Essay On Indonesia Conflict

Introduction

Indonesia is one of the countries with the most diversity inside. As one of the most ethnically diverse societies, Indonesia consists of 1,300 ethnic groups with at least 95 percent native to the archipelago (Yuniarni, 2016) and 71.8 percent of Indonesian villages have the composition of multi-ethnics resident (Kemendikbud, 2016), it is a big number of diverse and also big possibility for conflicts to occur.

After 72 years after Indonesia declare their independence, there are so many conflicts has been occurred( religion conflict, ethnic conflict, and class conflict). For example Poso conflict, Pidie conflict, Discrimination of Chinese Indonesian, and many more.

Here, I am trying to explain why the conflicts happened? What is the root cause? And how to resolve the problem.

Why did the conflicts happen?

Conflicts happened because there are differences, diverse, and misunderstanding between

Tolikara is the name of a district in Papua, there lives two major religion groups, Christian and Muslims that involved in a conflict. The conflict begins because of there are two events, one from the Christian and one more from the Muslims. The Christian(in this case is Gereja Injil Di Indonesia a.k.a GIDI), will have a seminar and KKR event held on 13th-19th of July 2015 and in the other hand, the Muslims will have their Great Holyday(Idul Fitri) on 17th of July 2015 (Merdeka).

Because of this two events will be held on the same period, GIDI sent a letter to the Kapolres(Chief of the Police) of Tolikara on July, 13th 2015 (Merdeka). In the letter GIDI ask for three conditions first, they are not allowing the opening event of Idul Fitri inside Karubaga(sub-district of Tolikara), second they opening event are allowed in Wamena(sub-district of Tolikara) or Jayapura, and third the Muslimah(Women in Muslim) are not allowed to wear hijab (Republika