| Popis: |
All countries have many faces — variously shaped by special-interest groups, efforts to represent assorted truths, and the pressures of government propaganda. As with other nations the various faces of Indonesia often do not appear to belong to the same body. Thus an official publication,1 typical of the genre and issued in the mid-1990s, depicts smiling personages (not least Richard Needham, British Minister of Trade) and a bland optimism with no obvious awareness that Indonesia was one of the most repressive countries on earth. Of course to a large extent the focus is on economic affairs: human rights are generally assigned a trivial status if profits are to be made. |
