Chapter 233: Different paths and the same destination

By observing the context of the Indonesian anti-Chinese incidents that have been happening in history, it can be seen that in modern and modern Indonesian history, no matter who is in power, when social unrest and domestic conflicts intensify, it is a proven way to divert Chinese people from sight. In connection with the situation of today's Indonesian society, whether it is Yang Xing who knew that the tragedy would happen, or Huang Xingfei, who had a premonition in his heart, they would feel that what happened in Indonesia is about to change, "It is not whether it will happen, but when will it happen."

Due to the double blow of fires throughout the country and Asian financial storm last year, Indonesia's domestic economic situation deteriorated sharply and was on the verge of collapse. The foundation on which the Suharto regime relied on was greatly hit. In 1998, the social unrest such as student strikes, workers' strikes, and rallies and marches have intensified the confrontation and tension among all classes in Indonesia.

Last year, the Indonesian currency, the Indonesian rupiah, became the most depreciating currency among Southeast Asian countries in a joint attack by international speculators such as Robertson, Soros, and Yang Xing. The Indonesian government was forced to agree to the so-called new economic structure reform policy proposed by the International Monetary Fund (IMF) in early November last year, which is actually a fiscal austerity measure. It requires a large number of state-owned enterprise workers and civil servants, sell state-owned assets and enterprises, and carry out so-called "privatisation". In addition, there are a number of measures to reduce social welfare and education expenditures, which have been unanimously condemned in Indonesia because it touched the interests of most of the lower-level workers.

In January 1998, with the demonstrations launched by Jakarta university students demanding the Suharto government to step down, Indonesia continued to marches and demonstrations. In March, under tremendous domestic pressure, Suharto announced that the "(IMF) economic structural reform" was unconstitutional, but it caused (IMF) dissatisfaction and announced that the Indonesian rupiah would stop rescue efforts, resulting in a further decline in the Indonesian rupiah and the Indonesian economy deteriorated rapidly. This move led to the split of Indonesia's political arena, and the ruling professional group rarely rejected Suharto's plan to be re-election for president for 7 years. The student demonstrations that have been continuing finally escalated into bloody conflicts with the police. The Indonesian government's comprehensive bank rectification and closure plan launched by the Indonesian government at this time added fuel to the fire, causing the savings of the Indonesian people to be "blood-scrapped" for many years! The public anger that has accumulated for a long time is finally about to erupt!

In April, the desperate Indonesian government reached a final agreement with the IMF on economic structural reform policy. This move to go back on the word has won nothing but international ridicule and dissatisfaction among the people in China. Indonesian student demonstrations have developed into a wave of large-scale mass protests and have spread rapidly throughout Indonesia. Social conflicts are about to break out, and many domestic rebel organizations in Indonesia are taking the opportunity to move, and the entire society is on the verge of a big explosion.

Suharto, at the center of the storm, maintained a consistent tough attitude towards this, although the mass demonstrations pointed directly at him and his family, believing that he should be fully responsible for the collapse of the domestic economy and strongly demanded his step down. He also liquidated the behavior of his family's long-term monopoly on the domestic economic pillars and obtaining a large amount of wealth. However, he declared to the public in early May that he had no intention of reorganizing the government and would never consider political reform until 2002. Afterwards, he continued to warn and threaten after meeting with senior government officials and military generals, saying that he would take "actions" against those who demand political reform, and emphasized that any demands for political reform must wait until after the expiration of his five-year term in 2003.

Suharto's speech was widely circulated by the media and was believed to have no intention of carrying out political reforms. Opponents took the opportunity to incite. Indonesia's turmoil intensified the confrontation became more intense. The first student death began to occur in the student movement. At this time, Indonesian religious leaders also joined the ranks of demanding government reforms. Anyone with discerning eyes could see that Suharto's political foundation was already in danger. In this case, in order to protect himself, he frequently met with the military and police leaders. Obviously, he was changing the direction of domestic conflicts and putting forward the old idea of ​​Chinese as scapegoats.

Yang Xing was in a very heavy mood when he learned about domestic danger signals from the Internet. From the 19th to the 20th century, China was weak for too long. If it were a prosperous dynasty where all nations came to celebrate the world, how could a small country like Indonesia dared to provoke the idea of ​​massacre of Chinese people in the country! After all, we are not strong enough. If Indonesians dared to do such a move to the Americans, I am afraid that the US aircraft carrier would have been directly outside the port of Jakarta. This also made him more determined to take the path of industrial prosperity and prosperity as soon as possible.

Among the many bad news, only the news brought by Lin Jiana and Yu Aojun from the front is quite inspiring. Lin Jiana and Indonesia's "Islamic Prayer Group", "Free Aceh Movement" and "East Timor-Leste** Revolutionary Front" have been contacted. Under the huge temptation of Lin Jiana's money and guns, they all said that once the time is ripe, they will cooperate with Lin Jiana and the others to act at the same time, so that the Indonesian military will lose one's attention, disrupt the chaos in Indonesia, and allow Yang Xing's plan to take advantage of the troubled waters to be successfully implemented.

Yu Aojun also had contact with several Indonesian Chinese communities and large families with relatively social influence in Indonesia. Although most of them still have questions about the dangerous future that Yu Aojun described, over the years, the Indonesian government's repeated suppression of Chinese people made them feel that it would be no harm to make more preparations. In particular, the arrival of the domestic "retired soldiers" she led was the first time that they felt that the motherland thousands of miles away had not abandoned them, and felt that they had a backbone and had a stronger confidence. With the intentional guidance of Yang Xing and the help of Chinese businessmen such as Huang Xingfei, many visionary Chinese families are beginning to secretly transfer their children and wealth to Hong Kong, Singapore, Hainan, Guangdong and other places.

In addition to these secret methods, Yang Xing is also actively preparing for public opinion offensives. Last year, Starlight Entertainment acquired and merged Yahuangtai and launched its first 24-hour news program broadcast across Asia at the beginning of this year - Asia Xingwen. In response to the outbreak of the financial crisis, many Southeast Asian countries experienced serious economic, political, and livelihood disasters. Yahuangtai sent several reporting teams to go deep into these countries for continuous reporting. Indonesia's severely affected area is naturally the focus of reporting. Now there are at least three reporting teams in Indonesia's domestic Yahuangtai on standby around the clock. During this period, there are continuous emergencies such as fires in Indonesia, student demonstrations, large-scale conflicts between the people and the military and police. The whole Asia is paying attention to Indonesia's dynamics through Yahuangtai.

Although Asian countries like to report bad news but not good news, they advocated objectively and fairly comment on the internal conflicts between countries during the financial crisis, and used a different perspective from Western media to comment on the deep pain caused by the financial crisis to Southeast Asian countries and the behavior of Western financial institutions that initiated the instigator. However, this also made Asia Star News quickly establish its status as television news in Asia, which is on par with Western CNN|, BBC, etc. People in many countries do not believe in official news, but often turn to the station to watch the full-minute news broadcast of Asia Star News.

Yang Xing wanted to use Asia Xingwen to spread the tragedy of Indonesia to the world as quickly as possible in the future, and use the pressure of public opinion to suppress the Indonesian government to stop. At this time, in the eyes of Westerners, the Indonesian problem is nothing more than a disease of scabies. Internationally, because Indonesia finally accepted the harsh economic reform plan of the International Monetary Fund, the seven Western countries unanimously agreed that Indonesia has "does a good job" in implementing economic reform. The IMF also praised the Indonesian government for bravely facing domestic protesters and dared to calm domestic pressure. In contrast, Malaysia's Mahathir actually rejected the IMF's aid plan, which was really ignorant of the current affairs. As an encouragement to "excellent students", the IMF immediately distributed the second $1 billion in economic aid to Indonesia. In this case, without the intervention of Yahuangtai, in real history, it was not until more than a month after the tragedy that Western media gradually spread the news. Yang Xing obviously could not wait passively.

Due to the news of Indonesia's blockade in previous life, the large-scale riots that broke out in early May were not known to the West until June. Among them, the Chinese's experience was known to the world even later. In order to attract timely world attention, they condemned Indonesia's atrocities, causing international pressure. A secret film crew from Asia Xingwen was on standby in Jakarta, Surabaya and other places where the atrocities were about to be fierce, and they were ready for live broadcasts. If they could win this public opinion war and cooperate with his plan, they would definitely turn Indonesia upside down, turn history and let the Chinese be reborn!

On May 9, Suharto delivered a speech with a tough attitude to respond to the demonstrations of the masses, and then flew to Cairo to attend the eighth summit of the G15. Suharto's tough attitude caused a strong response among the students, the scale of the demonstrations expanded, and the first police death in the confrontation occurred. Yang Xing, Lin Jiana, who was far away in Indonesia, and Yu Aojun both felt that Suharto was about to take action. Now he was using the excuse to leave, just to leave the illusion that he was no longer in China and that something had nothing to do with him.

That night, Lin Jiana brought Yang Xing an important news. Through observation and contact over the past few days, she finally bribed an officer of the Indonesian Army Strategic Reserve Force Command. Under coercion and temptation, the Indonesian officer, who had never had any sense of integrity, finally agreed to cooperate with them and leaked the important secrets of his immediate superior, Lieutenant General Prabowo, who was once the commander of the special forces and the son-in-law of the current president Suharto, to them. One of the secret letters made Yang Xing feel that his preparations were about to be announced and the crisis was coming!

It turned out that Lieutenant General Prabowo had always had conflicts with Viranto, the current commander-in-chief of the Indonesian armed forces, and had always wanted to replace him. This time the turbulent situation in Indonesia gave him a glimmer of opportunity. His calculation was to persuade his father-in-law to agree to create a controllable chaos, which would prevent Viranto from restoring the order in the capital Jakarta and surrounding areas, and then let Suharto declare military control and he would come forward to control the situation. And this time, amid the strong call for Suharto to step down, the ruling professional group's call for Vice President Habibi to replace Suharto has always been very high. Taking advantage of the opportunity of this turbulence, it can also teach them a lesson, so that they will know that once this country leaves Suharto, the world will be in chaos.

Lin Jiana, who had been monitoring Prabowo a few days ago, noticed that he had drawn personnel from the Indonesian special forces that had served as commander and secretly sneaked into the surrounding areas of Jakarta, and contacted local underworld organizations and many unemployed people. It was probably to let them take the lead. Yesterday, before Suharto set off, Prabowo got a secret letter, and Lin Jiana got a copy of the secret letter, with only a short sentence "5.12, Bhinneka Tunggal Ika". This sentence is Indonesia's national motto and is well-known in Indonesia. It comes from an ancient Javanese word, meaning "to be together in different ways", but here only represents one thing - to start on May 12!
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