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Hard-Line Militia & Vigilante Groups

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June 26, 2001

Straits Times - June 26, 2001

Yogyakarta – Revolutionary groups which attack gambling houses and nightspots in the name of religious beliefs are mushrooming here, causing residents to be increasingly fearful.

June 14, 2001

Jakarta Post - June 14, 2001

Jakarta – The National Police released Laskar Jihad Ahlus Sunnah Wal Jammaah commander Ja'far Umar Thalib from custody on Tuesday, though the suspect remains under investigation.

Jakarta Post - June 14, 2001

Jakarta – A coalition of non-governmental organizations (NGOs), grouped under the Ornop Coalition, urged police on Wednesday to take stern action against members of a hard-line Muslim g

April 25, 2001

South China Morning Post - April 25, 2001

Vaudine England, Jogyakarta – Hundreds of people are signing up for membership of a new anti-communist front at the head office of the Golkar political party, organisers claim.

January 23, 2001

Detik - January 23, 2001

Aulia Andri/GB, Jakarta – Around 500 members of the notorious Ka'bah Youth Movement (GPK) snuck in through the back gate at the parliament and staged a demonstration demanding the House

December 22, 2000

Straits Times - December 22, 2000

Jakarta – Managers and owners of major cafes and entertainment venues in the Indonesian capital have hired guards to safeguard their businesses on New Year's Eve in anticipation of poss

December 21, 2000

Agence France Presse - December 21, 2000

Jakarta – Muslim youth leaders on Friday joined a plea by lawyers and rights advocates for police to stop allowing violent vigilante raids on Indonesian nightspots in the name of Islam

December 20, 2000

Jakarta Post - December 20, 2000

Jakarta – Despite facing threats of violent protest, the government will continue with its plan to dissolve the civilian guards of the People's Security (Kamra) on Wednesday.

December 17, 2000

Straits Times - December 17, 2000

Jakarta – Indonesian police have warned hard-line Muslim gangs raiding and smashing bars, discos and red-light areas in and around the capital, that they had gone too far.

December 13, 2000

Associated Press - December 13, 2000

Chris Brummitt, Jakarta – Posters plastered around Jakarta by the Islamic Defenders Front are clear enough: "Burn the nightspots that refuse to close for Ramadan," reads one.

December 12, 2000

Jakarta Post - December 12, 2000

Jakarta – Responding to criticism against their sluggishness in enforcing the law to groups which continuously raid entertainment centers in the capital, policemen shot at a truck loade

December 9, 2000

Jakarta Post - December 9, 2000

Jakarta – Dozens of local residents at the Pertamina housing complex inTugu Selatan area, North Jakarta, engaged in a brawl with some 50 members of the Islamic Defenders Front (FPI) on

December 7, 2000

Detik - December 7, 2000

Maryadi/Fitri & BI, Pontianak – Up to 700 government sponsored 'People's Security Guards' known as Kamra from the West Kalimantan province gathered for a rally that turned into a ri

December 2, 2000

Straits Times - December 2, 2000

Marianne Kearney, Jakarta – Indonesian Islamic groups, which attacked several nightspots this week, have threatened to close down nightclubs, karaoke bars and other entertainment outlet

December 1, 2000

Jakarta Post - December 1, 2000

Jakarta – Muslim activists condemned on Thursday the raids on various entertainment centers conducted by the Islamic Defenders Front (FPI), saying that the group did not represent the w

November 27, 2000

Jakarta Post - November 27, 2000

Jakarta – Armed with long wooden sticks and attired in their green and white outfits, dozens of members of the Islamic Defenders Front (FPI) perpetrated more acts of vandalism on Sunday

November 14, 2000

Jakarta Post - November 14, 2000

Yogyakarta – Representatives of 50 student groups and non-governmental organizations here urged Governor Hamengkubuwono X on Monday to take stern measures against members of a Muslim gr

November 9, 2000

Asiaweek - November 9, 2000

Warren Caragata, Jakarta – It was not the sort of message Indonesia would want to send the world.

October 30, 2000

South China Morning Post - October 30, 2000

Vaudine England – Attacks by men in Muslim garb wielding staves inside Jakarta nightclubs and bars – and last week at City Hall – are unlikely to happen again, according to a senior pol

October 24, 2000

Jakarta Post - October 24, 2000

Jakarta – Some 800 people from seven Islamic organizations staged a rally in front of the National Police Headquarters on Monday, urging the police to immediately solve various high-pro

October 16, 2000

Jakarta Post - October 16, 2000

Jakarta – Some 100 armed men in Muslim clothes, stormed the Kawanua puband restaurant on Jl. Abdullah Syafi'i in Tebet district, South Jakarta, inthe early hours of Sunday.

October 3, 2000

Sydney Morning Herald - October 3, 2000

Lindsay Murdoch, Jakarta – They arrived without warning in two minibuses, brandishing clubs, swords and guns and wearing black masks.

September 4, 2000

Jakarta Post - September 4, 2000

Jakarta – Seven people, including four women, were accosted when some 100 members of the Islam Defenders Front (FPI) attacked cafes and bars in Tebet, South Jakarta, on Friday evening,

August 14, 2000

Detik - August 14, 2000

Bagus Kurniawan/BI & LM, Jakarta – The nightmare of unemployment has been weighing on the minds of thousands of members of the state-sponsored civilian security forces, known as Kam

The Washington Times - August 14, 2000

Ian Timberlake Indonesia – Vigilante mobs have slain more than 100 people on the streets of Jakarta already this year, reflecting a loss of faith in the police since former dictator Suh

July 25, 2000

Jakarta Post - July 25, 2000

Tangerang – Thousands of members of the Islam Defenders Front (FPI) burned and destroyed 82 kiosks on the Tahang riverbank in Salembaran Jati village of Kosambi district here on Monday,

July 3, 2000

South China Morning Post - July 3, 2000

Vaudine England – Reza Pahlevi's shiny namecard describes him as the head of Laskar, or the Front to Defend Islam (FPI).

June 17, 2000

Jakarta Post - June 17, 2000

Jakarta – Governor Sutiyoso questioned on Friday the effectiveness of the actions by the Islamic Defenders Front (FPI), which recently raided a number of city nightspots.

June 16, 2000

Asiaweek - June 16, 2000

Alastair McLeod, Jayapura – Andy Burdam was just sitting down to an evening meal with his family when the police and militiamen arrived.

June 8, 2000

Sydney Morning Herald - June 8, 2000

Andrew Kilvert, Jayapura – Violence has broken out between militias supporting independence and autonomy in the easternmost Indonesian province of West Papua.

May 29, 2000

Jakarta Post - May 29, 2000

Jakarta – Angry mobs raided and vandalized two hotels at separate locations in East and West Jakarta over the weekend, claiming both establishments offered the services of prostitutes.

May 8, 2000

Jakarta Post - May 8, 2000

Bogor – A group of 100 masked-men brandishing sharp weapons and wooden sticks raided and burned nine dimly lit kiosks and a discotheque at Kampung Kemang and Kampung Kirey at noon Sunda

May 3, 2000

South China Morning Post - May 3, 2000

Vaudine England, Jakarta – With little fanfare, President Abdurrahman Wahid's Government has so far managed to forestall efforts by radical Muslim groups to send a "jihad" fighting forc

April 29, 2000

Reuters - April 29, 2000

Yogyakarta – Radical Indonesian Moslem fighters who have vowed to launch a jihad, or holy struggle, in the bloodied Moluccas said on Saturday they had been forced to postpone their depa

The Australian - April 29, 2000

Alastair McLeod, Jayapura – West Papuans have emerged from the far west town of Fak Fak with reports of East Timorese style militia threatening and attacking the local people.

April 20, 2000

Indonesian Observer - April 20, 2000

Jakarta – Head of the feared Pemuda Pancasila organization Yorrys Raweyai, who was on Tuesday arrested by police, yesterday admitted the Jakarta Military Command had ordered him to mobi

April 18, 2000

Jakarta Post - April 18, 2000

Bogor – After a one-day delay, thousands of members of Laskar Jihad (Jihad Force) vacated the military-style training camp in Munjul village under tight police security in the early hou

April 14, 2000

Agence France Presse - April 14, 2000

Jakarta – A group of 3,000 militant Muslims preparing for a holy war against Christians in the strife-torn Maluku islands has agreed to leave a training camp near the Indonesian capital

April 10, 2000

Jakarta Post - April 10, 2000

Bogor – Residents of the otherwise peaceful Munjul village of Kayumanis in the Tanah Sareal district expressed on Sunday their deep concern and fear over the presence of the military-st

March 1, 2000

Green Left Weekly - March 1, 2000

Jody Betzien, Melbourne – Two human rights workers from West Papua visited Melbourne last week to draw attention to the training of pro-Indonesian militia and arbitrary killings in the

January 21, 2000

Sydney Morning Herald - January 21, 2000

Andrew Kilvert – Military authorities and political enforcers associated with the former Soeharto regime appear to be building up East Timor-style militias in the contested province of

April 29, 1999

Jakarta Post - April 29, 1999

Jakarta – The last batch of the 3,000-member People's Security (Kamra) civilian force have just completed their 12-day military training course, Jakarta Military Command spokesman Lt.

January 30, 1999

Straits Times - January 30, 1999

Jakarta – The government's plan to form a civil militia has been denounced as "dangerous" by opposition leaders, but that has not stopped thousands of people in Bogor, West Java, from a

January 22, 1999

South China Morning Post - January 22, 1999

Vaudine England, Jakarta – Recruitment of a civilian militia has started in the capital, amid growing fears these bamboo-stick wielding men could foment trouble in the coming months.

January 5, 1999

Agence France Presse - January 5, 1999

Jakarta – Indonesian President B.J.

December 27, 1998

Reuters - December 27, 1998

Jakarta – An angry mob set fire to a discotheque and damaged shops selling liquor in Christmas violence on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi, government officials and residents said on