Trump
International Hotel exteriors
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Music
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00:11
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Press
gathering at hotel
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00:15
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Trump
meet and greet in hotel atrium
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MARK
DAVIS: Whatever sideshows the presidency may deliver, the Trump
hotel and real estate brand rolls on.
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00:20
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Hotel
staff on balcony
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Music
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00:27
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Ribbon
cutting with Trump family at hotel
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MARK
DAVIS: The bags are packed and Donald Trump, his children and
their brassy brand are heading to Bali.
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00:28
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Music
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00:34
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Bali
GVs – ceremony/band
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00:40
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Aerial
over Bali rice terraces
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00:46
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Sweep
along Bali beach
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MARK
DAVIS: Donald Trump has entered into two huge deals in Indonesia
and the first of them will land here on the southern edge of Bali.
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00:55
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Tanah
Lot
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Almost
on top of one of the island’s most sacred religious sites,
Tanah Lot. An hour or two away from the main tourist areas, the
Balinese have fought for decades to protect this temple and its
surrounds.
RIO
HELMI, PHOTOJOURNALIST: It’s one of the island-wide temples
that are sacred to the Balinese.
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01:07
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Helmi
100%
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It’s
the sea, it’s the land, tanah, laut for ocean. It’s
the earth, the island in the ocean.
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01:29
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Aerial.
Trump hotel site
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Music
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01:40
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MARK
DAVIS: The site currently has a hotel and golf course on it but
they sit lightly on a huge block of coastal land.
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01:43
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Golfer
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01:51
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News
report relating to hotel development.
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Newsreader:
‘Trump
Hotel and MNC Group…’
MARK
DAVIS: Not much is known of Trump’s plans, but what is known
is that he wants it big – the biggest in Bali he says. He
wants a tower on an island that bans them. And he wants it
overlooking the sacred Tanah Lot.
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01:53
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Trump
Hotels webpage.
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ACTOR’S
VOICE: Trump International Hotel and Tower Bali. The luxurious
resort will be the largest and most integrated lifestyle resort
destination in Bali.
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02:10
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GFX
Words from website: Built
atop a sheer cliff along a sweeping coastline, the development
will offer breathtaking views of the Indian Ocean and Tanah Lot,
the most popular tourist and cultural icon of Bali.
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Built
atop a sheer cliff along a sweeping coastline, the development
will offer breathtaking views of the Indian Ocean and Tanah Lot,
the most popular tourist and cultural icon of Bali.
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02:21
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Aerial.
Hotel site
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MARK
DAVIS: It all sounds very glamorous, but it would also be in total
breach of the island’s building codes to put a tower on top
of this cliff, and a slap in the face to its religion.
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02:33
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Shayna golfing, into buggy
with caddies
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Music
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02:48
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Shayna
in buggy
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SHAYNA:
Well, our beautiful caddies just told us that Trump, this is now
going to be a Trump facility. And he’s basically redoing -
everything that’s here that is absolutely beautiful and
stunning, he’s revamping it.
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02:53
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I
was telling Gerard that if this was owned by Trump right now I
wouldn’t be playing here.
MARK
DAVIS: Might be your last game of golf here.
SHAYNA:
We are still lucky we got here before he had his stamp on it.
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03:07
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Shayna
and Gerard pass in buggy
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Music
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03:17
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Current
hotel on site/Golfers
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MARK
DAVIS: The old hotel is being shut down this month, hundreds of
Balinese workers laid off and the demolition crews are moving in.
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03:22
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Music
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03:31
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Hary
Tanoe archive – Miss World
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MARK
DAVIS: Donald
Trump’s Indonesian partner is billionaire media mogul Hary
Tanoe.
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03:34
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PAGEANT
HOST: This is the biggest event Indonesia has ever hosted.
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03:46
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Thank
you very much to Mr Hary Tanoesoedibjo, CEO of MNC Group.
MARK
DAVIS: Like
Trump, Tanoe sponsors beauty pageants, plays the real estate game
hard, and has major political ambitions. It seems Tanoe and Trump
are made for each other.
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03:50
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Photo.
Tanoe with Trump children
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Tanoe
apparently also gets on well with the Trump children who are all
involved in the Bali project.
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04:09
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Tanoe
100%. Super: HARY TANOESOEDIBJO Chairman and CEO, MNC Group
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HARY
TANOESOEDIBJO, Chairman and CEO, MNC Group [January 2017]: Each of
them has different role. Donald Jr., is responsibilities for the
overall project. Eric is more on the design and golf and then
Ivanka is more on the detail, like the fit out, you know, of the
hotel.
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04:19
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Exteriors
of existing Pan Pacific Nirwana Bali Resort
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Music
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04:40
|
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MARK
DAVIS: As they are about to demolish the existing hotel Trump and
Tanoe, presumably, are confident they have approval to rebuild on
this site, but no one on the island seems to have seen the
proposal.
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04:46
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How
many villas will be on the land? How close to the temple? How big
the tower will be. If anything has been approved it has been done
very privately and very quietly. There are many things that can’t
be spoken of in Bali it seems – including the dark history
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04:59
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Seseh
Beach
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going
back decades about how the resort land was obtained at Tanah Lot.
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05:18
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Music
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05:24
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Davis
to camera on beach. Super: MARK DAVIS
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MARK
DAVIS: I’m at Seseh Beach just down from where the new Trump
Hotel will soon be rising. People around here tell me that last
year a jumble of skeletons came tumbling out of that wall behind
me when it was being rebuilt.
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05:30
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Sea
wall
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Victims
of a massacre that people are still too intimidated to talk about.
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05:43
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Davis
to camera on beach
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Secrets
like this one abound in Bali, secrets about murders and secrets
about how resort lands were acquired thereafter.
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05:49
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Driving
to beach and meet I Putu Bawa Usadi
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All
around Bali bones of the recent past commonly resurface.
Sometimes history can’t be completely buried.
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05:58
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West
of Tanah Lot another gruesome discovery has been made.
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06:18
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Scraping
beach for bone fragments
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Six
bodies have just been removed from this beach. Their bone
fragments are being gathered so they can be properly cremated.
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06:22
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Victims
of a massacre that occurred during General Suharto’s bloody
coup in 1965.
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06:42
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Davis
with I Putu Bawa Usadi at beach
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MARK
DAVIS: So you say there’s a hundred bodies buried this
beach.
I
PUTU BAWA USADI: Yes.
MARK
DAVIS: One hundred?
KARYADI:
More than a hundred…
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06:49
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Beach/Driving
to meet Ketut Wedra
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Music
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06:57
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MARK
DAVIS: I’m taken to meet with one of the villagers who
witnessed and participated in the killings at the beach -
85-year-old, Ketut Wedra.
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07:02
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Davis
talks with Ketut Wedra. Karyadi translates
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MARK
DAVIS: At the beach, how many people do you think were killed at
the beach?
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07:16
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KETUT
WEDRA: More than thirty. The police machine gunned them.
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07:20
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MARK
DAVIS: Machine gun? Police machine gun? Machine gun on the beach?
Just take them to the beach and machine gunned?
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07:30
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KETUT
WEDRA: On the beach, it was with machine guns. Others were killed
in their houses then taken by cart to the beach during the day.
The machine gun killing was at night time.
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07:38
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MARK
DAVIS: 80,000 people were murdered on Bali by Suharto’s
troops or supporters, a huge number for a small island.
KETUT
WEDRA: ‘Cut, Cut here.’
MARK
DAVIS:. The
victims broadly accused of being leftists or communists.
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07:50
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MARK
DAVIS: They were killed with complete impunity, but Ketut’s
next admission is still stunning.
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08:05
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KETUT
WEDRA: The police always accompanied me, and ordered me to kill.
I was the killer.
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08:13
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MARK
DAVIS: How did you kill them? Were their hands tied, were they
fighting? How did you kill them?
|
08:22
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Ketut
demonstrates killings with sword
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KETUT
WEDRA: No. Their hands were tied, when it was time to kill them.
Like that.
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08:28
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They
were already tied up from the street, then pushed down, then chop.
At the time, they’d already surrendered.
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08:33
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MARK
DAVIS: This is a souvenir for you?
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08:49
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KETUT
WEDRA: Yes. I kept it as a souvenir.
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08:51
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Driving
past rice fields
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Music
|
08:56
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MARK
DAVIS: After the massacres and terror the ordinary farmers of Bali
were ripe for the picking when Suharto’s children and close
associates came to take their lands for resorts.
|
09:01
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Ketut
Djarsanda in car driving past rice fields
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Ketut
Djarsanda was one of the original owners of the rice fields where
the Trump development will soon stand.
|
09:17
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KETUT
DJARSANDA: Every day I just go for a walk with my buffalo.
MARK
DAVIS: He was forced off his hereditary land in the mid 1990s at
the height of the dictatorship of President Suharto.
|
09:29
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|
The
army told him that his land was needed for a government project.
|
09:42
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Davis
with Ketut
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KETUT
DJARSANDA: So, the military and everything come to my home, yeah.
|
09:48
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Super: KETUT
DJARSANDA
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MARK
DAVIS: The military came to your home and said they want the land?
KETUT
DJARSANDA: I mean, you have to lend the lands.
MARK
DAVIS: You have to sell the land.
KETUT
DJARSANDA: Yeah, you have to sell the land.
|
09:52
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|
MARK
DAVIS: It was a dangerous time to resist whatever the military or
government asked for, but Ketut still refused to sell his
ancestral land; others began to cave in to the intimidation.
Piece by piece he found himself stranded as his neighbours gave
in.
|
10:01
|
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MARK
DAVIS: So, your land was within the Tanah Lot.
KETUT
DJARSANDA: Yeah, in the Bakri area now, inside.
MARK
DAVIS: Inside? So, you did not want to sell but you were
surrounded then.
KETUT
DJARSANDA: Yeah.
MARK
DAVIS: So, no road in?
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10:19
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[continues]
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KETUT
DJARSANDA: No.
MARK
DAVIS: No road? You couldn’t get to your land?
KETUT
DJARSANDA: No road, no road, yeah.
MARK
DAVIS: And the water, they stopped the water is that what you
said?
KETUT
DJARSANDA: Because all thing is behind of me, already sell the
land so of course I didn’t have any water for the rice
field.
MARK
DAVIS: They cut the water?
|
10:31
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[continues]
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KETUT
DJARSANDA: Yeah, they cut the water.
MARK
DAVIS: So, your rice dies, you can’t grow rice?
KETUT
DJARSANDA: Yeah, I couldn’t make the rice.
MARK
DAVIS: This is now part of the Trump Hotel?
KETUT
DJARSANDA: Yeah, inside.
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10:47
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Ketut
and Davis in hotel grounds golf course
|
MARK
DAVIS: He doesn’t return often. There’s little to
return to. But his ancestral home is somewhere around the 5th
green.
|
11:04
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Music
|
11:29
|
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KETUT
DJARSANDA: Impossible. What I’m telling you because on that
time, they have the big, big power.
|
11:34
|
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MARK
DAVIS: The government wants it.
KETUT
DJARSANDA: Big, big power, like that. Hey, do it. Like that. Sell
it, like that.
|
11:42
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Stills.
Protests and demonstrations. Super: 1994
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Music
|
11:51
|
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MARK
DAVIS: The resistance of Ketut and other farmers turned to anger
when it was learnt that the land acquisition wasn’t for a
government project at all … it was for a resort for the
Bakrie corporation, owned by one of Suharto’s closest
friends and business associates. The farmers’
demonstrations to save Tanah Lot were one of the rare public
protest movements of the Suharto era.
|
11:53
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Helmi
100%
|
RIO
HELMI: There were all kinds of ploys used. There were all kinds of
ploys used.
|
12:20
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Still.
Protest
|
That
was really when the protests started,
|
12:23
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Helmi 100%. Super: RIO
HELMI Photojournalist
|
because
they realised that there was manipulation going on, they realised
there was coercion going on.
|
12:26
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Aerial.
Resort site
|
MARK
DAVIS: The Bakrie corporation succeeded in parcelling up all of
the farmers’ land and they sold it to Trump’s partner
Hary Tanoe, through his MNC Group, in 2013.
|
12:31
|
Trump
inauguration
|
|
12:46
|
|
As
Trump was inaugurated as President in January one of his honoured
guests was his Indonesian partner Hary Tanoe.
|
12:53
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Tanoe
at inauguration
|
HARY
TANOESOEDIBJO: I was invited to all of them, from yesterday the
welcome concert, the swearing-in today.
MARK
DAVIS: Tanoe was a mid-level financier who had a meteoric rise at
the end of the 1990s.
|
13:00
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Trump
swearing-in
|
In
dealing with Tanoe, Donald Trump may be buying into more than just
Suharto era land
|
13:16
|
Harsono
100%. Super: ANDREAS HARSONO Human Rights Watch Indonesia
|
MARK
DAVIS: I’m interested in that period as Suharto was sliding
down, Hary Tanoe is riding up. Is that a coincidence?
ANDREAS
HARSONO: It was not a coincidence because again, Hary Tanoe was a
close friend, a close ally of Bambang Suharto since before the
fall of Suharto. After the patriarch stepped down from power, many
of these children businesses and cronies, they needed trustees. If
not, they are in ... You know, they cannot face journalists. Every
time they appear in public, journalists will ask them a question,
so they cannot do things, they cannot run their businesses.
MARK
DAVIS: A lot of them left the country if I remember correctly.
ANDREAS
HARSONO: A lot of them.
|
13:24
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Archival.
Suharto protests
|
Music
|
14:05
|
Archival.
Suharto steps down
|
MARK
DAVIS:. When President Suharto finally exited power in 1998 he
took three decades of loot with him.
|
14:18
|
Archival.
Celebration of end of Suharto
|
State
monopolies in oil, media, transport, food, and resources were
placed into the hands of immediate family members and close
associates.
|
14:27
|
Witoelar
100%. Super: WIMAR WITOELAR Former presidential advisor
|
WIMAR
WITOELAR, FORMER PRESIDENTIAL ADVISER: Suharto's
money is estimated anywhere between 20 and 30 billion US dollars.
Widely recognised as the largest stash of money ever accumulated
by a dictator in the third world. Even Marcos, who was quite
infamous, is estimated to have only five billion. But Suharto's
money is of that amount. We demonstrated as an activist. We tried
to get the money back. In fact, we tried to have a total regime
change. It didn't work. Suharto's people are still around.
|
14:41
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Witoelar
on radio
|
|
15:15
|
|
‘Welcome
back listeners of ‘New Perspective’ across the
archipelago.’
MARK
DAVIS: Wimar Witoelar was a key advisor in 1999 to reforming
President Gus Dur who tried to recover the Suharto money.
|
15:18
|
Witoelar
100%
|
WIMAR
WITOELAR:
Even after Suharto was gone; his money is still there. We never
succeeded in repatriating his money. It's there in the hands of
his family and cronies, to which Harry Tanoe later was accepted.
He's one of the people who ran Suharto's funds. Little by little
became trusted and, particularly with one of Suharto's more active
and ambitious sons, became a partner to use the billions, which
heretofore had never been deployed in Indonesian public life.
|
15:34
|
Davis
walks with Harsono in market
|
Music
|
16:19
|
|
ANDREAS
HARSONO: Basically, after the fall of Suharto, all parties in
Indonesia were using three companies to mobilise power.
MARK
DAVIS: For decades, Andreas Harsono, currently head of Human
Rights Watch Indonesia, has investigated and exposed the abuses of
the Suharto regime, and its backers.
|
16:28
|
Harsono
100%
|
Well,
what is the link between Hary Tanoe and the Suhartos? What was the
relationship?
|
16:50
|
|
ANDREAS
HARSONO: The middle son of President Suharto. Bambang Suharto
basically appointed Hary Tanoe to run his affairs, businesses,
especially his media companies. The media companies also owned
mostly, major shareholder, by Bambang Suharto.
MARK
DAVIS: So, you’re saying Bambang Suharto is a major investor
in Hary Tanoe’s companies?
ANDREAS
HARSONO: Yes.
|
16:55
|
|
MARK
DAVIS: So, Mr. Trump is actually doing deals with the Suharto
money basically.
ANDREAS
HARSONO: Basically, Donald Trump is dealing with the Suharto’s
money. By dealing with Hary Tanoe, Donald Trump is basically
dealing with the Suhartos.
|
17:23
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Ext.
Office building
|
MARK
DAVIS: Tanoe’s exact relationship to Bambang and his
billions is unlikely to ever be revealed in Indonesia’s
opaque corporate regime,
|
17:38
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News
footage. Bambang faces press
|
but
there is no indication that Bambang is an investor in any current
real estate ventures. Public records at least indicate that
Bambang has sold down his shares in Tanoe companies.
|
17:49
|
Suharto
family pose for picture
|
Harry
Tanoe has had multiple dealings with Suharto family money and
companies.
|
18:02
|
Tutut
surrounded by policeman and press
|
A
recent legal dispute with the eldest daughter, Tutut, has shone
some light on the structure of those deals.
|
18:10
|
Tanoe
on microphone
|
Hary
Tanoe declined an interview for Four Corners, but has long denied
that he is disguising funds or investments for Bambang Suharto.
|
18:19
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News
footage Tutut
|
Tutut
owned one of Indonesia’s biggest TV stations –
courtesy of a public broadcaster licence she obtained while her
father was President. Her private ownership embarrassingly overt
after his demise.
|
18:29
|
Ext.
MNC TV building
|
Hary
Tanoe appeared to buy the TV station from her in 2002– but
not so, according to Tutut in a recent court case. True ownership
was meant to be held for her.
|
18:47
|
Davis
and Ponto at table looking at documents
|
MARK
DAVIS: Was that the arrangement, that he’d hold it for her
and give it back to her?
HARRY
PONTO, LAWYER: He tried to find another way.
MARK
DAVIS: Tutut’s lawyer, Harry Ponto, says that Tanoe was
entrusted under a power of attorney to protect her assets.
|
19:00
|
|
Tutut
maintains that Tanoe used those side agreement powers to take her
wealth, not hold it.
|
19:19
|
Super: HARRY
PONTO Lawyer
|
HARRY
PONTO: He will do whatever to keep that company.
MARK
DAVIS: Are Tutut’s hands clean in this deal? Is it an
arrangement gone wrong?
HARRY
PONTO: [laughs] Tutut’s still fighting.
MARK
DAVIS: Still fighting?
HARRY
PONTO: Yeah, still fighting until now. That’s what the order
to us.
|
19:26
|
‘Indonesian
Idol’ footage
|
|
19:46
|
|
MARK
DAVIS: Tanoe took control of Tutut’s TV station, rebranding
it MNC TV and has used it well to build his public profile and his
political connections.
|
19:56
|
New
York aerial
|
Connections
that came in handy when he arranged senior Indonesian politicians
to meet his new business partner.
|
20:10
|
|
September
2015, Donald Trump had signed on to Tanoe’s Bali deal but
was holding off on a second even bigger transaction.
|
20:20
|
Trump
nomination campaign press conference
|
MAN:
Ladies and gentlemen, the next president of the United States, Mr
Donald J Trump.
|
20:28
|
|
MARK
DAVIS: At a press conference to push his claim for the Republican
nomination, some noted a curious number of Indonesians in the
background.
|
20:44
|
Trump
returns
|
At
the end of the conference Trump returns to explain.
DONALD
TRUMP: Hey ladies and gentlemen this is a very, an amazing man. He
is as you know right, Speaker of the House of Indonesia, he’s
here to see me.
MARK
DAVIS: Until now it’s been a mystery what the Indonesians
were there for, but one of them, Fadli Zon, Deputy Speaker of the
Indonesian parliament, has agreed to speak with Four Corners to
clarify what was discussed at Trump Tower.
|
21:04
|
Zon
100%. Super: FADLI ZON Deputy Speaker House of
Representative
|
FADLI
ZON, DEPUTY SPEAKER OF INDONESIAN PARLIAMENT: Very warm, very warm
and talkative, very excited you know. So, he’s very
energetic.
MARK
DAVIS: Fadli agrees that Hary Tanoe helped set the meeting up.
FADLI
ZON: By the assistance
|
21:37
|
|
of
Mr Hary Tanoe.
MARK
DAVIS: That business, not politics, was the point of the
discussion. And that none of them were expecting to confront a
wall of cameras capturing their private visit.
|
21:50
|
|
FADLI
ZON: We didn’t expect so many people downstairs after that,
you know, in the lobby, with the press.
|
22:02
|
|
MARK
DAVIS: Many cameras.
FADLI
ZON: Many cameras
|
22:08
|
|
and
of course,, after the press conference it was so noisy in
Indonesia, Indonesian politics.
|
22:10
|
Trump
nomination campaign press conference with Novanto
|
DONALD
TRUMP: Setya Novotno [sic], one of the most powerful men and a
great man, and his whole group is
here to see me today and…
MARK
DAVIS: Alarm bells rang in Indonesia when Setya Novanto’s
face flashed on the screen -- a man repeatedly investigated on
corruption charges.
|
22:20
|
Saiman
100%
|
BOYAMIN
SAIMAN, ANTI-CORRUPTION LAWYER: Setya Novanto’s reputation
in his career is as a broker.
|
22:39
|
|
MARK
DAVIS: So, he’s like a middle man
|
22:47
|
|
BOYAMIN
SAIMAN: Yes, he’s the liaison, the broker who profits from
the process of government-related business.
|
22:49
|
Saiman
in office on phone
|
MARK
DAVIS: Boyamin Saiman is head of the Indonesian Anti- Corruption
group, MAKI.
|
22:57
|
Saiman
100%. Super: BOYAMIN SAIMAN Coordinator, Indonesian
Anti-Corruption Society
|
MARK
DAVIS: So how many cases or major investigations have you
conducted?
BOYAMIN
SAIMAN: From 12 to 15 cases.
MARK
DAVIS: And how many have involved Setya Novanto?
BOYAMIN
SAIMAN: Five cases, it’s around five cases that I have
handled.
|
23:06
|
Trump
nomination campaign press conference with Novanto
|
MARK
DAVIS: It is a serious breach of the Indonesian government codes
for parliamentary delegations to meet with business people without
authority from the executive and this meeting was not authorised.
DONALD
TRUMP, SEPTEMBER 2015: We will do great things for the United
States.
Is that correct?
SETYA
NOVANTO: Yes.
DONALD
TRUMP: Do they like me in Indonesia?
SETYA
NOVANTO: Yes, I like... Thank you very much.
DONALD
TRUMP: Speaker of the House in Indonesia. Thank you very much.
MARK
DAVIS: Donald Trump may have been correct that the Indonesians he
met seemed to like him, but it may not have been ‘great
things for the United States’ that were being discussed.
|
23:25
|
Zon
and Trump selfie
|
Fadli
Zon recalls only one specific topic at the meeting – it was
about a possible toll road to a Hary Tanoe property that Donald
Trump was interested in.
|
24:03
|
Photo.
Zon and Republican woman
|
A
toll road, remarkably, that was to be in Fadli’s own
electorate of Bogor…
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24:14
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Zon
100%. Super: FADLI ZON Deputy Speaker House of
Representatives
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FADLI
ZON: But then he said he really understood well about the
situation. For example, this theme park in Bogor area that needs
some highway something like that because sometimes it’s
impossible to go there...
he's saying that it's impossible without the toll road.
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24:21
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MARK
DAVIS: A toll road had been mooted to the Bogor region for years
but it had totally stalled.
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24:44
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So,
it makes it possible to do, to do a development and have an
investment.
FADLI
ZON: Yeah. Exactly, yeah.
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24:51
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Photo.
Trump land signing with Tanoe
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MARK
DAVIS: Just one week after he met with the Indonesian politicians,
Donald Trump concluded his deal on the Bogor land with Hary Tanoe.
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24:55
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Novanto/Trump
footage
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Two
months later, Setya Novanto became embroiled in a
multi-billion-dollar bribery scandal involving
an international mining company – and unfortunately for him
that meeting was taped, and played in court.
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25:06
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Courtroom.
On screen text: 10
per cent to be paid in dividends. So as a loan but paid in cash
in dividends… so that’s the strategy you see.
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SETYA
NOVANTO, IN RECORDING:
10
per cent to be paid in dividends. So as a loan but paid in cash
in dividends… so that’s the strategy you see.
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25:22
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Novanto/Trump
footage
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MARK
DAVIS: Remarkably, Setya survived the scandal by claiming he’d
been ‘just joking’.
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25:37
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Lido
land. Forest
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Music
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25:43
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MARK
DAVIS: The land that Tanoe and Trump have done their deal on will
be at Lido, Bogor in the hills behind Jakarta, on the edge of one
of Java’s last virgin forests.
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25:48
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They
are in the final stages of securing 3000 hectares, some of it
state land, other sections belonging to traditional small-scale
farmers.
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26:01
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Davis
with Rajib on land
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So,
this valley here, this is Tanoe land?
RAJIB:
Yeah, mostly, Hary Tanoe land.
MARK
DAVIS: Tanoe and Trump now, Tanoe and Trump.
RAJIB:
Ah, yes.
MARK
DAVIS: The families of these young men have lived and farmed in
these hills for generations.
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26:26
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MARK
DAVIS: And so there’s many valleys like this in this land,
so many villages.
RAJIB:
Yes, many villages.
MARK
DAVIS: How many people in this valley?
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26:32
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RAJIB:
I think maybe… 200 households.
MARK
DAVIS: So maybe a thousand people. And they go, when the resort
starts?
RAJIB:
Yes.
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26:42
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Lido
land rice fields
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MARK
DAVIS: Land agents working for Tanoe’s company have been
buying pockets of land off farmers for years.
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26:57
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Village
houses
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Those
who have held on are now surrounded by Tanoe land and they know
they are about to be swamped by the Tanoe Trump project.
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27:05
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Lido
land rice fields
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What
is being planned here almost defies description.
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27:14
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Lido
PR photos. Super: Corporate image
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Part
theme park, part golf course, resort and residential development
with a Formula 1 racetrack somewhere amongst it all.
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27:19
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Lido
model. Super: Corporate video
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Music
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27:31
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Rajib
and Taufik
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RAJIB:
The Hary Tanoe project is going to be a huge one, a mega project.
And the land here is one of the largest forests in Java.
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28:15
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Davis
with Rajib and Taufik travelling to forest
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MARK
DAVIS: Rajib and his friend Taufik take me up the hills likely to
be soon swathed in villas, to the adjoining National Park.
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28:28
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The
park is one of the few large forests left on Java and it is home
to one of the rarest animals on the planet.
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28:40
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Davis
with Rajib and Taufik walking in forest
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RAJIB:
This is where the spotted leopard can be seen.
MARK
DAVIS: In here?
RAJIB:
Yeah, in here. This is the leopards’ habitat.
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28:49
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Leopard
footage
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MARK
DAVIS: The Javan Leopard is almost extinct. It is notoriously
sensitive to all human activity and noise – presumably that
includes waterslides, Formula 1 racing and probably the mooted sky
train that is being planned from the resort across their forest.
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29:05
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Rajib
and Taufik
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RAJIB:
When the investment power of Trump comes here, we who’ve
lived here for decades can do nothing. Because their great wealth
gives them great influence.
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29:27
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MARK
DAVIS: But it is not just the extinction of the spotted leopard
that is worrying Taufik.
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29:46
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His
father is being pressured by land dealers to sell his house and
farmland - it
will be almost impossible to farm it when adjoining rice fields
disappear.
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29:52
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TAUFIK:
I don’t know, I don’t know if we will be evicted or
our houses destroyed. We don’t know where we would move. So
we’re filled with anxiety over the future, we don’t
know.
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30:02
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Lido
land
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Music
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30:15
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MARK
DAVIS: Beyond the theme park glitz the real financial heart of the
Lido development lies in its potential as residential real estate.
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30:18
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Aerial
over houses
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Jakarta
lies only 70 kilometres away but the jammed roads make it an
unfeasible two-hour trip, three on a bad day. But that should
soon be a thing of the past.
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30:27
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Aerial.
Toll road construction
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Today
the toll road is punching forward into the hills with an offshoot
spiralling off and landing almost directly at the entrance of the
Trump/Tanoe property.
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30:41
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Davis
with Zon interview
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MARK
DAVIS: Fadli Zon estimates that Trump and Tanoe have tripled their
money with the toll road.
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30:54
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FADLI
ZON: Yeah. I think the price increase like three times. Three
times.
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31:01
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Trump
Muslim ban speech during campaign.
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DONALD
TRUMP 2016: Donald J Trump is calling for a total and complete
shutdown of Muslims entering the United States until our country’s
representatives can figure out what the hell is going on.
MARK
DAVIS: As Trump was sharpening his electoral message last year,
another election campaign was unfolding in Indonesia.
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31:08
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Jakarta.
Election footage. Protests.
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Jakarta
was gripped in a tumultuous and at times violent campaign to oust
the governor who was a Christian of Chinese descent. His opponents
claimed that a Christian should not be able to lead Muslims. And
claimed he blasphemed when he said that the Koran did not prohibit
Muslims from voting for him.
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31:32
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Tanoe
on stage
|
Remarkably,
Hary Tanoe, himself a Christian, joined the campaign against the
governor, a campaign driven by former general and Suharto son in
law, Prabowo Subianto.
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32:06
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Prabowo
election speech
|
Prabowo
is banned from travelling to the United States for human rights
abuses during his military career.
|
32:22
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Prabowo
on election walk
|
He
is also the politician most likely to reap the harvest of the new
wave of fundamentalist Islamic politics that has been unleashed in
Indonesia in recent years.
|
32:33
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Witoelar
100%. Super; WIMAR WITOELAR Former presidential adviser
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WIMAR
WITOELAR: Now Tanoe is very strongly standing on the side of
Prabowo to supply the operations cash, and also to position
himself as a possible vice-presidential candidate because it’s
taken for granted that Prabowo will make a grab for the presidency
in one way or another. Now, Hary is not a politically astute
person, but he has enough common sense to use his money where it
could be useful.
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32:47
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Zon
100%. Super: FADLI ZON Deputy Speaker House of
Representatives
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MARK
DAVIS: Prabowo’s party deputy is Fadli Zon.
FADLI
ZON: Well so far, we are in alliance, since last presidential
election. Because we are… we had this Merah Putih
coalition, red and white coalition and Hary Tanoe was part of the
coalition at the time. So, I think we still have some historical
connection, (laughs) and political connection because of that and
so of course, from my party, from Gerindra party, we will propose
Prabowo to be the next president in 2019. We don’t know the
vice president, we will see.
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33:21
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Muslim
people on street
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MARK
DAVIS: For decades Indonesia has been portrayed as the model of a
pluralistic and tolerant Muslim nation.
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33:59
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Davis
walking to Hizbut
Tahrir
|
But
that dynamic is changing. Hard-core Islamic politics entered the
political mainstream this year during the campaign against the
governor. And that is just the beginning
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34:10
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Davis
meets with Yusanto
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according
to some of the groups who drove the protests throughout the
election, like Hizbut
Tahrir.
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34:22
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Yusanto
100%. Super: ISMAIL YUSANTO Spokesperson Hizbut Tahrir
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MARK
DAVIS: Is your ambition to implement Sharia law in Indonesia?
ISMAIL
YUSANTO, SPOKESPERSON, HIZBUT TAHRIR INDONESIA: This is our duty,
not our ambition. It is our duty. Religious duty. Yes, clear.
MARK
DAVIS: And will you succeed?
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34:28
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ISMAIL
YUSANTO: We hope and we will try hard. MARK DAVIS: Hard?
ISMAIL
YUSANTO: Yes.
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MARK
DAVIS: The government doesn’t take too kindly to groups
proposing Sharia law in the current highly charged political
environment and has moved to ban Hizbut Tahrir.
ISMAIL
YUSANTO: Fadli Zon help us
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34:49
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MARK
DAVIS: but they still have some friends in high places.
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35:05
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MARK
DAVIS: So Fadli Zon is a supporter –
ISMAIL
YUSANTO: Yes, yes, yes. Support us, yes.
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35:08
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Photo.
Zon was rally
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MARK
DAVIS: During the election Fadli Zon was centre stage at rallies
where extremist speakers urged the banning of Christians from
politics.
|
35:13
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Zon
100%
|
MARK
DAVIS: But you didn’t condemn that campaign, did you? In
this ... In that election, in the Governor’s election, you
never said ...
|
35:24
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FADLI
ZON: Yeah, yeah, of course, why should I? I mean, that’s
their aspiration.
MARK
DAVIS: Because it’s… the responsible and fair thing
to do, to say…
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35:30
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FADLI
ZON: No. That’s their aspiration. Our aspiration is to…
MARK
DAVIS: Is to win.
FADLI
ZON: Is to win,
|
35:38
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MARK
DAVIS: Okay, what about Mr Prabowo, did he, did he condemn?
|
35:44
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FADLI
ZON: No.
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35:47
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Zon,
Prabowo, Tanoe on stage
|
|
35:49
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MARK
DAVIS: Fadli, Prabowo and Hary Tanoe celebrated together when the
Governor lost the election in April. He’s since been sent to
prison for his alleged blasphemy… two years.
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35:58
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HARY
TANOESOEDIBJO: Good afternoon. May we all be healthy and
prosperous.
MARK
DAVIS: Hary Tanoe is hoping to replicate Donald Trump’s
political success, but his Christian religion may now be a
liability.
|
36:12
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Tanoe
and wife in religious dress. Super: Twitter Video
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Now
Tanoe seems to be working on a more suitable public image…
HARY
TANOESOEDIBJO: Dear viewers we would like to wish you Happy Idul
Fitri.
MARK
DAVIS: His Miss World phase might be coming to an end.
|
36:24
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HARY
TANOESOEDIBJO: May
the peace, mercy, and blessings of Allah be with you.
|
36:40
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Photo.
Tanoe and wife with Trump
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MARK
DAVIS: When Donald Trump signed on with Hary Tanoe it’s
likely his only interest in Indonesia was its property values.
But other values are now at stake.
|
36:51
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Trump
and children on stage
|
President
Donald Trump says his Indonesian businesses will now be in the
hands of his children. He may step back a little now from the
companies he owns but not from the company he keeps.
|
37:02
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Harsono
100%. Super: ANDREAS HARSONO Human Rights Watch Indonesia
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ANDREAS
HARSONO: Well, I’m not going to say Donald Trump is
unethical man, but he is dealing with the worst of Indonesia’s
past, and he is going to deal with the worst of Indonesia’s
future, the Islamist. I think Donald Trump is going to get his
businesses messier and also male Indonesia messier. This is going
to be a messier place.
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37:21
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Story
recap shots
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Music
|
37:51
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Outpoint
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38:50
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