Myanmar Spring Chronicle – View of December 2
(MoeMaKa) December 3, 2025
Indonesia invites JCB and the junta’s NSPNC for talks
Ethnic armed organizations and political groups that are part of the JCB – Joint Coordination Body – and, on the other side, the junta’s National Solidarity and Peacemaking Negotiation Committee (NSPNC) have been invited by Indonesia to a “nation-building informal dialogue” meeting.
In recent days, reports have begun to emerge that the Indonesian side has been meeting separately with each delegation it invited.
According to BBC Burmese, representatives of the Joint Coordination Body (JCB) – which is made up largely of Shan organizations – and the junta’s NSPNC, led by General Soe Nyunt Oo, are currently in Indonesia. There, an Indonesian facilitation team is holding separate meetings with each side in an effort to find a solution to the Myanmar crisis.
Reports say the JCB was formed last year in Bangkok, Thailand, with initiative and coordination from U Han Nyunt Way of the Euro-Burma Office. It is said that:
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Most of the Shan ethnic armed and political organizations are involved in the JCB,
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And that some non-Shan ethnic armed organizations are also included.
Some sources say KNU, KNPP, NUG and NUCC are among its members, but there has not yet been any official public announcement confirming this. U Han Nyunt Way is the son of former president Sao Shwe Thaik and is a Burma activist working from abroad.
It is not yet fully clear from which angle the JCB intends to approach Myanmar’s political problems:
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Whether it is primarily a forum for “facilitation and coordination,”
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Or whether it is meant as a mechanism to end the current armed conflict.
But because ethnic armed organizations and the National Unity Government (NUG) are also involved, it means that, although not all, a significant number of actors from both sides of the armed conflict are at least present in some form.
Myanmar’s internal war – called either “civil war” or “armed conflict” – has dragged on for over 70 years, approaching 80. The question is: who actually has the capacity to bring this war to an end?
One narrative says:
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The civil war is a result of militarism and the military’s policies.
The army, on the other hand, has claimed that:
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The fighting that took place between the AFPFL government and various armed groups from 1948 to 1962 was the origin,
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That ethnic, leftist and right-wing armed groups chose the path of armed struggle,
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And the army simply defended the state and fought back.
From 1962 up to the present, however, the internal war has been waged against:
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The one-party BSPP government formed by the coup-making military,
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Then the SLORC/SPDC (NaWaTa / NaPa) regimes,
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And now, after 2021, the coup regime under the SAC.
The civil war that has flared up since the 2021 coup is, in effect:
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A second full-scale nationwide civil war in Myanmar in over 70 years,
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The most intense since around 1952,
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The broadest in geographic spread,
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The deadliest in terms of casualties,
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With the largest number of displaced people,
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And with the greatest scale of destruction and loss.
This current war has been waged under the banner of:
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Ending military dictatorship once and for all,
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Defeating the army so decisively that it can never again return to political power.
Over these nearly five years:
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Tens of thousands of both combatants and civilians have been killed,
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Basic infrastructure, transportation networks, trade flows, border trade, and agricultural production have been severely damaged,
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Natural resources and the environment have also suffered enormous destruction.
The consequences of the war:
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Are borne not only by armed fighters who are killed or wounded,
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But also by unarmed civilians who are being killed and maimed.
Yet the war continues.
In the current talks facilitated by Indonesia, even though the two sides are not meeting face-to-face:
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Indonesia’s Myanmar team will likely act as a pillar (intermediary) and listen to each party explain its positions and its objectives.
Is Myanmar’s civil war approaching its final chapter?
Or are the discussions merely about:
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How to buy time,
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How to rebuild strength and capacity,
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And how to prepare for continued fighting?
For now, it is still too early to draw a conclusion.