logo Kompas.id
EnglishThe Rohingya Issue and...
Iklan

The Rohingya Issue and Diplomacy

By
Hamid Awaluddin
· 6 minutes read
https://cdn-assetd.kompas.id/cZ5Ulq6TWsTAYFoKLH-mrPO1veM=/1024x576/https%3A%2F%2Fkompas.id%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2017%2F09%2F20170914H1_ENGLISH-ROHINGYA_B_web.jpg
AP Photo/Bernat Armangue

Ethnic Rohingya carry an elderly man and walk through rice fields after crossing over to the Bangladesh side of the border near Cox\'s Bazar\'s Teknaf area, Friday, Sept. 1, 2017. Myanmar\'s military says almost 400 people have died in recent violence in the western state of Rakhine triggered by attacks on security forces by insurgents from the Rohingya. Advocates for the Rohingya, an oppressed Muslim minority in overwhelmingly Buddhist Myanmar, say hundreds of Rohingya civilians have been killed by security forces. Thousands have fled into neighboring Bangladesh.

Indonesia and Myanmar are old friends. Indonesia’s founding father, President Soekarno, once called Myanmar – or Burma, as it was known at the time – a “true friend”. This was because Burma was one of the handful of Asian countries that recognized Indonesia’s sovereignty in the first years of its independence.

As the story goes, the Dakota Seulawah RI-001 presidential aircraft, which was donated by the Acehnese people to the newly independent Indonesian government, was on its way back to the country in early December 1948 after a routine check in India, when it was denied entry into Indonesian airspace because of the Second Dutch Military Aggression. Pilot Wiweko Supono then flew the airplane to Burma.

Editor:
Share
Logo Kompas
Logo iosLogo android
Kantor Redaksi
Menara Kompas Lantai 5, Jalan Palmerah Selatan 21, Jakarta Pusat, DKI Jakarta, Indonesia, 10270.
+6221 5347 710
+6221 5347 720
+6221 5347 730
+6221 530 2200
Kantor Iklan
Menara Kompas Lantai 2, Jalan Palmerah Selatan 21, Jakarta Pusat, DKI Jakarta, Indonesia, 10270.
+6221 8062 6699
Layanan Pelanggan
Kompas Kring
+6221 2567 6000