Indonesia: The Number of People Who Want to Learn Falun Gong Soars After a Recent Fair

A banner reading "Falun Dafa is good" hangs above the booth	Many people surround the Falun Gong booth to learn more

Falun Gong practitioners tirelessly discuss the facts about Falun Gong	A decorated Chinese archway set up at the entrance of the fair in Semarang

Bian Street is well known in Semarang, Indonesia as a place where many Chinese people live. During the recent Lunar Chinese New Year festivities, a local fair was held here. About a hundred booths were spread out along the long street, displaying a variety of goods related to the Lunar New Year.

There was a special booth that stood out. A brilliant banner reading "Falun Dafa is good" hung above the table, and hundreds of photos reflecting the wide popularity of Falun Dafa in Indonesia and around the world were hung on walls. The photos included images of over a thousand awards and proclamations that Falun Dafa has received in a variety of countries. There were also photos exposing the suffering of Falun Gong practitioners in China due to brutal persecution perpetrated by Jiang Zemin and the Communist regime. Simply because they persist in their cultivation of Truthfulness, Compassion and Tolerance, Falun Dafa practitioners are brutally persecuted, and many have been tortured to death. Those shocking stories were included in the leaflets that practitioners handed out, and large amounts of materials were distributed to people interested in learning more about Falun Gong.

All day long, Falun Gong practitioners played videos about Falun Dafa's spread all over the world, as well as its development in Indonesia. People throughout Indonesia have experienced improved health after practising Falun Gong. Their words, together with Falun Gong books and bookmarks made by practitioners, attracted many people's attention. Many people had already learned that Falun Gong is good and that it can improve people's health and upgrade morality; therefore, as soon as they came across the Falun Gong booth, they came to ask for leaflets and enquire about local practise sites so that they could learn the exercises. Some people could not wait and learned the Falun Gong exercises on the spot. Many people listened to the latest news about the situation of Falun Gong in China, and they showed concern for the plight of Falun Gong practitioners.

As for people who had misunderstandings about Falun Gong, they asked questions related to the lies and slander that Jiang's political group has concocted. Practitioners patiently answered their questions and explained to them that the former Chinese leader launched the systematic and brutal persecution using the whole nation's propaganda machinery, so as to forbid the Chinese people from following Falun Gong's teachings of "Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance." As absurd as it sounds, in order to achieve this goal, Jiang has gone to extremes to concoct lies to frame and slander Falun Gong. He even fabricated the infamous Tiananmen Square Self-immolation tragedy to incite people's hatred towards Falun Gong.

One visitor said, "Doesn't it mean that the nation conducts terrorism in order to suppress its people? Put plainly, isn't this state terrorism?"

One week after the fair, we have news from the Semarang practice site that the number of people who want to practise the exercises is soaring, several times higher than before.