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Tuesday, September 13, 2011

Gold Mining and Exploration in Indonesia

By Dave Brown exclusive to Gold Investing News

Indonesia consists of more than 17,500 islands and the vast polyglot nation hosts a population of around 238 million. The country boasts a rich endowment of natural resources, including considerable deposits of crude oil, natural gas, tin, copper, coal and gold. Indonesia’s prolific petrochemical production rates it within the top 10, currently at number 7 for natural gas exports in the world. Indonesia shares land borders with Papua New Guinea, East Timor, and Malaysia. Regional neighboring countries include Australia, Singapore and the Philippines.

The United States Geologic Survey indicates that Indonesia’s total estimated gold reserves are approximately equivalent with those of the United States; however, last year, Indonesia produced less than half the total of gold compared with the United States. For investors with a more risk tolerant profile, this divergence might suggest a potential for undervalued regional gold opportunities.

Current Economic Situation

Indonesia has survived the global financial crisis relatively smoothly, as the result of its strong reliance on domestic consumption as a catalyst for economic growth. It is currently the largest economy in Southeast Asia and maintains membership within the G-20 major economies.

Although the economy slowed significantly from growth rates over 6 percent recorded in 2007 and 2008, it still expanded at 4 percent in the first half of 2009. Indonesia outperformed its regional neighbors and joined China and India as the only G20 members posting growth during the crisis.

In recent years, Indonesia’s debt-to-GDP ratio has significantly been reduced because of increasingly robust GDP growth and sound fiscal stewardship. On July 13, the Japanese Credit Rating Agency upgraded Indonesia’s investment grade from BB+ to BBB.

The government used fiscal stimulus measures and monetary policy to counter the effects of the crisis and offered cash transfers to poor families; in addition, campaign spending in advance of legislative and presidential elections in April and July helped sustain consumption. The government made economic advances under the first administration of President Yudhoyono, introducing significant reforms in the financial sector, including tax and customs reforms, the use of Treasury bills, and capital market development and supervision.

Indonesia struggles with poverty and unemployment, inadequate infrastructure, corruption, a complex regulatory environment, and unequal resource distribution among regions. The 2009 reelection can be seen as an affirmation of public support for the president and his vice president, highly regarded economist Boediono, dubbed “Indonesia’s financial rudder” and listed as one of the Wharton School’s 125 Influential People and Ideas in 2007. The election success could also suggest broad continuity of current economic policy, although, the start of their term has been marred by corruption scandals.

Investment Climate and Risk

The government expectations suggest weaker production from natural resources in 2011, partially due to new domestic processing requirements, that require mined ore and minerals to be refined locally after a five-year transition period. This will require significant capital expenditures, which will reduce some corporate non-tax liabilities, reducing the government’s revenue growth. There is considerable uncertainty around the extent of impact on revenue estimates and how successful the government will be at enforcing this requirement by 2014. The government is currently reconciling the challenge of attracting international investment and improving Indonesia’s insufficient infrastructure to remove impediments to economic growth, while addressing climate change mitigation and adaptation needs, particularly with concern of forest and peatland conservation.

Opportunities

International mixed metal producer Freeport-McMoRan Copper & Gold (NYSE:FCX) mines, processes and explores for ore containing copper, gold and silver with operations in the remote highlands in the province of Papua. The Grasberg mining complex is a relatively large producer of both copper and gold, and contains significant recoverable reserves of copper as well as gold. Open-pit mining of the Grasberg ore body began in 1990 and is expected to continue until mid-2015, at which time the Grasberg underground mining operations are scheduled to begin. Grasberg is at the heart of a highly prospective minerals district, where ongoing exploration may further expand the recoverable resources. As of December 31, 2009, the company reported consolidated recoverable proven and probable reserves estimated at 104.2 billion pounds of copper, 37.2 million ounces of gold, 2.59 billion pounds of molybdenum, 270.4 million ounces of silver and 0.78 billion pounds of cobalt.

Top tier global gold producer Newmont Mining Corporation (TSE:NMC) (NYSE:NEM) is involved in poly-metallic mining joint venture on the island of Sumbawa along with the PT Newmont Nusa Tenggara (PTNNT) at the Batu Hijau mine facility. The open pit mine has primarily been producing copper concentrate with a gold byproduct since 2000. At the current production rate, the company expects to be operating for the next two decades. PT Newmont Nusa Tenggara (PTNNT) is an Indonesian joint venture company partially owned by Nusa Tenggara Partnership and by PT Pukuafu Indah.

East Asia Minerals Corporation (CVE:EAS) is a mineral exploration company with gold and copper exploration properties in Indonesia, as well as uranium exploration properties in Mongolia. In Indonesia the company has a 70-85 percent interest in six advanced gold and gold-copper properties. Also of potential interest for investors is that East Asia Minerals owns eight uranium properties, including the advanced Ingiin-Nars, Ulaan Nuur and Enger uranium projects, and two phosphate properties in Mongolia.

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Indonesia first president soekarno’s gold

PROPERTY trove of relics of former president Sukarno during this remains a mystery, not even a little doubt. Case Search treasure peniggalan failure at the Palace of King Siliwangi Batutulis some time ago, seemed dashed hopes of people to believe things that are difficult to prove the truth.

But the man who calls himself a warrior named Soenuso Goroyo piningit Sukarno claimed to be able to lift First President’s legacy. Shape the form of hundreds of pieces of gold bullion, platinum, certificates of deposit guarantee bonds, and others. “This new sample and please check out the truth. If a lie, I was ready to be hanged, “he said, last Friday, told the press.

Former military members who formerly named Suwito was deliberately inviting reporters at his home, Green Housing Cullinan, Bogor, Bekasi border area, to witness the discovery. In his grand enough people prepared dishes like a celebration. Understandably, Goroyo, so he used to be addressed, also invites Jaya military commander, police chief, and members Muspida. But of them, no officials came.

To his guest, RA Lastika husband shows a large box containing hundreds of pieces of gold bullion, each weighing eight ounces of Sukarno and the picture behind it there are pictures of rice and cotton. On one side there are 80 posts 9999 24K. Meanwhile white gold (platinum) is also bearing the horseshoe-shaped white bullion marked JM Mathey London. Metal was certified gold and gold-wrapped as well.

source : http://www.kaskus.us/showthread.php?t=4423912

The Secret Gold Treaty


Allen Dulles, his brother, John Foster, and James Jesus Angleton are central to this story. The Dulles brothers were at the heart of a conspiracy dedicated to eradicating Communism and shifting the political spectrum of the world far to the right. This was part of a strategy designed to benefit the business interests of an elite group of iron-willed men who sat atop a network of transnational companies in the US, Japan and Europe.

This elite liked what Mussolini and Hitler were trying to do in Europe and were happy to finance both fascists in order to place them in the seats of power in Italy and Germany. These power brokers would later learn that the Austrian Corporal had a mind of his own and would not be content to be a mannequin for larger interests. The result was World War II.

Throughout the Second World War secret discussions took place between various factions in Germany and the US and Great Britain aimed at finding an acceptable formula that would bring peace to Western Europe and result in a coalition of the West that was militarily capable of defeating Stalin and the Soviet Union.

By 1942, with the defeat of the Third Reich in Stalingrad, it became clear to many of the more observant players that Germany would lose the war. As a consequence, secret discussions and peace-feelers increased in intensity. One of those who quickly formed the opinion that Germany would be defeated was Walter Schellenberg, chief of the SS Foreign Intelligence Service.

In spite of the horrendous crimes that the SS was guilty of, it was regarded by one Catholic archbishop as the "most respectable of the Nazi Party organizations." Unarguably the SS was the very elite of the Third Reich and attracted an officer corps composed of the well–to-do, the well-connected and the blue-blooded of Germany. The latter included the Grand Duke of Mecklenburg, Prince Wilhelm of Hesse and the Prince von Hohenzollern -- and in an honorary role, the Prince of Lippe-Biesterfeld, who is better known to the world as Prince Bernhard of the Netherlands.

Most members of this elite inner circle of the SS were against Hitler and were content to engage in an on-going series of secret peace talks with a hard core of extreme right-wing groups in the US and UK aimed at deposing Hitler in favour of Himmler -- who, despite his humble origins, possessed real power and who made the right diplomatic noises about maintaining a relationship with the Vatican. Underlying these peace discussions was a joint understanding that a war should be prosecuted by Germany and the West against Russia to defeat Communism.

The man chosen by Walter Schellenberg to oversee these negotiations was Prince Max von Hohenlohe, who, as early as 1942, approached Sir Samuel Hoare -- a member of a right-leaning British group under Lord Halifax. Getting no results, Schellenberg instructed Hohenlohe to open a channel with the US. In January 1943, Hohenlohe met with Allen Dulles in Geneva.

For the remainder of the war, Dulles maintained intimate connections with the SS despite orders from the President to cease and desist. For Dulles, business came well ahead of loyalty to one's country. The result of these early contacts, as we have earlier seen, was Operation Sunrise and the absorption of large contingents of the SS and Gestapo into the US anti-communist cause.

According to whispers circulating in the black gold market, the Dulles brothers, James Jesus Angleton and others associated with the story of World War II plunder did not object to acquiring a personal share of the loot. How true this rumour is is not known, but Sterling Seagrave in his book The Yamato Dynasty reveals that former US President Herbert Hoover and General Douglas MacArthur each had large gold bullion accounts valued in the tens of millions of dollars.

PART 4.1a - DEEPER SECRETS
What the foregoing shows is that there is, and has been for many decades, a conspiracy of silence relating to the actual – as opposed to official – quantity of mined gold in the world. Words fail to convey the global significance of this purposely concealed disparity. In fact, the difference between official figures and reality represents a gulf so wide and a secret so dark as to be nearly unbelievable. But the facts are now evident.

Speaking openly of this particular aspect of the story is not without some perceived dangers, and I do so with reservations that are tempered only by the knowledge that, in the last analysis, the truth should be told. Although this statement may seem fanciful I can assure readers that others who are also in the know share this concern and I am not alone in taking measures to protect and duplicate my files.

No one who earns a living from the world of gold or who trades or holds the noble metal as an asset – including most governments, central banks, the intelligence community, heads of state, narcotics cartels, organised crime clans and, of course, the all powerful gold banks -- wish “their” market and this “secret” to be disturbed by reality. For too long these and other forces have perpetrated a myth designed to penalise the many while enriching the few – very much a direct consequence of the final dismantling of the Bretton Woods Agreement by the Nazi- and Mafia- associated President, Richard Nixon, in 1971.

Readers of this Dossier will see for themselves from the papers of the late Baron Krupp that are provided in the Appendices that the richest man in the world certainly is not Microsoft’s Bill Gates, who is a real latecomer so far as the wealth stakes are concerned. The figures shown by Carl Letermeyer, Baron Krupp’s attorney, reveal that the rgb(0, 0, 221);">House of Krupp earned income during the early mid Eighties that, on average, was greater than $2 trillion a year. Whether these prodigious sums belonged entirely to Krupp, or whether, instead, the Krupp Foundation was used to launder huge quantities of loot, remains uncertain. Rumours and whispers point in the latter direction and may point to a conspiracy that has a distasteful hard right-wing smell to it.

We now know that just one Golden Lily “777” treasure site was worth almost $200 billion in 1945 US dollars. We also know that there were dozens of triple seven sites, plus some triple nines and, of course, tens of dozens of smaller troves. In fact, Japan’s Golden Lily teams stashed plunder in a minimum of 172 burial sites on the Philippines alone.[i]

A reliable estimate is that the value of gold at these 172 sites collectively totalled $100 trillion in 1945 US dollars – a figure that simply dwarfs the present day global debt. This sum is so massive as to be virtually incomprehensible -- yet it probably does not include the complete figures, as we shall see.

Others who have investigated this story sensibly avoid mentioning such figures, knowing that the perceptions of the uninformed -- and, perhaps even of experts -- will be that they are preposterous–and that this perception may tend to create an undesirable attitude that will discount the rest of their work. There are other fears besides these, too.

Meanwhile, we need note that a very considerable quantity of Japanese plunder was also buried throughout Indonesia and there is evidence to suppose that there were other sites in Korea, too. The Philippines, although the largest site for buried treasure, was by no means the only one.

A feeling for what we are dealing with took place some moths ago between me and a knowledgeable individual in these matters who, for convenience's sake, I will call "Tom." This individual contacted me some months ago seeking to exchange information in the hope of clarifying a number of questions he had regarding a corpus of information he had been made privy to over a number of years. Significantly, he was cognizant of Peter Johnston’s story and knew of his arrest and troubles. He also knew about some of the people and firms Johnston was in contact with at the time of his arrest. It seemed clear he had followed the case at the time – and remembered it.

Tom told me he had been involved in what he termed “international business” for the past 25 years, during which time he had become familiar with transactions involving black market gold and other precious metals. He said that this was not his principal business, adding that he found most of the approaches made to him about gold little more than irritations.

Tom went on to reveal that a few years ago he became personally involved with the story of “Sukarno’s Treasure,” and a large cache of gold hidden in the jungles of Indonesia. In the early 1990s, a long-time friend and business partner of his met a Filipino gentleman (whose identity I am aware of), who was a retired lawyer now living in the United States. This gentleman was an intimate of Bung Sukarno, who appointed him the principal trustee of Sukarno's fabled gold hoard -- the so called “Revolutionary Fund.” This person was also intimately knowledgeable about President Marcos's own dealings in black gold and, as Tom relayed it to me,
font-size:85%;">style="margin: 0pt 2px 0pt 6px;" align="left"> "he has doc's and significant knowledge re Marcos dealings, deposits in various banks & the relationship and dealings between Marcos & Sukarno."

Tom then added:

"For whatever reasons, after the death of Sukarno control over this evidently personal fortune was turned over not to his immediate family heirs, but rather to the safe keeping of a group of individuals called "gurus." These gurus had been instructed by Sukarno, in writing I understand, to contact [the trustee] & to look to him for leadership with regard to how and what when it came to the stashed cache of valuables. The issue of how & why [the trustee] gained what ever authority and control he has over all this stuff that's hidden in the jungles of Indonesia, and also the issue of whether his authority has any larger legitimacy is probably important. But this doesn't belie the fact that apparently he does have at least some significant degree of control over it; i.e. he knows how to get to it, he's the recognized connection to & for the people physically holding it, and he has authority as "mandated trustee" over it in writing from Sukarno (I've seen the document)."

Tom continues:

"Over the past few years I've also seen and been able to peruse many thousands of pages of apparently original aging bank documents and statements pertaining to the personal assets and fortune, of the late Sukarno. According to the master document I've seen these assets, precious metals & also cash totalled 270 T. U$ in 1964, and are supposedly on deposit with UBS, SBC and various other major world banks. I say supposedly because evidently they are but they aren't; but this is another story."

The apparently paradoxical statement that "...they are but they aren't," will be clarified shortly from other sources. Much of this had a very familiar ring to it and I felt it likely that he was discussing many of the same certificates of deposit that Dr. Damanik had access to.

Tom continued his story:

"Also about five years ago several Americans I've worked with, known and trusted to the very highest degree for more than twenty-five years now, travelled to Indonesia with [the trustee]. While there they were taken to several repositories, in the jungle mountains of Irian Jaya and some other places in the Indonesian islands, (at each location after several days trekking through the jungles where they were allowed freely and at their leisure to view and inspect all that was there and anything and everything they wanted to see, handle or kick-the-tires of). In these repositories was and still is a very very large volume of valuables - Art objects; Gems; Jewelry; and a extremely large volume of precious metals. To quote my friend, I have never seen anything like this in my life. There was stack upon stack and row upon row, of beautifully made UBS origin precious metal storage boxes, all containing 1KG J. M. Hallmarked Gold or Platinum bars, each bar with a unique number and certificate [i.e., one kilogram bars bearing the Johnson Mathey hallmark]. There were some large jade carvings, gems, etc. etc. It was like the Arabian Nights. At this time, along with stacks of files and doc's (several large suit cases full) pertaining to the Sukarno metal deposits in UBS, several bars were brought back to the US and are presently in a safety-box here."

Significantly, Sukarno's trustee agreed to allow a selection of bars drawn at random from the cache to enable them to be drilled and analysed to verify their purity and metal content (a bar number and description was provided to this writer for verification purposes). Also, a number of UBS and SBC documents that were also provided during the same trip later were able to be verified genuine.

As interesting and, indeed, as important as this information was, there was a still more significant surprise awaiting me. According to Tom, Sukarno's trustee explained that all this gold and other plunder was originally intended:

"...to be the reserve for a third world non-aligned nations bank that Sukarno was going to set up with HQ in Indonesia.”

In one stroke much of the smoke and mirrors that had surrounded Dr. Damanik's own reticent explanations to Peter Johnson were clarified.

Sukarno's plan to found a non-aligned world bank is of the greatest historical significance. The establishment of such a powerful entity possessing gold reserves that dwarfed those available to the West would have sent shivers of fear down the backs of Western governments and the European and US banking fraternity, which just a few years earlier had concluded the Bretton Woods Agreement, resulting in the establishment of the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund. Both institutions remain the primary vehicles for keeping Third World nations impoverished -- a fact that benefits a wealthy West dedicated to a social structure dependent on consumerism.

It is more than likely that this plan for a non-aligned nations’ world bank formed the substantive backdrop to the 1955 Bandung conference of non-aligned nations that so clearly caused concern for the Bilderberg group in 1955 -- and which Dr. Damanik darkly referenced in his discussions with Peter Johnston. Founding such a bank would certainly have galvanized the intelligence community into action and may very well amount to the real motive -- and hitherto an even deeper secret -- behind the CIA's decision, commencing 1955, to corral and then overthrow President Sukarno.

Tom observed:

"I can understand no one wanting to upset the apple cart with regard to the current status of metal in the bank, legal or not, that may or may not have legitimately belonged to a dead third world leader. In fact I've been told very rudely by one banker that the banks who issued the deposit certificates in question do not and never did have anything to do with them ... the heirs of Sukarno have no right to any of these deposits ... and they are currently being controlled and operated by 'legally appointed names,' but these individuals have nothing to do with anything Indonesian."

This state of the affairs neatly dovetails with the facts regarding Peter Johnston's and Dr. Damanik's gold certificates. If Sukarno (and Marcos et al) did not control the gold -- and since it was stolen during World War II by the Golden Lily, clearly they didn't -- who does control it and why does such a fortune remain undisturbed in the jungles of Indonesia?

This cache of Sukarno gold was, Tom said:

"stashed, left, & has been just held in secret for a long time, at the very least since the 1960s. Also evidently there hasn't been any attempt to launder it, sell any of it off or do much else with it - the only thing I've heard, but don't have anything other than [the trustee] story to substantiate, is that a few years ago a son of one of the people charged with guarding some of this treasure made a deal to sell 200 tonnes of the AU to some Hong Kong people, he spirited it away to Singapore and later ended up dead in a hotel there. Also evidently the only thing anyone seems to have tried to do is something with the CDs relating to metal deposits in Swiss banks, all without result so far as I know."

Suspicious deaths of individuals involved in trying to move, sell or launder black gold are fairly common and, naturally, lead to great care and caution amongst those who try to recover and move hoards of treasure from their burial sites. This caution usually extends to the practice of not discussing details of such transactions with anyone other than intimates. Again, the reference to failed attempts to sell gold certificates backed by this gold parallels Peter Johnston's own experience.

Having digested the information received from Tom, I posed a number of subsequent questions to him. He replied saying:

"Yes, when I said 270 T I meant US$ 270 Trillion. This is the 'Value' figure indicated on the top of a UBS 'Master' document [the trustee] has. As it's on their letter head evidently it was put together by UBS. This document is a very long listing of account or certificate ID#s, on a page about 3+ feet square. One can match ID numbers of individual certificates against numbers found on this list. Also some numbers have indications that these have been loaned to or are/were being used by someone (NASA funding, UK Crown are only a few I remember). I assume these certificates and their periodic statements, the related warehouse receipts and this master document refer only to the Au & PT being held by UBS in storage. Also I assume these don't concern the hoard of Au, Pt, art & gems that's still hidden in the jungles."


"To give you an idea of what's involved. There are: - Bank certificates indicating Au and Pt on deposit with UBS; thousands of tons total! - Yearly Statements regarding many of these accounts sent out by the banks concerned to three designated world locations (most recent of these I've seen personally are dated 1994). Most of these are hundreds of pages each. - Vault Keys & Depositor I.D. cards made of gold, Warehouse receipts, all related to these UBS accounts and vaults. - Bank CDs related to cash, issued by banks such as Credit Suisse, SBC, HKSB, Bank of Tokyo. - Accounts in several other major and minor world banks. - A Power of Trusteeship Document granted to [the trustee] which I understand gives him authority to govern and administer certain aspects if not all of this estate (And which I also understand IS on file with the Swiss government and several Swiss banking institutions). - Finally, the 'Master List' above mentioned."


"Although we have all these documents indicating metal & also cash on deposit with UBS and other banks, many thousands of pages, never the less, I am told several puzzling & seemingly contradictory things by a banker who to me clearly appears to have some inside knowledge re these matters:

1.) That UBS, Credit Suisse and SBC 'Do not and never did have anything to do with these deposits'. This, even though all these documents are on the letterheads of UBS, Cr Swiss, SBC, etc., and even though these banks have sent and continue to send out yearly statements regarding these deposits.

2.) That 'These accounts are currently operative, not dormant; and the people who run them do so with the proper authority'. However, 'NO heir of Sukarno or Marcos has any right to govern any of these accounts and deposits ... or has any authority whatever over these accounts. Those are not their own ... private family ... accounts, to be bequeathed to family or designated heirs'. This, although Sukarno's name, signature and picture, as well as that of some of his family members, are on these certificates and accounts (also Marcos on some others I gather).

3.) Also related to Marcos, 'These accounts are being properly administered by the appointed "names". The Credit Suisse "cash'' account alone is now over $3 billion, spread over 200 accounts (for Marcos personal share only, of course)'. And, 'Why doesn't anyone ask Imee and her husband about the Deutsche Bank deposits in his name? Why is he completely uninterested in recovering any assets?' 4.) Finally, although I'm told 'The truth of all this is much simpler than the elaborate speculations which have allowed brokers of all sorts to cheerfully attempt to screw each other'. At the same time I am rather rudely instructed 'not to delve deeply into matters that can earn you more knowledge than you should be reasonably comfortable having.'"

In a later exchange, Tom revealed that Sukarno's trustee told him that:

"UBS tried to bribe him in 1992, this was when he went to Switzerland to talk to UBS and present his credentials and position statement. I don't remember exactly but I think they offered him $100 million cash & 100 tons of Au to go away and forget about it. Also, I believe there were at least 2 others who [the trustee] had given original certificates to present to UBS who were bribed; one lady somehow connected with the World Bank, and another man somehow connected to the then mayor of Paris. Then there's the incident of the SBC $25 million FCM note #4507 B.L."


"About 4+ years ago we met with some retired US treasury dept. people. Among the many things [the trustee] has they chose a $25 million FCM (or FMC ?) note to work with. As I understand this is a US dollar Swiss treasury note of some kind issued by SBC. This note has reached maturity and I believe it's now worth in the neighborhood of $80 million. The note is in the name of one of Sukarno's former wives named Harteeni (sp?). [The trustee] has the documentation to show that she has signed it over to him, thus if there were any doubt Harteeni is still living so conceivably she could confirm this."


"To try to make a long story short. When these retired treasury people presented a copy of this note to UBS NY requesting arrangements be made for payment on it to [the trustee], law officers of some kind were called in, the copy of the note was confiscated and they were charged by the bank with presenting a false document. A court date was set, and far from being distraught I can tell you that [the trustee] and the retired treasury people were very happy, because now this was going to be a beginning in bringing up the matter of all of Sukarno's deposits, [the trustee's] trusteeship, etc. etc.

However when they went to court neither the UBS NY lady lawyer who had brought the charge, [lawyer's name withheld], nor anyone else from UBS showed up to pursue or press the charge. Finally I can tell you that at the present time one of the retired treasury people has filed a written complaint with his US Senator, complaining that his rights were violated by what happened. The Senator has begun his own investigation of the matter, feeling that someone's trying to cover up something & also maybe he can get the democrats on this. However I've heard the Senator's preliminary investigation has run into a lot of roadblocks and hasn't gotten very far."

I have cited Tom's story at some length, not only because it fills in many gaps in Peter Johnston's own story, but also because it is highly revealing in its own right. Tom sought answers to the many questions he had about the foregoing, not least the curious involvement of the numerous international banks involved, not as principals, but as representatives for others. As we shall see, it is almost certainly the case that these "others" are a group of nations who were party to a secret agreement to exert control over plundered World War II gold and other assets and to ensure these did not enter the banking system or otherwise be utilised without such nations’ approval.


Footnotes

[i] See Seagrave, Sterling, The Yamato Dynasty (London: Bantam Press, 1999) for a more detailed background on the nature, size and quantity of Golden Lily plunder sites in the Philippines.


PART 4.2 - DEFROCKING THE SECRET TREATY

Exciting as Tom's revelations were, I still needed to make sense of the underlying structure that appeared to govern this mountain of gold still hidden in Southeast Asia.


The answer to this enigma appears to reside in a secret meeting held in 1972 in which 48 nations (or representatives from 48 nations) participated that formalised an earlier informal agreement (dare I say a "Secret Treaty?") to control and "use" the metal plundered during World War II. By all accounts, bullion banks, central banks, and also refineries have since joined in this arrangement and have formed an unofficial "club" to police and control the black gold that they henceforward designated as being on "vacation." This appears to imply that gold plundered during World War II, whether it is kept in bank vaults beneath Zurich Airport or concealed in burial sites in the Philippines or Indonesia makes little real difference to those who are pulling the strings. In any event this ratification remains "unofficial."


The secret 1972 meeting occurred just one year after President Nixon closed the gold window and one year before the Trilateral Commission was founded -- an event that resulted in the integration of Japan into the Western fold. As we have seen from previous pages, a number of reports indicate that the Trilateral Commission is a large mover and shaker in the world of black gold.


According to information I have received, almost all of the gold plundered by Japan's Golden Lily came from official state reserves (see images on this page) and thus the exact amounts plundered were obviously known and clearly hallmarked -- one reason Ferdinand Marcos hired Bob Curtis to alter the metal’s "fingerprint" of the gold Marcos had recovered and Marcos insisted that "his" metal should not be offered for sale on any of the world’s seven official bullion markets.


Yet one has to ask why these gold reserves -- which have been known about by senior officials and bankers in the US and in Europe, at least since 1945 -- have been allowed to remain in situ rather than being returned to the dozen or so Southeast Asian nations to which they rightfully belong. In keeping the existence of this plunder a secret and not permitting its integration in the official global banking and financial system appears, on the face of it, to be little more than a contravention of international law, somewhat akin to piracy, doesn’t it?


But that is not all. Those individuals and groups that today are legitimately working to privately recover (under existing laws governing "treasure troves") gold and other treasure stashed in the Philippines and elsewhere by the Golden Lily cannot dispose of the assets they have recovered without going through the banking system; apart, that is, from comparatively small deals that occasionally take place between private parties.


Moreover, it has been suggested by one knowledgeable source that the money earned by private treasure hunters who are directed through this labyrinth is a fraction of the current value of the metal they recover -- a fact that is corroborated by Sukarno's trustee. The powers that be have decreed that the found metal is nevertheless not theirs to dispose of as they please -- despite the fact that they have legally recovered it and legitimately own it. Instead it "belongs" to an unofficial and immensely powerful "club" the members of which rigorously control distribution for their own ends -- whatever they may be. Clearly, this is a case of the arrogance of might and muscle stamping international law to a pulp.


It also seems that a mechanism is in place governing the movement of this metal. The gold and platinum that are permitted to enter the banking system are indirectly and unobtrusively "vectored" through cut-outs until they reach -- so I am informed -- an arm's-length associate firm of the Union Bank of Switzerland. This firm, in turn, is said to operate on behalf of an un-named American entity that is believed to be the Federal Reserve. This arrangement and line of access exactly parallels the transactional guidelines given to Peter Johnston by Dr. Damanik.


When I say "enter the banking system," this does not necessarily mean physical movement. Indeed, as we have seen with the Sukarno revelations, large quantities of bullion remain immobile in the jungles of Indonesia. A great deal also remains untouched and still buried in the Philippines.


Physical accessibility is not necessary or, perhaps, even desirable for the powers that be. If the gold cannot be moved except with their express permission, it is for all intents and purposes little different from bullion that is locked and guarded in a bank vault -- where change of ownership is customarily effected by book transfer and/or the exchange of paper certificates denoting ownership.


We have also seen from some accounts that this metal can be utilized -- perhaps hypothecated -- as an asset to generate funding for a variety of purposes, including, it appears, America's NASA projects and certain projects on behalf of the British crown. Another source has indicated the involvement of this gold in the construction of sophisticated weapon systems, including ICBMs during the Cold War. It is impossible to corroborate these claims but, if true, such usage would certainly have been protected by state secrecy, I imagine. Moreover, according to documents Peter Johnston provided, some metal has been leased to sovereign nations on a long-term basis -- even though the borrower must have known that the gold was both legally and technically "stolen." Meanwhile, there are almost certainly numerous other projects for which this plunder has acted as collateral.


That these arrangements (the Secret Treaty) remain secret and unofficial means they are unaccountable and are thus absent of any scrutiny by democratically elected officials and, more worrying, the public at large. It is not even known for certain that those who act on behalf of sovereign nations in this respect have done so with the consent of their own democratic institutions. One cannot help but ask if each and every president since 1945 was made aware of this deepest secret. We do know as a matter of historical fact that Allen Dulles did not shirk from betraying his president and country. His loyalties lay first and foremost with an international group of powerful businessmen.


That being the case, is it not possible to suggest that this is a secret kept by a fairly small and tight club for their own ends -- and if you're not one of them (to use Margaret Thatcher's terminology "is he one of us?") you are kept out of the charmed circle? And if these are valid questions to ask, then is it possible to identify who "they" might be?


As we have already seen two elite and interlocked groups -- the Trilateral Commission and the Bilderberg group -- have their fingerprints all over this story. Might their aim be to slowly and stealthily engineer the world into whatever image and shape they wish? Colonel Fletcher Prouty, in his excellent book, JFK, chills his readers with what he believes the scenario of this elite is: war for profit, genocide to depopulate the world to what are regarded as manageable levels and, ultimately, the introduction of mechanisms aimed at social control. If democratically elected leaders such as JFK get in the way of the elite’s plans, they are terminated. In outlining this frightening scene, Prouty also argues that the Cold War was, to some extent anyway, a charade, since members of Russia’s own elite had gone along with this programme since at least 1972. Clearly, having access to almost unimaginable sums of money confers a degree of power that is almost beyond dream. One knowledgeable former Swiss banker says that the members of the "club" who control access to these assets already have plans to go "global."


Even today, secrecy remains at the heart of this decades old intrigue and I do not think it an over-statement to regard this story as the biggest secret of them all. What little I truly know of the dispensation of power and the perennial behind-the-scenes scheming by unelected, unaccountable members of a shadowy cabal fills me with no confidence that they will, or plan, to, do the right thing for the majority of us. What is known of their modus operandi points to a creed of self-righteous greed and an appalling absence of morality that to most of us would chill the marrow. One can easily imagine they see themselves as the modern gods of Olympus cruelly toying with mankind even as they lazily drop a grape into their mouths or sip a goblet of wine.


If I had not had the assistance of Peter Johnston in providing me with his bulging files four and half years ago, this story would not have been told. It is fitting, therefore, that the last words of this Dossier call for Peter's besmirched name to be cleared. Peter, at all times, WAS empowered with legally binding authority to dispose of the assets legally controlled by Dr. Damanik. Peter had no way of knowing that a secret cabal with immense power would be threatened by his efforts to dispose of these assets. His arrest, trial and imprisonment constitute a blatant miscarriage of justice that, at the very least, emanated from the Union Bank of Switzerland, which, in turn, was aided and abetted by the Bank of England. Others stood idly by, thus compounding his wrongful imprisonment.

ENDS

Garuda Pancasila, Tatanan Dunia Baru, Freemason dan Bung Karno

Burung garuda yang digantungi perisai itu ialah lambang tenaga pembangun. Di kenal dalam peradaban nusantara, mitos yang dilukiskan di candi Dieng, Prambanan, dan Panataran. Ada kalanya dengan memakai gambaran berupa manusia dengan berparuh burung dan bersayap, sebagaimana di Dieng yang sangat mirip dengan gambaran dewa Horus di Mesir. Kemudian di candi Prambanan dan Sukuh rupanya seperti burung dengan paruh panjang yang melambangkan proses perjalanan kepada keabadian. Meskipun rupanya agak berbeda, tetapi ide dan konsepnya sama dengan mitos burung phoenix yang menjadi salah satu dari sekian banyak simbol Freemasonry.

Gerakan pemuda seperti Boedi Oetomo atau perkumpulan Jong dari berbagai propinsi, sejatinya adalah senjata kelompok Freemason atau dalam bahasa Belanda Vrijmetselarij yang turut berperan dalam proses kemerdekaan Indonesia, di mana kemerdekaan Indonesia sendiri bukanlah karena murni berdasarkan ide kemerdekaan yang dicantumkan dalam Pembukaan UUD 45. Melainkan atas gagasan untuk menjadikan Indonesia sebagai lahan perah bagi kepentingan Freemason. Mengapa? Karena sejumlah tokoh bangsa adalah anggota perkumpulan tersebut.

Monsterverbond adalah kelompok elit dalam VOC yang terdiri dari tiga pilar seperti disimbolkan dalam lambang mason. Dua pilar utama yang melambangkan pilar Jachin dan Boaz adalah gerbang menuju pilar selanjutnya dalam simbol kuil Solomon yang disebut altar batu. Monsterverbond dalam VOC digerakkan oleh dua orang asing dan seorang pribumi. Sejatinya Monsterverbond yang menjadi elit penggerak dalam VOC adalah bagian dari kelompok Freemasonry atau Vrijmetselarij. Dalam sejarah Indonesia pola ini terus menerus dipertahankan. Oleh karena itu banyak tokoh-tokoh di era awal kemerdekaan Indonesia juga masuk dalam kelompok Freemasonry ini, dan tanpa pernah ditulis di buku-buku sejarah sekolahan, merupakan rekanan dengan tokoh-tokoh VOC.

Perisai pada dada Garuda serupa dengan perisai-perisai di beberapa negara yang dikendalikan oleh Freemason, seperti contohnya Inggris. Atau jauh ke belakang sama halnya dengan lambang Ksatria Templar yang kerap diasosiakan dengan pemuja setan yang menyembah Dajjal. Lambang bintang lima di dada Garuda adalah simbol kepala Baphomet, kambing jantang jelmaan iblis. Sengaja ditaruh terbalik untuk mengaburkan bintang pentagram tersebut. Adapun lambang rantai merupakan simbol untuk garis darah (bloodline) kelompok illuminati atau sejenisnya yang menjaga (gatekeeper) keberlangsungan gerakan freemason. Pohon Beringin adalah simbol pohon Sephiroth dalam tradisi mistik Kabbala. Kepala Banteng adalah simbol sapi Samiri yang menjadi sesembahan orang Yahudi ketika Moses meninggalkannya. Dan terakhir adalah padi dan kapas yang tidak ada bedanya dengan zaitun dan gandum yang digenggam elang Amerika Serikat, simbol kesuburan atau sumber kehidupan utama kehidupan manusia yang dijadikan lahan perah, atau sumber daya yang harus dihisap dan dikendalikan oleh Freemason. Intinya adalah Garuda Pancasila dianggap murni representasi simbol-simbol Freemason, Knight Templar, Illuminati, dan sebagainya yang dianggap sebagai pengikut Dajjal.

Berikut di atas adalah sebagian kecil dari tudingan kelompok-kelompok pembela Negara Islam, entah dengan berkedok organisasi dan atas nama apapun, yang telah banyak disebarluaskan di Indonesia. Karena mereka berpendapat bahwa cengkraman Freemason di Indonesia begitu kuat, saking kuatnya telah menghapuskan piagam Jakarta dari Pancasila, dan menjadikan Pancasila sebagai poros ideologi sekuler utama untuk Indonesia. Termasuk dengan bentuk NKRI yang telah final ini ialah hasil rekayasa kesesatan yang sangat gamblang.

Tapi kalau melihat tradisi besarnya adalah adanya pertarungan global antara berbagai macam kepentingan, atau kasarnya mirip era perang dingin antara blok Timur dan Barat dahulu. Demikian pula saat ini, macam-macam kepentingan saling bersaing, yang satunya mengimpikan tatanan dunia baru yang mengacu kepada Novus Ordo Seclorum, sedangkan yang lain menegakkan sistem kekhalifahan dunia. Sementara orang-orang Indonesia berada di posisi tradisi kecil yang selalu diombang-ambingkan oleh corong-corong kepentingan itu melalui berbagai media. Ada televisi, radio, buku, internet, dan lain-lain.

Persis seperti diutarakan oleh Pierre Bourdieu bahwa ruang publik merupakan arena atau wadah produksi kultural. Di dalam suatu arena ada modal (capital) yang digunakan para agen, aktor atau pelaku. Capital tidak selalu identik dengan modal berupa material. Tapi bisa berbentuk kemampuan tertentu yang dimiliki agen, seperti kemampuan intelektual atau kemampuan menulis. Jika agen memiliki capital yang besar sesuai dengan hukum dan kultural arenanya, maka ia akan dapat lebih unggul dibandingkan lainnya. Dalam pertemuan antara satu agen dengan agen yang lain, terdapat istilah yang disebut arena. Arena pun bermacam-macam. Bourdieu menyebutkan beberapa arena dalam penjelasannya yaitu arena ekonomi, pendidikan, politik, dan kultural.

Dalam pandangan Alberto Melucci, konflik di abad 21 ini banyak disebabkan oleh aktor-aktor yang saling memerebutkan kontrol dalam domain publik maupun privat. Dan senjata paling ampuh adalah penggunaan cultural codes, sistem tanda, produksi informasi, atau apa yang disebut sebagai kuasa simbolik dalam istilah Bourdieu. Dengan carut marutnya pertarungan sistem tanda ini, Baudrillard mengindikasikan bahwa manusia telah memasuki kondisi hiperrealitas. Implikasinya kalau mau ditarik pada ranah mikro ke dalam sebuah negara semisal Indonesia, atau lebih spesifik rakyat Indonesia, yakni seperti yang kita saksikan sekarang ini; situasi politik yang penuh dengan kegamangan. Contohnya adalah kita masih sibuk membicarakan persoalan bentuk negara, dasar negara, lambang negara dan sebagainya.

Untuk bendera negara yang terdiri dari merah-putih, oleh penyuka teori-teori secret society, symbology, elite system, dan sebagainya. Merah-putih merupakan alegori mistik lambang papan catur hitam-putih dalam tradisi Freemason yang ide dasarnya diambil dari floor checkered. Bentuk alegori lainnya seperti biru-putih pada bendera Israel. Dan masih banyak lagi hidangan permainan simbol semacam ini, terutama yang diperuntukkan bagi Indonesia dan pondasi-pondasi negaranya.

So what? Apakah rakyat negeri ini akan terus mau diombang-ambingkan dalam sebuah simulasi realitas yang penuh pertarungan sistem tanda ini. Antara masing-masing komunitas saling bersaing dengan produksi kultural mereka. Tapi pertanyaannya adalah apakah kita mau menyerahkan diri untuk sengaja berada dalam kondisi kefanatikan terhadap masing-masing pihak atau kepentingan yang kita bela atau yakini? Seperti kondisi di era perang dingin antara Sekutu dan Soviet, kita dipaksa memilih dua kekuatan dan dipaksa menjadi fanatik membela masing-masing pihak. Sekarang pun polanya sama atau sengaja dibiarkan sama, agar orang-orang yang menganggap diri mereka elit dari tiap kelompok dapat menjaring pengikut sebanyak-banyaknya demi menggolkan kepentingan mereka.

Sedangkan dalam arena pertarungan berbentuk elips bernama Bumi ini, manusia bisa menggunakan segala macam cara, baik persuasif maupun represif. Perang simbol atau perang senjata api. Entah kondisi hiperrealitas ini akan membawa manusia, terlebih orang-orang Indonesia ke arah mana. Tetapi biasanya orang yang terus bergantung pada sistem elitis, yakni menganggap elit (mensakralisasi) orang lain, atau institusi seperti lembaga politik atau agama, organisasi rahasia atau organisasi massa, tokoh-tokoh tertentu, dan sebagainya. Maka tujuan hidupnya cuma satu, berusaha masuk dalam lingkaran elit tersebut meski dengan segala cara ditempuhnya.

Nasib sebagai rakyat kebudayaan pinggiran, jadi terombang-ambing antara satu kebudayaan besar satu ke kebudayaan besar lain. Kapan ya jadi pemilik kebudayaan besar yang mempengaruhi dunia?

TANGGAL 1 Juni disebut-sebut sebagai hari lahirnya Pancasila. Menurut Syafi’i Ma’arif, mantan Ketua PP Muhammadiyah, Pancasila merupakan karya brilian Bung Karno. Benarkah demikian? Hal itu diucapkannya pada sebuah teve swasta dalam acara memperingati Sewindu Reformasi, Mei 2006 silam. Bagaimana Pancasila dapat dikatakan sebagai karya brilian Bung Karno yang telah menggali nilai-nilai lokal kemudian diperahnya menjadi lima sila, dan salah satunya berbunyi Ketuhanan Yang Maha Esa, padahal hanya Islam yang Tuhannya Maha Esa. Agama selain Islam yakni Kristen (Protestan dan Katholik), Hindu, Budha dan Kong Hucu (bila diakui sebagai agama), semuanya adalah politheis, tidak Maha Esa.

Sebelum kedatangan Islam, masyarakat Indonesia bergama Hindu dan animis. Ini adalah fakta sejarah. Lalu darimana dasar berargumen BK yang mengatakan bahwa ia mengambil saripati nilai-nilai yang hidup di dalam masyarakat Nusantara, dan memerahnya menjadi Pancasila. Padahal, animisme tidak ber-Tuhan Yang Maha Esa.

Sepanjang Orde Baru berkuasa, kepada rakyat Indonesia ditanamkan doktrin bahwa Pancasila yang bersumber dari nilai-nilai yang hidup dan berkembang di kalangan rakyat, merupakan ajaran yang tak boleh dibantah.

Doktrin tersebut disosialisasikan pada setiap penataran P-4. Sehingga, kalau ada yang berani mengemukakan wacana lain, pasti akan dilibas habis. Tetapi, setelah Orba ambruk, berbagai teori yang menggugat asal muasal Pancasila yang konon sakti itu, justru banyak bermunculan.

Di antara teori yang muncul itu mengatakan, bahwa sila-sila pada Pancasila ternyata memiliki kemiripan yang tak terbantahkan dengan asas Zionisme dan asas Freemasonry, seperti Monotheisme (Ketuhanan Yang Maha Esa), Nasionalisme (Kebangsaan), Humanisme (Kemanusiaan yang adil dan beradab), Demokrasi (Musyawarah), dan Sosialisme (Keadilan Sosial).

Menurut Abdullah Patani, sang pemilik teori, kesamaan sila-sila pada Pancasila dengan kelima sila pada asas Zionisme dan asas Freemasonry, tidak terjadi secara kebetulan, namun merupakan proses panjang dan sistematis, dimana para tokoh-tokoh penggagas Pancasila (Soekarno, Soepomo, dan M. Yamin) sudah sejak lama menyerap nilai-nilai zionisme dan freemasonry itu. Juga Ki Hajar Dewantara, yang diklaim sebagai bapak pendidikan nasional.

Bahkan Ki Hajar Dewantara sudah memasukkan paham Freemasonry melalui lembaga pendidikan Taman Siswa yang sekuler. Sejak awal Taman Siswa menunjukkan kecenderungan yang sangat antipati terhadap agama Islam. Antara lain, penolakannya untuk memasukkan pendidikan agama ke dalam kurikulum, dan menggantikannya dengan pendidikan budi pekerti.

Bung Karno adalah murid -non formal- dari Ki Hajar Dewantara dan A. Baars. Sebagai murid, ia patuh mengikuti teori yang dicanangkan sang guru. Bahkan, A. Baars sebagai guru Bung Karno, dikenal sebagai seorang Belanda yang menjadi anggota Partai Komunis pada zaman Semaun. Maka bisa dimengerti, bila Pancasila yang kemudian digagas Bung Karno, bagai bersaudara kembar dengan ‘pancasila’ milik kalangan zionis dan freemasonry. Apalagi Bung Karno semasa hidup menunjukkan sikap penghargaan yang tinggi terhadap pemikiran Kemal Attaturk, salah seorang anggota freemasonry dari Turki. Bahkan Soekarno cenderung meneladani Kemal di dalam menghadapi Islam, yaitu melakukan tipudaya terhadap rakyat dan ulama Islam.

Karena itu, Pancasila yang digagas Soekarno bersama penyair Soneta Mohamad Yamin dan Soepomo merupakan tipudaya yang sangat nyata. Melalui Pancasila, Bung Karno dan tokoh-tokoh nasionalis sekuler ini menciptakan landasan pembenaran untuk menerapkan floatisme (salah satu doktrin freemasonry).

Maksud floatisme pada dasarnya menisbikan nilai-nilai agama, mengambangkan keyakinan umat beragama, dan mendorong pemeluk agama mencari titik persamaan dari agama-agama yang mereka anut. Sehingga yang muncul ke permukaan bukan ajaran murni agama, namun sekedar budi pekerti, atau semacam aliran kepercayaan yang tidak mempunyai syariah meski mengaku bertuhan yang maha esa.

Pada masa Soekarno, terjadi perpindahan agama secara besar-besaran (ribuan orang) dari Islam ke Kristen (Protestan). Padahal seharusnya pemerintah harus mencegah setiap orang yang ingin murtad dari agama islam dengan menerapkan hukuman mati bagi yang murtad dari agama islam.

Selain keberpihakannya kepada kristenisasi, Soekarno juga sangat membela komunis. Soekarno tahu, komunisme tidak bisa subur di Indonesia karena faktor Islam. Karena itu, pertama-tama yang harus dilumpuhkan adalah kekuatan revolusioner yang benar-benar hidup di masyarakat, yaitu kekuatan revolusioner Islam.

Caranya, mengirimkan tokoh-tokoh partai Masyumi dan Syarekat Islam ke dalam penjara. Karena, mereka selama ini telah menjadi kekuatan revolusioner yang paling nyata di dalam menghadapi penjajah Belanda dan Jepang. Bila Belanda dan Jepang bisa dilawan, apalagi cuma komunisme. Langkah Soekarno selanjutnya menerapkan doktrin Nasakom (Nasionalisme, Agama, dan Komunisme).

Ketika itu Soekarno berdalih, kita akan berhadapan dengan neo kolonialisme, neo penjajah. Untuk menghadapinya, kalangan Islam harus menjalin kerja sama dengan komunis, sehingga tercipta kekuatan yang besar. Untuk itu konsep Nasakom diperlukan. Ternyata, bahaya neo kolonialisme cuma omong kosong, hanya tipu daya Soekarno. Karena konsep Nasakom sesungguhnya hanya untuk membuat komunisme berkembang semakin pesat.

sila-sila yang diperkenalkannya itu sama dengan sila-sila yaang pernah disampaikan Mohamad Yamin pada 29 Mei 1945. Dan sila-sila itu mungkin hanya karya contekan dari asas Zionisme dan Freemasonry yang diperolehnya dari berbagai literatur.

dengan mengintrodusir Pancasila, Soekarno berusaha meredam pertumbuhan kehidupan beragama yang sehat. Sebab Pancasila pada dasarnya hanyalah floatisme yang diterapkan di Indonesia dengan nama lokal. Ketiga, melalui Pancasila Soekarno membawa bangsa Indonesia menerima paham komunis, melalui doktrin Nasakom. Upaya ini akhirnya gagal total. Maka, lahirlah Orde Baru dengan semangat floatisme yang sama.


Freemasonry di Indonesia


Freemasonry atau Vrijmetselarij adalah sebuah organisasi persaudaraan internasional. Freemasonry pada zaman modern dimulai dengan berdirinya Grand Lodge di London, Inggris pada tahun 1717. Sebagian peneliti Barat berkeyakinan bahwa Freemasonry sebenarnya sudah didirikan di Skotlandia pada abad ke-14, saat Ksatria Templar ditumpas oleh Raja Perancis Philipe le Bel dan Paus Klemens V.

Di Skotlandia, Templar ini menyusup ke dalam Serikat Tukang Batu (Mason) dan menguasai gilda-gilda serikat pekerjanya (Loji). Mereka kemudian memproklamirkan diri sebagai Freemasonry, sebuah istilah yang sebenarnya nama lain dari perkumpulan Kabbalah Yahudi-Talmud. Dari Eropa, Freemasonry yang terbagi dalam dua kelompok besar (Ritus Skotlandia dan Ritus York) menyebar ke seluruh dunia termasuk ke Hindia Belanda.


Maskapai perdagangan Hindia Belanda, VOC, merupakan maskapai perdagangan terbesar dunia kala itu dan dimiliki oleh Freemasonry. Nona Helena Blavatsky dan Kolonel Henry Steel Olcott tercatat sebagai orang-orang yang membawa gerakan mistik ini ke Nusantara.
Organisasi ini mengklaim di seluruh dunia mereka memiliki anggota sebanyak 5 juta jiwa.
Soekarno
Di Hindia-Belanda dahulu, rumah pertemuan kaum Vrijmetselarij, dalam bahasa Belanda Loge atau Loji dalam bahasa Indonesia seringkali disebut sebagai "rumah setan". Sejak zaman presiden Soekarno, gerakan ini dilarang di Indonesia. Februari 1961, lewat Lembaran Negara nomor 18/1961, Namun setelah saya Seacrh di Internet, saya fikir lembaran tersebut tidak nyambung dengan konteks ini, namun saya tida bisa memastikan bahwa lembaran yang saya temukan tepat atau tidak. Tapi ada sebuah link yang lebih pas menurut saya yang dapat kalian klik di ENTER isinya pun sesuai dengan pencabutan Liga Demokrasi.

Presiden Soekarno membubarkan dan melarang keberadaan Freemasonry di Indonesia. Lembaran Negara ini kemudian dikuatkan oleh Keppres Nomor 264 tahun 1962 yang membubarkan dan melarang Freemasonry dan segala “derivat”nya seperti Rosikrusian, Moral Re-armament, Lions Club, Rotary, dan Baha’isme. Sejak itu, loji-loji mereka disita oleh negara.

Loji Freemason tertua di Weltevreden sekitar tahun 1885

Pertemuan Freemason Belanda dan pribumi masa Hindia Belanda

Loji-loji Freemasonry ternama di Nusantara tersebar di hampir semua wilayah di Indonesia seperti di Aceh, Medan,Padang, Palembang, Jawa, Surabaya, Sulawesi, dan sebagainya. Saya sendiri berdomisili di daerah Palembang. Dalam kesempatan ini saya belum menemukan bangunan yang mempunyai unsur dengan Freemasonry. Namun, salah satu blogger yang saya kenal di IMFO, mengidentifikasi keberadaan bangunan Mason di daerahnya (Surabaya) .Untuk keterangannya dapat kalian lihat di PHENOMENA

Salah satu Loji yang masih berdiri adalah Gedung Bappenas

Gedung Badan Perencanaan Pembangunan Nasional atau Bappenas adalah salah satu gedung bersejarah di Jakarta.

Tentu banyak yang masih ingat, di sanalah pada 1966 Mahmilub atau Mahkamah Militer Luar Biasa menggelar sidang-sidangnya untuk mengadili para gembong Gerakan 30 September, G30S, yang melakukan usaha kudeta yang mengakibatkan gugurnya tujuh pahlawan revolusi. Gedung itu, yang berdiri di titik tengah poros Jalan Imam Bonjol-Jalan Diponegoro, Jakarta Pusat, menghadap ke Taman Suropati.

Gedung Bappenas dibangun pada tahun 1925, masa awal pembangunan daerah Menteng oleh Pemerintah Kotapraja Batavia. Gedung berbentuk melebar ke samping itu dibangun sebagai gedung pertemuan perkumpulan kebatinan Ster van het Oosten (Bintang Timur). Perkumpulan ini merupakan bagian dari gerakan spiritual internasional masoni (freemasonry), yang dalam bahasa Belanda disebut vrijmetselaarij. Karena itu, orang Belanda di Batavia waktu itu mengenal gedung tersebut sebagai Vrijmetselaarsloge alias gedung pertemuan masoni.

Masoni merupakan gerakan moral-spiritual yang bertujuan meningkatkan semangat saling menghormati dan tolong-menolong di antara sesama manusia berdasarkan keyakinan kepada Yang Mahakuasa.

Pertama kali muncul pada akhir abad ke-16 dan awal abad ke-17 di Inggris dan Skotlandia, gerakan ini kemudian memiliki pengaruh dan pengikut di seluruh penjuru dunia.

Pada zaman kolonial, di Indonesia gerakan masoni juga memiliki banyak pengikut. Anggota kebanyakan orang Belanda dan orang Eropa lainnya. Bisschop, Wali Kota Batavia yang berkuasa pada 1916-1920, juga seorang anggota masoni. Akan tetapi, pribumi juga ada yang ikut bergabung. Pada awal abad ke-20, sebagian intelektual ningrat Jawa, eksponen gerakan kebangkitan nasional yang anggota perkumpulan Budi Utomo, konon juga menjadi vrijmetselaar atau masonis.

Kini, di seluruh dunia anggota kelompok-kelompok masoni diperkirakan mencapai 5 juta orang, termasuk sebanyak kira-kira 480.000 orang di Inggris, Skotlandia, dan Irlandia sendiri. Di Amerika Serikat pengikutnya juga banyak, sekitar 2 juta orang. Seperti banyak presiden AS sebelumnya, Barrack Obama juga disebut-sebut sebagai pengikut gerakan spiritual berlambang jangka dan meteran siku itu.

Salah satu ciri organisasi masonis adalah mereka sering melakukan pertemuan dan, mungkin juga ritual, rahasia. Gaya misterius inilah yang membuat orang lain sering berprasangka buruk. Sampai-sampai, menurut Adolf Heuken, pakar sejarah Jakarta, sebagian warga Batavia dulu sering menyebut gedung di seberang Taman Suropati itu sebagai ”rumah setan”.

Heuken mengatakan, balai pertemuan megah yang lokasinya strategis itu menunjukkan posisi penting kaum masonis dalam masyarakat dan pemerintah kolonial. Dalam bukunya, Menteng, Kota Taman Pertama di Indonesia (ditulis bersama Grace Pamungkas, 2001), bentuknya yang melebar membuat gedung besar itu seolah menjadi penutup daerah jantung Menteng. Bersama Taman Suropati, yang dulu bernama Burgermeester Bisschopplein, Gedung Bappenas terletak menyilang di tengah ujung selatan Jalan Teuku Umar, salah satu jalan poros utama di kota baru yang dirancang arsitek PAJ Mooijen itu.

Gedung Vrijmetselaarsloge, yang jadi Gedung Bappenas sejak tahun 1967, rupanya merupakan hasil pengembangan dari gedung lama yang sebelumnya sudah dibangun di tempat sama. Foto yang menyertai tulisan ini adalah foto gedung pertemuan masoni Ster van het Oosten yang dibangun pada tahun 1880.

Dihias empat tiang bulat besar yang menopang atap serambinya, gedung yang memiliki dua bangunan sayap segi empat di kiri-kanannya ini masih menampakkan dengan nyata gaya arsitektur klasisisme yang khas zamannya.

Sultan Hamengkubuwono VIII
Dr. T.H. Stevens, seorang sejarawan Belanda, dalam bukunya berjudul "Tarekat Mason Bebas dan Masyarakat di Hindia Belanda dan Indonesia 1764-1962", dalam jumlah yang sangat terbatas, banyak memaparkan tentang gerakan dan tokoh-tokoh Freemasonry di Indonesia. Tokoh-tokoh Mason Indonesia menurut buku tersebut —yang dilengkapi foto-foto ekslusif sebagai buktinya— banyak menyangkut nama-nama terkenal seperti Sultan Hamengkubuwono VIII, RAS. Soemitro Kolopaking Poerbonegoro, Paku Alam VIII, RMAA. Tjokroadikoesoemo, dr. Radjiman Wedyodiningrat, dan banyak pengurus organisasi Boedhi Oetomo.

Emas 'Soekarno' ditemukan di Tanjungbalai

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TANJUNGBALAI - Seorang warga Tanjungbalai menemukan batangan emas bercirikan gambar timbul mantan Presiden Indonesia, Soekarno di dekat kediamannya. Devi, 22, mengaku melihat logam mulia tersebut ketika tengah mencuci piring.

"Awalnya, saya mengira benda yang tertancap di antara kubangan lumpur adalah kotoran manusia, namun setelah didekati ternyata benda itu berbentuk logam dan memiliki massa sekitar setengah (0,5) kilogram," tutur wanita yang menetap di Gg. Turang, Kelurahan Pantaiburung tersebut.

Bersama ibunya, Rahimah Lubis, batangan emas tersebut lalu dibawa ke toko emas untuk diuji apakah asli atau tidak. "Namun, hingga toko kelima masih tidak ada kepastian," timpal mereka.

Meski demikian, Rahimah tetap percaya bahwa di dalam logam batangan itu terkandung emas murni, sehingga dia akan tetap menyimpannya dengan baik. "Saya yakin jika benda ini dipotong, akan ada kandungan emas di dalamnya," tukas Rahimah.

Beberapa waktu lalu, benda mirip emas itu juga ditemukan di daerah Meulaboh dan Ciri serta bentuknya sama persis dengan yang ditemukan di Tanjungbalai.

Keduanya memiliki kesamaan bergambar Soekarno di bagian depan, sedangkan di belakang tertera lambang burung Garuda Pancasila dengan keterangan emas murni 999,9 persen, kode LM serta tulisan Bank Indonesia (BI) Tahun 1818. Sedangkan di sisi samping kiri tertera angka 24 dan di sisi lainnya bertuliskan 'GOLD'.

Emas Soekarno dan Semar

Warga Desa Kalimas, Kecamatan Sungai Kakap heboh atas penemuan emas dan semar saat menggali parit. Pemilik lahan dan pekerja rela menyerahkan barang antik tersebut ke pemerintah, asal dengan imbalan seimbang.

Warga Desa Kalimas, Kecamatan Sungai Kakap heboh atas penemuan emas dan semar saat menggali parit. Pemilik lahan dan pekerja rela menyerahkan barang antik tersebut ke pemerintah, asal dengan imbalan seimbang.

Penemuan emas batangan tersebut, bermula saat ketiga warga Rabu (24/6) lalu bekerja pada Muslim Hasyim.

Bersama Muslim Hasyim, ketiga warga tersebut, yakni Rum, Ilyas, Muse mengali parit pada lahan milik Muslim. Saat menggali dan mengangkat lumpur itulah mereka menemukan batangan emas yang terangkat bersama lumpur dari dalam parit yang mereka gali.

Setelah diteliti, ternyata dari tiga jenis emas tersebut, dua berbentuk batangan dan satu lagi mirip telur bening dan di dalamnya terdapat gambar Semar—tokoh pewayangan.

“Emas ditemukan hampir bersamaan, masing-masing memiliki tanda berbeda,” jelas Muslim yang ditemui, Senin (29/6).

Satu emas batangan pertama pada salah satu bagian terdapat gambar Presiden RI pertama, lengkap bertuliskan namanya Ir. Soekarno. Sementara pada sisi lainnya terdapat tulisan Tahun 1818. Pada sisi berikutnya terdapat tulisan 'GOLD' dan '24 K'.

Untuk batangan kedua berukuran lebih kecil, pada salah satu bagiannya terdapat lambang burung garuda dengan dua bintang di bagian atas. Sedangkan di bagian bawah gambar burung garuda terdapat tulisan angka '999,9%'.

Sedangkan benda terakhir yang bentuknya berbeda sendiri, terlihat lebih mirip berbentuk setengah telur, dimana di bagian tengahnya terdapat sosok Semar yang sama dari sisi depan dan belakangnya.

"Pada jam 5 sore, saya menggali parit di depan rumah Pak Muslim, pas sedang menaikkan lumpur, ada dua batang benda yang semula saya kira hanya kuningan biasa. Sedangkan telur Semar-nya, ditemukan Ilyas saat meratakan tanah hasil galian," jelas Rum.

Karena yakin apa yang ditemukan waktu itu merupakan barang yang sangat berharga. Keempat penemu tersebut sepakat untuk tidak memberi tahu penemuan tersebut, kepada siapa pun.

Tiga hari sebelum menemukan emas itu, Rum mengaku mendapatkan mimpi didatangi pria tua berpakaian serba putih. Sosok tersebut dalam mimpinya berpesan kalau menggali mohon memperhatikan keadaan sekitar.

Meski saat ini keyakinan apakah itu emas atau bukan belum dibuktikan, namun keempat penemu tersebut merasa sangat yakin bahwa barang tersebut sangat berharga.

Apalagi sejauh ini mitos setiap barang yang berbau Soekarno atau Semar mengandung aura tersendiri yang dapat melambungkan nilainya.

"Meski awam, tapi saya yakin itu emas yang memiliki isi yang tidak sembarangan," beber Rum lagi.

Cerita lain dibeberkan Muslim. Sewaktu pertama pindah di rumahnya dua tahun lalu, ia selalu didatangi berbagai ular hitam.

Dari total delapan ekor yang pernah menghampiri, tujuh diantaranya dibunuh sementara satu tidak dibunuh.

Dengan berbagai kejadian tersebut, Muslim juga mengaku mendapat mimpi yang aneh terkait ular tersebut. Dimana dalam mimpinya, Muslim mengaku berbicara dengan sang ular. “Ular tersebut bilang bahwa meski dibunuh, ia tidak akan mati. Karena ia hanya menjaga barang yang ada di rumah saya,” jelas Muslim.

Sadar dengan penemuan berharga, mereka pun sudah berandai-andai. Dimana jika barang tersebut bisa diuangkan, maka akan dibagi menjadi lima bagian. "Satu bagian lain, selain kami berempat, akan kami hibahkan kepada orang miskin dan membangun masjid,” jelas Muslim.

Sementara kemungkinan minat dari pemerintah, mereka mempersilahkan, hanya saja harus ada penggantian yang setimpal dengan nilai dan aura barang-barang tersebut, yang diperkirakan bisa mencapai ratusan hingga miliaran rupiah.

Kebagian Harta Karun Sukarno

Di suatu waktu dan di suatu tempat

Di kejauhan ada rame-rame orang berkumpul. Karena penasaran, saya ikut nimbrung. Oh rupanya ada presentasi sesuatu.

“Bapak-bapak, Ibu-ibu..saya di sini akan menawarkan sebuah solusi bagi Indonesia.”, kata orang yang lagi orasi di depan.

“Ini saya mempunyai bukti bahwa Amerika dulu pernah ngutang sama bangsa Indonesia. Amerika mau bangkrut pada jamannya John F Kennedy (JFK). JFK butuh emas untuk menerbitkan uang dollar yang baru”. Hmm..boleh juga tuh orang pidato.

“Kebetulan Indonesia pada jaman itu punya emas yang banyak dari kerajaan-kerajaan dulu. JFK meminjam emas tersebut, dan menjanjikan bunga 2.5% buat Indonesia. Nih buktinya ada tanda tangannya”. Sambil menunjukkan gambar berikut:

“Ini adalah bagian dari kerjasama rahasia yang diberi nama ‘Green Hilton Agreement’. Kalau rahasia ini sampai terkuak Amerika bisa heboh, karena perekonomian mereka dibackup oleh emas dari Indonesia”. Yang nonton pun pura-pura manggut-manggut tahu.

“Bapak-bapak dan Ibu-ibu bisa mendapatkan bagian emasnya, dengan cara iuran 500 ribu saja. Uang ini dipakai untuk biaya administrasi. Nih kalau gak percaya, foto emasnya ada tulisannya Sukarno”.

Mana tulisan Sukarno-nya kecil amat gambarnya? Kayaknya pernah denger neh penipuan kayak gini. Pergilah saya dari situ. Terlihat beberapa orang sedang mendaftarkan dirinya sambil menyerahkan sejumlah uang di meja sebelah.

Di waktu lain dan di tempat lain

Waktu lagi makan di pinggir jalan, ada sesorang menghampiri. Penampilannya lumayan rapi. Dia membawa map dan sebuah tas. Tanpa basa-basi dia pun ngomong.

“Mas, anda pengen kaya gak?”, kata dia. Hmm..seperti orang mau menawarkan MLM neh pikir saya.

“Nih, saya bawa dokumen penting neh mas. Ini perjanjian antara Sukarno sama John F Keneddy pada tahun 1963 di Jenewa. Perjanjian ini yang sering disebut orang harta karun Sukarno itu lho mas.” Jangan-jangan ini orang komplotan orang yang kemarin itu.

“Sukarno pernah minjemin Amerika berton-ton emas, terus sekarang di simpen di Swiss. Nih lihat nih!”. Sambil memperlihatkan isi map tersebut yang berisi berat emas yang dipinjamkan.

“Lihat tanda tangannya Sukarno, presiden Amerika, sama orang banknya. Asli nih mas”, kata orang itu. Kok tanda tangannya beda dengan yang kemarin ya, pikirku.

“Sebenarnya John F Kennedy dibunuh karena perjanjian ini nih. CIA nggak mau orang-orang pada tau kalau sebenarnya Indonesia itu punya andil besar dalam perekonomian dunia. Tiga perempat uang di Amerika itu dibackup oleh emas kita.”

“CIA juga mendalangi penggulingan Sukarno pada tahun 66 karena masalah ini juga mas. Mereka nggak mau Indonesia nagih utang ke Amerika. Bisa bangkrut tuh Amerika.”, kata orang itu nerocos terus.

“Tenang aja mas, kita sudah punya akses ke harta tersebut. Kita sudah mengumpulkan tiga orang. Orang-orang ini yang sering disebut sebagai Satya Dharma, Suring Pati sama Lady of Roses. Cuma sidik jari mereka saja yang bisa membuka kotak-kotak penyimpanan harta tersebut.“ Hmm..canggih juga.

“Selain itu sebelum masuk mereka harus menyebutkan password..’Garuda Indonesia is married with Nangkuti than King Wall…’ wah saya lupa lanjutannya. Pokoknya banknya canggih deh, gak sembarang orang bisa masuk. Pake password semua.”

“Nah mas mau kebagian harta tersebut gak? Kita lagi butuh biaya untuk terbang ke Swiss nih, masih kurang sekitar 15 jutaan. Kalau mas mau minjemin nanti kebagian sekitar 1% harta tersebut. Lumayan lho walaupun cuma satu persen.”

Orang itu nerocos terus. Karena tidak saya tanggapi orang itu akhirnya pergi.

Penutup

Cerita di atas adalah fiksi belaka, kesamaan peristiwa dan nama, bisa jadi memang kebetulan belaka.

Woy…bangun oooiiii…kalau mau kaya ya kerja yang bener…harta karun itu hasil kerja nenek moyang selama ratusan tahun…masak ente yang kerja aja gak bisa mau minta bagian seeeh. Sadar diri dong!

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