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Your letters: Exporters told to release US dollars

It’s saddening that so many people here want Indonesia to have another crisis, to the point of actually hoping it will happen and then laughing when their wishes come true!! Why? Is it simply because this is not your home country that you expect many people to die and suffer in another crisis so you can laugh about it? That you have enough money that you can be safe when it happens? Sure, Indonesia is not very friendly to foreigners, but in the end this is a third-world country, many have little education and are brainwashed by religion

The Jakarta Post
Sat, August 29, 2015

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Your letters: Exporters told to release US dollars

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t'€™s saddening that so many people here want Indonesia to have another crisis, to the point of actually hoping it will happen and then laughing when their wishes come true!! Why? Is it simply because this is not your home country that you expect many people to die and suffer in another crisis so you can laugh about it? That you have enough money that you can be safe when it happens?

Sure, Indonesia is not very friendly to foreigners, but in the end this is a third-world country, many have little education and are brainwashed by religion. Still, you can'€™t expect people in a third world country to act similarly and have the same mentality as a first-world country right? You should bear in mind that you can'€™t force a five-year-old child to act like an adult.

The way I see it, you are like forcing a child to act like an adult, and having failed to do so, you curse that child to die in a hole or something. Kind of sad that people who pride themselves on having higher morality, ethics and intelligence who are born in a developed country act like they are hoping a nuclear missile will actually fall on this country or something.

It won'€™t be pretty if another crisis happens. The FPI, FBR and other radical Muslim groups are already spreading the news that should the rupiah fall to Rp 15,000 per US dollar and Indonesia suffer another crisis, they would organize themselves to block the airports and slay all minorities, be it Chinese, expats, Christians, the rich and the like, and then commence looting or whatever, using '€œLook What Ahok has done to Kampung Pulo'€ as a justification.

 Clearly these so called '€œpatriotic'€ and '€œradical'€ muslims are going to use this opportunity to fulfill their sick agendas. They might even use this opportunity to smuggle bombs out of the country like usual. Still, as to whether these rumors are true or not, I will leave it to you to decide.

Kansek
JAKARTA

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