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Originally Posted by nono1973
According to what i read online,due to the contradiction of where the Guan Yin Statue is facing,the Indonesia Govt has a few times ordered the tearing down of the statue but dont know what happen,it still stands tall today. I heard from some taxi drivers in Batam,the Indo Governor body cannot anyhow tear down religious places,not even to land developers. Just hearsay.
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Let you fill you with the story of what I heard from locals. Should be quite accurate.
The Indo gov told them that becos Indonesia is a Muslim country, they don't want the statue to be so prominent facing the sea. Wanted to shift in the statue to where it is now. Originally, the statue faces the sea prominently.
The government wanted to chop the statue into 3 pieces n move it to the present place. However, many accidents AND incidents prevented the moving of statue. Either big rain, or machine stop functioning or funny incidents.
The minister got angry n came personally to see. Goddess entered one of his assistant body n spoke to him IN CHINESE.
Goddess told him that to shift the statue, she has no objection, but cannot chop to shift. Must do it in 1 piece. The minister still refuse to believe as doing so will incur a lot of cost for machinery. So the incidents continued when they wanted to chop.
In the end, no choice, shift as a piece.