From: batcom-AT-poboxes.com
Date: Tue, 19 May 1998 02:10:04 +0200
Subject: Re: AUT: INDONESIA now : student activist perspective (fwd)


This is a brilliant confirmation of what we stated (unfortunately in
Italian) some days ago: sure, they were not the students to burn the
skyscreapers. 
The accusation of this guy that the riots were/are a manouver of the army,
before to be a vulgar slander, is the proof that too many "militants" are
absolutely unable to grasp the concrete global situation. 
Really somebody can think that the simple monstruous figure of the poverty
vs. the richness is not sufficient to explain the riots? The riots in
Venezuela some years ago, were manouvers of the army/police? If so, we can
expect a vast mobilisation of the armies and the police in order to put up
riots in many points of the globe.
The student here wants the reform: somebody else instead of Suharto. It's
possible, likely, that Suharto fall and a smart coalition between the
islamist opposition and the democratic opposition will lead the new
government. But it's sure that the Indonesian working class will remain one
of the less paid and most exploited and the unemployment will continue to
grow. Or will the "civil society" ... overcome?
If a manouver exist it consists in putting forward a false political
problem: democratic  or military dictatorship of the same capital. i.e. one
faction of the bourgeoisie or the other. Suharto and his family own a big
share of the Indonesian economy and exert the dictatorship in defense of
his personal /familial monopoly; until now the majority of the bourgeoisie
has been able to share a sufficient amount of the plusvalue. Now the crisis
penalizes the entire bourgeoisie and the majority attacks the Suharto's
monopoly. And you see the kids of the most "respectable" bourgeoisie  set
up a democratic movement from their luxury colleges.
Sure, this same student M cannot be nothing else than a democratic
reformist, a bourgeois with the natural blindness of its own class.
r.g.
mauro.jr

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>
> Hallo Ingo !
> 
> Today we are very surprissed of what happenned in  Indonesia  on  the
> last day.It was so terrible that people went out to the street to rob
> and burn all of the store in Jakarta and Solo. 
> 
> The  military  claimed  that  the  riots  was connecting with student
> demonstration.But actually it wasnot true.
> 
> Because until today The millitary always stops the student to go out
> from  campus. And it's irronic that the millitary use the gun to stop
> the student, but they let people rob and burn the store (I  have  the
> picture  of  this).  So  I think there's an invisible hand behind the
> riot. I heard an issue from Jakarta that for this  situation  Prabowo
> (son  in  law of president) was prommoted as Pangkopkamtip to control
> the situation.
> 
> This position is like Soeharto in 1965. But general wiranto the chief
> commander of millitary rejected that.Many people  in  indonesia  hope
> wiranto  will  do  reformation,  for  the army (ABRI) has the biggest
> power in the pollitical  constallation  in  indonesia.  But  we  (our
> student  committe)  never  believe in the army, because the army will
> take advantage just like in 1966,when the student  movement  was  the
> mask of millitary. We donnot want to be leaded by the army.
> 
> So I think this situation (riot) was made by millitary to legitimized
> the  army stopping the student protest, and in other side to prommote
> prabowo.
> 
> What we can do now is just to  make  people  understand  that  people
> enemy  is  not  cina etnic but the army and the civil who save status
> quo.So robbing and burning the store isnot the way of reformation.
> 
> I would like if you  will  spread  the  information  that  it  wasnot
> student  who  made  or  startted  the  riot  but  it  was  pollitical
> enginering by the army.
> 
> Finally  I would like to thanks for any help, you and all of over sea
> student give.
>
>
> We shall overcome !
>
> M.
>
>
>
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