Terrorism in Indonesia

Terrorism in Indonesia refer to acts of terrorism that take place within Indonesia or attacks on Indonesian people or interests abroad. These acts of terrorism often target the government of Indonesia or foreigners in Indonesia, most notably Western visitors, especially those from the United States and Australia.

Quotes

• As Sidney Jones has argued, “The threat of terrorism [in Indonesia] is real, yet only a few Muslims are radicals, and even fewer advocate violence.”
  • After Bali: The Threat Of Terrorism In Southeast Asia - Page 350 Kumar Ramakrishna, ‎See Seng Tan · 2003

• Put simply, eradicating terrorism in Indonesia is not as straightforward as it is in many other jurisdictions. Anti-terrorism policies must recognise the peculiar Indonesian context and background.
  • Global Anti-Terrorism Law and Policy - Page 309 Victor V. Ramraj, ‎Michael Hor, ‎Kent Roach · 2012

• The details of the massacre of somewhere between 250,000 and 600,000 Indonesians in 1965 are only now beginning to emerge. After a failed coup d’état in 1965, the Indonesian army (with at least tacit approval from the United States) took its revenge on the Communists. The army encouraged nationalist and Muslim youth to settle old scores; gangs of Muslim youths massacred Chinese peasants in the most horrific manner. “ ‘No-one went out after 6 pm, recalls a Chinese whose family fled East Java. ‘They cut off women’s breasts; they threw so many bodies in the sea that people were afraid to eat fish. My brother still had to serve in the shop. In the morning young Muslims would come in swaggering, with necklaces of human ears’ ” (Guardian Weekly [23 September 1990]). In Indonesia’s 1975 invasion of East Timor, at least two hundred thousand civilians were killed.
  • Why I Am Not a Muslim (1995), Ibn Warraq

External links

• Encyclopedic article on Terrorism in Indonesia on Wikipedia