Jakarta – The Civil Society Coalition has criticised President Prabowo Subianto's plan to expand the strength of the Indonesian Military (TNI) by establishing new battalions on the pretext of securing Indonesia's natural resources and combating illegal logging, illegal mining and unauthorised plantations.
The President's statement, which said that ideally each regency should be guarded by a battalion, given the fact that 360 of the country's 514 regencies currently lack a TNI unit, reflects a flawed perspective: the complex issue of natural resource governance is being reduced to a matter of military force deployment.
The President's statement, which said that ideally each regency should be guarded by a battalion, given the fact that 360 of the country's 514 regencies currently lack a TNI unit, reflects a flawed perspective: the complex issue of natural resource governance is being reduced to a matter of military force deployment.
