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[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

The national economy has grown 43% under his rule, and democracy has become normal in a country where dictatorship was once the norm. People are living better, the coups, massacres and genocides are long past, and Indonesia is growing into its status as a major player internationally (4th in population, 16th in economy).

Just don't look at West Papua right? What trash article can say genocide is a thing of the past when an entire peoples are still slowly being killed off.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/sep/26/indonesian-military-accused-of-targeting-children-west-papua

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-05-12/west-papua-secret-war-with-indonesia-for-independence/12227966

https://www.ohchr.org/en/press-releases/2022/03/indonesia-un-experts-sound-alarm-serious-papua-abuses-call-urgent-aid

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

I think the purpose of the article is to question why the people of Indonesia would vote for someone connected to Suharto. I don't think the article talks about the people of West Papua because they would have had very little influence in the result of the election. The majority of people who voted in this election however would have direct memory of the repression Indonesia experienced under Suharto.