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| Addressing the Causes of Instability: Understanding the Causes of Instability |
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Indonesia is facing not one but many crises, each of which springs from multiple sources, with diverse effects on the security of people in the country. The archipelago confronts economic, political, and institutional crises as well as challenges to the integrity of the state. The sources of the current instability are intricate and interrelated, resulting from, among other factors, problems of transition, institutional weakness, economic decline, and military dominance, as well as religious heterogeneity, ethnic diversity, and problematic center-periphery relations.
All these factors interact in complex ways and cannot be easily separated. The diverse regions of this vast country face different combinations of circumstances, requiring a context-specific response.
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