Quoting baldguy96@aol.comnoads (BillKirch) regarding No chinese books
in Bali!
in a message dated 15 Sep 2003 01:40:27 GMT:
> >I saw this on an episode of Globetrecker on PBS. Why would that be so? BG
mag3 wrote in message news:...
> It's "holdover" legislation from the Soeharto regime.
Well... It's what 'they' told Suharto to do when he was President,
obviously in the last few years of his presidency, he wasn't very
obidient to 'them', that's why 'they' pressured him to come down by
creating a nationwide riot in May 1998.
It should be noted many if not most Indonesians are Chinese related,
the blending are so tight that many Chinese descended Indonesians
seems to forget that they are Chinese.
The ones who are considered as Chinese these days generally are the
Chinese that are just newly immigrated.
> Apparently, there was
> some concern about the rise in Chinese influence over Islam.
Considering the fact that many Chinese in indonesia are muslims.
> The legislation is
> apparently no longer necessary as Soeharto is gone,
> but hasn't been lifted off
> the books yet either.
It's because it wasn't Suharto who wanted there in the first place, it
was 'them'. Suharto is only 'their' 'tool'. |