If you want a gun in Indonesia, you can get a gun.Nice theory, do you suppose that there is a firearms store on each island?
In an archipelago, when one side is covertly armed to the teeth with assault rifles, you have the makings of a new Rwanda on each island.
No, you bribe the tinpots. But this is very doable, for a price. The only problem is that you can only bribe the tinpots with actual money. And guns are only traded in hard currency. Indonesians are paid in toilet paper money known as rupiah. USD1.00-IDR10,434