Indonesia (1983: Doomsday)
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Islamic Indonesian Islands League
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[edit] History
Before Doomsday, Indonesia was under the rule of its dictator President Suharto. The events of Doomsday greatly weakened Suharto's control of the country, and many areas were soon shaken by sepratist uprisings, including fighting in Aceh and the land around Brunei. Suharto was forced to withdraw the bulk of his armed forces into the core areas of Java and southern Sumatra late in 1983. Within five years, Indonesia was close to becoming a failed state.
In 1989, Indonesia's remaining loyal provinces reconstituted the country as the Islamic Indonesian Islands League. The political and military situation remained precarious, however, and the writing of a Constitution was postponed indefinitely. The Sumatra War of 1992 began when Aceh claimed the entire island and launched a land invasion to back up its claim. Alerted by defectors from Aceh, the I.I.I.L. was able to halt the advance near Padang, but could not drive the invaders back to Aceh.
The I.I.I.L. continued to have difficulty administering its outlying areas. West Papua (in Indonesian, Irian Jaya) was officially united with East Papua in 2003 and formed into an associated territory of the Commonwealth of Australia and New Zealand. East Timor remains an independent state in de facto association with the ANZC.
In March 2009, amid rising local violence, Indonesia finally held a referendum on a new constitution, accepted by landslide 64.5% vote. The new constitution finally replaces the various emergency laws enacted since Doomsday and re-establishes stable political ground within the league's territory. Importantly, the constitution does not expressly count the Aceh and ANZC-associated territories of Papua and Timor as part of Indonesia; therefore, these important neighbors support the new constitution.
[edit] International relations
Indonesia is a member of the League of Nations.
[edit] Flag
(from wikipedia & modified) The I.I.I.L. utilizes a variation of the The national flag of Indonesia, which was known as Sang Merah Putih ("The Red and White") in Indonesian. It is based on the flag of the 13th century Majapahit empire. The original flag itself was introduced and hoisted in public at the Indonesian Independence Day ceremony, on August 17, 1945.
The design of the original flag was quite simple with two equal horizontal bands, red (top) and white (bottom) with an overall ratio of 2:3. Red represents bravery, while white represents the spiritual element.This was kept as the basis and background for the new flag introduced on August 17th, 1989.
The I.I.I.L. government decided on integrating elements to symbolize
- The 23 provinces the I.I.I.L comprises of. They are represented by 23 red respectively white 5-ended stars placed in roughly the geographical shape of the I.I.I.L.
- The original Indonesian provinces not being part of the I.I.I.L. but still claimed by the central government. Black, 7-ended stars -also on geographical locations, represent the provinces of East Timor, Papua, Northern Borneo (Kalimantan), Riau, Northern Sumatra claimed by ANZC/Papua New Guinea and Sultanates of Aceh and Brunei-Sarawak respectively.
- The Islamic principles the League is built on. This is symbolized by the traditional Islamic crescent and star
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