| Description |
1 online resource (7 pages) : color map (digital, PDF file) |
| Series |
Asia briefing ; no. 133 |
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Update briefing |
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Asia briefing (Series) ; no. 133.
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| Contents |
Overview -- Follow-up to 11 September : reconstruction -- Information dissemination -- Violence in November and December 2011 -- Unresolved issues -- Conclusion |
| Summary |
Months after an outbreak of Christian-Muslim violence in Ambon, the city seems quiet. Local authorities learned some lessons from the clashes on 11 September 2011, sparked by the death of a Muslim motorcycle taxi driver in a Christian area. Security forces, for example, have been quicker to arrive on the scene in fights that break out along religious lines. While not all those displaced have returned home, some innovative efforts have been initiated to use reconstruction to foster reconciliation. The government is much more conscious of the need to work with the telephone company to get mass text messages out when trouble occurs. Many issues remain unresolved, however, including physical segregation and mutual distrust between Christian and Muslim communities, inadequate police capacity and lack of transparency in investigations into high-profile incidents. Ambon is hosting a national Quran reading contest in mid-June, and local authorities see it as an opportunity to showcase the city as a model of harmonious relations and a desirable place to invest. Christian and Muslim leaders alike want the contest to succeed as a matter of local pride, and its starting date has become an informal deadline by which all physical reminders of the September violence are to be removed |
| Notes |
Title from PDF title page (viewed on March 6, 2012) |
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"13 February 2012." |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Subject |
Violence -- Indonesia -- Ambon -- Religious aspects -- Christianity
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Violence -- Indonesia -- Ambon -- Religious aspects -- Islam
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Ethnic relations.
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Violence -- Religious aspects -- Christianity.
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Violence -- Religious aspects -- Islam.
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| SUBJECT |
Ambon (Indonesia) -- Ethnic relations
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| Subject |
Indonesia -- Ambon.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
International Crisis Group.
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