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Chinese fear 'crazy' racist voodoo man

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Gendeng Pamungkas, founder of the Anti-Chinese People's Committee, is to some people the most dangerous man on Java.

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However, he claims: 'Some of my good friends are Chinese, so they have nothing to be scared of.

'It is just the very rich ones that I hate, the ones who have taken money - money of the Indonesian people - overseas.' Mr Pamungkas, whose first name means 'crazy', says his committee is 'trying to find out where these people have put their money and how we can get it back'.

He is not sorry about the violence in May, in which more than 1,000 people were killed.

'Maybe some of the people who should leave have left already. That is good,' he says.

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'All this talk of rape, I cannot believe it. It's impossible.' Mr Pamungkas lives in the wealthy new, predominantly Chinese suburb of Bogor. A Mercedes is parked in the driveway, surrounded by security guards in black uniforms, machetes hanging from their belts.

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