4　中スラウェシ州ポソにおける「宗教紛争」「イスラーム・テロ」からみる「紛争構築理論」

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Since several bombings such as the Bali bombings or Marriott Bombing, Indonesia has increasingly seen the war on terror being waged against perceived threats of terrorism in the context of growing “militant Islamism”. On the other hand, concerns have been raised against extensive human rights abuses being involved with the war on terror.

This article is intended to disclose the real situation of the war on terror and terrorism by examining a series of the violence in Poso, Central Sulawesi, where the so-called religious conflict between Christian and Muslim broke out in the end of 1998. As the conflict became the most furious around the year of 2000 and 2001, with the initiative of the Indonesian government, both sides released the Malino Declaration in December 2001 for reconciliation. Conflicts between the two religious groups have indeed dramatically decreased since the declaration, but Islamic terrorism started to emerge thereafter.

Many cases show us the indications that the violence in Poso was connected to local political elites’ interests that sought to mobilize crowds to obtain political posts, or to divert people’s attention from the corruption cases. It is also pointed out that the security forces were deeply involved in the violence to enlarge their power and to acquire budgets for the military operation.

The structure that the certain individuals or groups try to obtain an interest from the conflict, in other words “conflict building theory” should be clarified for the conflict resolution and sustainable peace.