Remove the practice of nepotism, financial and other material accommodation and bribes from the Indonesian political and commercial landscape and the country will simply collapse into a vacuum. They know no better.
It is how the Dutch colonised Indonesia, justifying and sanctioning the practice. The Americans and Japanese folowed suit and of course driving it all were, and remain the Chinese merchants in the republic. It is they who control all of the country's resources and its wealth. They act as the buffer between laws, rules and regulations for the corrupted elite of rulers who accept what crumbs falls off the Chinese Indonesians table. And these crumbs accumulated total in the billions of Dollars.
Remove the practice of nepotism, financial and other material accommodation and bribes from the Indonesian political and commercial landscape and the country will simply collapse into a vacuum. They know no better.
It is how the Dutch colonised Indonesia, justifying and sanctioning the practice. The Americans and Japanese folowed suit and of course driving it all were, and remain the Chinese merchants in the republic. It is they who control all of the country's resources and its wealth. They act as the buffer between laws, rules and regulations for the corrupted elite of rulers who accept what crumbs falls off the Chinese Indonesians table. And these crumbs accumulated total in the billions of Dollars.
Great article 👍🏾