Angkatan laut in english
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Introduction
I would like to thank to Dr. Martijn Eickhof and Dr. Elsa Clavé for their valuable comments on earlier draft of this article and to anonymous reviewers for constructive suggestions. I am grateful to The Faculty of Cultural Sciences, Universitas Gadjah Mada, for its financial support to the research first stage through Research Grant Scheme B No. No. 1566/H1.FIB/SK/2014; and to The SEAHRN (Southeast Asia Human Right Network), which has generously funded the further stages of this research through SHAPE-SEA Grant Programme, 2016 Batch.
Tak berapa lama, suara gemuruh datang mengiringi bus-truk yang mengangkut massa berjaket kuning, biru, dan hijau. Dengan penuh amarah mereka meneriakkan yel-yel untuk membakar Ureca [Universitas Res Publica]. Saat itulah batu mulai berhamburan… Laboratorium di beberapa fakultas meledak dan hangus terbakar… Kampus Ureca dicap sebagai kampus “kiri” yang berafiliasi dengan komunis dan Cina.2
(In a minute, a roaring noise was heard accompanying the bus-trucks filled with a mass wearing yellow, blue and green jackets. They were furiously
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Indonesian Army
Land service branch of the Indonesian National Armed Forces
Military unit
The Indonesian Army (Indonesian: Tentara Nasional Indonesia Angkatan Darat (TNI-AD), lit. 'Indonesian National Military-Land Force') is the land branch of the Indonesian National Armed Forces. It has an estimated strength of 300,400 active personnel.[1] The history of the Indonesian Army has its roots in 1945 when the Tentara Keamanan Rakyat (TKR) "People's Security Army" first emerged as a paramilitary and police corps.[2]
Since the nation's independence movement, the Indonesian Army has been involved in multifaceted operations ranging from the incorporation of Western New Guinea, the Indonesia–Malaysia confrontation, to the annexation of East Timor, as well as internal counter-insurgency operations in Aceh, Maluku, and Papua. The army's operations have not been without controversy; it has been periodically associated with human rights violations, particularly in West Papua, East Timor and Aceh.[3][4]
The Indonesia Army is composed o
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A hidden past
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- Written by: Ken Setiawan
- Published: Jul 16, 2015
Published: Jul 16, 2015
The state should acknowledge the contribution of political prisoners on Buru
Ken Setiawan
It is 4 am in the morning when the ferry arrives in Namlea, the capital of Buru. The darkness is, I think, fitting for an island with a history as a prison camp.
I have come to Buru to trace my father’s footsteps on the island. A former general secretary of the left wing cultural organisation Lekra in Central Java and representative of the Indonesian National Committee for the Asia-Africa bureau of writers in Colombo, my father, Hersri Setiawan, was arrested in 1969. After being held at various prisons in Jakarta, he was sent to Buru in 1971 alongside 12,000 others.
On first sight, little remains of Buru’s history as a prison island. The prisoners’ barracks have long been demolished. When you look more closely, however, Buru’s past as a labour camp is never far away.
When the political prisoners arrived on Buru, from 1969 onwards, they
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