Paths to Peace: Contending Discourses on Communal Violence and Conflict in the Post-New Order Indonesia

Abstract

This paper discusses actual discourses that have shaped the ways in which violent (1997, 1999), Central Kalimantan (2001), Maluku (1999), North Maluku (1999-2000 and Central Sulawesi (2000Sulawesi ( -2001 as having been communal in character (Trijono 2004).1 These communal 1 These communal conflicts should be differentiated from other tye of conflict which also taking place in Indonesia, known as separatist or successionistconflict. While communal conflicts are conflict taking place between different factions of the societies, separatist conflicts involve not only factions of societies but also the state. The latter refers to such conflict took place in East Timor, Aceh and Papua.