October 17, 2002
Who's Play Who in Bali?
Okay, may be all of you asking or just wondering, what every Indonesian feels after the tragedy of Bali? For this situation, I could say, we're not only feeling sad. But we also feel such confused, anger, worry, sorry, condemn, horrible, and surely condole in every our deepest heart. We just have nothing to figure out, why the peacefully Indonesian island famously known as Bali, the Goddess' Island, was blew out on Saturday night. The bombing, who killed at least 182 people, include foreign tourists mostly Australian, not only attacked our last ground, but also blew out our spirit.We didn't lose our spirit only, but also all of our faith and beliefs on this nation have been broken down. One obvious thing to point out is the lack of national security. I have a question, how could we stand in our land when the system that guards us can't protect the land. Then it followed by the economic instability, the falls of tourism sector, and suspension of some multinational programs (such as CGI Forums, education relationship, etc). At short, this tragedy, in the case of Indonesia, has attacked all sides of the nation. We just knocked down now.
I just figured out, whether those (I stated above) are the main reasons of why 'they' got us? By referring all recent reports and news following these tragedy, I mapped out four main subjects who possibly behind this occurrence: 1) Al-Qaeda. They have been mainly stated to be linked with, including by Indonesian Defense Minister. But, after mapped out of the possibilities in any goals and chances, they had only a 'plus' point on issues and rumors rather than the reasonable aims to reach. If they have to terror, why Bali? Yes, of course Bali is good, but it has more heterogeneous characters of target than Jakarta, for example. Therefore, Bali was taken not to terror foreigners, but obviously to terror Indonesia as a nation. 2) Local militant components. They had nothing on it. Good aims? All are worse. Instead of attack Bali, they probably easier to attack any state assets. If they had, they must be too dumb to think that they would have had very bad future after they had done. The situation (bad future) likely they have now, isn't it? 3) US lobbying. They had the best possibilities and chances. US have warned Indonesia several times ago, including are their testimony about Al-Qaeda and terrorist network. So, they need to reach here, to aims the 'unpredicted goals', like economic and business deal on Indonesian natural, and may be military acts on East-Asia-Pacific region. Last month, Indonesia has been made a deal with China on 7.8 billion dollar on natural gas exploration, followed by a couple projects. The recent Indonesian policies that close to its neighbors and its little brothers need to be warned. Truly, that still many report regarding these that must be too much to cover here. 4) The others. These possibilities reflects on how our global world policies today. Now, the world has divided into four main players: Big countries (US, UK, Japan, China), Europe, Asia-Pacific, and Middle East. All have its policies; all their needs must be happened to collide; all must have its links and agencies. But, their reason didn't well enough and the possibilities didn't catch our eyes, instead they also had good chances here.
After all, those above possibilities and chances must be reasonable to say. But, as you thinking now, all of scenarios and speculations must be difficult to prove. The attack must be didn't acted by their direct supervision, it should be more reasonable that the attack operated directly by their third-third-third or so fellows which usually hadn't anything to track their uppers (even sometimes they also hate each other). Nice thing to say, if you would looked out who's behind who after such attack, it's good if you looking out who has very busy after the attack. Please note that these are not a disciplined views from somewhat scholars behind a formally educated people, these all just an opinion from an Indonesian geek, who had much read espionage novels and films and news, comment about his country. So, don't be serious, even all are possible :p
Posted at October 17, 2002 08:17 PM | Indonesia
