Indonesia faces dilemma over Kosovo
The Kosovo status process is reflecting on Indonesia, a UN Security Council non-permanent member.
Wednesday, 23.05.2007.
14:38
Indonesia faces dilemma over Kosovo
"It will be difficult for Indonesia to choose whether to support or reject the proposal at the UN Security Council (UNSC)," Ikrar Nusa Bhakti, a political expert at the Indonesian Institute of Science (LIPI), told The Jakarta Post.Ikrar said the Indonesian Constitution mandates that the country support Kosovo's right to independence, adding that the government is aware that gross human rights violations occurred in the area.
Conversely, he said, approving the proposal could undermine Indonesia's own territorial integrity, especially in Papua and Aceh.
"It will become a precedent that an area can become independent should the UNSC decide so. Approving the proposal will also deteriorate our relations with Serbia," he said.
"But while we must clearly make sure that the issue has nothing to do with religion, it is a fact that Kosovo is a majority-Muslim area. Muslims here will want Indonesia to support Kosovo's independence."
Recent reports by the AP have said that separatist movements around the world, from Spain's Basques to Iraqi Kurds, were closely watching the process.
In Indonesia, the matter could have a powerful impact on the two separatist-minded provinces of Aceh and Papua, said Damien Kingsbury, a key adviser to the separatist Free Aceh Movement, the The Jakarta Post reports.
Indonesia, which has already lost East Timor, "is always sensitive about issues affecting territorial integrity, so it will be very worried," Kingsbury was quoted as saying by AP recently.
However, Hikmahanto Juwana, an international law expert at the University of Indonesia, disagreed with Kingsbury, insisting that Kosovo's independence would not have a destabilizing effect on Indonesia's territorial integrity.
"Indonesia's territorial integrity has already been finalized and the international community has recognized this. I think the Kosovo case cannot be applied to Papua or Aceh because they are different. Also, people have already been mature enough to see the cases," he told the Post.
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