[ppi] [ppiindia] C. Sulawesi unrest hard to handle

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C. Sulawesi unrest hard to handle 




The government has decided to establish the security operation command 
(koopskam) to resolve the terror attacks and violent acts in the Central 
Sulawesi towns of Palu and Poso. One main task of the command is to integrate 
the services of the police, the military and the intelligence officers. 
Chairman of the counterterrorism coordinating desk at the Office of the 
Coordinating Minister for Political, Legal and Security Affairs Ansjaad Mbai 
talked about the circumstances surrounding the decision with The Jakarta Post's 
Tiarma Siboro and Duncan Wilson.

Question: Do you believe the establishment of the security operation command in 
Central Sulawesi will be able to answer legal and security problems in the 
troubled area? 

Answer: We are facing a problem with law enforcement. People do not assist in 
and participate in upholding the law, because they have been living in an 
atmosphere of terrorism. After some members of the community gave information 
to the police about certain issues, a number of them were discovered dead. 
Another case has also shown that the attackers could even shoot dead a 
prosecutor, who, at the time, was examining the terror case. 


Does the establishment of this command suggest a lack of coordination between 
the services? 

One thing was clear as we (the government) formulated that policy: that there 
is an urgent need to take an immediate decision to deal with the violence in 
that area. The government feels that a task force should be established. We 
need a powerful task force to deal with all kinds of operations there, from the 
security recovery operation to law enforcement moves. Now there is a policy 
from the government that terror cases will be handled in Jakarta. Hopefully 
this will be effective. 

You said some of the people living in the areas were reluctant to cooperate or 
engage with the police. Is there also a problem with friction among the police 
there? 

It is very complicated. This is a conflict that has been ongoing for such a 
long time and has claimed many victims among the population, including family 
members of the police and the soldiers. So it's very easy for the police or the 
soldiers, without consciously realizing it, to become involved in the conflict. 
It is human for people who have lost family members to be influenced and they 
can no longer be objective in dealing with this problem. And they can then 
become involved in the spiral of violence. 

That is why rotation has been advocated by a number of politicians as well as 
observers. 

We also often hear that the police and military forces should be withdrawn from 
Poso; similar to the condition in Aceh after the signing of a peace deal in 
Aceh which involved the AMM (Aceh Monitoring Mission). But still, that is not 
an easy thing to do, as they could be influenced by family movements, or other 
issues such as the religious ties that triggered the conflict. 

You mentioned that personnel working in the area could sometimes lose 
detachment. Do you think that conflict resolution necessarily involves 
institutions being relocated to or coordinated from Jakarta? 

That is what the government will be moving toward. The situation of conflict in 
Poso is not conducive to law enforcement and justice. The implementation of 
this plan will depend on the success of the investigation taking place there 
(into the New Year's Eve bombing). As the country's legal enforcers tried to 
deal with rampant violence in Ambon, there was an idea to set up a so-called 
court room aboard a ship in a bid to avoid possible provocations as the trial 
was going on. The idea has never been materialized, indeed, but it has 
described how sensitive the issues have been. 


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