14. PERAN ORGANISASI KERJA SAMA ISLAM (OKI) DALAM MENANGANI KONFLIK ETNIS RAKHINE-ROHINGYA DI MYANMAR TAHUN 2012-2013

Abstract

Human conflict between the Rakhine and Rohingya ethnics in Myanmar in 2012
confiscated international society attention since it broke the human rights. This internal
conflict incurred a lot of victims and increased the number of Rohingya refugees escaping
to the neighbor countries indirectly engaging several countries, either IGO or NGO. One of
international organizations paying attention to this conflict was Organization of Islamic
Cooperation. This was an analytic descriptive research using library study method and
applying the liberalism and international organization theories. The objective of this
research was to find out the roles of Organization of Islamic Cooperation in ethnical
conflict of Rakhine and Rohingya in Myanmar in 2012. The result of this research showed
that the roles of Organization of Islamic Cooperation were including as the initiator,
facilitator, and mediator. Organization of Islamic Cooperation had strived to run its roles
as the IGO in helping solve the conflict between Rakhine and Rohingya ethnics in
Myanmar.