{{Short description|Indonesian secessionist movement}} {{Infobox militant organization | name = Maluku Sovereignty Front | native_name = Front Kedaulatan Maluku | native_name_lang = id | other_name = Front for the Sovereignty of the Moluccas | logo = FKM logo orig.jpg | caption = Emblem of Maluku Sovereignty Front Representative in the US | dates = | leader = Alex Manuputty | motives = | area = [[Maluku Islands]] | ideology = [[Republic of the South Moluccas|Moluccan nationalism]]<br>[[Liberal conservatism]]<br>[[Anti-communism]] | status = | size = | revenue = | financing = | url = <!-- {{URL|example.com}} --> }}
The '''Maluku Sovereignty Front''' ({{langx|id|Front Kedaulatan Maluku}}, '''FKM''') is a [[secessionist]] movement on [[Ambon Island]], aiming to restore the [[Republic of the South Moluccas]] (RMS).<ref>[https://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/2202709.stm Christian separatist on trial in Indonesia], [[BBC]], 19 August 2002.</ref> It was established on 15 June 2000 at [[Ambon, Maluku|Ambon]].<ref>[http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/world/para/fkm.htm Front Kedaulatan Maluku (Maluku Sovereignty Front)] Globalsecurity.org</ref>
They have been monitored by the [[Indonesian military]] for stockpiling weapons and other activities. Indonesian sources claim that the group first emerged in January 1999.{{citation needed|date=September 2016}}
One of their activities has been to fly the banned [[flag of the Republic of South Maluku]] in public places to commemorate an unsuccessful secession attempt in 1950.<ref>Chris Brummitt, [https://web.archive.org/web/20110215084940/http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P1-51830871.html Christian separatist leader threatens to raise independence flags in Maluku], [[Associated Press]], 5 April 2002.</ref>
The leader of the FKM organisation Alex Manuputty has fled to the United States, but continues to support independence.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://cgi.omroep.nl/cgi-bin/streams?/id/NCRV/serie/EO_1533/EO_101143528/bb.20071106.asf |title=Live video footage interview with Alex Manuputty in exile, in the USA. |access-date=2012-07-29 |archive-date=2023-04-07 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230407065851/http://cgi.omroep.nl/cgi-bin/streams?/id/NCRV/serie/EO_1533/EO_101143528/bb.20071106.asf |url-status=dead }}</ref>
In 2025, a Maluku police report suspected that FKM might still exist, later holding joint patrols in anticipation for separatist activity on 25 April. Though nothing came about.<ref>{{cite web |date=25 April 2025 |title=Antisipasi adanya gerakan separatis, Polres Kepulauan Tanimbar gelar Patroli gabungan TNI-Polri |url=https://reskrimrestaambon.maluku.polri.go.id/informasi/berita/baca/antisipasi-adanya-gerakan-separatis-polres-kepulauan-tanimbar-gelar-patroli-gabungan-tni-polri |access-date=6 April 2026 |website=Website Resmi Polda Maluku |publisher=Polres Kepulauan Tanimbar |language=id}}</ref>
==See also== *[[Separatism in Indonesia]] *[[Invasion of Ambon]] *[[Republic of South Maluku]]
==References== <references/>
==Further reading== *{{cite news|url=http://www.thejakartapost.com/news/2010/12/06/romanticism-south-maluku-separatists-exile.html|title=Romanticism of South Maluku separatists in exile|publisher=Jakarta Post|date=December 6, 2010}}
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