(en) anarkis.org: Immorality State: Viewing Rohingya from the
Perspective of Anarchism - FERDHI F. SON [machine translation]
I su immigrants back sticking out in the middle of this year. Not long ago WikiLeaks
cables leaked confidential documents EU plans to launch a military operation against
migrants from Libya are heading Europe. The European Union led by Britain and Italy are
planning to blow up (blowing up) ships of immigrants before leaving the port. The goal is
one: to prevent the entry of persons into mainland Europe.[1] ---- Other stories, recently
the Government of Australia and the Government of Indonesia a little at odds over the
issue of immigrants. Indonesian government reportedly furious that the Australian
Government to bribe the captain of the ship that brought immigrants' gelap'-from Sri
Lanka, Bangladesh, and Myanmar-to bring them back into Indonesian waters. President, Tony
Abbott, did not deny the news. The reason cliché, she wants to "stop the evil trade
practices."[2] Since the ruling Abbott did make a strict policy against immigrants and
asylum seekers. Then how Indonesia's response? Jusuf Kalla and Gen. Moeldoko Australia
identified action as "unethical actions."[3]
The rejection of minorities, especially against the 'newcomers'[4] is happening
everywhere. In Germany, neo-Nazi groups reject the existence of Islamic and Asian
residents. In the United States, a group of white supremacist still terrorized blacks,
racism although there has long struggled to be eliminated. Even discriminatory practices
that occur in everyday life. Xenophobic attitudes are not a bit that leads to physical
violence.
The movement of people from one area to another, with certain reasons-economic and
political-is often the main reason of long standing. Countries that currently
self-proclaimed sovereign state was a colony that has long been inhabited by native
communities (indigenous peoples) . Call it, for example, Australia's population are
immigrants from Europe. Also with the United States that the composition of its population
coming from Europe and other regions in the world. Indonesia, supposedly, the 'pribumi'
her are immigrants from Yunnan who move thousands of years ago.
At terekstrim point, there is a theory which states that the inhabitants of the earth,
which are now spread over five continents, are the people who migrate from one place tens
of thousands of years ago. Is not it strange when today many people, in many countries,
feels he is 'indigenous people', the indigenous, who then arbitrarily treats minority
groups that are considered as foreigners or strangers, or other designations. Then where
the emergence of xenophobia diidap many humans today? Racism and Nationalism often the
source of this sentiment.
However, of the many events, the most attention of the world is Rohingya.
May 2015, the Rohingya people across the waters of Indonesia. Their goal is not Indonesia.
They want to seek asylum, seeking a safer place to Thailand and Malaysia-but more often
end up being victims of human trafficking in these countries. They wasted and forced to
become 'boat people' as a result of sectarian conflict that occurred in his home country,
Myanmar. Instead of the problems they face can not be completed and make their forced
exodus. But the state, in this case the Government of Myanmar, it took
melanggengkannya-even become the main factor. One of the Rohingya refugees in Aceh, Abdul
Rashid, said, "we are happy, we are grateful to Indonesia wants to help us. Furthermore,
we surrender. Whatever the decision of the Government of Indonesia, we accept gracefully.
We hope not discharge us into Myanmar. There we are persecuted. The house and our land was
taken. "[5] That testimony.
In their home country, they become the butt of Buddhists are the majority. Buddhist
fundamentalist groups did. According to the investigation of one of Indonesia's leading
magazine, sectarian conflict that happened was terrible. Soldiers and religious
fundamentalists angry ready to attack at any time. Almost no seconds safe for the Rohingya
people. Like Gaza, Rakhine State-which became a point of staying-like giant prison for the
Rohingya.[6]
From there then religious conflicts resound to the world. Not a few fanatics in Indonesia
which is graced with a call for 'jihad!'. Religious conflict, it is said, has been
divisive man.[7] There is also a saying that sectarian conflict just engineering Myanmar
government for the sake of a more strategic political economy. Myanmar government
reportedly deliberately allowed the genocide against the Rohingya as to divert the
attention of the public related to an investment in the Rakhine region.[8]
Once separated from Myanmar does not necessarily make their life more comfortable.
Obscurity fate continues to haunt them. In many countries, they are rejected. Indonesia do
it in mid-May. After Thailand and Malaysia, Indonesia-through TNI-drive them from the
waters of Indonesia. TNI chief, Moeldoko said the Indonesian government would not allow
the ships Rohingya refugees entering Indonesian waters. They were forbidden to land in
Indonesia.[9]
Not only that, the military and even appealed to the Aceh-time fishermen boats carrying
Rohingya close to the mainland of Aceh and not to help the Rohingya people, because they
will become a problem later on. The government even Langsa, Aceh, assume their existence
as a problem. The reason is trivial: no budget to feed the refugees.[10] However, Aceh
fishermen refused to follow the appeal. They oppose the army, and against economic
reasoning Langsa municipal government. The fishermen brought ashore 370 Rohingya people,
save them from the shadows of obscurity. The reason is simple fishermen: because they, the
Rohingya people, is the man. Yeah, man.

Immorality state
The rejection of the Rohingya by the ASEAN countries has been criticized by many parties.
In Indonesia alone, the issue is being debated in the community. There is a government
that supports the same reason the army. There are also opposed government measures for
humanitarian reasons. The latter appears more dominant.
Moving Islam borrows its cosmopolitan concept Kant as a counter discourse on the behavior
of the ASEAN countries against the Rohingya people. According to them, 'we are' stuck on
chauvinism and particularism countries-for this- sort of thing, but is open to aliens with
other forms, such as capital (capitalism).[11] In conclusion, cosmopolitanism will not be
done by state, but by the people, the people-people. But according to the author there are
other latent issues: the exclusive paradigm dominance citizens have built anti-foreign
sentiment in society. Nationalism in mature countries, both former colonizer or colonized,
both patting the chest convince ourselves that race or their country as a superior-that
commonly arise in the former colonies is a revivalist spirit, believes that the country's
once glorious past.
Mikhail Bakunin, an anarchist thinker early generations, has warned that the State since
the formation is immoral. Precisely immoral against humanity. State, in a structured human
solidarity has destroyed under the pretext of sovereignty and nationalism.
"Consequently, by good in this system is meant only the greatest satisfaction given to the
collective egoism of a particular and limited association, which, being founded upon the
partial sacrifice of the individual egoism of every one of its members, excludes from its
Midst, as strangers and natural enemies, the vast majority of the human species Whether or
not it is formed into Similar associations. "[12]
The attitude of the ASEAN countries, is a logical consequence of the conception of the
state. The presence of state regulation and breast bengeknya requires to be able to
control everything in its territory, including citizens. The aim is to ensure the status
quo state. From any perspective-whether liberal, even communist countries once believed to
be present to necessarily create the bulkhead between the here and not the people here .
Furthermore, from the standpoint of the class, the state can do it even against
antarwarganegaranya itself, between the rich and the poor. Thus, the notion that the state
exists to create justice and mediate their conflict-and then made a social contract-is a
mere pretext. Marx, for example, reject (nationality) state (an) because according to him,
civic identity for individuals, has to deflect the real issue, namely the class conflict.
In this case, Marx and Bakunin-known as enemies-turned out bersepaham.
Policies anti-immigrant, for example, is one example of how the State preventive action on
potential dissent. Even if a country accepts a person or a group of immigrants, the
immigrants should be subject to regulations made by the state. By doing so, there is no
room for residents 'illegal'. There is no place for non-citizens.[13] For Bakunin, the
state simply 'protecting'[14] citizens-recognize the human rights-only within its
boundaries, territory or regulation. So then automatically, the State will not want to
recognize the right beyond the territory and regulation-that they specify:
"And since it does not Recognize any right outside of its own confines, it quite logically
arrogated to itself the right to treat with the most Ferocious inhumanity all the foreign
Populations whom it can pillage, exterminate, or subordinate to its will."[15 ]
Rohingya case is a concrete example of what is said Bakunin over a century ago. State and
citizenship, under any pretext, in turn has created an absolute bulkhead for humanity.
Instead of being a mediator in the conflict between individual-by-state flow liberalism
became a trigger or a part of the conflict itself. Thus, questioned why the State and the
rules on citizenship tend to be proprietary and negates human relations, just like
question why capitalism an evil character.
The struggle of minorities
Rohingya look the same today as seen Kurds in the Middle East a few decades ago. Kurds,
just as Rohingya, is an exception in the social contract made by the state or
interstate. They are a minority who ignored their rights by countries in the Middle East
such as Iran, Iraq, Syria and Turkey. Just like the Rohingya, they almost wiped-identity
and existence-by state authoritarianism. But seeing the Kurds now, we are as shown back
indigenous uprising in Chiapas in 1994 ago. Kurdish revolution and against the country
that had been me-minority-kan them, although they are opposed to religious
totalitarianism. The draw of the revolution they are conceptions of non-state social
contract which they refer to as democratic konfederalisme , sort swapemerintahan models
that go beyond the idea of the state a la Westphalian-liberalism and communism.
Perhaps, the solution for the Rohingya are doing what the Kurds in the Middle East.
Because, hoping hospitality state into something complicated, since power becomes a major
domain in the movement. Look at the solutions offered by the three countries-Indonesia,
Malaysia and Thailand-where four-half of the five points on offer only a temporary
solution to the problem of the Rohingya.[16] This shows how they did from the beginning is
not willing to open up to parents Rohingyas. The attitude of acceptance because they are
urging the international forum, which in essence was always in trouble with the issue of
immigrants, as revealed in front.
But unfortunately, the Rohingya have not been able to 'become' the Kurds. They are still
fighting with the space and durability. One thing that may change the face of the
oppressed and dependent Rohingya, Rohingya and become an independent and sovereign, is a
self-defense as a nation. Like the Zapatista Army and Kurdish, Rohingya need to create its
own defenses against forces beyond their oppressive. Bad experience with the entity called
the State is not likely to make the Rohingya will be autonomous community.
Indigenous peoples in Chiapas and oppressed Kurds in the Middle East for decades. But now
they rise up and become self-sufficient community. It is not impossible, the Rohingya will
follow in their footsteps. Time-and of course the struggle-that will decide. Utopian?[]
Note:
[1]http://www.democracynow.org/2015/5/27/wikileaks_julian_assange_on_europes_secret
accessed on June 24, 2015.
[2]
http://www.smh.com.au/federal-politics/political-news/tony-abbott-does-not-deny-australia-paid-people-smugglers-to-turn-back-asylum-seeker-boats-20150612-ghm5ru.html
, accessed on June 24, 2015.
[3]
http://news.detik.com/berita/2942555/jk-sebut-australia-tidak-beretika-soal-bayar-awak-perahu-migran
dan
http://www.republika.co.id/berita/nasional/umum/15/06/16/nq1fhv-panglima-tni-nilai-australia-tidak-beretika
, accessed on June 24, 2015.
[4] The term 'immigrant' is debatable. For before the era of the nation-state based on
territorial, humans are free to migrate wherever they want. Usually the reason they
migrate are economic factors (source of life).
[5]
http://print.kompas.com/baca/2015/05/25/Perdana-Menteri-Malaysia-Prihatinkan-Kuburan-Massa
accessed on June 24, 2015.
[6] Tempo, Luka Rohingya , 8-14 June 2015 edition.
[7] The religion is the religion writer intent on spiritual shutter. In many conflicts,
religious differences are often regarded as a trigger. However, the authors saw that it
was not religion itself is at issue, but the political power of religion for its followers.
[8] Human Rights Watch found new evidence that 'genocide' against the Rohingya is a
systematic violence involving the Government of Myanmar. Government concerned in order to
smooth planned exploitation of natural resources are rich in the state of Rakhine on June
24, 2015.
[9] Statement Moeldoko later revised by Vice President Jusuf Kalla. JK themselves do not
deny that prohibit immigrants entering Indonesian territory is a policy
[10]
http://nasional.inilah.com/read/detail/2205437/nelayan-aceh-diimbau-tidak-selamatkan-rohingya
diakses on June 24, 2015.
[11] http://islambergerak.com/2015/05/rohingnya-dan-krisis-kosmopolitanisme/ accessed on
June 24, 2015.
[12] The case of Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti in the mid 1920s in the United
States is one example of a case that could give an idea of how countries develop
anti-immigrant sentiment. At that time, both immigrants from Italy is judged on charges of
murder and robbery. Outside the court, both suffered discrimination by the residents
'original' USA. They are regarded as troublemakers and endangering national security.
Analysts in that era believed that both were convicted because they are anarchists. At
that time-the same as today in some countries-be anarchist is illegal, because their
existence-and-political actions threaten state power.
[13] Mikhail Bakunin, The Immorality of the State , accessed from
http://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/michail-bakunin-the-immorality-of-the-state.pdf .
[14] Terma 'protect', in this context, could still is specified. State only protects
anything that can still be tolerated within certain limits. For example, if there is a
conflict between workers and employers, the state will tend to 'protect' the businessman,
although both citizens. That is, there remains a class question that stands behind the State.
[15] Bakunin, op.cit.
[16]
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/21/world/asia/indonesia-malaysia-rohingya-bangladeshi-migrants-agreement.html?_r=0
diakses on August 15, 2015.
http://anarkis.org/imoralitas-negara-melihat-rohingya-dari-perspektif-anarkisme/
