Couple days ago I read a local Yahoo news article relating to certain Islamist fundamentalist group. I was quite horrified reading the commentary section as it was filled by racist commentary of Islamist fundamentalist posters and adding the fuel, some posters who I believe ‘pretended’ to be Christian. By experience I knew both side of the camps are pretenders who aimed to fuel racist and religious hatred among those who read those comments.
Just today I read from another local Yahoo news that that particular Islamist fundamentalist group has been financed by our ex chief of National Police, now the head of state intelligence and the intelligence body themselves. It came as no surprise to most people here as it is already a public secret that this group is financed by officials to act as the wikileaks cable termed an attack dog.
Now my ordeal in Singapore in 2002 and years of persecution and discrimination of my academic pursuit and the attitude of my mother with her past display of animosity and now who is largely a timid person concerning all topic related to my ordeal and persecution, all those things undoubtedly point that my own state apparatus condoned and supported of what happened to me by neglect and then assisted in my years of persecution that has taken its toll on my health and future. My mother wouldn’t become an apostate by committing false swearing more than once and displayed much unwarranted animosity towards me without some local pressure or threat on her. Her treatment of me has improved since but the attitude remains whenever I brought the topic of my ordeal and persecution, much of it usually results in either heated argument or complete ignorance from her part.
My suspicion of ‘local assist’ also grew from couple occasions: the animosity displayed against me from people I hardly knew be it neighbors, church members and local lecturers, some right away most others in time. There were also couple street incidents, unwarranted, where I could clearly see an attempt of intimidation. In fact the last was couple weeks ago where a guy in a motorcycle banged our taxi real hard with his hand for no apparent reason and gave me ‘that look’ when I looked upon him from the front.
All I am saying is none that I’ve endured could have been possible without the support of local politicians and perhaps even apparatus. Here in Indonesia money grants you respect even if you’re a foreigner or make that especially if you’re a foreigner with lots of money to spare.
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