UI Lecturer 'Slaps' Fadli Zon to Economist Rizal Ramli About Chinese Foreign Workers, Don't Lie

Lecturer and Communication Expert of University of Indonesia (UI) Ade Armando (Photo: CokroTV Screencapture)

JAKARTA - Lecturer and Communication Expert of The University of Indonesia (UI) Ade Armando asked elite Gerindra Fadli Zon to Economist Rizal Ramli to stop spreading slander about the arrival of Foreign Workers (TKA) from China to Indonesia.

Moreover, the narrative built is connected with homecoming which is currently strictly prohibited by the Indonesian government. That in the midst of the homecoming ban, the government actually allowed Chinese Foreign Workers to enter Indonesia.

"To sound dramatic, the arrival of TKA is associated with Muslims who are forbidden to go hometown to meet family, while immigrants actually enter Indonesia,"

"The government--according to Rizal Ramli-- Indonesia is very pro-China and to cover this issue the government greatly exaggerates radical Islam," Ade Armando said on Cokro TV's Youtube as reported by VOI, Monday, May 10.

The logic of thinking like this is clearly a big mistake. Moreover, it is said that 17 million Chinese citizens have entered and resided in all regions of Indonesia.

According to Ade Armando, the earliest data of the workforce needed by the Indonesian government amounted to 300 thousand people and worked on strategic projects. It also goes through a series of procedures that must be bypassed.

"The government has determined that TKA is allowed to enter Indonesia only related to national strategic projects and vital objects, medical assistance, and humanity. Comparing this to a ban on homecoming makes absolutely no sense. All Chinese workers have undergone a series of health procedures. They do not come piled up, they come because Chinese investment in Indonesia experiencing a rapid increase," said Ade Armando.

China, he continued, is one of the world's giant economic powers. In 2020 China will be the third country with the largest investment in Indonesia under Japan and Singapore.

"In the last 5 years, China's investment has increased directly 560 percent from 0.63 billion U.S. dollars to 3.51 billion U.S. dollars in 2020. China brings the profit needed to build Indonesia," said Ade Armando.

With this data, all strategic projects involve TKA China including infrastructure development. The details, the construction of toll roads until 2014 along 862 KM. In 2015 to June 2019 along 980 KM. The final target for 2015-present is 1,461 KM.

"The number of TKA is not up to millions of people. By 2020 as many as 100 thousand people instead of 17 million people as in Kadrun's imagination. China is a trading partner, they are not coming to colonize. Finished the project they'll back to their country,"

"That's how the Kadrun people never stopped spreading slander. Use common sense because only with common sense will this country be safe," Ade Armando said.