Gangsters in Jakarta – Friends and Foes…

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It’s Sunday morning, I’m newly woken, and it’s bright and beautiful again, just begging me to go out and enjoy another walkabout. Which direction should I take today? 

However, first a thought or two about another news item I spotted while the ironing was being done yesterday!

Maybe not the first time I’ve been disappointed by the Jakarta Globe’s coverage of the news, but SURELY they have, if not a correspondent, at least a stringer in Berlin? Their magnate owner is a billionaire, I hear, so the travel budget must be fat!

If not, they do have telephones in their offices, so they could still have sought a comment from Fauzi Bowo, ex-Governor of Jakarta and currently Indonesia’s Ambassador to Germany.

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His Excellency, after all, was instrumental in inviting the FBR to play a key role in Jakarta’s Sea Games a few years ago…

Jakarta Governor’s SEA Games ‘Helpers’ Launch Arson Attack on Rival Gang 

… when the gangster group’s reputation was much the same as it is today.

Today?

Well, this week we read that a brave citizen stood up to a hundred hoodlums, after a traffic incident involving his car and a vehicle containing the alleged leader of the Forum Betawi Rempug.

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The FBR purports to speak for the Betawi, the ‘original’ Jakarta people, who are very much a minority in the capital, but some of whom still think, and act, as if they own the place.

The majority of Betawi are perfectly normal folk, but the loud-mouth lout element tends to be bigotedly sectarian too, which makes them even more obnoxious. FBR Bigots Threaten Jakarta Church 

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‘Fauzi with friends

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Fauzi Bowo’s rapport with these brutes was very well documented during his gubernatorial term. Catch up on our previous posts on this outfit here..So I Missed the Gandaria Gang-Fight! … and here…FBR? Fauzi Bowo Ragu? Tidak! Why Won’t Jakarta’s Governor Disown Thug Support? …

Oh, and on the general subject of gangster activity in Jakarta, don’t miss THIS…

Right On, Ratna! Activist’s All-Out Attack on IslamoNazis 

As for the latest incident, no need for me to recount all the details – just read the report in the JG.  http://thejakartaglobe.beritasatu.com/news/lone-gunman-stands-fbr-goon-squad/