Agreed.
World’s largest nickel reserves, significant coal, copper, and palm oil,
a 280 million person demographic base, the world’s largest Muslim-majority population,
the geographic spine of Southeast Asian maritime chokepoints.
Indonesia has one challenge.
Converting sovereign resource endowment into domestic welfare and industrial capacity against the consistent pressure of TPS actors who prefer to extract raw materials at minimal cost.
If it can do that, it’ll become more powerful than Singapore and yield
massive weight in the multi-polar order.
Western forces are involved in anti-government groups roiling Indonesia—just as they were in Hong Kong in 2019.
The loudest voices backing the violence on the streets of Jakarta and other cities in recent days have been so-called “independent” media groups and NGOs. Many of these have sprung up in Indonesia, such as Remotivi, Project Multatuli, New Naratif, and so on.
What’s the clue that something strange is up? You can find people with grievances against their government everywhere—but angry enough to burn down their city? In Asia, that’s often a sign of US involvement, top investigative journalist Brian Berletic said.
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A LITTLE DIGGING
A little digging shows clear evidence that groups backing the protest have been supported by the CIA spinoff group known as the NED, and its funding partners, such as Open Society Foundations, founded by George Soros, a billionaire known for his political activism.
Another clue: Earlier this year, the US cut funding for overseas propaganda operations ranging from USAID to Radio Free Asia to literally dozens of others.
Indonesian organizations which had earlier claimed to be independent, complained – revealing that they were funded by Washington DC, Brian said.
“Indonesia’s independent media count cost of US funding cuts” reported a news site called Mongabay in March of this year.
The text says: “As well as Remotivi, independent media outlets including Project Multatuli and media NGO New Naratif say they were blindsided by news that funding, in some cases for work already completed, had suddenly evaporated.”
So, yes, these guys were definitely financed by the US.
As you may know, USAID and Radio Free Asia were shut down, but Congress resumed funding for the most dangerous of all, the NED, in late spring of this year, as we reported earlier.
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THE CASH CHANNEL
Brian further points out that Project Multatuli lists its donors on its website.
Let’s take a look.
Open Society Foundations – that’s a George Soros unit. Then there is Kurawal Foundation (American), Google News Initiative (American) and the Media and Development Investment Fund—an American group started by George Soros. It also mentions Internews—a US political interference group also linked to Soros and the NED historically.
So, going by its own website, Project Multatuli is clearly an US-financed political activism group.
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GRIEVANCES ARE REAL
But but but, you say, the riots look spontaneous and the protesters seem to have genuine grievances.
Yes. But remember it was revealed that there were years of planning and preparation in the west before the protests in Hong Kong, which also looked spontaneous and seemed to have genuine grievances.
Brian wrote: “The US doesn't 'hijack' movements - they create them and they use actual issues as cover for what is always eventually unwarranted and self-destructive regime change.”
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SAME THEMES
In Indonesia as it was in Hong Kong, a theme of “police brutality” [image] is being pushed—and there are always images of a row of police with riot shields and a single person, usually female, in front of them. [Three images]
Now you may recall that earlier this year, it took me exactly 171 seconds, live on camera, to discover hidden US funding behind a so-called “independent” poll in Moldova.
If independent journalists such as Brian Berletic and myself can uncover western manipulation in other countries – how come the New York Times and FT and BBC and Wall Street Journal cannot?
It’s a mystery.
Peace.
@KeretaCepatID sudah hampir 2 tahun beroperasi, nothing’s getting better buat akses menuju dan dari Padalarang. Sudah berkali kali harus jalan di tengah macet karena kejar waktu masuk.
Just figured out where these fake tariff rates come from. They didn't actually calculate tariff rates + non-tariff barriers, as they say they did. Instead, for every country, they just took our trade deficit with that country and divided it by the country's exports to us.
So we have a $17.9 billion trade deficit with Indonesia. Its exports to us are $28 billion. $17.9/$28 = 64%, which Trump claims is the tariff rate Indonesia charges us. What extraordinary nonsense this is.