Posted on 09/05/2015 4:08:38 AM PDT by PotatoHeadMick
Jakarta. Indonesia’s parliamentary speaker and one of his deputies made a surprise appearance at a campaign event by US presidential candidate Donald Trump in New York on Thursday, in a stunt both the House and the Foreign Ministry said they were not aware of.
Both Setya Novanto, the speaker of the House of Representatives, and Fadli Zon, a deputy speaker, were seen standing in a group of people behind Trump as he spoke at the Trump Tower.
Business Insider reported that after he finished speaking, Trump walked away from the podium only to return with Setya, whom he introduced to the crowd.
“The speaker of the house of Indonesia, he’s here to see me. Setya Novanto, one of the most powerful men and a great man,” Trump said as quoted by Business Insider.
“And his whole group is here to see me today. And we will do great things for the United States is that correct?”
“Yes,” Setya said.
Trump then asked “Do they like me in Indonesia?”, to which Setya responded, “Yes, highly. Thank you Very much.”
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Where did you get that from?
I understand that she went into central Java and never heard any connection with East Timor.
Given the fact that Obama’s mother was damn near a Communist and that the military regime of Suharto was virulently, indeed homicidally anti-Communist, and invaded East Timor (with the backing of the US) precisely to wipe out the perceived Communist threat there, I somehow suspect Obama’s mother would have been a very poor intelligence agent indeed.
Oddly on a previous occasion a senior army general was seen wearing a similarly expensive watch and after questions were asked he dismissed it saying that it was a cheap fake and that he collected fake watches, which was funny given that Indonesia is notorious for copyright theft and the government is always promising to crack down on such activities.
Indonesia was set up specifically as a united republic that recognised the ethnic and religious diversity of its people.
The national ethos is called “Pancasila” and is drummed into every schoolkid (like the pledge of allegiance) and which insists on the unity of the nation and respect for diversity. This was done by the founding fathers in the face of opposition from Islamists who wanted Indonesia to become a Muslim nation (like neighbouring Malaysia).
Does everyone in Indonesia love their neighbour, is it a multi-culti happy-clappy nirvana? No, they get along like most people in large multiethnic nations do, they respect each other’s beliefs and mutter under their breath about some things (think about how Hispanics, Irish, Poles, Blacks and Italians get along together in the US) but on the whole the nation works reasonably well given that 250 million people rub along together in 17,000 different islands.
I’ll tell you what Indonesia hasn’t done yet, they haven’t jailed any Christians for refusing to celebrate a gay marriage.
Not directed at you...rather the implication of the article. But since you posted article, you are the default recipient of comments directed at the article (regardless of where you stand)...in this case we are on the same page.
If I remember correctly, she was in the US with a son and then suddenly decided to go to West Timor as all of this was blowing up.
Whether she was an agent or double agent or triple agent or what I don’t know.
But she clearly had ties to a lot of places that were known as flexible fronts for intelligence.
That is very much news to me.
Any histories I have read of her time in Indonesia say she lived in Jakarta with her oil executive husband but then moved to live in the villages of central Java to study traditional culture. I had never heard of her having any connection with Timor and, like I say, given her leftist ideology she was probably one of the last people that US intelligence would have used to back up the right-wing Indonesian government’s invasion of East Timor.
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