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7 Indon. L. Rev. 155 (2017)
The Total People's Defense and Security System: Issues Related to State-Sponsored Militia in Indonesia

handle is hein.journals/indolawrev7 and id is 155 raw text is: Indonesia Law Review (2017) 2: 155 - 177 ISSN: 2088-8430 | e-ISSN: 2356-2129 THE TOTAL PEOPLE'S DEFENSE AND SECURITY SYSTEM: ISSUED RELATED TO STATE-SPONSORED MILITIA IN INDONESIA Bhatara Ibnu Reza* Faculty of Law, University of New South Wales, Australia Article Info Received: 14 September 2016 | Received in revised form: 12 June 2016 | Accepted: 12 April 2017 Corresponding author's e-mail: bhatara.reza@gmail.com Abstract The establishment of state-sponsored militia has raised concerns of human rights violations in non- international armed conflict in Indonesia. Most of the state-sponsored militia have been formed and tacitly supported by the Indonesian National Defense Forces (Tentara Nasional Indonesia) mostly based on the implementation of a concept called the Total People's Security and Defense System (sistem pertahanan rakyat semesta-sishankamrata). The Total People's Security and Defense System is the grand strategy adopted based on Indonesia's experience during Indonesia's physical revolution or armed struggle for independence (1945-1949) and recognized under the Second Amendment to the 1945 Constitution. This article will elaborate on, first, the constitutional history and ideology of 'total people's defense' which contributes to the political ideology of the military and its relations with the existence of militia groups; and second, the active encouragement of militia abuses by the Indonesian military as part of a campaign to maintain control of regions seeking independence, along with the constraints imposed by the military itself on the manner in which it conducts such campaign. Keywords: Total People's Defense and Security System, State-sponsored militia, Military, Constitution Abstrak Pembentukan milisi yang didukung oleh negara telah meningkatkan perhatian terhadap pelanggaran hak asasi manusia dalam konflik bersenjata noninternasional. Kebanyakan dari milisi tersebut dibentuk dan diukung oleh Tentara Nasional Indonesia secara diam-diam berdasarkan penerapan konsep yang dinamakan sistem pertahanan rakyatsemestea - sishankamrata. Sishankamrata adalah strategi besar yang diadopsi berdasarkan pengalaman Indonesia selama masa revolusifisik atau perjuangan bersenjata untuk kemerdekaan (1945 - 1949) dan diakui dalam amandemen kedua UUD 1945. Tulisan ini akan menjabarkan, pertama, sejarah konstitusional dan ideologi sishankamrata yang berkontribusi terhadap ideologi politik militer dan hubungannya terhadap keberadaan dari kelompok milisi; kedua, dukungan aktif militer terhadap pelanggaran yang dilakukan oleh militer sebagai bagian kampanye untuk memelihara kendali atas daerah yang mencari kemerdekaan, dengan batasan yang ditetapkan oleh militer itu sendiri dalam pelaksanaan kampanye tersebut. Kata kunci: Sistem Pertahanan RakyatSemesta, milisiyang didukung oleh negara, militer, konstitusi DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.15742/ilrev.v7n2.319,3

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