These are some of the reasons why the work of receiving returned overseas Chinese was interrupted. Regardless of the reason, what must be deplored is the fact that over twenty years afterwards, from 1986 to the early nineties, over 800,000 Chinese were gradually discovered as being secreted away in hidden concentration camps along the sea coast of Sumentala in Indonesia.
不管原因為何，可悲的是，二十多年後，一九八六年及九○年代初期，總計八十多萬的華人，在印尼蘇門答臘海岸隱秘的集中營裡陸續被發現。