Cempaka Culture and Tourism: Indonesia's Chinese enjoy a cultural revival

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You're starting to see integrity change. Awareness recalibrates integrity, and the Human Being who would sit there and take advantage of another Human Being in an old energy would never do it in a new energy. The reason? It will become intuitive, so this is a shift in Human Nature as well, for in the past you have assumed that people take advantage of people first and integrity comes later. That's just ordinary Human nature.

In the past, Human nature expressed within governments worked like this: If you were stronger than the other one, you simply conquered them. If you were strong, it was an invitation to conquer. If you were weak, it was an invitation to be conquered. No one even thought about it. It was the way of things. The bigger you could have your armies, the better they would do when you sent them out to conquer. That's not how you think today. Did you notice?

Any country that thinks this way today will not survive, for humanity has discovered that the world goes far better by putting things together instead of tearing them apart. The new energy puts the weak and strong together in ways that make sense and that have integrity. Take a look at what happened to some of the businesses in this great land (USA). Up to 30 years ago, when you started realizing some of them didn't have integrity, you eliminated them. What happened to the tobacco companies when you realized they were knowingly addicting your children? Today, they still sell their products to less-aware countries, but that will also change.

What did you do a few years ago when you realized that your bankers were actually selling you homes that they knew you couldn't pay for later? They were walking away, smiling greedily, not thinking about the heartbreak that was to follow when a life's dream would be lost. Dear American, you are in a recession. However, this is like when you prune a tree and cut back the branches. When the tree grows back, you've got control and the branches will grow bigger and stronger than they were before, without the greed factor. Then, if you don't like the way it grows back, you'll prune it again! I tell you this because awareness is now in control of big money. It's right before your eyes, what you're doing. But fear often rules. …”

Tuesday, January 15, 2008

Indonesia's Chinese enjoy a cultural revival

Tue Jan 15, 2008 5:40am GMT

By Pipit Prahoro

SOLO, Indonesia (Reuters) - Indonesia's ethnic Chinese communities, repressed and persecuted for many years, are enjoying a cultural revival even in the heart of the predominantly Muslim island of Java.

The royal city of Solo, in central Java, suffered some of the worst anti-Chinese attacks during the 1997-98 crisis, when shops and businesses owned by ethnic Chinese were smashed and looted, and many Chinese Indonesians were killed, raped or injured.

The crisis eventually led to the ousting of Suharto, the long-ruling autocratic president who now, at 86, lies critically ill in hospital. His New Order regime was instrumental in suppressing Chinese culture.

But in the decade since Suharto was forced from power, the Chinese Indonesians have experienced greater cultural freedom.

"Nowadays we feel very happy. We can perform lion dances and conserve it (our culture). Not like in the past, in the New Order era we couldn't do it," Adjie Chandra, who heads a lion dance group in Solo, told Reuters.

And despite their suffering under Suharto, many of the ethnic Chinese are praying for his recovery, he said.

"No matter what he has done and what his sins, the important thing is our existence. We pray for his recovery," Adjie added.

ANTI-COMMUNIST PURGE

Suharto rose to power after leading the military in 1965 to put down what was officially called an attempted communist coup.

Whether that was true, and Suharto's role in the events remains controversial, it was followed by an anti-communist purge in which as many as 500,000 people were killed.

At the time, Indonesia had the biggest communist party in the world outside of China.

For decades after Suharto crushed the supposedly Beijing-backed coup, his government suppressed or strongly discouraged many aspects of Chinese culture, including the use of the Chinese language or names.

Celebration of Chinese New Year was banned. It was even forbidden to bring books or documents with Chinese characters into the country.

But as elsewhere in Asia, the ethnic Chinese played an important role in the economy.

As traders and business people, they accounted for a disproportionate share of the economy, and Suharto himself had plenty of wealthy Chinese businessmen in his inner circle.

"The only thing we could do was business. We did not have freedom of speech" in the past, said Sumartono Hadinoto, an ethnic Chinese in Solo's Ketandan neighborhood.

(Writing by Heru Asprihanto; editing by Sara Webb and Roger Crabb)