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 left. 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 of
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 anuies 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 1nissio OPM, GAM, RMS still exist so maybe the solving problem
doesn’t touch the root grass of it.
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