Recently a minister of the Protestant Church in Maluku shared a deep fear. Things are getting worse in Ambon and we are scared that the rest of the world will forget us. We are frightened that we will be forgotten. Life is indeed getting more difficult in Indonesia for many people, especially in the Maluku Islands where religious sectarianism is tearing the community apart. Thousands of Muslim Jihad militia continue to attack and wipe out Christian communities.
Christians are desperate as they try to defend themselves.
Sections of the Indonesian military are subverting attempts to reconcile warring parties and it appears as though elites in Jakarta have a political agenda. That agenda is being played out in Eastern Indonesia. Ambon and the Maluku Islands have become victims of that play. For some people, all of this may seem too hard and too complicated. Yet the reality is that entire communities continue to be murdered and destroyed as the Jihad militia wreck a once peaceful society.