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To: george76

I don’t know why any westerner would want to visit Indonesia (except perhaps Bali, much less a Dutch one.


4 posted on 07/11/2009 8:25:10 AM PDT by skeeter
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To: skeeter

The temple at Borobudur is pretty interesting, too. If you think being a westerner is difficult, try being a Christian ethnic Chinese in Indonesia. The civil war of the 1960’s allowed Muslims to kill hundreds of thousands of ethnic Chinese on the pretext that all ethnic Chinese were Communists or money-grubbers akin to the Jews. I have no idea why my relatives decided to stay there but apparently business has been very good to them despite being fraught with danger (the currency scare in the late Nineties had them fleeing to Singapore). They now own the largest sugar plantation and refinery in Indonesia.


6 posted on 07/11/2009 8:38:36 AM PDT by 12Gauge687 (Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice)
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To: skeeter
I don’t know why any westerner would want to visit Indonesia (except perhaps Bali, much less a Dutch one.

The Dutch used to own Indonesia, probably still have many business interests there.

8 posted on 07/11/2009 9:19:56 AM PDT by hinckley buzzard
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