Inconsistent Agitation? Woe To Jakarta Commuters!


Here we go again.

Another Friday demo, which could just as easily have been arranged for Sunday, minimising disruption.

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The participants will protest against what they perceive as a revival of communism in the country.

http://www.thejakartapost.com/news/2017/09/28/5000-brimob-personnel-to-guard-fridays-anti-communist-rally.html

Nobody hates communism more than I do.

But apart from some burbling ‘intellectuals’ and journo-hacks who have long sought to muddy the waters of Indonesian history by refusing to distinguish between innocent people who suffered in the 1965 turmoil on the one hand…

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…and the evil PKI Communists on the other, there’s little sympathy with the satanic marxist creed in this country these days

Jakarta traffic is almost always a nightmare, and on Fridays it worsens.

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Today it will be worse still!

This demo that will exacerbate commuter misery apparently will include members of conservative Muslim groups, so there’s a certain inconsistent aspect to it, because…

…they will also protest the newly-issued regulation in lieu of a law (Perppu) on mass organizations, which is being used as a legal instrument by the government to disband Hizbut Tahrir Indonesia (HTI), an Islamist organization that seeks to establish a global Islamic caliphate.

The PKI has long been banned here.

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Given its totalitarian ideology, allegiant to supranational class-war hate-think, and not to Indonesia, most Indonesians see nothing wrong with the ban on the red rats.

And following logically from that, there’s a strong case to be made for outlawing HTI, which can fairly be called califofascist…

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Hizbut demo – ‘Charlie Hebdo proves how rotten democracy is!‘

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…because it’s anti-democratic and loyal to a global sectarian ideology rather than to Indonesia.

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President Jokowi appears to be pondering an HTI ban, and that would perhaps be a first step towards prohibiting other fanatic gangs.

But my immediate concern this morning is how to do a spot of shopping before demo-caused congestion makes that an unappealing quest.