Hukum Mati "Unlikely To Affect Bali?" – Why Would It?
Today, 24th January, is the anniversary of my arrival as a nervous new-comer to this amazing country. It’s appropriately hot and sunny outdoors, one of numerous reasons I’d recommend anyone who loves life to join me here, if not like me as a resident, at least as a tourist.
Meanwhile the Governor of Bali reckons his Isle of the Gods’ non-stop flow of Aussie tourists will not be impacted by the fairly imminent (and eminently fair) execution of two drug traffickers.
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In terms of overall numbers, I imagine he’s right, but there might be a slight drop – the idiots who have hitherto shown utter indifference to the clear warnings displayed at Bali’s Ngurah Rai (and most if not all Indonesian entry-points) which tell such people that they are committing a capital crime and thus face hukum mati – the death penalty.
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If they are so dim-witted that they don’t read those large notices, surely they watch or hear the news, that Indonesia takes these offences extremely seriously.
So if apprehended, they are not entitled to complain, although they do, as does the absurd bleeding-heart whine-machine currently screeching on their behalf.
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I don’t smoke dope, nor partake of drugs, except booze and tobacco, but if I did, I wouldn’t do so in Bali, or here in Jakarta. I don’t have any urge to get into trouble.
Not that doing so would risk my neck, because the death penalty is not applied to people caught savouring ganja. A joint will likely land you in the joint. For a while, then you get out.
That pair in the headlines were smuggling drugs. Big difference. Frankly, I don’t understand the fuss from all the usual suspects.
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The Jakarta Globe, as ever, kow-tows to international left-libbery, not, I’m sure, because the editor approves of drug-smugglers, but because he dances to the EUSSR tune.
The Jakarta Post is as bad, giving a pinko NZ journo, Duncan Graham – they use him a lot; it’ll be a rare day they call on conservative expats, even-handed treatment of left/right points of view not an aspect of journalism the JP bosses understand –
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- – a platform to prattle on about how capital punishment ‘demeans the state.‘ http://www.thejakartapost.com/news/2015/01/21/firing-squad-could-wound-australia-indonesia-ties.html
Actually, it relieves the state, i.e. the tax-payer, of the burden of indefinite board and lodging for scum.
But Graham, and the biased media, and the sticky-beaks overseas, shrill from the same song-sheet.
No death penalty for any crime, however heinous! What’s wrong with these people?
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I usually show a photo of the Bali Pigs – this time, a photo of some of what they did. Yet Brussels and its flunkeys – and the scribblers referred to above – would have let the perpetrators of this atrocity live? We all raised a glass when they were shot!
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As I’ve said before, had such nonsense prevailed ten years ago, the Bali Pigs would be holding court this afternoon in some prison yard in Java.
And THAT’s the criticism that should be levelled at justice here. Not enough executions are decreed by courts – we need to rely on the excellent Densus 88 special unit to put down terrorist vermin.
Evil people convicted of terrorist offences, like Abu Bakr Ba’asyir, are permitted to host visits by fellow-rabids, and even preach to other inmates, if reports we’ve read are true.
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Ba’asyir – the face of evil
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Fanatics outside prison are allowed to preach treason with impunity – how many times have we seen demands for Indonesia to be degraded from an independent republic to the subordinate status of a satrapy of an international sectarian caliphate.
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Woolwich swine
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Yet who are we to criticise, when the same treason is propagated with impunity back home? The vile swine guilty of the Woolwich beheading are alive and well on three squares a day.
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Other evil-doers, just as evil, not only walk free but are rewarded for their satanic crimes with the trappings of high office in the UK.
But today we’re talking of Indonesia, which, given the last paragraph, is more civilised than the UK!.
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President Jokowi, on the matter of capital punishment, shows the West a good example, though he would be well-advised to see to it that judges with guts are appointed to replace some of the weak-kneed wallies currently on the bench.
Yes, I have said all that before, but, lest expats get a bad name for left-libbery, it needs saying often, till the West wakes up.
JazPen, 
Wilson, 
rossrightangle 
Digby Larrson 07:57 on January 25, 2015 Permalink |
I’ve long suspected you are delusional, if not insane, but this just confirms it. Calling on conservative expats for comment? Do you truly expect the Post or Globe to go looking through the kampungs of wherever it is that you live to ask a former EF teacher what he thinks about a news story when there are hundreds of published journalists and writers in this town? There is a spot for adding your “conservative opinion”, it’s called the comments section. As a privately owned publication, these paper can print whatever they like within reason. If you do not like it, then don’t buy it. Better still, get the financing together and start your own damn paper. See how many paid subscriptions you get and whether or not that remains a viable commercial venture. Strike me down dead, mate, I wonder what bloody planet you live on some time.
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ross1948 08:32 on January 25, 2015 Permalink |
Good morning, Digby. Nice to have a critic use a real name for a change.
No, I wouldn’t expect those left-lib media magnates to emerge from their plush premises into kampungs where they probably would feel very out of place among honest working folk.
But it would be nice if they had a serious diversity of views somewhere other than the obscure comments column.
They often use foreign hack pieces as ‘opinion’ due to their inability to write their own. There are plenty of overseas conservative columnists they could equally reprint, to show they have a grasp of fair play. Given Gramedia’s penchant for book-burning, I don’t think that’ll happen with the Jakarta Post any time soon.
Of course they can publish whatever they like, as can I.
If you don’t like what I write, don’t read it.
Have a nice day.
PS. Yes, I did work briefly for EF around ten or more years ago. So what? who do you work for? Pray tell what august position you hold, so distinguished that it allows you to diss teachers?
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Wilson 20:19 on January 25, 2015 Permalink |
Digby, couldnt you have made your case without that snide remark against teachers. I taught in EF and then in a high school for years and take that insult badly. Other people I know started in language schools then went to work for NGOs and businesses here. What exactly is your job, just so I can insult everyone who does it.
Ross is not delusional. He writes about the real world and he usually makes sense. Not always, I don’t agree with all he says, but who agrees all the time?
He didn’t say the newspapers should employ himself to balance their biases.He said they could get contributors with opinions different from people like Duncan Graham, who they know very well says all they like to hear.
I can’t count how many times the Jakarta Globe just reprints overseas articles instead of using their own people. It shows how much they think of their own staff’s abilities.
The Jakarta Post is a joke, apologising for cartoons that offend the extremists here. Ross has been almost a lone voice protesting that, the same as he has written over and over again about the Gramedia book-burning. That little carry-on finished Gramedia’s credibility in my eyes but I never saw any comments from you in the past about that, even although you have been reading this blog for a long time, or so you say.
Fair play when he says you do not have to read it if you don’t like it. But you do, so you could have commented on both the things I just exampled, which are offending basic principles of freedom of expression.
I read RRA every day and like it. He can be entertaining and outraging but It is pretty obvious that Ross is a friend to Indonesia and to Australia.
What’s to get so upset for?
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JazPen 12:16 on January 26, 2015 Permalink |
After my last couple of comments, thanking you for some entertaining posts, my duty to reply to Digby. What has being a former teacher at EF or anywhere got to do with his writing ability? He uses good grammar except when he wants to take the mickey and that’s more than you can always say for the Jakarta Post. Same goes for his biases, he doesn’t try to hide them, more than the Jakarta Post.
How many times have we read them talking about how they are all for pluralism and tolerance but never ever read anything in their pages criticising their big boss Gramedia for the book-burning
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