Indonesia

Indonesia
Capital city	Jakarta
Location	Asia
Leader	President of Indonesia
Type	nation state
Interest of	Bernhard Dahm, Netherlands/Deep state, Zeke Solomon, The Sinking of the SS San Flaviano
Member of	APEC, ASEAN, G-20, Global Counter Terrorism Forum, UN
Subpage	•Indonesia/1965 coup d'état •Indonesia/Minister of Tourism and Creative Economy
A large nation in South East Asia

Suharto's dictatorship

While Denis Healey was Secretary of State for Defence, the UK Ministry of Defence supported the violent overthrow of Ahmed Sukarno and the emergence of a military regime in Indonesia:

In early October 1965, a group of army officers in Indonesia led by Suharto took advantage of political instability to launch a terror campaign against the powerful Indonesian Communist party (PKI). Much of the killing was carried out by Islamist-led mobs promoted by the military to counter communist and democratic forces. Within a few months, nearly a million people lay dead, while Suharto removed President Ahmed Sukarno and emerged as ruler of a brutal regime that lasted until 1998.

Bali bombings

Full article: 2002 Bali bombings

On 12 October 2002, two bombs were detonated in a tourist area in Bali, Indonesia. 202 people were killed, mostly tourists from Australia or Europe. In 2005, the former President of Indonesia, Abdurrahman Wahid stated that "The orders to do this or that came from within our armed forces not from the fundamentalist people", i.e. that he believed the bombing was a false flag attack. Asked who he thought planted the second bomb, he replied "Maybe the police... or the armed forces."

 

An event carried out

Event	Location	Description
Evacuation from Afghanistan	Afghanistan	The evacuation of foreigners from Afghanistan, one of the largest airlifts in history

 

Related Quotations

Page	Quote	Author	Date
Document:Slaughter in Indonesia 1965-66	“It is only the economic chaos of Indonesia which prevents that country from offering great potential opportunities to British exporters. If there is going to be a deal in Indonesia, as I hope one day there may be, I think we ought to take an active part and try to secure a slice of the cake ourselves.”	Michael Stewart
Netherlands/Deep state	“The Netherlands has a long history with cocaine. In the early 1900s, the Dutch East India Company – having exploited and enslaved millions of people – began growing coca in its colonies in Indonesia. There was even a cocaine factory in Amsterdam, which supplied marching powder to all sides in World War One. When international treaties finally put a halt to the Dutch’s rampant coke dealing, Rotterdam emerged as a key import site for the illicit trade of the drug from South America.”	Vice News	2020

 

Events

Event	Description
2002 Bali bombings	Two bombs in Bali that killed 202 people, blamed on Al-Qaeda
Bandung Conference	Important conference for the global south; participants soon became prime targets for US foreign policy
Indonesia/1965 coup d'état

 

Groups Headquartered Here

Group	Start	Description
Bandung Institute of Technology	1920	Top choice among Indonesia's high school students in 2006
Bank Indonesia
Lippo Group		A multi billion conglomerate that Mark Lombardi wrote about.

 

Citizens of Indonesia on Wikispooks

Title	Born	Died	Description
Anies Baswedan	7 May 1969		WEF YGL who locked down Jakarta as governor
Mari Elka Pangestu	23 October 1956		Selected WEF/Global Leaders for Tomorrow/1999 when she was an Indonesian minister. From 2020 World Bank Managing Director of Development Policy and Partnerships
James Riady	1957		Indonesian billionaire businessman with long-standing ties to the Clintons.
Prabowo Subianto	17 October 1951		A CIA assessment pointed him out as "the type of officer who could rise to national leadership"
Suharto	8 June 1921	27 January 2008

 

Event Participated in

Event	Start	End	Location(s)	Description
Bandung Conference	1955	1955	Indonesia	Important conference for the global south; participants soon became prime targets for US foreign policy

 

Related Documents

Title	Type	Publication date	Author(s)	Description
Document:Covert War in Indonesia 1957-58	book extract	12 February 2007	Mark Curtis
Document:Slaughter in Indonesia 1965-66	book extract	12 February 2007	Mark Curtis
Document:Indonesia 1957-58	book extract	2003	William Blum

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