It would therefore seem obvious to investigate the structures of the conflicts in these countries
more closely. As we have seen, cultural conflicts in Southeast Asia primarily center on the issue of
historicity, followed by purely religious and religious/linguistic matters. From among the large number
of individual conflicts once or now to be encountered in the countries in question we will
therefore select those current conflicts that could shed light on the mechanisms of cultural processing
of political conflicts. Here, specifically the religious/linguistic Pattani conflict in South Thailand,
the history-related Aceh conflict in Indonesia and the overall set of different history-related conflicts
die in Myanmar that otherwise are usually subsumed under the label of “conflicts relating to ethnic
minorities”.
5.2.1 The Aceh conflict as a history-related conflict
Aceh – the Northernmost province on the island of Sumatra – is the stage for one of the oldest
domestic conflicts both in Indonesia and in Southeast Asia as a whole. The armed conflict in the