Saya tidak tahu Kopassus ini berpihak kemana, ke orang Islam
atau ke orang Nasrani.
Yang saya khawatirkan adalah bahwa akan makin banyak mayat yang
akan bergelimpangan.
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also: [Jane's Defence Weekly] Misappropriated Indon military funds may have
been used to bankroll Laskar Jihad
Japan Economic Newswire
August 8, 2000
Elite Indonesian troops head to the Malukus
JAKARTA,
In a bid to end Muslim-Christian strife that has lasted more than 18 months
in the Maluku Islands, the Indonesian military sent a joint battalion of elite
troops Tuesday to the conflict-torn region.
The troops were ordered to disarm militias still roaming the islands,
according to a military statement.
Lt. Gen. Djamari Chaniago, chief of military General Affairs, conveyed the
order when seeing off the battalion from an air base in Jakarta. The troops
were
flown to Ambon, capital of Maluku and worst-hit by the violence.
The military did not specify the elite military units involved, but a
colonel
at the military's operations department under Djamari told Kyodo News the
troops
included 160 soldiers from the army's Special Force Command (Kopassus) and 326
others from the navy's Marines Corps and the air force's Special Troops Corps.
'In doing their jobs, the joint battalion will be distributed to areas in
Maluku and North Maluku in accordance with situation and allocation needs,'
the
press statement said.
Over the past 18 months more than 3,000 people have died in the conflict,
which has also led to international calls for Indonesia to allow foreign
intervention to bring peace.
The Indonesian military has already deployed 19 battalions in Maluku and
North Maluku, about 15,000 officers and men.
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Jane's Defence Weekly
August 9, 2000
Indonesian military reformer transferred
Indonesia's leading military reformer Lt Gen Agus Wirahadikusumah on
31 July was transferred from the Army Strategic Reserve Command
(KOSTRAD) to an inactive post at Indonesian Army headquarters.
Gen Wirahadikusumah had held the post since February, when he was
installed under pressure from President Abdurrahman Wahid. He will
be replaced by Jakarta Military Commander Maj Gen Ryamizard, the
son-in-law of former vice-president and armed forces commander Try
Sutrisno.
Defence sources in Jakarta believe that conservative officers had
insisted on the removal of Gen Wirahadikusuma as the price for an
end to the friction within the armed forces. The general had
reportedly angered officers with his public calls for the reform of
the army's political role and had recently exposed the
misappropriation of almost $40 million from KOSTRAD contracts by his
predecessor. Those funds are suspected of being used in part to fund
the radical Moslem Laskar Jihad group, whose attacks have resulted
in increasing casualties in the Molucca Islands in the past several
months.
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In Brief - Call for UN help in Maluku Islands
Indonesia's National Commission for Human Rights on 4 August called
for UN peacekeepers to be deployed in the Maluku Islands. The
commission's secretary-general, Asmara Nababan, said Indonesian
soldiers and police could not be relied on to contain the long-
running conflict between Muslims and Christians because many were
taking sides.
Australian patrol kills two in East Timor
An Australian infantry patrol operating as part of the UN
Transitional Administration in East Timor (UNTAET) shot dead two
suspected pro-Indonesian militiaman in an exchange of fire near East
Timor's border with Indonesia on 2 August.
UNTAET spokesman Capt Dan Hurren said the patrol engaged a group of
between three and five pro-Jakarta militia wearing Indonesian Army
uniforms and armed with automatic weapons and hand grenades, near
the town of Maliana. UNTAET commander Thai Lt Gen Boonsang
Niumpradit on 1 August asked Indonesian Maj Gen Kiki Synahkri to
clear militia members from refugee camps in West Timor. The request
follows the death of a New Zealand peacekeeper who was killed by
militiamen from West Timor.
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