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Curious Indonesian Muslims Join Peaceful but Controversial Falun Gong
Nivell Rayda | January 10, 2011

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Tina-Chandra
4:03am Jan 11, 2011

Hi All,

Falun Gong is GOOD ! United Nations alias PBB has looked into this issue long time ago, and consider Falun Gong being oppressed and persecuted in Mainland China, just like the Tibetan, but NOT anywhere else around the world. Why ? Because Falun Gong being a good practice are based on spirituality principles of Truthfulness, Compassion and Forbearance. Those principles are good ones, so only bad regime like the Communist regime in Mainland China would persecute such a good practice. If Communist regime believe in spirituality and Truthfulness, Compassion & Forbearance, then there will be no more communism. Even the 5 exercise practices are based on ancient philosophy of mind and body. If your mind is clean then your body is healthy too. Take a look at the benefit of each exercises aren't they awesome and good for all ages; if little kids learn the exercises most of them gets good grades in school because they can concentrate better, etc :

http://www.falundafa.or.id/

Happy New Year 2011 to ALL, hope you can see through the TRUTH ... instead of the LIES.


RedWine
9:55pm Jan 10, 2011

@didikarjadi, please don't take suicide ya just because you're reading Tina's comments about the fluorishing Falun Dafa activities in Indonesia. :)

@Tina: I give my sympathy to Falun and any other oppressed community anywhere.


Tina-Chandra
7:36pm Jan 10, 2011

Dear all, I am Falun Dafa practitioners who practice in Senayan (Gelora Bung Karno)practice site every Sunday morning. Falun Dafa is Good, I love it and have practiced for 10 years. I feel great improvements in health, fitness and morality. There is none of real Falun Gong practitioners do suicides or odd things. It is just a black propaganda from Chinese Communist Party through media and fake practitioners. Please come to us and get clarified so you can know the real truth of Falun Dafa. No Dangerous at all, if it is really dangerous, there will be no one want to practice it, but you can check, in indonesia there are thousands of practitioners, and also worldwide: http://www.falundafa.org/eng/contacts/area/index.html

Then, why Falun Dafa is persecuted in China? The answer is: The complex rationale behind the persecution can be broken into four elements: a paranoid dictator's fear of Falun Gong's meteoric growth and soaring popularity; that same dictator's intense jealousy of Falun Dafa's popularity; the inherent conflict between the communist regime's savage political ideology and its polar opposite—Falun Dafa's principles of "Truthfulness, Benevolence, Forbearance"; and the very nature of communism, which to sustain itself requires periodically labeling a small segment of the population as the "class enemy" to "struggle" against.

masmon2
4:36pm Jan 10, 2011

Just hope the FPI and other moronic groups don't view this as another target.

redman
4:14pm Jan 10, 2011

I suspect sempre may be related to Tiffy...

Nyoman Suryanata must have greeted at least 100 people at the National Monument complex in Jakarta last Sunday, trying to persuade passersby to sit down with him and try the controversial practice of Falun Gong.

“Please, Ma’am! Try out our meditation. It only takes a couple of minutes. Sir, have a go at meditation! Free of charge,” the 59-year-old businessman called out, offering brochures he had made himself.

Surya, as he prefers to be called, had prepared 100 brochures — at the end of the day there were none left.

From a distance, a young couple observed the practice carefully.

They were intrigued by the group’s slow-motion movements, designed to help members “cultivate” their mind and soul.

However, the couple remained skeptical and hesitant to approach the group.

“Look, some of them are wearing headscarves,” the woman pointed out to her husband.

“That’s interesting. I was wondering whether these people are part of a religion or something,” her husband said.

Falun Gong is a spiritual movement founded by Li Hongzi in 1992.

The practice aims to focus the mind and body through a series of movements and meditative exercises based on the principles of truthfulness, compassion and tolerance.

Its teachings include ideas from Buddhism, Taoism, Qigong and other traditions that date back to Chinese antiquity.

The major difference between Li Hongzi’s spiritual movement and other religions is that Falun Gong does not involve prayer or worship of the divine.

This has been part of the movement’s broad appeal, attracting followers from many different backgrounds, including Indonesian Muslims.

“The main focus is to enhance your own spiritual consciousness. You can pray according to your religion as much as you want, but if you’re not spiritually conscious, all of your prayers will amount to nothing,” Suryanata said.

Falun Gong has been banned by the Chinese government since July 20, 1999, denounced by government propaganda as a cult “that poisons people’s minds.”

Members of the movement have since been arrested, tried without the presence of legal counsel, sent to labor camps and inflicted with physical and psychological torture.

“There is well-documented evidence of the persecution and ill treatment suffered by Falun Gong members,” said Human Rights Watch researcher Philem Kien.

Over the course of just seven years, he said the movement grew to an estimated 70 million people in China.

“The Falun Gong is seen as a threat to the Communist regime, who wish to maintain monopolistic control over Chinese society,” he added.

The persecution of Falun Gong members in China has forced its members to flee abroad and seek refuge in countries across Asia, including Indonesia, as well as in western countries such as Europe and North America.

However, the persecution of the movement has only served to increase curiosity in it among those living outside China.

Sixty-year-old Hertati, who has been practicing Falun Gong for more than 10 years now, was one of its early members in Indonesia.

“I remember it was the year 2000 and Gramedia had just launched a book about Falun Gong,” Hertati recounted.

“I had heard about Falun Gong before on the news. I was intrigued and attended the book’s discussion session. I thought to myself: how can a movement that teaches truthfulness, virtue and patience be dubbed as a dangerous and heretical cult in China? If it was really a cult then they would have drained our pockets dry by now. But no, members are not even allowed to accept payment for teaching others Falun Gong.”

“I have been a member for 10 years and have never been asked for a single cent,” she added.

There are now more than 100 Falun Gong communities spread over fifteen provinces in Indonesia.

In Jakarta, there are about 20 places where Falun Gong members practice, attracting up to 50 people in a single session.

One man at the National Monument on Sunday joined in the movements of the Falun Gong members, but wanted to maintain a good distance from the pack.

“Okay, but promise you’ll join us next week,” Surya said to the man.

“If it is faith, then he’ll come back. I’m sure of it. He took my brochure, we’ll see if he is destined to join us,” Surya said with a smile.