Falungong and Communism
I. Wibowo who professes to be the head of the so-called center for Chinese studies, in his article in Kompas daily of March 14 titled RI, PRC and Falungong suggested that the Indonesian government and police should not, at the request of China, have banned the Falungong activity on March 3, 2002 as the Falungong was a domestic matter for China and instead should have acted the same -- to take no action -- as it did when faced with Lee Kuan Yew's allegation of terrorists in Indonesia. This is an absurd remark and a weak comparison.
Wibowo was referring to the gathering of Falungong followers from various countries at Monas square on March 3 who, after running through some Falungong calisthenics, proceeded to parade for demonstration down a Jakarta thoroughfare, but the parade was stopped by police as the permit was only for their exercises and not for a parade/demonstration.
Wibowo should know that Falungong is a domestic matter for China, and the Indonesian government should not allow its soil and newly found freedom and democracy to be hijacked by those Falungong followers from various countries who want to pursue their political agenda against China here.
He further reasoned that, as the Chinese Communist Party was born out of an underground movement utilizing sabotage techniques, it thus feared that Falungong would use the same tactics and strategy. Again, Wibowo made very absurd remarks and comparisons.
The China Communist Party or CCP was born, not as an underground movement, but was formed in a congress in Shanghai in July 1921 during 'warlordism' and civil war and even, then, had an alliance with KuoMinTang (KMT), but Chiang Kai-shek of the KMT betrayed that alliance by massacring thousands of the members of CCP in Shanghai in 1927-1928 that eventually forced the CCP to move to Jiangsi to form a Jiangsi soviet government.
And later, further under Chiang's extermination campaign, it had to evacuate in 1934-1935 to Yan`an with a force of 100,000 in the epic 9,600-kilometer Long March in which only 20,000 survived.
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