عنوان

Becoming Red and White: The Legacy of New Order Nationalism on Interfaith Relations in Ambon

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TL48814

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Title Proper

Becoming Red and White: The Legacy of New Order Nationalism on Interfaith Relations in Ambon

General Material Designation

[Thesis]

First Statement of Responsibility

Benjamin L. Moseley

Subsequent Statement of Responsibility

Moseley, Benjamin L.

Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.

University of Washington

Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.

2016

Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item

55

Text of Note

Committee members: Giebel, Christoph; Sears, Laurie

Text of Note

Place of publication: United States, Ann Arbor; ISBN=978-1-339-94260-5

Dissertation or thesis details and type of degree

Master's

Discipline of degree

International Studies - Jackson School

Body granting the degree

University of Washington

Text preceding or following the note

2016

Text of Note

This paper analyzes the roles of the nationalistic policies and rhetoric of the New Order in facilitating a wave of sectarian violence that plagued the island of Ambon in Indonesia's Maluku Province from 1999 to 2002. While the sectarian violence in Ambon did not begin until almost a year after the resignation of Suharto in May 1998, this paper endorses the belief that the roots of Christian-Muslim anxiety, mistrust, and, eventually, violence in Ambon can be traced to government efforts to manipulate religious organizations, diminish local institutions, and suppress regional identities. Furthermore, the period of political liberalization that followed the resignation of Suharto, known as Reformasi, created the necessarily conditions for sectarian violence to occur as the different religious and ethnic groups living in Ambon became increasingly nervous about their political, social, and economic positions in a post-Suharto Indonesia. In this paper, newspapers, anthropological articles, and contemporary reports are utilized to examine the outbreak of the sectarian violence, the rhetoric surrounding the violence, and its origins in the policies of the New Order regime. As Ambon was only one of many places in Indonesia to experience violence in the Reformasi period, this paper strives to situate the sectarian conflict in Ambon in the context of national post-Suharto violence and unrest.

Religious history; Asian Studies; Pacific Rim Studies; Modern history

Subject Term

Philosophy, religion and theology;Social sciences;Ambon;Authoritarianism;Indonesia;Interfaith relations;New Order;Sectarian conflict

Nedegaard, Kathryn A. Hughes

Moseley, Benjamin L.

Subdivision

International Studies - Jackson School

University of Washington

Call Number

1804414278; 10138704

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[Thesis]

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