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Chapter 69 Natuna Declaration

May 25, 1998.

At 8 o'clock in the morning, the gunshots on the streets of Jakarta only stopped for three days, and the citizens of Jakarta had just settled down. But what happened at this moment made the citizens of Jakarta who had just spent a sleepless night fall into uneasiness again. The whole world was also shocked by this emergency.

The Chinese representatives of the Natuna region issued a notice to the world, announcing that the Natuna region had separated from the Indonesian government and was incorporated into China. This notice is known in history as the "Natura Declaration".

The notice said that the violence that occurred in Indonesia on May 12 was a conspiracy between the government and the military. This incident seriously hurt all Chinese people in Indonesia, making all Chinese feel extremely insecure and harmed. In view of this, all Chinese people in the Natuna area passed the resolution to leave Indonesia and incorporate them into China after a vote.

The notice stated that when the Dutch East India Company occupied Indonesia, the Chinese had not received fair treatment. At that time, all industries were in urgent need of labor. The Dutch colonists took a fancy to the hard-working Chinese people, so they tried every means to recruit Chinese immigrants. They even used robbery to send armed ships to China's coastal areas to plunder the population.

Before the arrival of Western colonists, there was no major dispute between the Chinese and Indonesian residents, and it could even be said to be harmoniously living together. However, the Dutch colonists later selected a few upper-class Chinese and upper-class indigenous peoples as their agents and carried out economic plunder, which made many Chinese engaged in small merchants and hawkers bear the reputation. In order to transfer the anti-Dutch sentiment to the Chinese, the Dutch colonial rulers constantly sowed the relationship between the indigenous people and the Chinese to enjoy the benefits of the fisherman. Therefore, Indonesian Chinese became the scapegoat in Indonesia's political situation and the uninterrupted group-to-be-compromising interests.

In 1945, Indonesia had just become independent. The constitution at that time clearly stipulated that only the indigenous people of Indonesia could be elected president of Indonesia. This had a strong sense of racial discrimination, and the political status of Chinese people was deprived of it from the constitution.

In the 1960s, after long-term planning and preparation, President Sukarno issued a strict decree, announcing strict restrictions on Chinese business activities and prohibiting all commercial activities in the county and below; forcing Chinese to end their business in small vendors and must leave areas below the county and below. As a result, the worst wave of anti-China has been set off in 1965.

After Indonesia entered the era of Suharto's rule, in order to get rid of economic difficulties, although economically relaxed the restrictions on Chinese people's business, it implemented a series of more severe policies of forced assimilation against Chinese people in politics. It stifled the rights and interests of Chinese people as Indonesian citizens in other fields and killed their equal citizenship. For example, it prohibited Chinese people from participating in politics and military affairs, closed Chinese schools, restricted Chinese people from entering universities, and strictly prohibited Chinese language. Chinese people should give up their Chinese names, change their names in Indonesian names, and mark them on Chinese resident certificates, etc. They blatantly violated the United Nations declaration and convention on human rights, seriously violated the basic human rights of Chinese people, and further opposed the Chinese ethnic groups with other ethnic groups.

Since Suharto came to power, more than a dozen anti-Chinese incidents have occurred in all kinds of people. Since the foundation of the Suhardo regime has not been shaken, each anti-Chinese incident is controlled only as a political means and has not been further expanded to shake its regime. After the purpose is achieved, it will calm down, and then use the Chinese to revitalize the economy. This situation has occurred again and this is still the same. This has been repeated and has been tried and tested. During his more than 30 years of his reign, the majority of Chinese people have become accustomed to it and feel that the stifled citizen rights have long been lurking with political crises related to their own life and death.

After the Southeast Asian financial crisis last year, the Suharto regime led volcanic lava to the Chinese who had the least political power in Indonesian society. The Chinese are the exhaust valve of the Suharto regime. For many years, whenever public grievances were boiling to break up the society, the exhaust valve would be activated. This is the darkest, most secret and indispensable part of the Suharto ruling structure, and its significance is the same as Hitler's massacre of Jews. Only by transforming class contradictions into ethnic contradictions, turning class anger into racial hatred, and promoting Chinese into so-called residents who do not believe in Slam, hateful pagans, can a social structure of exploitation and oppression be maintained. The accumulation of various reasons finally led to the tragedy on May 12th.

Since Indonesia does not regard Chinese as members of the country, but as livestock, it is impossible for Chinese to admit that they are part of Indonesia.

For thousands of years, the Chinese people have been a whole, and the Chinese always remember where their roots are. The Natuna Archipelago was the place where Chinese people reproduced hundreds of years ago and was the place where Chinese people developed, which means that this is the land of the Chinese, the land of the Chinese people, and the land of China. Therefore, after the vote of all local Chinese, the final resolution to break away from the management of the Indonesian government and incorporate it into China. From then on, the Natuna region will be a fixed part of China and no longer belong to Indonesia.

For a moment, Indonesia was in an uproar, Southeast Asia was in an uproar, and the whole world was in an uproar...

From this moment on, the whole world's eyes were turned to Natuna, the archipelago on the South China Sea, and China, the ancient power standing in the east of the world.

On May 25, 1998, at 10:00 a.m., two hours after the "Natura Declaration" was issued, the Chinese government issued a statement saying that it would comply with the resolutions of the Chinese in the Natuna region and agreed to incorporate the Natuna region into China. China will establish a second formal special administrative region, the Natuna Special Administrative Region, which enjoys the same power as the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region.

On May 26, 1998, at 9 a.m., more than 80 aircraft from an air division of the Chinese Air Force took off from a military airport near Guangzhou and flew directly to Natuna Island. According to photos taken by US military spy satellites, these aircraft were all new aircraft. In fact, all aircraft of this Air Force division were newly equipped with the Chinese Air Force's Falcon fighter and the Golden Eagle bomber. Both of these fighters could fly directly from Guangzhou to Natuna Island. Four hours later, nearly 100 large "Swan" transport aircraft carrying all the troops and equipment of the Army Corps took off from a military airport near Nanning and flew to Natuna. Similarly, this batch of transport aircraft was also photographed by the well-prepared US spy satellites.

The Pentagon was frightened by China's actions, and obviously there was no intention of hiding it from the Americans. So, it was obviously the Chinese demonstrating to the Americans: I just want you to know that, so, you'd better not be too busy, this is our own family business.

When a series of American lackey countries such as Japan were waiting for the United States to express their opinions, Americans rarely expressed silence. This made Japan and other countries both unexpected and disappointed. They were still waiting for the United States to lead and prepare to interfere and attack China. However, now Americans have no expression at all, and there is no hint at all.

In fact, the Americans are not satisfied with any kindness. They are also waiting for Japan and other countries to jump out first. Although they can't do anything about China, they can at least disgust the Chinese. But what disappoints the Americans is that these impressionless dogs learned their lesson this time. When they saw their owners, they honestly shut their mouths. If something goes wrong, they are a monster. They still understand this statement.

In Indonesia, especially the original Indonesian pig, they still shouted wildly for a while, demanding that the Megawati government immediately send troops to attack the Natuna Islands, take back the Natuna area by force, and attack China, and teach the ignorant Chinese a lesson to let the Chinese know their power.

Megawati sneered at this, not to mention the nearly 100 million US dollars of interest-free loans Zeng Lingfeng agreed to provide to Indonesia, but to say that China was stationed in Jakarta and its surrounding areas at this time, and could destroy Indonesia in a short period of time. And these stupid Chinese people actually demanded to attack China. If this is true, I don’t know who was taught a lesson or who is really ignorant. Of course, Megawati couldn’t tell these things, otherwise she would definitely be drowned by the spit of the people immediately. Although it would not cause any harm to her life, it would definitely be detrimental to her future rule.

However, in the face of the excited Indonesian nationals, Megawati had to appease him. She said that Indonesia is now in an extremely dangerous state and is unable to take force to take action to recover the Natuna region. Now Indonesia urgently needs to restore order and reorganize its economy. Although it is unable to recover the Natuna region now, the Indonesian government does not recognize that Natuna has left Indonesia. At the appropriate time, Indonesia will consider regaining Natuna by force. At the same time, the Indonesian government protests against China's barbaric behavior of interference in Indonesia's internal affairs, hoping that the Chinese government will carefully consider it and not do anything that hurts the feelings of the Indonesian people.

Megawati said she wants to reorganize Indonesia's economy. She personally advocates the implementation of an open market economy, but must have a fair judicial system. She said: "I emphasize the legal system in particular. Investors are most concerned about whether the legal system is reliable." The confidence of investors, especially foreign investors, is the key to restoring the Indonesian economy.

In addition, Megawati also expressed its intention to actively face the complex national relations at home and achieve national reconciliation. It also said that this will be a long-term and arduous task for the government. Also, Megawati will have to reconsider the interests of various parties in Indonesian political arena. From the current perspective, the political force that will straighten Megawati is basically composed of three forces, namely the Democratic Struggle Party led by Megawati, the Professional Group (Gorka Party) led by Speaker Aba Tanjung and the Islamic political party led by People's Agreement President Rice. If Megawati cannot properly handle the two sensitive issues of future joint cabinet positions and vice presidential elections, and cannot properly distribute the interests of all parties, then Megawati will still face pressure and challenges from various parties in Indonesia.

Megawati's efforts finally calmed down the restless Indonesians, and she also won the support of most Indonesians. Especially when she announced that Hanyu Mimon Group would provide Indonesia with a huge loan of US$50 billion and a low-interest loan of US$50 billion, the Indonesians even regarded Megawati as their god. As for the so-called Hanyu Mimon Group that announced that Hanyu Mimon Group would enjoy priority exploration and mining in Indonesia, it was gorgeously ignored by Indonesians. And Hanyu Mimon Group became the only Chinese-funded group respected by Indonesians. In addition to the huge benefits brought to Indonesians by the huge investment of Hanyu Mimon Group in Indonesia in the past few years, Hanyu Mimon Group enjoyed supreme status in Indonesia. Even if Hanyu Mimon Group had huge investments in their eyes, Natuna, this position did not change at all.

Although Megawati is widely supported in Indonesia, some politicians believe that she lacks the vision to bring Indonesia out of the mud. In addition, people are also worried that Megawati's current eradication efforts will lose momentum. Megawati's husband is suspected of being involved in many suspicious business transactions, and her assistant is also the suspect in Indonesia's biggest scandal. People are waiting to see where Megawati will take the "Thousand Islands Country" to.
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