Paging Office of Religious Freedom, Canada .... Q 4 U: Did the Canadian govt give $34 Million to Indonesia to enable them to bulldoze Christian churches?

 Dear ORF ... Please do us a  favor and demand to know why  our Canadian government, between 2010 and 2011,  sent  $34 M  in foreign aid to Indonesia?  Was it because we wanted the Indonesia government to empower their police services to bulldoze the Christian churches there?

Please read  these Minutes of the Standing Committee on Finance held on February 7, 2013 where a participant, Mr.Thomas Cardamone (MD of Global Financial Integrity) had this to say, among other things:

.......This topic is of particular relevance to Canada because of its long-standing commitment to reducing poverty worldwide. Through CIDA, Canada gives billions of dollars annually to developing countries, yet its contribution is dwarfed by the amount of illicit money flowing out of those recipient nations.
    For example, in 2010 and 2011 Canada provided approximately $34 million in aid to Indonesia. According to our most recent report on illicit financial flows from developing countries, Indonesia lost on average $11 billion in illicit funds every year from 2001 to 2010.
    If this money had remained in Indonesia, countless infrastructure, poverty alleviation, and social welfare projects could have been implemented successfully, reducing the need for future aid.
    How does this happen? In developing countries, where governance can be weak, trade-based money laundering, tax evasion, black market transactions, bulk cash movements, smuggling, and corruption are among the mechanisms used to facilitate illicit capital flight. The underground economies of developing countries in general promote weak governance, which in turn cyclically strengthens the underground economy.........

Dear ORF ..... do you see the Christians crying in the vid below?  They are crying because the Indonesian govt sent their police services with bulldozers and flattened their one lonely little church that catered  to more than 500 Christians in that area.



From WWMonitor via BaptistNews:
When a backhoe tore down the barely finished walls    of the Batak Protestant Church near Jakarta, Indonesia, the remaining pile of rubble became the latest setback to Christians trying to retain a toehold in the world's most populous Muslim country.

The church, in the Bekasi subdistrict of Jakarta on the Indonesian island of Java, had been meeting in a residential house every Sunday for the past 13 years. When the congregation swelled to about 600 members, pastor Adven Leonard Nababan applied early this year for a building permit. The church obtained signatures of 60 non-Christian neighbors as required by law.

Certain the church had met all the permit rules, yet mindful that local governments in Indonesia can be slow to approve them, Nababan ordered construction to proceed -- a not uncommon practice among churches in a country where applications often languish.

But when the walls began to go up in January, about 750 Bekasi Muslims took to the streets in protest. On March 5, police sealed the site and told church elders to demolish what had been built so far. They refused.



Bekasi officials declared the 60 signatures to be fake, and sent their own demolition crew to the church building site March 21, in a sector called Taman Sari. About 150 members of Batak Protestant Church, commonly referred to as HKBP, were waiting, singing hymns and praying.

"They locked arms and stood together in front of the church to stop the demolition team," a Christian witness to the demolition said. "The HKBP pastor stood in the midst of his congregation. He said to them, 'We are part of the Body of Christ.'"

"Not far from the HKBP pastor were about 300 Muslims who clapped their hands and shouted 'Alahu Akbar,' " he said. "Some are members of the Islamic Peoples' Forum and the Islamic Defenders Front. They wore white robes.".............