Law No. 23/1959 allows the Maluku governor, among others,

Law No. 23/1959 allows the Maluku governor, among others,

to make rulings necessary to restore security and order to order crackdowns by police and military officials on all places through general and special assignments to seize any material suspected of being used to disturb the peace to bar local people from holding general meetings and marches and entering areas and buildings prone to clashes to limit local people to areas just outside of their houses