Post-Conflict Reconciliation of Religious Sentiments : Peace Pioneering Women: A Case Study at Ambon City, Maluku, Indonesia

Abstract

This article explains about the conflict of religious sentiments in Ambon City, Maluku Province. The role of women involved in reconciliation and becoming peacekeepers to resolve the conflict. Religious sentiment conflict were one of the conflicts caused by religious issues. Like mocking each other's religions because of the racist acts or Sara issues about religion that bring about and cause division. Religious conflict in Ambon began with a fight between a local Christian with a Christian Muslim migrants. This conflict occurred on January 19, 1999, until the signing of the Malino II charter on February 13, 2002. The fight quickly widened into a Bergama conflict between Muslim and Christianity. This article also explained how to resolve conflicts until the reconciliation stage. In the middle of a conflict fight, came a great association of women who be a movement that is a movement caring women (GPP) to do conflict resolution or peace and conduct post-conflict reconciliation for women, children, and victims of conflict. The conflict that was the religious background in Ambon were the most devastating conflict that occurred in Indonesia.  This article also, the author explain the role of government in overcoming and resolving conflicts happened in the Ambon City. The analytical method used was a patterned qualitative method descriptive analysis. This paper using a literature study by documents and data covering all the conflicts in the Ambon City from 1999 to 2002, and news from related media about the conflict.