctrinated in an ideology of hatred. Once again the cult … Seguir leyendo
Por Clifford D. May, antiguo corresponsal extranjero del New York Times y presidente de la Fundación por la Defensa de las Democracias (GEES, 06/10/05):
El último atentado suicida en Bali debería hacernos tomar una pausa y meditar: ¿Qué ha hecho la gente de Bali para encolerizar de tal manera a los islamistas radicales?
Las tropas balinesas no están luchando contra insurgentes baazistas y terroristas de al-Qaeda en Irak. Bali no tuvo nada que ver derrocando a los talibanes en Afganistán. Bali tampoco ha tomado partido por India sobre la disputada Cachemira o por Israel sobre la disputada Cisjordania.
En … Seguir leyendo
“Nada está acordado hasta que todo está acordado”: las negociaciones de paz post-Tsunami de Aceh. Percival Manglano, colaborador del Real Instituto Elcano (REAL INSTITUTO ELCANO, 06/05/05).
El primer borrador de la libertad. Paul Wolfowitz es vicesecretario de Defensa de Estados Unidos (EL MUNDO, 17/09/04).