Allow me to tell you a Fiction Story about a Prime Minister and his Deputy in late 1990's. The Prime Minister was Dr. MM and his Deputy is Mr. AI. This scenario happened in a country of Melasia.
The economic crisis faced by the whole Asian countries put Dr. MM into a deep thought. On one side, he knew that he need to make a very drastic action. On other side he had to be sure that the country will not face unnecessary political turmoil. The decision of his Deputy, Mr. AI, in adopting the remedy prescribed by IMF could put Melasia economy in spiral meltdown. Dr. MM knew about this but having Mr. AI as his Deputy and Minister of Finance made thing much complicated.
For Dr. MM, the economic policy of the country needs to be redirected and taking 'the pills' from IMF as had been suggested by Mr. AI was the most stupid move anybody would take. Dr. MM also knew that 'a ship can not have two captains'. By by still having Mr. AI in his current position as Deputy Prime Minister and Minister Finance, the possibility of Mr. AI portray himself as another captain is very, very high. In addition to that, Mr. AI already had a temporary ego of being the captain when Dr. MM had his long holiday few months before.
Out of blue, Mr. AI made major mistake. He sang 'Indonesian Songs', talking about cronyism, nepotism, etc., tried to make a hero out of himself. He asked his General who was in-charge with Youth Movement to support him. He made noise, some people did not like it. In fact these some people thought that Mr. AI climbed his political ladder without much testing. So these some people create rumors on Mr. AI sexual behavior. Dr. MM looked at this as his opportunity to solve his dilemma. He terminated Mr. AI not just as his Deputy, but also as the number two of the party and the Minister of Finance of the country. Only by doing that, Dr. MM could save the country's economy 'MY WAY' [My Way is his all time favorite song]. Not even a decade later, without any hesitation everybody in Melasia and the whole world praised Dr. MM for his brilliant thinking in putting Melasia economy on track, without being attached with IMF loan and regulation.
Well as you know by now, that is my version of what really happened in 1998 between Dr. M and Anwar Ibrahim. To be safe, I would like to emphasize that the scenario above is just my so-called Pulp Fiction. I have a ridiculous thought, if such story is writen into a movie script and Oliver Stone direct it, it could be at par with Quentin Tarantino's Pulp Fiction. Just a joke.
Putting the joke aside, without any doubt the termination of Anwar one way or another divides the govenment supporters into two. My friends asked me on the issue. Do I believe in Anwar or do I believe in Dr. M? My answer, whether it was a conspiracy or Anwar really have such 'bad sexual orientation', I do not know. I never been in the room with the conspirators to topple Anwar. I never been in a close proximity to see Anwar having his 'activity'. So I can not be certain whether Anwar really bi-sexual or whether all of the accusation was made to topple Anwar. And I believe most of you [in actual fact] not certain as well. We just heard the news, the rumors, the infomation, etc. and our mind processed them and made conclusion 10 years ago. If the information regarding the existence of conspiracy diagnosed to be much convincing than others, we will say 'the truth is all these accussations are lies'. Likewise, if we believe the story that Anwar was a student of MCKK and it is nomal for the students there to have male girlfriend [in other words 'Main Jambu'] we might tend to believe that Anwar [despite of his religious face] really did that. The truth is we do not know. Or should I say, I do not know.
Re-evaluate how you make your decision 10 years ago on who do you believe, Dr. M or Anwar? Think about all the information that you received during that time. Do you think all those information still relevant and convincing now? Be objective on this matter. You might find that what you believe as 'the truth' 10 years ago seems 'not so true' at the end of first decade of the millennium. Who knows?
Feel free to criticize or disagree with me.
Thank you for you valuable time.
Dr. Tahoma
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