27-08-2011, 02:16 AM
August 25-26, 2011 -- DATELINE JAKARTA -- Indonesian single citizenship law explained
WMR has learned from a knowledgeable source who has covered Indonesian politics for twenty years why Indonesia has been so strict on insisting that no dual Indonesian citizenship by nationals of other countries be legal. The Indonesians, like the framers of the U.S. Constitution, particularly Article 2, Clause 5, which states that U.S. presidents must be "natural born" citizens, did not want a foreign usurper from being proclaimed President of Indonesia in the years leading up to Indonesia's declaration of independence in 1945, following World War II.
Indonesian independence leaders feared that the Dutch Queen might try to become a president-regent in a post-war independence for Indonesia that would be in name only. The independence leaders were also aware that the Japanese occupiers during the war suggested that Emperor Hirohito was offerred as a regent-president of Indonesia in de facto colonial relationship with Japan. Therefore, Indonesian law was crafted to disallow dual citizens to prevent someone with loyalty to a foreign power becoming President of Indonesia.
Ironically, it is Barack Obama's own Indonesian citizenship status that has some questioning his constitutional eligibility to serve as President of the United States.
In the years following the fall of the Suharto dictatorship, rather than seeing a disclosure of archives from the Suharto "New Order" regime following the CIA-inspired coup in 1965, archives have been kept under wraps. This situation has benefited those researchers who want more information on the activities of Obama's step-father, mother, and their Indonesian and American colleagues in the years immediately following the coup. There is one group in Indonesia that is calling for more disclosure and transparency of government activities in Indonesia: the Muhammadiya Islamic movement, condemned by some in the West as pro-Islamic state, but in reality, is as reform-minded as the Turkish Justice and Development Party and is just as committed to increasing democratic rule in Indonesia.
http://www.waynemadsenreport.com/articles/20110824
WMR has learned from a knowledgeable source who has covered Indonesian politics for twenty years why Indonesia has been so strict on insisting that no dual Indonesian citizenship by nationals of other countries be legal. The Indonesians, like the framers of the U.S. Constitution, particularly Article 2, Clause 5, which states that U.S. presidents must be "natural born" citizens, did not want a foreign usurper from being proclaimed President of Indonesia in the years leading up to Indonesia's declaration of independence in 1945, following World War II.
Indonesian independence leaders feared that the Dutch Queen might try to become a president-regent in a post-war independence for Indonesia that would be in name only. The independence leaders were also aware that the Japanese occupiers during the war suggested that Emperor Hirohito was offerred as a regent-president of Indonesia in de facto colonial relationship with Japan. Therefore, Indonesian law was crafted to disallow dual citizens to prevent someone with loyalty to a foreign power becoming President of Indonesia.
Ironically, it is Barack Obama's own Indonesian citizenship status that has some questioning his constitutional eligibility to serve as President of the United States.
In the years following the fall of the Suharto dictatorship, rather than seeing a disclosure of archives from the Suharto "New Order" regime following the CIA-inspired coup in 1965, archives have been kept under wraps. This situation has benefited those researchers who want more information on the activities of Obama's step-father, mother, and their Indonesian and American colleagues in the years immediately following the coup. There is one group in Indonesia that is calling for more disclosure and transparency of government activities in Indonesia: the Muhammadiya Islamic movement, condemned by some in the West as pro-Islamic state, but in reality, is as reform-minded as the Turkish Justice and Development Party and is just as committed to increasing democratic rule in Indonesia.
http://www.waynemadsenreport.com/articles/20110824
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