“The Danger of Intolerant Above-ground, Non-clandestine Organizations is Bigger for Indonesia Than Violent Extremism”

An Interview with Sidney Jones on Religious Extremism, Political Violence and Conflict Dynamics in Indonesia

Authors

  • Gunnar Stange Department of Geography and Regional Research, University of Vienna

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.14764/10.ASEAS-0025

Keywords:

Conflict Analysis, Conflict Transformation, Indonesia, Radicalization, Violence

Abstract

Sidney Jones is director of the Jakarta-based Institute for Policy Analysis of Conflict (IPAC). From 2002 to 2013, she worked with the International Crisis Group, first as Southeast Asia project director, then from 2007 as senior adviser to the Asia program. Before that she worked for the Ford Foundation, Amnesty International, and Human Rights Watch. She is an expert on security in Southeast Asia, particularly Islamic terrorist move- ments in Indonesia. Jones has analyzed and extensively written on separatist conflicts (Aceh, Papua, Mindanao), communal conflicts (Poso, Moluccas), and ethnic conflict (Kalimantan) in Indonesia. She also has studied Islamic radicalism, producing reports on the Islamist terrorist network Jemaah Islamiyah and its operations in Indonesia and the Philippines, as well as issues of security sector reform and decentralization in Indonesia. This interview was conducted and recorded at IPAC office in Jakarta on 20 August 2019. It focuses on questions of religious extremism, political violence, and conflict dynamics in contemporary Indonesia.

Author Biography

Gunnar Stange, Department of Geography and Regional Research, University of Vienna

Gunnar Stange is a post-doctoral researcher in the research group Population Geography and Demography at the Department of Geography and Regional Research, University of Vienna, Austria. His research interests include peace and conflict studies, development studies, and forced migration studies. His regional focus is on Southeast Asia.

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Published

2019-12-26

Issue

Vol. 12 No. 2 (2019): Violence in Southeast Asia

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In Dialogue

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