Gangster, ideologue, martyr: the posthumous reinvention of Teungku Badruddin and the nature of the Free Aceh Movement
| Autor: | Bobby Anderson |
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| Rok vydání: | 2013 |
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| Zdroj: | Conflict, Security & Development. 13:31-56 |
| ISSN: | 1478-1174 1467-8802 |
| DOI: | 10.1080/14678802.2013.770258 |
| Popis: | This paper, which is based upon the author's experiences in Aceh from 2006 to 2010, illustrates the dangers inherent in disarmament, demobilisation and reintegration (DDR) policies that allow for the transfer of reintegration assets through ex-insurgent command structures. The manipulation of such transfers in Aceh, Indonesia, led to the creation of a new insurgent group, the Pasukan Peudeung, from the ‘splintering’ corpus of the Free Aceh Movement. The author argues that Aceh's DDR process, while widely heralded as a success, was inherently flawed in its execution and contained within it numerous discrete, and violent, failures; the emergence of the Pasukan Peudeung was emblematic of this. GAM's conflict-era economic activities, encompassing illegal forms of extraction and other rent-seeking behaviours, did not end with the conflict: they simply evolved, as did Pasukan Peudeung. Further, GAM was and remains in its current iterations a criminal network; its members constantly reinterpret their ideologies ... |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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