The end of the Suharto regime in 1998 opened up the world's third-largest democracy. It also opened up communal conflicts that had been held down by force for decades. Between 1999 and 2005, violence along religious lines in Maluku and Central Sulawesi killed thousands and displaced hundreds of thousands. In 2002, a nightclub in Kuta, Bali was bombed. Two hundred and two people died.
Navicula recorded "Aku Bukan Mesin" — "I am not a machine" — in response. In this episode, security analyst Sidney Jones, who has spent decades studying extremism in Indonesia, walks through how the country got there and what the arc has looked like since. This is part one of two on violent religious extremism.
Guests
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Director, Institute of Policy Analysis of Conflict (IPAC)
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Dadang "Dankie" PranotoGuitarist, Navicula
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Former drummer of Navicula
Show notes
Organizations
Films & video
- "Cahaya dari Timur" — co-produced by Glenn Fredly, on reconciliation through sport in Ambon
- The Fall of Suharto — Asian Century, Channel News Asia
Sources & further reading
- World Bank — Bali Beyond the Tragedy
- Global Terrorism Database — University of Maryland
- BBC — The 12 October 2002 Bali Bombing Plot
- Inside Indonesia — "Waiting for peace in Poso"
- ICG — "Indonesia's Maluku Crisis: The Issues"
- HRW — "Indonesia: The Violence in Ambon" and "Four Years of Communal Violence in Central Sulawesi"
Read the transcript. The full episode transcript is available on Google Drive.
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