Prabowo tak berusaha menyangkal perannya dalam mengorkestrasi kerusuhan anti-Tionghoa. “Ada 128 kebakaran terjadi serempak,” katanyaOpens in a new tab, sambil terlihat bangga. “Ini operasi: terencana, dijalankan, terkendali.”
Upaya meredam protes gagal dan Soeharto pun tumbang. Kurang dari 70 jam setelah presiden baru menjabat, Prabowo melancarkan upaya kudeta yang kemudian gagal.
I also remember a friend of mine was quite upset when Jokowi allowed executions to go through. She deleted her photos with Jokowi on her social media profiles.
@Alon Practically only right (nationalist) and right (religious) politics here. The left is quite weak and nonexistent in the legislature. Labour unions are growing but not quite strong as political force.
@gombang No religious vs. secular politics along the lines of Catholic Europe or Latin America, where the left is usually anti-clerical and advances abortion and gay rights when it can?
@Alon Well the peak of leftist politics was in decades of 1950s and 1960s.
The Socialist Party (the old PSI) was dissolved because alleged involvement in separatist revolts of late 1950s. The Communist Party (PKI) was purged after the failed coup of 1965 (thanks, America!). The PKI was rather hostile to the Islamic clerical class, following international Communist movement tendency. It also viewed the clerics as an impediment to the land reform programme, because a lot of Islamic clerics were also landlords.
Current secular political parties are reluctant to confront Islamist ideas and even coopted them. Some even advocate sharia into local laws (see: “The Politics of Shari’a Law: Islamist Activists and the State in Democratizing Indonesia”)
@Alon this is one of the reason the Islamic clerics are still hostile to the socialist policies nowadays, even though there were leftist clerics in the past.
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