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Southeast Asia UpdatesBy Zachary Abuza
Here are a few updates in the issues I've covered in the past week in the Philippines, Indonesia and Australia. Philippines: The Philippine government announced they had failed to meet a second deadline in providing the MILF with a new draft for the thorny issue of ancestral domain. Government negotiators have now asked the MILF to have until 15 November to table the new draft proposal. This undermines president Arroyo’s repeated claims that the talks were “80%” completed. On Monday, President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo said she was “willing to grant” the demands of the MILF on the issue of ancestral domain. Obviously, the Philippine government remains woefully divided on how much to concede to the Moro rebels. AFP chief General Hermogenes Esperon announced that there was no evidence to link MILF chairman Ebrahim el Haj Murad to the 10 October bombing that killed six people in North Cotabato province, Philippine Justice Secretary Raul Gonzalez ordered a review of sworn statements by recent terrorist suspects who linked Murad to the attack. We are now watching a political-legal climb down in order to salvage the talks. Indonesia: Indonesian National Police (INP) arrested three Malaysians suspected of being couriers for a top JI leader, Noordin Mohammad Top in Jombang district, East Java province. In Central Sulawesi, the INP named 15 people who had been previously arrested as suspects in the sectarian bloodletting in Poso and Palu; and named 26 suspects still at large. The INP announced that the 41 were "members of the Tanah Runtuh and Kompak Kayamanya groups;” both thought to be JI splinters or semi-autonomous groups founded by JI members and/or sympathizers. Australia: A first rate article by Natalie O’Brien and Simon Kearney in today’s The Australian, gives much more information on the wife and children of JI member Abdul Rahim Ayub, Rabiah Hutchinson. Apparently she and Ayub separated in the late R990s, and so the wife that Ayub was reported to be with in Java is Indonesian. Rabiah remained on an Australian government watchlist. The article suggests that there was far more to the arrest of the eight foreigners in Yemen than simply running weapons to Islamists in Somalia; it seems an odd task for several Caucasians who could be used for other types of operations.
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