China, the bogeyman returns to Indonesia

After living through half a century of misinformation and lies, the Indonesians are now receiving China’s President Xi Jinping as a friend. In the 1950s, China was one of the closest friends of Indonesia under Sukarno. They were leaders of the non aligned movement culminating in a non aligned conference in Bandung in 1955. Indonesia under Sukarno was a leader of the Third World.
 
Unfortunately the close Sino Indonesian ties were sabotaged by the Americans. With the American dubious scheme of regime change, Sukarno and many Indonesian military commanders and elite were murdered by Suharto in a framed up charge of a communist coup. The reality was an American sponsored military coup that led to the biggest bloodshed in Indonesian history, with Indonesians killing Indonesians and putting the blame on China and communism.
 
To live with the lie, China was branded as enemy Number One and official relationship was cut off for more than 40 years. On the other hand, the bloodied hands of the murderers of several hundred thousand Indonesians were smiling quietly in Washington. Is communism more frightening or American exceptionalism? Who have been bullying Indonesian and who were there to squeeze the balls of the Indonesian President Suharto during the Asian financial crisis.
 
When would Indonesians rewrite the darkest chapters of their history and to name the devils that caused the death of so many of their elite and the downfall of their popular President Sukarno?
 
Would Indonesia and China resume their close ties once again to the level of the Bandung era and higher? They did not have real problems with each other but suffered under a western lie. With a combined population of 1.6b people, the two countries are home to one quarter of the world’s population. China is offering to work jointly with Indonesia in many economic, social and infrastructure projects, to build a comprehensive strategic partnership. This is a huge departure from the standard signing of defence and military pacts that the Americans are offering to Asean countries. The few things the American can offer are military hardware and their war machine for war, to go to war.
 
While China and Indonesia are keen to rebuild bilateral relationship and take it to a higher level, would another coup and regime change take place and ties be broken once again between the two countries? The American pivot is in the region and poised to do damage at the most opportune moment. While China and Indonesia are signing trade pacts, the Americans and the Japanese are signing military pacts.