Supreme Golden Eyes - Chapter 3 (Chapter 3: Dangerous Breath

Speaking of which, the relationship between China and Indonesia is very deep. It can be traced back to at least more than a thousand years ago. [ ]

As early as the Eastern Han Dynasty, many Chinese people traveled across the ocean and came to the Baling State on the Indonesian island of Sumatra to farm (at that time, a large part of northern Vietnam was under the jurisdiction of Jiaozhou. It was not too difficult to get there from the Han Dynasty. Along the coastline

Just go south); during the Tang and Song Dynasties, many people fled to Southeast Asia due to political reasons; and at the turn of the Song and Yuan Dynasties

During this period, many Song Dynasty officials fled overseas and arrived in Nanyang. For example, Zheng Sixiao, the Song Dynasty survivor, fled to Java, Indonesia. The situation was similar at the end of the Ming Dynasty. Prince Fu and Prince Tang of the Ming Dynasty also crossed the sea to Java one after another. The same situation was roughly the same in the Qing Dynasty.

In this way, after Kangxi regained Taiwan, some soldiers of the Zheng Keshuang regime who were unwilling to surrender to the Qing also took ships from Taiwan to Java.

In addition to those who immigrated for political reasons, there are also many people who left their hometowns for other reasons.

After the Ming Dynasty, due to the emergence of coastal capitalism and the development of foreign trade, land annexation became more and more serious, and social conflicts within China became more and more serious. Many bankrupt farmers and handicraftsmen in the southeastern coastal areas have crossed the sea to make a living. Later, there were Chinese people due to various

They migrated from China one after another for various reasons. The main components of them are businessmen, fishermen, overseas students, etc. These people are mainly men. After arriving in Indonesia, some of them intermarried with the locals and took root.

After the Dutch East India Company occupied Jakarta, businesses were in urgent need of labor. They took a fancy to the industrious Chinese people, so they tried every means to recruit Chinese immigrants, and even resorted to banditry by any means, sending armed ships to the Chinese coast to rob people, and occupied the

After Zheng Chenggong expelled them from Taiwan, the Dutch's ambition for Taiwan remained unquenched. It was not until Shi Lang defeated Taiwan that they gradually retreated. But by this time, countless Chinese had been taken captive by them.

It's hard to count.

To be honest, before the arrival of Western colonists, there were no major disputes between the Chinese and Indonesian residents, and it could even be said that they lived in harmony. However, later the Dutch colonists selected a small number of upper-class Chinese and upper-class aborigines to act as their agents and carried out economic plunder.

But it gave many Chinese who were engaged in small business and hawkers a bad name.

In order to transfer the anti-Dutch sentiments of the locals to the Chinese, the Dutch colonial rulers continued to sow discord between the indigenous people and the Chinese in order to reap the benefits of the fishermen. From that time on, the Chinese-Indonesians became an uninterrupted part of the Indonesian political situation.

The scapegoat in the struggle for group interests.

In the 1960s, after long-term planning and preparation, Indonesian President Sukarno issued a severe decree, announcing strict restrictions on Chinese commercial activities; prohibiting all Chinese commercial activities in areas below the county level; forcing Chinese to end their small business and hawker business, and must

They left areas below the county level and thus set off the most serious anti-Chinese wave since independence.

After entering the Suharto era, in order to get rid of the economic difficulties, the Indonesian government will relax some business restrictions for Chinese people (Indonesians are very lazy, because the local environment is hot and humid, and fruits and other products are very abundant, even if they are not working

They will not starve to death, so the enterprising spirit of the Indonesian people is very poor, unlike the hard-working Chinese

The Xia people are incomparable. Therefore, in a feudal agricultural society, Indonesian monkeys may live more comfortably, but not in a modern commercial society), but politically a series of more stringent forced assimilation policies have been implemented

, stifling the rights and interests of ethnic Chinese as Indonesian citizens in other fields and stifling their equal citizenship rights.

For example, Chinese are prohibited from participating in politics and the military; Chinese schools are closed; Chinese are restricted from entering universities; the use of Chinese is strictly prohibited; Chinese are required to give up their Chinese names, change their names with Indonesian, and put a mark on the Chinese resident card, etc. They blatantly violate the United Nations regulations.

The declaration and convention on human rights have severely violated the basic human rights of Chinese Americans and further pitted the Chinese ethnic group against other ethnic groups.

Since Suharto came to power, there have been more than ten anti-Chinese incidents, large and small. Since the foundation of Suharto's regime has not been shaken, each anti-Chinese incident was only controlled as a political means and did not expand further.

They destabilized their regime, then calmed down after achieving their goal, and then used ethnic Chinese to revitalize the economy. When this situation occurs again, they still do it this way. Repeatedly, it works every time.

To put it bluntly, the status of the Chinese in Indonesia is that of pigs raised in captivity. They are slaughtered once when they are fattened, and then given a period of time to recuperate, and then slaughtered again when they are fattened next time. They have never been treated equally!

Sadly, during the more than thirty years of Suharto's rule, the majority of ethnic Chinese have become accustomed to this, and are completely unaware that their civil rights have been stifled, and that there is a political crisis that has long been lurking that is related to their own survival.

Ordinarily, if these peaceful days continue, the Indonesian Chinese will not encounter too much hardship except being slaughtered as fattened pigs a few times. However, it is a pity that since the middle of last year, the Indonesian Chinese have swept across Asia.

The financial crisis broke out, and the Indonesian government suffered an unprecedented impact. The country's deficit

The number of poor people has increased sharply to 80 million people, accounting for 40% of the total population. People are living in poverty and class conflicts are unprecedentedly intense. The people are extremely dissatisfied with this, and the anger that has been accumulated for a long time is about to explode. There is no doubt that the accompanying

It was strikes, demonstrations and riots that would seriously threaten the rule of the Suharto regime.

Under such circumstances, the Suharto regime naturally considered directing the volcanic lava to the Chinese, the section with the least political power in Indonesian society. The Chinese were the exhaust valve of the Suharto regime. For many years, whenever there was public dissatisfaction,

When the boiling point threatens to explode society, this exhaust valve will be activated so that the political and economic rule of the Suharto family can avoid the impact and continue to exist.

This is the darkest, most secret and essential link in Suharto's ruling structure. Its significance is the same as Hitler's massacre of the Jews. Only by transforming class contradictions into national contradictions and class anger into racial hatred,

At the same time, the Chinese are promoted as so-called residents who do not believe in Islam and hateful pagans, so that an exploitative and oppressive social structure can be maintained.

In this sense, racism is actually an indispensable component of any kind of class-ruling regime. Even the United States, which particularly loves to flaunt democracy, uses racial discrimination against blacks and yellow people as an exhaust of its social stability.

The Ku Klux Klan and the extreme anti-Chinese forces in Indonesia are essentially the same thing. The mainstream of the ruling group usually looks down on them, but they deeply understand the importance of the existence of extreme right-wing forces.

This statement may seem too dark to some people, but in fact, the anti-Chinese riots in Indonesia were not without warning. Since March, there have been many planned riots against Chinese people across Indonesia, and even

Dating back to the intensive violent cases against Chinese that occurred at the end of 1997, the topic of race has been a hot topic in the Indonesian media recently (this is why Hu Gang and Wang Rui were able to sense that large-scale unrest would occur in Indonesia).

What's more, in order to deflect its incompetence during the Asian financial crisis (the depreciation of the Indonesian rupiah was the most severe among all countries affected by the financial crisis), the Suharto government even publicly hinted on many occasions that it was Chinese Indonesians who were responsible for this crisis. During the financial crisis, Indonesian people's wealth was plundered and they tried to shift people's attention to racial conflicts.

Suharto's son-in-law, Lieutenant General Prabowo, the commander of the Indonesian Army's Strategic Reserve Force and former commander of the Special Forces, considered the difficulties faced by the entire family after Suharto's imminent resignation and wanted to reinstate the military government. Introduced to Indonesia and continue the Suharto family's rule in Indonesia, they single-handedly planned this riot.

Although it has not yet been implemented, rumors of riots have spread throughout Jakarta. In the past few days, the Indonesian government has announced that President Suharto will go to Egypt to attend an international conference in a few days. The main leader of the Indonesian military The generals also "happened" to gather in East Java to attend a ceremony. Many observers from international human rights organizations and reporters from international media sent to Jakarta were sensitive to the smell of danger, and Chinese officials were no exception.

However, it is one thing to know that a riot may occur; how to respond and whether you can use your best strength is another matter.

As mentioned before, the Chinese in Indonesia are politically divided into pro-communist and pro-Taiwan factions. After the establishment of New China, the Chinese government did not forget the Chinese who hid in Indonesia and other Southeast Asian countries due to war and other factors. The then State Council Premier Zhou, the Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs, even personally went to Nanyang to invite these Chinese to return to China, and even promised to arrange jobs and housing, which is almost better than the current treatment of returned scientists!

Unfortunately, except for some pro-communist Chinese, the vast majority of the Chinese at that time were unwilling to give up their local wealth and return to China, which was in desperate need of prosperity.

In fact, strictly speaking, the Chinese government had no position to take action regarding the anti-Chinese incident in Indonesia. In 1965, the Chairman only made such a big reaction out of righteous indignation. In fact, The Chinese government does not have the power to control these Chinese people. This is not a weakness that many people think, but is based on facts and legal principles.

Because the Chinese in Indonesia are actually equivalent to the British who arrived in the Americas when the New World was discovered and became American citizens. They are out-and-out Indonesian citizens, not Chinese citizens. Premier Zhou can personally invite them to return to China. It’s because benevolence and righteousness have been exhausted. The Chinese government can control them for two generations, but it can’t control them from generation to generation, right?
Chapter completed!