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Islam, Democracy and Human Rights in Contemporary Indonesia45the victory of capitalism over socialism, and the victory of richcountries over the poor. The campaign of globalization as thecentral issue started two decades ago does not cause the equalityand cooperation between nations, but in fact, there%u2019s nothingmore than increasing process of the exploitation of developed to the underdeveloped nations.The propaganda of the danger of communism haschanged with new issues of religious fundamentalism, humanrights and environment which cornered the Asian developingcountries, because of its retardation are unable to give prosperityto their people in a situation full of threats, of conflicts and tense.In this situation human rights violations and environmentdamages happen easily. This also had happened in the pastwhen the world was full of slavery, colonialism and suppressionswhich caused millions of people in Asia and Africa, withoutrealizing them of the biggest violation of human rights in thehistory of civilization. The Asian and African nations were thevictims of all action and exploitation policies in the past. So,they are nations with most concern about the meaning ofhuman rights based on their bad experience in the past.Globalization is a step of development of human civilizationthat could not hinder as the impact of the development of information technology, communication and transportation.Achievements of information technology andtransportation has changed the face of our world. But theproblems of inequality between developed and under-developednations are still unsolved. It is not impossible that in the comingdecade %u2014 or may be until the end of the world %u2014 globalizationcould create global permanent inequality, as the world%u2019s opinioncome from countries that dominates technology and