Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2000-12-12-Speech-2-266"

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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2000-12-12"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Developing closer relations with Indonesia2
dcterms:Language	"nl"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20001212.11.2-266"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2000-12-12-Speech-2-2672
lpv:speaker	lp:Bas Belder2
lpv:spokenAs	member; EDD (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3 unknown; Staatkundig Gereformeerde Partij - Gereformeerd Politiek Verbond - Reformatorisch Politieke Federatie (1999-07-20--2002-03-17)3 member; Temporary committee on the Echelon interception system (2000-07-06--2001-09-05)3 member; Members from the European Parliament to the Joint Parliamentary Assembly of the Agreement between the African, Caribbean and Pacific States and the European Union (ACP-EU) (2000-10-05--2002-01-14)3 member; Committee on Foreign Affairs, Human Rights, Common Security and Defence Policy (1999-07-21--2002-01-14)3 vice-chair; Delegation for relations with the United States (1999-07-22--2002-01-14)3 substitute; Committee on Industry, External Trade, Research and Energy (1999-07-21--2002-01-14)3
lpv:translated text	"Mr President, the rapporteur, Mrs Maij-Weggen, makes crystal-clear what the real political problems are in Indonesia. She is quite forthright in naming the opposing forces of the essential and exacting process of reform. She rightly refers to them in her report as still being very powerful. However, following the latest reports from the Indonesian archipelago, we are compelled to ask whether the situation does not in fact look more serious, more precarious still for President Wahid and his brothers-in-arms, than the report would suggest. Yesterday, an insider summed up the situation in the Indonesian archipelago with the following sentence: ‘the reformation is stagnating and the restoration minus the Suharto family promotes stagnation.’ Stagnation of the reformation in no way implies that the way to a democratic constitutional state – and I quote the rapporteur – ‘is truly leading nowhere’. Hence now is the time for the European Union to carefully support, as far as it is able, the democratic forces, which are neither numerous nor strong. In view of the historical burden that sits on the shoulders of two present-day Indonesian regions, the Moluccas and Irian Jaya, Indonesian and western understanding for this distressing historical millstone alone would relieve a great deal of political tension and suffering. This is most definitely a task for the European Community. The report that winged its way to me from Indonesia offers a ray of hope. Despite these uncertain times, a growing number of people within the Christian churches out there are calling for people to do some soul-searching. They want people to stop working to secure the interests of their own groups and show sympathy towards their fellow human beings, including Muslims, out of the love of Christ, which offers hope of reconciliation to the entire, and sometimes sorely afflicted, archipelago."@en1

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