The Study of Conflict Victim Aggression at Poso Conflict Region

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10.2991/icodag-17.2017.58How to use a DOI?

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Aggression - Poso Conflict

Abstract

The study of conflict victim aggression at Poso conflict region, Central Sulawesi Province studied the attack behaviour (attacking one another) among "actors-victims-new actors". The underlying decision of victims to do the aggression or attack as the way to revenge, was to attract attention and demand justice from the government. In fact, it made the condition worse because the targeted object was often obscure and directed to the substitutive object as the substitution, which caused new victims as the actor candidates. This vicious circle complexity has become an important factor in protracted conflict at Poso conflict region. The research result discovered that (1) aversive phenomena experienced by the conflict victims at Poso from the most dominant at the first cycle successively (i) pain and suffer, (ii) injustice treatment, and (iii) aspiration failure. At the second cycle and so forth which then forming conflict-chain, more dominated successively by (i) deprivation, (ii) aspiration failure, and (iii) injustice; (2) unfavourable experience or aversive of conflict effect, had disturbed mental and psychological stability of victim families and/or relatives, that had potential to do aggression to the parties considered actors; (3) the potential of aggressive behaviour at each victim individual was inseparable from the social frame of the surrounding groups and communities; (4) the situational response constituted the aggressing factor (brutal) which was generally not directed to the targeted object, but targeted to the substitutive target which would emerge new victims and problems. The fall of new victims as substitutive victims, as the consequence of the main target missing, initiating the emergence of new problem. The parties (substitutive victims), then did the aggression as the form of revenge. Such bad situation became worse because there was no preventive protection and security from the local government. The basis forming the causality of conflict victims at Poso region became so complex and might occur up to now.

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© 2017, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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AU  - Muhammad Nur Ali
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