P4 Debate Subject

What is the primary purpose of the May 13 riot that happened in several part of Indonesia? For the improvement of the economy (banishment of corruption etc), or to remove the Indonesian-Chinese that dominated the economy of Indonesia.

I think that the main purpose for the riot was to wipe out the Indonesian-Chinese from Indonesia.

If the main purpose of the riot was to improve the economy, a riot that involves in death and destructions at a scale as large as the one in Indonesia will not have happened. The riot continues for several days even after President Soeharto stepped down from his Presidency, with the stepdown of the President who was sought to be corrupt, the riot should have ended. However the riot continued on with more innocent people getting killed.