The politics of negotiating the terrorist problem in Indonesia

Studies in Conflict and Terrorism

Volumn 28, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 33-44

  Smith, Anthony L ^a  

^a Asia Pacific Center for Security Studies   (United States)

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EID: 27944471395     PISSN: 1057610X     EISSN: 15210731     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10576100590524311     Document Type: Review

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1. It is difficult to say with any precision. A splinter group within PAN has advocated the adoption of the Jakarta Charter, whereas a splinter group within PPP (known as "PPP-Reformasi") explicitly rejected it and broke away to forge a new party for the 2004 election.
2. "Megawati Off To US Amid Controversy Over Deputy's Remarks," Associated Press, 17 September 2001. Haz's full statement to Kompas was: "Hopefully, this tragedy will cleanse the sins of the United States. . . . We are also concerned and regret deeply and condemn the act of terrorism toward the United States. But we also ask America not to make Islam a scapegoat."
3. Hasyim Muzadi, "Same Faith, Different Names: Islam and the Problem of Radicalism in Indonesia," in Chang D. Nguyen and Frank-Jürgen Richter, Indonesia Matters: Diversity, Unity, and Stability in Fragile Times (Singapore: Times Editions, 2003), p. 90.
4. Jakarta Post, 26 September 2001
5. cited in Rizal Sukma, "Indonesia and 9-11: Reactions and Implications" in Han Sung-Joo (ed.), Coping with 9-11: Asian Perspectives on Global and Regional Order (Tokyo: Japan Center for International Exchange, 2003), p. 59.
6. For some details on the visit see this author's short article at (www.aseanfocus.com/asiananalysis/article.cfm?articleID=697).
7. "Indonesia Says Rift with Singapore Due to Differing Perceptions," Jakarta Post, 25 February 2002;
8. and "The East Asian Strategic Balance After 9/11." Address by Senior Minister Lee Kuan Yew at the 1st International Institute for Strategic Studies Asia Security Conference on Friday, 31 May 2002. Availble at (app.internet.gov.sg/scripts/mfa/sections/press/report_press.asp?1415).
9. For example, see interview with Assistant Secretary of Defense, Paul Wolfowitz in "Active Engagement: U.S.-Indonesia Relations," The Brown Journal of World Affairs ix(1) (Spring 2002), pp. 5-6. Wolfowitz explains that although Laskar Jihad are "disruptive" they are not a terrorist group, and expresses the view that this organization is responding to local conditions and can be persuaded on a different course of action.
10. Carl Thayer, "Political Terrorism and Militant Islam in Southeast Asia," Paper to Forum on Regional Security and Political Developments, Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, Singapore, 24 July 2003.
11. "US Ambassador: Aid To Indonesia Military To Support Reform," Associated Press, 7 August 2002.
12. Taken from CIA documents seen by Time. See "Confessions of an al-Qaeda Terrorist," Time, 15 September 2002.
13. For one articulation of this theory see "How the Jemaah Islamiyah Terrorist Network Operates," International Crisis Group, Report No. 43, 11 December 2002, p. i.
14. See "The Jemaah Islamiyah Arrests and the Threat of Terrorism," White Paper, Ministry of Home Affairs, Singapore, 7 January 2003.
15. "Bin Laden Threatened Australia in Videotape: Report," Agence France Presse, 26 October 2002.
16. Ijtihad is an etymologically related word to jihad, but has a different shade of meaning. A ijtihad is usually a formalistic judgment based on consideration of the Koran and other accepted religious texts and legal precedents.
17. Irfan S. Awwas, "Radical Islam in the Eyes of Secularists," Tempo, 7 January 2003, p. 80.
18. "Jemaah Islamiyah in South East Asia: Damaged But Still Dangerous," International Crisis Group, Report No. 63, 26 August 2003, p. i.
19. "How the Jemaah Islamiyah Terrorist Network Operates," International Crisis Group, Report No. 43, 11 December 2002, p. 22.
20. See, for example, "Suspicions on Sulawesi," TimeAsia, 30 December 2002.
21. "Impact of the Bali Bombings," International Crisis Group, 24 October 2002.
22. See Matthew Moore, "Human rights the next casualty?" The Age, 16 August 2003.
23. See, "Who are the terrorists in Indonesia? Conspiracy theories over Bali Bombing Are Rife in Indonesia," The Observer, 27 October 2002. A Detikcom survey showed that there were many who blamed the CIA or other foreign agents.
24. See Greg Fealy, "Tall Tales: Conspiracy Theories in Post-Bomb Indonesia," Inside Indonesia, April-June 2003.