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While the military remain fiercely unpopular in many parts of the country, it is unwilling to give up its political control.
Indonesia is a country fraught with religious tension. This film looks at the outbreak of an all-out religious war on the island of Ambon.
In the run up to elections in 1999, the Indonesian island of Ambon becomes an unlikely battleground for a bitter conflict between Muslims and Christians. In the past two months some two hundred people have been killed and thousands of buildings have been destroyed.
In July 1998 the people of Biak say the Indonesian military brutally killed 150 people after a small group of protestors had dared to raise the Free West Papua flag. The government acknowledges only 1 death. Today the Biak massacre has become a driving force of resistance just as the Dili massacre did for East Timor. But the independence movement in this resource-rich land has a tough battle ahea…
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