NationStates Jolt Archive

OOC

First of all, this is a semi-open RP. Anyone can join if they make a contribution which is in the chracter of the scenario and are willing to READ the information below. If you post something stupid or that might ruin the idea of the RP, you will be ingored. Simple. You can do pretty much whatever it is you want to do, making sure to keep you involvement small. This is a squad based RP and will focus on individuals whether it be in government or military rather than whole Armies.

Enjoy!


Background

The Island of Timor is located in South East Asia, near RL Indonesia and is split in two. One half is taken up by this nation 'Timor Leste' and the Western hlaf is ocupied by another nation (which I also control) 'Indonesian Timor'

The RP is based on the RL world situation the island finds itself in, with one half a newly independant and democratic East Timor which is predominantly Christian. However the nation of Indonesia which once occupied Timor for a long period has always wanted to regain control over it.This RP obviously takes place in the NS world where Indonesia has disintegrated and West Timor is now known as 'Indonesian Timor', predominantly Muslim.

In the current situation, both governments are attempting to find ways of influencing the other's population and forcing a revolt or revolution from the inside as neither nation is powerful enough to defeat the other. Currently Indonesian Timor has an advantage as it has a larger population, a stronger government as well as military equipment from what was Indonesia. The border between the two nations is fairly non-existent and is covered in dense rainforest, therefore it is extremely porus.

Currently both governments are focusing in training paramilitary groups and commandos to inflitrate each other and there have been frequent skirmishes in the border areas as well as sabotage, prisoner grabs and inciting revolt particulaly by Timor Leste as they are always fearing an invasion by a hateful and slightly more powerful neigbour.

http://www.cpj.org/news/2000/news_images/East_Timor_map.gif
Showing Location of Timro relative to South East Asia

http://www.katoh-net.ac.jp/GyoshuHS/timor/map01.jpg
Timor Leste Shown to the East, Indonesian Timor to the West

Larger Scale Map:
http://www.defence.gov.au/army/asnce/images/timor_map.jpg



Nation Facts:

I have mostly used RL world information and where I have deviated slightly is just to make sure there is no clearly 'good' or 'evil' side. Feel free to support whoever you want, just keep it nice and realistic.

Republic of Timor Leste

Population: 950,000 approx
Capital: Dili
Government Type: Democratic, but fairly weak.
Head of State: President Jose Gusmao
Religons: Roman Catholic 90.5%, Muslim 8%, Protestant 1%, Hindu 0.5%
Religous Freedom guranteed by the State
Official Language: Portuguese
Legal and Social Attitudes: Strict Narcotics laws enforced, short prison terms due to massive overcrowing and often chaotic judicial system. Death penalty often used in mimor cases to reduce pressure on prisons.

Military:
-Timorese Defence Corps (TDC): 16,500 Active personnel, approximately 50 M113 armoured vehicles and 40 M60 tanks in poor condition, trucks and other light vehciles as well as small boats. These forces are trained mainly as law enforcement units. They are poorly equipped with mostly old Western weaponry and morale is low, and many cases of narcotics abuse is reported.

-Timorese Defence Air Corps (TDAC): Approximately 500 personnel active, flies a small fleet of Cesssna observation planes, two squadrons of OV-10 Broncos , a squadron of Hawk-100s, a few Puma helicopters and a tiny number of captured Mi-24 Hinds. A pair of C-130Bs and a single 737-200 are used for transport.

-Paramilitary and militias (unofficial): Between 11,000 and 13,000 strong, the groups collectively known as Timorese Independant Forces (TIF). These units are specially trained insurgents who frequently cross the border to gather intelligence and other clandestine operations.



Nation Facts:

Theocracy of Indonesian Timor
Population: 1,120,000 approx
Capital: Kupang
Government Type: Religous, Authoritarian
Head of State: General Yusril Mahendra,
Religons: Roman Catholic 2.5%, Muslim 96%, Hindu 0.5%, Other 1%
Religous Freedom guranteed by the State although persecution of Christians is often allowed to occur to preserve loyalty of muslim populations
Official Language: Bahasa Indonesian
Legal and Social Attitudes: Strict Sharia law, alcohol ban, beheadings etc, producer of cannabis largely for export; increasing role as trans shipment point for Golden Triangle heroin

Military:
-Army of Indonesian Timor (AIT): 27,000 personnel equipped with mostly ex-Soviet equipment. Approximately 200 BMPs, 100 or so T-55s as well as Scorpion Light Tanks. Operability questionable. The AIT is fairly well trained at the senior officer level but enlisted and junior grade skill is considerably lower. Morale is normally fairly high and the army is fiercely loyal to the government.

-Air Force of Indonesian Timor (AFIT): Approximately 2,000 personnel. The AFIT operates three squadrons of Mig-21s, a squadron of Su-17 ground attack fighters, five Il-28 bombers and an extensive array of helicopters, most of whcih are not airworthy. These include UH-1s, Mi-17s, Mi-24s and Allouettes. A fleet of six CN-235 aircraft are used for transport and maritime surveillance.

-Navy of Indonesian Timor (NIT): Approximately 1,300 personnel. The NIT's fleet includes a pair of Claud Jones class light gun frigates, two Tacoma class small landing ships and three Kondor II mine warfare vessels. All of the ships are extremely old but nonetheless operational. The NIT also includes some cargo and fishing vessels that have been taken from civilian service. Much of the time the navy is used for state-sponsored drug smuggling.

-Paramilitary and militias: Between 15,000 and 16,000 strong. There are three known groups, the Islamic Timor Revolution Brigade (ITRB) which is the most loyal and used for most covert operations. There are also the Timor Unification Regiment (TUR) and Special Islamic Guards (SIG). The later two are primarily secret police and counter-intelligence forces and rarely take part in insurgency missions yet they are still highly dangerous.

Fifteen Miles East of Atambua, through the dense coverage of the rainforest, the squad of men advanced slowly.Their local guide knew the locations of the land mines, the booby traps and even the enemy patrol patterns and so far they were doing well. It was pitch dark because little moonlight reached the floor of the forest and they struggled to keep track of each other with only two flashlights to guide them.

The eighteen men of the Islamic Timor Revolution Brigade (ITRB) had taken nearly four hours to stealthily manouvre between the undefined no man's land which divided the two nations. Their mission was fairly unusual as crossing the border was normally only done to gather intelligence. This time they were here for sabotage. A few local muslims being paid off by the ITRB had informed them that the Timorese Defence Corps (TDC), their unofficial enemy had a large ammunition dump on a road between two barracks, presumably so they could resupply both bases quickly in the event of an invasion. For this reason it would have to go, after all an invasion might become necessary in the future. The other reason was more simplistic, the TDC had some good equipment much of it western made.

Half an hour later, and the squad could see the lights of their target up ahead. The main road was well lit and the ammunition dump looked like a former petrol station fortified with sandbags and a pair of machinegun positions. Captain Soemadiu could see through his binnoculars the sentries, only eight plus probably eight or ten more in the guard house asleep.

He whispered orders and the men split into three teams. The first would advance on the left, the second to the right and the third would provide fire support.

As the two flanking teams crept up, to just fifty or so metres from the ammo dump and at the treeline, they saw one of the TDC guards approach, apparently startled. They immediately opened fire with their Kalashnikovs taking down the sentries systematically in huge volleys of 7.62mm rounds.

Captain Soemadiu then shouted more instructions, they would have to kill the men in the gusrd house before one of them reached the radio. The first team dashed across the road under heavy covering fire and burst into the sandbagged buisling where they threw frag grenades and emptied more AK magazines into their enemy.

With only one fatal casualty resulting from the assault, the team set to work. They inspected ammuntion crates, taking the ones with AT-4 launchers and 120mm mortar shells. Amongst the boxes they also found some highly prized MP-5 submachineguns. Then, having decided what they would be able to carry and what to leave, they set their satchel charges around the ammo dump, before scuttling back into the rainforest.

By the time the enemy found out, the team would be across the border.

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IC;

At the Presdient's residence in Dali the cabinet assembled for an early morning briefing, news of the guerilla attack during the night was still limited to governemnt officials only but it would soon leak out somehow.

The Secretary of Security was the first to speak, "Mr. President, I think we should consider this the mot serous breach of our border security yet, never before have we had our troops actually getting shot at and killed. My suggestion is to beef up our guard round these support bases and catch them next time they try it."

The Foreign Secretary then broke in, "That would start a war, we should instead inform the international community of this act and get some sort of condemnation of Indonesian Timor. Maybe we could get some foreign peacekeepers as well."

Not to have his view overlooked the Secretary of Intelligence then gave his advice, "Sir, the best thing to do is nothing, on the face of it. COverlty we can start similar incursions with our own militia groups and prove to them that we are not the only one with weaknesses. This will also give us valuable information as to their stregths. If you wanted to, we could quietly request soem military assitance asuch as special forces advisors from some other nations."

The President nodded for teh ifrst time that day, "Good plan, but if we infiltrate Indonesian, make sure we don't get caught."

"Yes Sir."

(BTW Brunei is a colony of UE that is somewhat autonomously run)

Government House, Brunei

The weekly meeting of the Governing Committee usually was eneventful and the United Elias representatives nearly always permitted the Bruneian members to do whatever they wanted with regard to internal policy and voce versa for foreign policy.

Today was going to be different as a potentially serious issue would have to be debated immediately, a recent intelligence report had outlined the guerilla raid in Timor Leste and this was certainly not on. To make matters more serious, Brunei was starting to see an upsurge in illicit narcotics smuggling which almost certainly originated in Indonesian Timor. The one slight obstruction though was that Brunei was muslim as was Indonesian Timor so it became a touchy issue.

After four hours of discussion a decision had been made to make some sort of effort to assist Timor Leste and decrease drug smuggling from Indonesian Timor. An hour later another decision was made to send military special forces to act as advisors and a compromise was that United Elias forces stationed in Brunei should be used in the begingin with Bruneian troops to follow only if necessary.


Tutong, Brunei

At Tutong Military Base, the headquarters of the Elias military Contigent in South-East Asia, there was a general feeling of elation in the barracks as the approximately 19,900 troops of the 1st Airborne Division prepared to be rotated back home after a gruelling nine month tour of duty in Brunei. During that time the troops had only been allowed home four times on weekly leave and the endless jungle humidty and tropical rainfall had been exhausting. The entire time the 1st Airborne had been in Brunei the three brigades had rotated duties every month so that one brigade was assigned to field training at all times. This took place in South Western Gabon which was sparsely populated and of course covered in dense rainforest.

As the afternoon sun shimmered over the waves adjacent to the airfield, the thirty two men of Recon Platoon 175, a Special Reconassiance Service (SRS) unit attached to the 1st Airborne to provide a specops capability, lounged about waiting for the transport plane that would bring the initial units of the 3rd Airborne who were replacing them, and more importantly take them home. However they were approached by a Lieutenant Colonel and they were ordered to the briefing room. They were no longer going home, they were headed for Timor.