Nationalism, Democratisation and Primordial Sentiment in Indonesia: Problems of Ethnicity versus Indonesian-ness (the cases of Aceh, Riau, Papua and Bali)

Indonesia has been dealing with ethnicity issues since the early days of independence. A local uprising in 1950 in South Maluku, initiated by Republik Maluku Selatan, is evidence of an early serious attempt at separatism on behalf of a particular ethnic group in the new republic. Since then in this multi-ethnic state that is Indonesia, there has been no reduction in efforts or movements that promote ethnic identity.