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Originally Posted by nono1973
Hmm...learned something today....thank you for explaining. The reason why i am curious is becos long time ago,during Suharto time,even Chinese papers,video tape and books are strictly not allowed into Indo...and am quite surprise that one could actually cook the entire pig up for a meal. Perhaps after the collapse of Suharto's dynasty,their laws not as strict as before.
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Soeharto's banning is the other kind of case. It has nothing to do with the halal food or pork. It's just that, he is so anti communism until he banned anything that has reference to mainland china especially on literature, writing, book, art, play, etc. this one goes back to 1960s when he overtaken the power and wiped all the communist. and unfortunately there was quite a large number chinese whose are in the communist party. there was propaganda that chineses are communist. a lot of dark side history was hidden there.
politic & history aside, things are progressing much better these days. not only chinese related ban were lifted, there are even mandarin news programme in local tv.