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By Adam Henry, published 16/11/2006To be critical of the Indonesian military for its documented and appalling human rights record is not anti-Indonesian.
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There is no Indonesian nation, only an Indonesian state, which only exists because the Dutch were stupid enough to try and govern all those islands as one unitary state instead of a federation. It should be renamed the Javanese East Indies.
OK then, kick all the non-aboriginal people out of Australia. However, there will only be half a million people left. And who's going to replace those nasty white people? Nice Javanese migrants, who are so anti-racist that they regard Papuans as savages? You probably think the same about Africans, despite all that propaganda about 'Afro-Asian Solidarity'. You only club together when you've got a grievance against the industrialised north.
Indonesia popular? One of the most corrupt, nepotistic and incompetently run places in the world. Go to hell with your aid? Yeah, right! Your ambassador in the US is whining that your air force can't get spares for its ageing Hercules fleet.
Leigh, it's all well and good saying democracy is something that should be won, but if opposition movements weren't allowed to take refuge in other countries, there'd still be apartheid in South Africa. And maybe what we now call Indonesia would still be Dutch!