yak, if you read my post to briter, you would have noticed that I posted what some Christian congregations in Indonesia think themselves. You need to consider that Indonesia has over 200 million people, and that perhaps 40 million of them are Christians, and active ones at that, not like the nominal ones here. Even if the numbers of people involved in events making news add up to thousands, it is still only an irritation in the big picture. You don't appreciate just what has to occur in Indonesia to make a radical change. Just like an earthquake, a few hundred dead only impacts a certain distance for where it occurs, for everyone else life continues on. Several years ago, the Christian Dyaks, aided by the Chinese, in Central Kalimantan decided to drive the Muslim Madurese out of central Kalimantan. 1000's of Madurese were killed, and a large proportion beheaded in the process. Many of the Madurese did return to Madura, but not all. At the end of the day, there were less Madurese in Central Kalimantan, many lives had been lost, but the lives and business of everybody else gradually got back to normal. On another occasion I actually witnessed a night of rioting where most of the major buildings in a provincial capital were burnt down, hundreds of people were either burnt to death in the fires, killed or went missing, Suharto, thankfully flew in two C130 loads of the special forces who arrived at about midnight and took control of the city back by early morning. Next morning, with smoke in the air from still burning buildings and the sound of gunfire still being heard from the centre of the city less than 1km away as the soldiers continued mopping up, little kids dressed in their school uniforms came out of their houses next to mine and went off to school. Housewifes went off to market to get their daily supplies. The point I'm trying to make Yak, don't get too excited about events that in the overall scheme of things are not that all that critical to anyone other than those directly involved. Oh, and one other thing, I have seen enough of events I have actually witnessed whilst in Indonesia, being reported overseas with such a bias or missing key elements, that I place little trust in much of what the media, especially the Australian media, reports on matters Indonesian. I rely instead on my own sources from within the country, from other experienced observers, and my own knowledge to form my own opinions about what is really happening.
