The timing of this incident was clearly orchestrated to humiliate the Indonesian government and the Republic of Indonesia: SBY decides to cancel the visit, and this so-called RMS president then suspended his court movement, and is clearly waiting to submit it again when SBY decides to come to the Netherlands again (if ever). Again this shows how part of Dutch political circle supports the RMS movement.

Just like India, which is now economically larger than her previous colonial master, Britain, and which will continue grow faster than the UK, the Indonesian economy is also now larger than that of the Netherlands.

I bet nobody in the UK would politically allow a Kashmiri in the UK to get a court ruling to take the Indian president or prime minister into custody when visiting the UK, no matter how many human rights complaints the Kashmiri has with India. This is because, politically, the UK sees India as no longer its former colony, but another nation that has to be respected by them.

This is not the case in the Netherlands. A significant Dutch political group still regard Indonesians as subordinates. And many still think Indonesia is no more than the backward Dutch East Indies, and think “how dare they ask us to treat them equally”.

There is a large political faction in the Netherlands who think they have to teach the Indonesian President a lesson and humiliate him just because they think the Netherlands is still superior
to Indonesia.

Well, superior on what terms except better living standards (due to a much smaller population)?  Many Asian economies will catch up with the economic living standards of their former Western European colonists in the next decade or two.

So, if the Dutch think they’re still so superior to this Asian nation, and can build up their fantasy of still being the masters of the Dutch East Indies by supporting some “free-rider” losers from Maluku and Papua and provide them with their taxpayers’ money as social security for their living expenses in the Netherlands, well, good for them.

It’s their money and let them have their fantasy as lords of the “gone” Dutch East Indies by having part of the Dutch Indies “free-booters” as their “pets” and second-class parasite residents.

Meanwhile Indonesia will continue to live and forget that there ever was a “small” insignificant dot on the European map called the Netherlands.

Ananda
Jakarta

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