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BenarNews: 2017: A Triumphant Year for ‘Hate Politics’ in Indonesia

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Conservative Islam emerged as a potent player in Indonesian politics in 2017, and could endure through presidential elections in 2019 in the world’s largest Muslim-majority nation, analysts say. Hardline groups, such as the Islamic Defenders’ Front (FPI), chalked up a huge win when their demonstrations against Jakarta’s then-governor resulted in his arrest, trial and conviction for blasphemy against Islam. Along the way, Basuki Tjahaja Purnama (“Ahok”) lost his re-election bid. Ahok was the highest-ranking public servant from the tiny ethnic-Chinese minority in Indonesian history, and a key ally of President Joko Widodo, who faces a re-election test in 2019 and won the presidency while serving as Jakarta’s governor. “There are groups that work with the radical community to overthrow President Joko Widodo,” Boni Hargens, director of the Indonesian Electoral Institute, told a seminar in Jakarta earlier this month on the role of hardline groups in politics. “These groups use tribal, rel...

Foreign Policy: Ghosts of Pogroms Past Haunt Indonesia

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Nearly two decades after anti-Chinese riots tore through this part of Indonesia’s capital, one busy road still bears the scars. Amid the clamor of heat and traffic of Glodok, Jakarta’s Chinatown, a row of shop-houses lies abandoned, an octagonal feng shui tile still attached to a bricked-up window. Across the street, through locked steel shutters, one can still make out the charred beams and blackened walls of rooms gutted by fire in 1998. A nearby three-story building stands in ruins: a former furniture store destroyed during the rioting. “It’s been empty since 1998,” said Iskandar, 60, a street-side portrait painter who stores uses the space to store his wares. While the building has a Chinese owner, he said that they appear to have abandoned it. “Maybe it’s because they have bad memories,” he said. “Some of them have very bitter memories here.” But anti-Chinese feeling in Indonesia is more than just a matter of memory. A rising tide of Islamic conservatism is now opening up the coun...

Deutsche Welle: Akankah Tragedi 1998 Terulang?

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Ketika WNI keturunan yang mengungsi sejak tragedi 1998 berjuang agar tidak dideportasi dari Amerika Serikat, warga etnis Tionghoa di Indonesia menghadapi sentimen anti Cina yang kian marak setelah Pilkada DKI Jakarta Ingatan adalah beban. Ketika 1998 Sylvia Agustina menyaksikan ayahnya pergi ke Amerika Serikat untuk mencari suaka dan membangun kehidupan baru buat keluarga, dia perlahan telah berpisah dari tanah airnya. Buat perempuan berdarah Tionghoa itu Indonesia tidak lagi sama setelah bulan Mai di tahun jahanam tersebut. "Mereka memerkosa dan membunuh warga keturunan," kata ibu satu anak yang kini menetap di AS. "Mereka membakar dan membom gereja. Sangat berbahaya untuk hidup di sana saat itu," imbuhnya kepada Fosters, sebuah koran lokal di Dover, New Hampshire. Kini keluarga kecil itu berjuang menghindari gelombang deportasi yang mengancam ribuan WNI. Kebanyakan yang warga keturunan Tionghoa tersebut mengikuti program Operation Indonesian Surrender untuk bisa h...

Wawancara CRI: Akademisi Indonesia Sebut Perkembangan Ekonomi Tiongkok Dorong Terwujudnya Negara Adidaya

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Dalam wawancara dengan CRI, peneliti CSIS, Christine Susanna Tjhin memberikan tanggapan seputar Kongres Nasional ke-19 PKT yang dibuka di Beijing tanggal 18 Oktober. Christine mengikuti Kongres tersebut dari sejumlah media, dengan demikian ia dapat melihat berbagai aspek dan pandangan yang ada. Dalam kongres tersebut, menurutnya, titik utama yang paling menarik adalah konsistensi untuk terus menjalankan reformasi ekonomi. Terutama perkembangan inovasi dan teknologi adalah faktor penting yang mendorong pertumbuhan ekonomi Tiongkok selama ini. Titik kedua yaitu pernyataan Presiden Xi yang menyebut Tiongkok sebagai "Negara Adidaya" berkali-kali, yang mengindikasikan harapan beliau agar Tiongkok dapat menjadi Negara terdepan di jajaran dunia. Christine mengatakan bahwa dalam laporan Presiden Xi tentang janji untuk tetap membuka pintu Tiongkok merupakan konfirmasi yang ingin didengar oleh banyak negara, mengingat dewasa ini, pemimpin seperti Donald Trump justru memanfaatkan gelo...

国际在线报道: 【十九大时光】印尼专家:国际社会期待中国发挥大国作用

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国际在线报道(记者 朱福宁):习近平总书记在中国共产党第十九届全国代表大会上作的报告正成为世界各国专家学者解读的对象。印尼战略与国际问题研究中心中国问题专家陈姝伶(Christine Susanna Tjhin)在接受记者采访时表示,十九大报告说中国对外开放的大门只会越开越大,这正是国际社会所期待的。 陈姝伶认为,当前,世界出现了逆全球化和民粹主义思潮,所以国际社会更加期待中国发挥大国作用,推动国际合作,推动贸易和投资自由化和便利化,并与发展中国家共享经济发展的红利。 陈姝伶说,她注意到十九大报告中说中国将积极促进“一带一路”国际合作。她认为,“一带一路”倡议和印尼的“全球海洋支点”战略构想高度契合,两国也在互联互通建设方面达成了多项共识。两国发展战略对接将对两国乃至本地区的繁荣发展产生积极的影响。陈姝伶还认为,两国应该进一步将高层对话制度化,加深两国各阶层的交流,推动两国政府官员、知识界和普通民众之间的了解。 陈姝伶表示,中国过去五年在反腐败和精准扶贫方面的成绩是“现象级”的。在这五年中,有超过6000万中国人脱贫,印尼民众对此非常关注。由于腐败和贫困同样是印尼社会发展面临的挑战,所以印尼民众也希望政府向中国学习,以同样的力度反腐倡廉和扶贫攻坚。 ( http://news.iqilu.com/china/gedi/2017/1023/3721036.shtml )

South China Morning Post: Chinese Indonesians with long memories & escape plans in case racial violence flares again

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With Chinese former Jakarta governor in jail for insulting Islam, and less than 20 years after Asian economic crisis sparked deadly anti-Chinese riots, some families are taking no chances, with escape routes from country at the ready  Former Jakarta governor Basuki “Ahok” Purnama celebrated the 20th anniversary of his marriage to Veronica Tan last month. He did so from behind bars, sending her a bouquet of flowers and a letter that read: “I think I love you more now than twenty years ago.” Once a leader who enjoyed comfortable approval ratings, the ethnic Chinese, Christian politician was jailed in May after being found guilty of insulting Islam. His wife said at the time that “it isn’t easy for me either, but I’ve learned to forgive and accept all of this if it is for the benefit of the nation and the country”. Purnama was sentenced to two years’ imprisonment just days before the 19th anniversary of an event widely referred to as Tragedi Mei ’98. Between May 13 and 15 in 1998, ...

NZZ News: Keine China-Euphorie in Indonesien

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China ist auch in Indonesien zu einem grossen Investor aufgestiegen. Das südostasiatische Land hält die Chinesen auf Distanz und sucht den Kontakt mit Japan und den Asean-Ländern. Manfred Rist, Jakarta Der Schauplatz der chinesisch-japanischen Rivalität hat sich in den vergangenen Monaten auf einen Schauplatz verlagert, der bisher wenig Schlagzeilen machte: Indonesien. Dort hat der 2014 gewählte Präsident, der frühere Geschäftsmann Joko Widodo, der wirtschaftlichen Entwicklung des 255 Mio. Einwohner zählenden Archipels höchste Priorität eingeräumt. In den nächsten Jahren wird gemäss Widodos Prioritäten vor allem die in der Vergangenheit chronisch vernachlässigte Infrastruktur ausgebaut und modernisiert werden. Zusammen mit dem privaten Verbrauch, der durch das Heranwachsen eines Mittelstands angetrieben wird, sollen Investitionen dafür sorgen, dass die mit 850 Mrd. $ grösste Volkswirtschaft Südostasiens jährlich um deutlich mehr als die bis anhin verzeichneten 5% wächst. Wettlau...

Bangkok Post: China's 'Silk Road' stirs unease over its strategic goals

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In a mountain valley in Kashmir, plans are under way for Chinese engineers guarded by Pakistani forces to expand the lofty Karakoram Highway in a project that is stirring diplomatic friction with India. The work is part of a sprawling Chinese initiative to build a "new Silk Road" of ports, railways and roads to expand trade in a vast arc of countries across Asia, Africa and Europe. The Asian Development Bank says the region, home to 60 percent of the world's people, needs more than $26 trillion of such investment by 2030 to keep economies growing. The initiative is in many ways natural for China, the world's biggest trader. But governments from Washington to Moscow to New Delhi worry Beijing also is trying to build its own political influence and erode theirs. Others worry China might undermine human rights, environmental and other standards or leave poor countries burdened with debt. India is unhappy Chinese state-owned companies are working in the Pakistani-he...

South China Morning Post: Why Islamists or anti-Chinese sentiments don’t worry Widodo

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The Christian, ethnic Chinese Jakarta governor has fallen after a campaign by religious hardliners, but Indonesian President Widodo is standing firm. ‘What’s there to worry about,’ he says Oblivious to the oppressive heat and the smoky emissions from the stalled traffic, a middle-aged Indonesian couple ambles up and down the pavement outside the office of the governor of Jakarta. Garment merchant Pak Eeng and his wife Ade are out-of-towners from the neighbouring island of Sumatra. They had taken a boat and a bus, travelling overnight and through the day to the capital city, partly to meet with suppliers but also to pay their respects to a defeated politician. Since the gubernatorial election last week, row upon row of floral tributes to the incumbent has sprouted in front of the governor’s office. Ade, 55, stops for a picture. Her 58-year-old husband nods in approval and taps his camera phone. Her red-and-white headscarf picks up the red carpet of roses on a banner reading: “On...

Bisnisnews.id: Presiden Jokowi: Membangun Kepercayaan di Laut Cina Selatan Jauh Lebih Penting

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Negara-negara yang terlibat dalam perselisihan Laut Cina Selatan harus terlibat dalam kerja sama konkret sebelum kode etik dikembangkan, demikian usulan Presiden Joko 'Jokowi' Widodo. Dalam sebuah wawancara eksklusif dengan This Week In Asia menjelang kunjungannya ke KTT ASEAN pada hari Sabtu 29 April 2017, Widodo mengatakan bahwa kerja sama semacam itu akan menjadi langkah penting untuk memastikan perdamaian di perairan yang disengketakan. "Pada periode transisi sebelum kita memiliki kode etik, membangun kepercayaan sangat penting. Saya garis bawahi, sangat penting," katanya. Komentar Jokowi ini menunjukkan bahwa Indonesia tidak memiliki niat untuk menjadi lebih konfrontatif atas isu yang berpotensi meledak ini. Meminta penilaiannya atas ucapan presiden, pakar keamanan maritim Ian Storey mengatakan, "Saya tidak melihat pengerasan posisi Indonesia di Laut Cina Selatan, tetap konsisten." Indonesia tidak termasuk di antara negara-negara yang aktif mengkl...

SCMP Exclusive: Widodo’s peace formula for South China Sea

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Joint projects in maritime research and the fishing industry could be a building block for a code of conduct in the disputed waters, says Indonesian president. States involved in the South China Sea dispute should engage in “concrete cooperation” well before any code of conduct is developed, Indonesian President Joko Widodo has proposed.  In an exclusive interview with This Week in Asia ahead of his visit to the ASEAN summit on Saturday, Widodo said that such cooperation would be an important step towards ensuring peace in the disputed waters. “In the transitional period before we have the code, the building block of trust is very important. I stress, very important,” he said. Widodo’s comments indicate that Southeast Asia’s largest nation has no intention of becoming more confrontational over this potentially explosive issue. Asked for his assessment of the president’s remarks, maritime security expert Ian Storey said, “I do not discern a hardening of Indonesia’s position on the ...

Republika: Pemerintah Cina Dinilai Lebih Santun Terhadap Indonesia

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Pemerintah Cina lebih santun terhadap Indonesia dibandingkan dengan menghadapi negara-negara lain di kawasan Asia Tenggara. Demikian pendapat pengamat senior Centre for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) Christine Susanna Tjhin. "Indonesia dianggap penting. Makanya Tiongkok berhati-hati agar tidak sampai merusak hubungan bilateral dengan Indonesia," katanya dalam pernyataan tertulisnya kepada Antara di Beijing, Sabtu malam. Oleh karena ingin melestarikan hubungan bilateralnya, jelas dia, Pemerintah Cina tidak akan mencampuri urusan dalam negeri Indonesia, termasuk Pemilihan Kepala Daerah Khusus Ibu Kota Jakarta. Demikian pula media-media di daratan Cina tidak banyak menyoroti Pilkada DKI, meskipun salah satu kandidat, Basuki Tjahaja Purnama atau Ahok, beretnis Tionghoa. "Saya pikir akan sangat tidak bijak jika pemerintah RRC sembarangan berkomentar tentang situasi politik Tionghoa di Indonesia," kata kandidat doktor dari Peking University, Beijing, itu. Apa...

Tagar.Id: Pemerintah China Enggan Tanggapi Kekalahan Ahok

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China melalui juru bicara Kementerian Luar Negeri China, Lu Kang, tidak bersedia mengomentari hasil Pilkada DKI terkait dampaknya terhadap investor China. Basuki Thahaja Purnama atau Ahok sebelum konferensi pers, Rabu (19/4), yang menyatakan selamat kepada Pasangan Anies Baswedan - Sandiaga Uno yang memenangkan Pilkada DKI Jakarta (Foto: Ant) Beijing, (Tagar 22/4/2017) - Pemerintah China melalui juru bicara Kementerian Luar Negeri China, Lu Kang, tidak bersedia mengomentari hasil Pilkada DKI terkait dampaknya terhadap investor China. "Kebijakan kami adalah tidak memberikan komentar terhadap urusan dalam negeri negara lain. Hal itu (Pilkada Jakarta) urusan dalam negeri Indonesia," kata Lu Kang dalam "press briefing" harian di Beijing, Jumat (21/4), Pernyataan Pemerintah China ini sejalan dengan pernyataan pengamat senior Centre for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) Christine Susanna Tjhin. Menurutnya, Pemerintah China lebih santun terhadap Indonesia diband...

《环球》杂志: 印尼智库评 “一带一路”

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“参与‘一带一路’建设对印尼非常重要,‘一带一路’和印尼的‘全球海洋支点’战略有很多相通之处。印尼应该抓住参加会议的机会进一步推动两国海洋战略对接。” “一带一路”国际合作高峰论坛5月将在北京举行,这是2017年中国的一次重大主场外交活动,北京将再次成为世界瞩目的焦点。3年多来,“一带一路”倡议被众多发展中国家乃至不少发达国家视为搭上中国经济发展快车的绝好机遇,尤其是在全球化受阻、贸易保护主义抬头的情势下,“一带一路”倡议更具魅力。 印尼是“一带一路”上的重要支点国家,作为中国的重要海上邻国,印尼越来越多地分享到中国经济发展的红利。目前,中国已跃居印尼外资的第二大来源国,同时还是印尼旅游市场的最大客源国,两国在基础设施建设、经贸、金融等领域合作日益密切。 日前,《环球》杂志记者专访了印尼战略与国际研究中心 (CSIS) 高级研究员  陈姝伶 (Christine Susanna Tjhin)、印尼前旅游与创意经济部部长 冯慧兰 (Mari Pangestu) 以及印尼前外交部副部长 迪诺巴蒂 (Dino Patti Djalal),他们就中国的“一带一路”倡议、中印尼两国关系进行了深入分析与解读。 数字经济大有合作前景 《环球》杂志:你如何评价“一带一路”倡议和即将举行的“一带一路”国际合作高峰论坛?你认为“一带一路”可以给印尼带来哪些机遇? 陈姝伶 (CST) :对于此次论坛,国际社会很多人把它看成是解决当前全球发展问题的另外一个选择,所以对它的举办期待很高。参与“一带一路”建设对印尼非常重要,“一带一路”和印尼的“全球海洋支点”战略有很多相通之处。印尼应该抓住参加会议的机会进一步推动两国海洋战略对接。 印尼总统佐科很可能会应邀参加此次论坛。据我了解,佐科总统希望跟中国多打交道,他对参与“一带一路”很感兴趣,特别是在基础设施建设领域,因为这对印尼和东南亚都至关重要。佐科在中国访问时,曾亲身体验了中国先进的基础设施建设,并认为这就是中国经济取得如此成就的答案,这也激发了他要修建印尼高铁的想法。 《环球》杂志:中国目前已经是印尼的第二大外资 来源国,还是印尼旅游市场的最大客源国。你如何评价当前中印尼两国的经济合作? 陈姝伶:经济关系是两国关系的支柱,尤其是在贸易与投资领域。两国的贸易关系非常紧密,但随着...