Anti-Valentine Raids On Java Bed-Sits? :
Did you post your Valentine card with a crayoned SWALK on the back of the envelope, as we did when we were approaching adolescence..
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If so, one hopes the SatPol PP ( civic militia, aka sectarian goon-squad) in Sukabumi, West Java, didn’t catch you doing so!
Bigots in uniform are planning to stamp out celebrations of St. Valentine’s Day.
“We’ve ordered night clubs and hotels not to put up Valentine’s Day decorations,”
http://jakartaglobe.id/news/sukabumi-bans-valentines-day-celebration-night-clubs-hotels/
That’s how Sudrajat, SatPol boss in Sukabumi, seeks to wage his sectarian war on freedom. And no only that.
The agency, the police and military officers may raid night clubs, hotels and rented rooms, known as kos, to make sure everyone complies to the order.
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Stomping bed-sits to enforce kill-joy sectarianism
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The brazen intolerance of this geezer, and of the benighted establishment he serves, alas, comes as no surprise to anyone familiar with West Java’s reputation.
West Java Islamists Again Attack Ahmadis, Blame Foreign Journos
Cops Stop West Java Worship, Appease Islamist Louts
Christians Abused by Islamist Mob, Cops Fail to Enforce the Law
ANOTHER West Java Crack-Down on Religious Liberty
I’m not worried about any dearth of postal deliveries today.
But it does worry me that prejudiced pipsqueaks can tell citizens in a free country what they may, or may not, celebrate.
Nobody wants to force rabid Islamists to send Valentines – damn sure they won’t get any more than I expect to get!
But stalinoid sticky-beaks can tell NON-Islamists what days they can enjoy, or in what way?
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- It’s outrageous when they rant about invading people’s private residences, those humble kos bed-sits, to scrutinise how tenants are spending their free time.
- If that’s what’s happening, with the ‘police and military officers’ ( the military are under the authority of the Government of Indonesia, not provincial prigs) how long can my Indonesian friends count on Indonesia remaining a free country?
JazPen, 
Ati, 
Prita, and 2 others are discussing. 
rossrightangle 
Santi 08:11 on February 14, 2017 Permalink |
Thanks for saying this, Ross. We and all my friends do not like this SatPol PP bully raiding.
I send this with SWALK today!
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Amel 08:18 on February 14, 2017 Permalink |
My sister and me live in a kos and it is small but it is our home here. We do not want Satpol coming here to tell us what to do.
I do not care about valentines but if other people want to celebrate with party or have fun it is the business of them not of us. Satpol better to mind their own business.
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Prita 08:32 on February 14, 2017 Permalink |
Good morning Ross and SWALK to you today for this good writing.
I still have my english vocabulary books and use them to find good words.
Harmless is good word for Valentine..
Dictator is good word for to order no celebrating.
Also I like the word you use, Killjoy, for West Java satpol. Very good word for people like Pak Sudrajat.
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Ati 08:44 on February 14, 2017 Permalink |
So sorry Ross, I never comment any more but today of course must to say I am happy to not live in Sukabumi.
Police and military to raid koskosan is crazy .. .
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JazPen 11:22 on February 14, 2017 Permalink |
Happy to see you are giving more of your time to Indonesians problems, Ross. The Valentine panic is on us again but the worst, most worrying part of what you wrote is that ‘military officers’ are involved with these raids on bed-sits.
Bed-sit is maybe a little too nice a way to talk about these little kos rooms but it is the nearest Westen equivalent, so be it.
Most of the staff in the offices I visit around Jakarta decide to rent a kos because most of them come from outside Jakarta and it is cheaper and easier to find a little room to let here instead of trying to travel in each morning though the terrible traffic.
These places are where they go home after work to get some well earned rest and it is angering to think that a Satpol gang might burst in to start searching for Valentine cards or other evidence of people enjoying themselves.
Its nothing new but if the military are joining these raids then it is getting worse.
After Operation Prayer Mat under President SBY I hoped that Jokowi would make sure his soldiers would never be allowed to do sectarian operations again. I wish President Jokowi would order the army to have nothing to do with it but I think that is one Valentine wish that wont be granted.
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