Monday, 25 February 2008

Jusuf Kalla is our Dubya

In Korea:

"Indonesians are getting richer. We have more traffic in Jakarta, because we afford more cars"

and last week he said that Papuans should go for "local wisdom" instead of technology. In other words, please stay undeveloped so we SE Asians could always look down upon you.

Tuesday, 19 February 2008

The goverment hates you

1. Automatic transmission cars in Jakarta
2. Singaporean Permanent Residents from Indonesia

Monday, 11 February 2008

So dark the con of man

Gotcha.

Seminar Pertama Angkatan Darat Republik Indonesia, Bandung (of all places!), Agustus 1966.

...untuk menghilangkan rasa inferior terhadap bangsa kita sendiri serta menghilangkan rasa soeperior pada bangsa Tjina, maka kami memoetoeskan oentoek kembali memakai penjebutan Republik Rakjat Tjina dan warganegara Tjina dari Repoeblik Rakjat Tiongkok dan warga negaranya..."

It's not about communism.

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/budaya_tionghua/message/30553

PS: I retrofied all the quotation. Djo.

Thursday, 7 February 2008

My friend talked about recession and election

http://www.mnftiu.cc/mnftiu.cc/images/gywo.clinton_mccain.gif

Happy Chinese New Year

1. "Hey I'm minority too" excuse won't work. If offending black, Jews, and Islam are so unforgivable and deadly, why do excuses are given for Asians (that including South Asians)? Yes, pandas are Chinese animals, but now pandas do not drive with bamboo. They ride Toyota.

2. Tempo has apologized. Take that, you "I-know-European-reference-best" suckers. We Catholics can bite. Again, you have to pay attention to printed news since access to Koran Tempo Interaktif worth 10,000 rupiah per week. Apply online or through SMS.

3. Another example of state racism. You might know the Roma people as "gypsies" (since they were believed to come from Egypt. Actually they came from India).

4. This is serious: What's the best Indonesian term for Chinese-Indonesians? The English term is perfect, but Bahasa Indonesia still demands the neutral, convenient term. Tionghoa still sounds awkward and people don't use it in normal conversation. Cina is still considered offensive so media hedges it with English pronunciation "China". I use Cina because I want to reclaim the word, like the LGBT community had successfully reclaimed "queer". "Black" seems to be more well-accepted in England than in America.

But here - why does the "C" word is so feared in Indonesia? One explanation is that the racism still there, and you can't pretend everything OK after Lunar New Year becomes national holiday. Heck, things could go worse now.

Wednesday, 6 February 2008

It's not Gary Glitter

It's Edison Chen.

Don't worry, he did it with adult women.

Tuesday, 5 February 2008

Unemployment

On a lighter note of being NEET: Sofyan Wanandi said that business favours fresh graduates on these grounds. They are healthy, so they can work longer hours. They are more easily trained.

So, with 2.5 million new jobs available in Indonesia every year, there are roughly 2.5 million fresh graduate available. Therefore, supply equals demand. Which leave (officially) 10 millions of unemployed on their usual condition. 3.8 million of them are in Jakarta.

As usual you can read this on today's print edition of Jakarta Post, or tomorrow on their website where today's news are available.

Katie Holmes is also unemployable.

Saturday, 2 February 2008

Some printed headlines sadly unavailable online

1. Kompas' headline: "Fasilitas Vital Lumpuh" over the widescreen photo of flood. Dammit, stop being stuffy and just write "Jakarta banjir lagi" or "Kampret"

2. Paul Keating wrote an article defending Soeharto on Jakarta Post, singling out Fairfax media as the source of well-known Australian media hostility on anything Indonesia. If Lee KY or Mahatir wrote something like that, fine. But I seriously asked Keating's Labor credential. Yes, he wished for better relations with Asia (as opposed to Liberal's orientation toward US). But, he said had not it been Soeharto, Australia would face a neighbour that could be communist, Islamist, or just fucked up.

3. You can get this.

4. And you can get anti-Chinese march in Makassar after a girl died during botched abortion. She had a Chinese-Indonesian boyfriend, and allegedly he forced her to do abortion. The part that I don't understand is the locals went ballistic and asked the Chinese community to apologize. Dumbass.