SEPARATISM MOVEMENT IN INDONESIA
Separatism
movement is the advocacy of a state of cultural, ethnic, tribal, religious,
racial, governmental, or gender separation from the larger group. While it
often refers to full political secession, separatist groups may seek nothing
more than greater autonomy. That is the definition that quoted
by Wikipedia. Especially in Indonesia there is some separatism groups such as
OPM (Liberation of West Papua), GAM (Liberation of Aceh), and RSM (South Maluku
Republic) that still struggle to segregate their districts from NKRI (The
Unitary State of Indonesia).
It
has been said that Papua, Maluku and Aceh have been colonized by Indonesia
since Netherland leaved. They are very rich districts but unfortunately,
Indonesia as the large country can’t manage the districts fairly. In Papua for
example it is very Rich Island with its natural resources, beautiful panorama,
and unique cultures but they are still static as if they stay in primitive era.
Some of Papuan thinkers stated that government focus for Jakarta and java only,
government seems treat Papua like a stepchild because the development doesn’t appear
at Papua at all. GAM itself wanted to segregate because of ideological problem,
moral value and also the historical survive. In 24th May 1977 GAM
had been established by Hassan Asleh, Jamil Amin, Zainal Abidin, Hassan tiro
and the others. They were dissatisfied with the government that never let them
to regulate “syariat Islam”. RMS wasn’t better than others because they wanted
to be independent but never come true.
Indonesia
never let the separatists be independent because many reasons. In the very
first time when the revolution happened and the liberty was proclaimed
“Indonesia is from Sabang until Merauke” were justified for all of the
nationalists, revolutionists and international world whether “dejure and
defacto”. So Government committed to defend the Unitary State of Indonesia not
only in territory but also in ideology, namely “pancasila”. It’s quite clear
that Indonesia has the right to fight against every separatism movement in the
nationality.
As
parts of Indonesia republic, separatism problem should be solved by the
government as fast and good as possible. Because it is very danger, there are
many victims such as armies and society who were died because of some killings
and tragedies. Government should understand what they want and then threat them
properly as long as it doesn’t damage Indonesia. So far Government has taken
the military and diplomatic way to solve it but the result is far from the
mission, OPM, GAM, RMS still exist so maybe the solving problem doesn’t touch
the root grass of it.
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