---------------------------------------------------------- Visit Indonesia Daily News Online HomePage: http://www.indo-news.com/ Please Visit Our Sponsor http://www.indo-news.com/cgi-bin/ads1 ---------------------------------------------------------- KOLOM SUPANGKAT: ONE CHINA POLICY IS BASED ON "THE RIGHT OF MIGHT" NOT ON RULE OF (INTERNATIONAL) LAW AND SO WAS THE COLONIAL DOCTRINE OF "ONE DUTCH INDIES" I have been writing since the fifties that one China policy is unrealistic. Of course not all of them were published by the Indonesian media, even now after the Reform- ation because of the official One China Policy of the Indonesian government. As a former independence fighter I am always inclined to support the independence struggle either in colonial wars or in civil wars, eventhough the doctrine of the Dutch colonial "One Dutch Indies policy" and then inherited and perpetuated by the independent Republic of Indonesia as "One Indonesia Policy" (Satu Nusa Satu Bangsa Satu Negara). However, "the One Dutch Colonial Empire Policy" as the root of the One Indonesia Policy was never realistic, it was good at the time being because we were united against the Dutch colonial policy for independence. So the motive is rather expediency rather than realistic. And since the One China Policy served best our own interests, the interest to keep Indonesia as one country, one nation, they abide by it. But it was neither scientific nor realistic. Indonesia consists of what the Dutch scientists called the Big Sunda Islands and the Small Sunda Islands, plus the Southeast Islands, the West New Guinea, plus about 15.000 islets and atolls. So it is only expedient to keep us together in one country and state one nation. The Ernest Renan doctrine of a nation had been undermined by the corrupt and bad practises of the Indonesia government officials who has been siphoing the wealth of the provinces and suppressing the human rights of their people like in the cases of West Irian, Aceh, East Timor, Kalimantan and Sumatera. The One China Policy was based on "The rIght of might" far away from Human Rights, Democracy, Rule of (International) Law.. Mao Xe Dong was absolutely victorious over Chiang Kai- shek who fled to Taiwan, he freed and then united the China whole continent. But it is a historical fact the Mao regime never conquered Chiang and Taiwan, the Communist regime never set a foot in Taiwan. It is undeniably true in history that the Taiwan Island belonged to colonial China exactly like most Indonesian Islands and Aceh struggling for independence now which belong to the Dutch Indies then and to Indonesia. Of course this is a painful historical fact for both mainland China and Indonesia, but it is true, nobody could ever deny it. It would be another matter whether I do or do not support the independence of Taiwan and the Indonesian provinces because that is in the area of politics I tried to avoid for now. ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Didistribusikan tgl. 24 Jul 1999 jam 14:42:55 GMT+1 oleh: Indonesia Daily News Online <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.Indo-News.com/ ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
