Embers still smoldering in Poso

Embers still smoldering in Poso

Embers are still smoldering in Poso, Central Sulawesi. Last
Sunday, a group of armed people attacked four villages and killed
eight people.

Although security personnel have been deployed there ... there
would be trauma if the conflict is not settled soon. People are
fed up with violence.

The conflict in Poso, such as the one in Maluku, subsided with
the signing of the so-called Malino Agreement in Malino, Gowa,
South Sulawesi in December 2001.

The agreement however was not the end of the bloody story.
Bombs were detonated in Poso's district social office in March
2002 and in a bus in Poso Pesisi subdistrict in June 2002.

Rioters must be dealt with stern measures .... otherwise it
would indicate that the country is too soft on them or, second,
that the rioters are too powerful. Thus, the country is powerless
is the face of powerful rioters. And if this happened, it would
suggest that the country had fallen in the hands of thugs.

-- Media Indonesia, Jakarta