On 15 August 2005, a Memorandum of Understanding was signed between the Central Government in Jakarta and the separatists in the Province of Aceh, ending 29 years of violence there.
Since then, the media stopped reporting about violence and changed its focus into the adoption of strict Islamic Syariah Law in the province.
Last week, the media has reported about the shoot out between the Police's Anti Terrorist Unit, Densus-88, and a group of fully armed terrorists in Aceh Besar Regency, killing 3 Police officers 2 terrorists and 2 civilians. 13 terrorists were arrested and sent to a detention center in Jakarta.
After the shoot out, a group called the “Tandzim Al-Qoidah Indonesia Serambi Makkah” claimed on its blog: alufuq.wordpress.com that they belong to Al-Qaedah terrorist network. The Police is investigating about the said claim.
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Considering that the number of the alleged terrorists were quite big and fully equipped a.o with M-16 automatic rifles, GPS communication, etc. I believe that they must have spent some time to organize themselves.
7 comments:
Indonesia continues to overcome the prolonged armed conflict. The need to build a strong government, armed forces and police are strong and professional, early preventive action, dialogue with all parties, improving the welfare of the people equally and fairly.
Herdoni,
Yes you are right, to overcome armed conflict the government should be strong supported by strong and professional police etc.
No wonder that at this time and age in the vast archipelago every now and then some crazy fanatic bastards pop up.
But it seems to me Indonesian authorities did and do a decent job at curbing extremism and eliminating criminals abusing their religion. This shoot out is in a way proof of that.
Of course I'm not too happy about Aceh, but I think the concessions made by the government in Jakarta were and are worth the present relative peaceful situation
I don't like terrorist, why don't you visit my blog : http://sirtiman.blogspot.com
@Colson,
I agree with you. There has been a lot of improvement in Aceh especially in terms of peace ad security. Fanatics would always exists any place any time. The most important is how to minimize thei influence y doing good things for the society.
@SirTiman,
I don't like terrorists too.
I'll check your blog.
aceh... my beloved hometown..
hope everything fine there..
@Meutia,
Let's us hope that everything is okay in Aceh. What ever happens there all Indonesians would feel it.
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