INDONESIA HEATS UP

Robert Gates, on a 2010 visit to Indonesia, during which he announced that the US would continue helping to train Kopassus, an elite special forces unit accused of kidnappings and assassinations. Defense Dept. photo by Cherie Cullen

Indonesia is under attack.

1. On 21 March 2012, a bomb hit the outside of the Indonesian embassy in Paris.

The gas cylinder package had originally been inside the building but was removed by an observant member of staff.

(Bomb blast shakes Paris as 'gas cylinder package' explodes outside.)

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2. On 19 March 2012, we read that five suspected militants, who had reportedly surveyed targets for attack on Bali, have been shot dead by Indonesian police.

The killings follow the start of a trial of Umar Patek, an Islamist militant believed to have worked for the CIA.

Patek is accused of making the bombs used in the 2002 Bali nightclubs attack, which has been linked to the CIA and elements of the Indonesian military.

Umar Patek was captured in Abbottabad, where the CIA is believed to have had a number of safe houses.

Patek is also accused of mixing chemicals for 13 bombs that hit five churches in Jakarta on Christmas Eve, 2000, killing about 15 people. These church attacks are believed to have links to elements of the Indonesian military.

Police shoot dead five terror suspects in Bali

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Why is Indonesia under attack?

1. China and Indonesia have signed deals worth a potential $17 bln

China and Indonesia signed prospective deals worth potentially more than $17 billion on Friday in the fields of mining, hydropower and steel, state media reported, during a visit by Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono to Beijing.

2. INDONESIA has called on Australia to accept that the rise of China is natural and not threatening.

"Indonesia's Minister for Foreign Affairs, Marty Natalegawa, said countries should not react to the rise of China ''through traditional alliances and fault lines'', a veiled reference to the proposed US Marine deployment to the Northern Territory, a decision he criticised four months ago."

Indonesia urges calm over rise of China‎

3. Indonesia's 'Resource Nationalism' is upsetting foreign investors‎

A new law in Indonesia forces foreigners to divest at least 51 percent of their shares to Indonesians over a 10-year period.

Certain powerful Indonesians want a bigger share of the cake.

Indonesia has some of the world's biggest untapped mineral reserves, including tin, nickel, copper and gold.

In 2011 a three-month strike at a giant gold and copper mine owned by US company Freeport-McMoRan, led to a 37 percent pay rise for workers.

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4. Indonesia wants oil from Iran.

Indonesia does not want an Iran crisis that will put up the cost of oil even further.

Indonesia Must Buy Iranian Oil Erwin Wirawan

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What happens next?

1. Indonesia is considering raising fuel prices or lowering the subsidy to private vehicles.

The government is expected to make a decision by the end of March.

There have been protests.

Some protesters have chanted "Crush SBY, bring down SBY-Boediono regime", referring to President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono.

Indonesian labour unions are threatening to close ports and toll roads Ahead of the Fuel Hike

Thousands protest against proposed fuel hike in Indonesia

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'CIA AGENT' PATEK GOES ON TRIAL

Umar Patek , or his double, greets prosecutors at a court in Jakarta. Patek is alleged to work for the CIA and is alleged to have helped build the bombs used in the 2002 Bali attacks.

The trial of 'Umar Patek', alleged Bali bomber, began on 13 February 2012.

He has been indicted for his alleged role in a series of coordinated bomb attacks on churches across Indonesia during Christmas Eve 2000, and for concealing information about a militant training camp that was uncovered in Aceh in early 2010.

(Alleged Bomb Builder Umar Patek Goes on Trial 10 Years After Bali ...‎ Jakarta Globe)

The Indonesian security services have allegedly been infiltrated by Mossad and the CIA.

Patek was captured in January 2011, in Abbottabad, by the Pakistan authorities.

Abbottabad is alleged to have contained a number if CIA safe houses.

The CIA claimed that Osama bin laden lived in Abbottabad.

Patek's real name is Hisyam Bin Alizein

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ISI claims credit for arrest of Bali bomb suspect

Umar Patek is a member of the "CIA-linked" militant group Jemaah Islamiyah and he is believed to have been involved in the 2002 Bali bombing.

The Pakistan inteligence service ISI claims that it was responsible for the arrest of Patek.

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According to an ISI officer: "We captured him a few days ago and now ... will ensure that he is taken back to Indonesia."

When asked if it was a joint effort by several intelligence organisations that resulted in the arrest, the officer said: "No, it was entirely the efforts of the ISI."

Patek is a 35-year-old Javanese Arab.

Reportedly he was trained at CIA-Al-Qaeda camps in Afghanistan in the 1990s.

Patek was reportedly killed on 14 September 2006 in the Sulu province of the Philippines. But this report was never confirmed.

Bali Bomb 'mastermind' Al Faruq

In The Age, (We must not get back in bed with Kopassus - theage.com.au), Dr Damien Kingsbury wrote about Moslem militants in Indonesia and their links to the Indonesian military.

Komando Jihad, which became Jemaah Islamiah - was set up by (American trained) Indonesian generals.

Dr Kingsbury wrote: "Kopassus (Indonesian special forces) ...set up the Islamic organisation Komando Jihad ... which has since emerged as Jemaah Islamiah."

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What about the 2002 Bali Bomb?

Bali bomb 'mastermind' Al Faruq - 'worked for the CIA.'

Former Indonesian State Intelligence Coordinating Board (BAKIN) chief A.C. Manulang was quoted by Tempo magazine as suggesting that Al-Faruq was a CIA-recruited agent.

Kuwaiti citizen Omar Al Faruq was arrested in Bogor on June 5, 2002 and handed over to US authorities.

Al Faruq was then able to escape from custody.

According to a news story in the Sydney Morning Herald, November 2, 2002:

"Some time around the 30 October 2002, senior officers in the Indonesian military HQ gave a piece of information to a military attache from a Western embassy in Indonesia -the source of explosive used in the October 12 bombing in Bali was the head of the counter-terrorism unit with the army's special forces."

The father-in-law of the officer concerned is Hendropriyono, Indonesia's former spy chief.

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The airline manifest of Garuda airlines shows that at least two generals from Jakarta visited Bali three days before the bombings and that they returned to Jakarta one day before the Sari Club was blown up.

This was confirmed by armed forces chief General Sutarto, who claimed that General Djaja Suparman was on vacation, while General Ryamizard Riyacudu, chief of staff, was said to have gone to Bali for health reasons. (Jakarta Post)

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19 people were killed and scores injured in a series of attacks on churches on Christmas Eve in 2000.

Umar Patek is accused of being involved in these church bombings.

In February 2001, the respected Indonesian newsweekly Tempo published a cover story suggesting links between the church bombings and the Indonesian military, the TNI.

The article pointed out that Edi Sugiarto, who was quickly arrested and confessed to assembling 15 of the bombs used in the town of Medan, has long run a car repair shop in the province of Aceh, where a separatist group named GAM operated.

Members of TNI and Indonesia’s special forces, Kopassus, regularly went to his shop for repairs and just to hang out.

As a result, GAM claimed he was a TNI lackey and burned down his shop and house in 1997.

Phone records also indicated that Sugiarto called Fauzi Hasbi seven times before the bombings.

Hasbi is a leader of Jemaah Islamiyah, but Tempo outed him as an Indonesian government agent.

In 2005, two years after Hasbi’s death, the Australian television program SBS Dateline provided additional evidence of Hasbi’s long-time links to the TNI.

Fasbi also called Jacob Tanwijaya, a businessman well connected with the TNI, 35 times.

That businessman in turn talked on the phone to Lt. Col. Iwan Prilianto, a Kopassus special forces intelligence officer, over 70 times. (Source: Kopassus)

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In Indonesia, the special forces regiment, Kopassus, works closely with Mossad (MOSSAD IN INDONESIA) and the American military.

There is evidence linking Kopassus to attacks on Christian churches in Indonesia.

"The most vicious combined operation of Coker (Chrtistian gangsters) and Kopassus was the attack on the village of Soya...

"22 houses were destroyed by fire, as well as the historic church of Soya built during Portuguese times and 12 people were killed.

"The Soya bloodbath created new tensions between Muslim and Christian communities.

"It is now clear that the attack was not the work of Muslim warriors as was thought at the time but an attack by a Christian militia gang together with Kopassus units." (aangirfan: The 'terrorism' is often linked to Christian gangsters ...)

The CIA's Allen Pope during his trial in Jakarta, 28 December 1959.

The CIA secretly bombed Christians in Indonesia, in order to topple President Sukarno.

On 15 May 1958, a CIA plane bombed the Ambon marketplace, killing a large number of civilians on their way to church on Ascension Thursday.

Three days later, during another bombing run over Ambon, a CIA pilot, Allen Lawrence Pope, was shot down and captured. (Indonesia 1957-1958 KH)

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