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Conspiracy theory of Hendropriyono: RMS, a scape goat of the Maluku Tragedy
Hendropriyono was the first high Indonesian government official who accused the RMS for the Maluku Tragedy despite the fact that it wasn't his task as a Minister for Transmigration and the Resettlement of Forest Encroachers to raise this issue. He was then apposinted as a head of the Indonesian Inteligent Agency by President Megawati. Here is his theory taken from an article of George Aditjondro:
The 'RMS-GPM-PDI-P' conspiracy theory acquired some sense of credibility when it was reiterated by Ret. Mayor General A.M. Hendropriyono, then Minister for Transmigration and the Resettlement of Forest Encroachers, in a public meeting with the Maluku governor, religious and other informal leaders, students and youth in Ambon on Tuesday, March 9, 1999 (Kompas, March 10, 1999). Another retired general, Feisal Tanjung, instantly underlined Hendropriyono's accusation (SiaR, March 11, 1999).
The theory then spread like bushfire as it was disseminated by the Muslim controlled media in Indonesia, where the abbreviation 'RMS' became distorted to mean 'Republik Maluku Serani', or the 'Christian Moluccan Republic', thereby distorting the historical fact that Ambonese Muslims had taken part in setting this liberation movement up as well as disregarding the totally different tradition of separating 'church' and 'state' in the Christian tradition in contrast to the integration of 'religious' and 'political' communitie in the Islamic tradition.
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