& how do you response to that by murdering every one who took up arms. Cause that works really fine till now does it? Cause I don't see your various terrorist group giving up the fights anytime soon. Did you know we have an extremely generous Amnesty offers for terrorists that are willing to defect & snitch on their former groups. Because of it Indonesia have information on the group & that allow us to form surgical strike with minimal loss. Terrorist are sadly not like our separatist problem.
That's not the idea. The military is also helping build schools, pay for education, rehabilitate families and help them in natural disasters. In fact, majority of the troops in that province are local recruits, including recruits from nearby districts like Ladakh and Jammu.
The terrorist groups taking arms is a phenomenon dating in late 80s. When US was handling our hosts' economy and they had a free chance to re-designate jobs to their 'strategic' weapons aka these so-called freedom fighters, after Soviet war, they allocated these terror groups against us. To do that, they needed to cleanse the valley of any other faith's groups which were significant part of kashmir. So they launched a brutal campaign of purging, rioting and posting banners in the state and valley in urdu stating 'kashmir mein rehna hoga to la ilaha illala kehna hoga' (in urdu it means 'if you have to stay in kashmir, you have to declare 'la ilaha illalla', your religious declaration; as a message to convert or leave or die). More than half a million people were displaced, killed, raped, maimed and kicked out of their houses which they lived for centuries always.
Any other nation of our position would have launched tanks and fighter jets to bomb the valley clean in response. Instead, we dealt with the terrorists, calmed locals and helped them bring peace back.
We also have government programs to give them government jobs and bring them back to normal civilian lives. Many of them regret their mistake and come back. They help the military track terrorists down and tell them their details also. It has been very useful to the security units.
We follow a mix of power and soft strategies to bring peace. Why? Because we are not a superpower like Russia who can simply bomb the living daylights out of terror ridden provinces and bring peace. They can do it because they are simply too powerful to take on. We on the other hand are not. So we chose a strategy that helped our problems to solve.
It's part of our deal with the Acehnese we give them autonomy over their land in exchange for peace. Or would you like the alternative where instead of a woman getting caned the woman's body are filled with bullet hole & we will probably still sending troops over there with no end in sight which will not only drain our coffers, but human lives. Like it or not the Acehnese is still our brothers even if they don't view us as such. Giving autonomy are not the same as losing your lands. Because its not "yours" to begin with. The Acehnese want to be master of their land so we give them, but under our flag. The same with Papua they have different set of law than us, but still under our flag.
Then my friend, your honest initiative will go in vain. Your soldiers who have fought and died earlier, have died for nothing. These madmen don't want peace; peace is a time for them to simply gather forces and redouble their efforts to unleash bloodshed.
This peace process will only delay and make the Indonesian government look weak. Give peace and development to the civilians there but their so called leaders? show them no mercy.
I thought we talking about Pattani?
Yeah Pattani. Let's get back to the topic.
Thailand is facing a major issue and it is important that as an ASEAN nation you help them militarily.
This is not about muslims alone. I am sure that a lot of muslims who don't want to wage war, will be also suffering from terrorism there.
Indonesia is a military power in ASEAN. Your experience in dealing with Aceh and Papua separatists will help Thai troops.