Abstract
Indonesia is a pluralistic country inhabited by Muslims, Christians, Catholics, Hindus, Buddhists, and Confucians, with Muslims, hold the majority population. Their adherents live in harmony and tolerance within the democratic political system. However, at the outset of the reform era, Indonesian people suffered from instabilities, conflicts, and terrorism, capitalizing ethnic, tribal, and religious symbols for political objectives such as those in the religious conflicts in Poso and Maluku. This paper seeks to compare the political landscape of the Muslim-Christian conflicts in Maluku and Poso. This research uses a qualitative approach with a comparative method and finds similarities and differences of political factors explaining the conflicts. Its similarities were conflicts amongst social, political, and military leaders at the national and local levels. In addition, they used agent provocateurs to provoke their co-religionists. However, this study found differences in the involvement of student and youth unions in Maluku but not in Poso.
Highlights
It seeks to analyze similarities and differences of conflicts intertwined with terrorism in Maluku and Poso in two things: the nature of the conflicts and terrorism and political dynamics explaining the conflicts
This article uses two concepts, religious conflict and the landscape of political conflict, as frameworks to analyze the collected data. It borrows the concept of religious conflict developed by Horowitz and Tadjudin, who look at conflicts from their negative perspective regarding attacking and injuring between two-religious followers
They have long alerted that conflicts, violence, and revolution have become a harmful by-product of initial political democratization
Summary
In the beginning years of reform time, religious tensions and conflicts broke up such as those happened between Dayak and Madura ethnics in Central Kalimantan, Muslim and Christian conflict in Dani and tribe in Papua where Muslims came there as migrants and Papuan as the indigenous people and Muslim and Christian conflict in Maluku and Poso which we will discuss in this article These incidences took people’s lives and destroyed their properties and worship places. Within pluralistic and diverse characteristics of the Indonesian people, communal conflicts with primordial dimensions remain a severe security threat Political events such as general elections that Indonesia experienced would trigger factors. A weak state is powerless in mobilizing security apparatus to cope with the situation
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