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Homework Chapter 4
History in My Country
I will tell you about one of historical events from my country – Indonesia. That event happened
in 1998, and at that moment, I was still 3 years old. Most of people called that event as “The
Tragedy of May 1998”. Because of that event, Now, Indonesia is in Reformation Era. Honestly
I do not know what was the effect of it for the world, but for Indonesia it has changed living
conditions of society. Before the riots in May, 1998 happened, Indonesia had been led by
Soeharto for 32 years, and during that period there were so many corruption, collusion and
nepotism activities in the Government of Indonesia. Besides that, the prices of principle
commodities increased significantly, so people could not afford them. Furthermore, during the
riots in may, 1998, Indonesia was in a dark period, because dozens of Chinese-Indonesian
women were rapped and hundreds of houses and shops owned by Chinese-Indonesia were
raided. But after college students had done demonstration and the condition of Indonesia had
not been stable, Soeharto quit from the government. Now, Indonesia has changed becoming
more democratic and people, now, can criticize government freely and the price of principle
commodities has been more stable than before.