How Will Jokowi Respond To This Petition?

Interesting to see how fast and furious public reaction has been to Jakarta Governor Anies Baswedan’s behaviour in the wake of the riots last week!

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One wonders how President Jokowi will respond to the petition asking for the Governor’s dismissal.

The Jakarta Post kindly saved me the trouble of searching for the petition – https://www.change.org/p/joko-widodo-copot-anies-baswedan-sebagai-gubernur-dki-jakarta –  and the full background to the story is available on their link.

https://www.thejakartapost.com/news/2019/05/27/online-petition-calling-for-anies-dismissal-resurfaces-after-jakarta-riots.html

I am not an Indonesian citizen so cannot properly sign such petitions but interested readers may wish to review the various aspects of Governor Anies which we have felt obliged to comment on.

Such Joy, Jakarta, To Have A Caring Governor! 

Kasihan, Jakarta, Sayangku – What A Pity, Beloved City! 

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Incidentally, there’s another Indonesian petition going around, with even more signatures than the one against Anies.

We will have a look at it soon.

 

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https://www.thejakartapost.com/news/2019/05/27/online-petition-calling-for-anies-dismissal-resurfaces-after-jakarta-riots.html

Kasihan, Jakarta, Sayangku – What A Pity, Beloved City!

Given how the words ‘hate-speech’ have been devalued in the Western world, by imbeciles like Britain’s Surrey Police, whose ‘Hate Crime Procedure…’

...says ‘apparent lack of motivation as the cause of an incident is not relevant as it is the perception of the victim or any other person that counts’. No clear hateful motivation? Doesn’t matter. Record it as a hate crime anyway.

Britain’s real hate crime scandal

…it’s interesting to note the widespread outrage over the newly installed Governor of Jakarta’s astounding outburst this week.

Being a lazy fellow, I have decided to build my comments around what ‘The Australian’ newspaper reported, that Anies Baswedan used his first speech in office to urge “native” Jakartans to take back the Indonesian capital.

Not at all surprisingly, this sparked concern among the city’s ethnic Chinese community…

The word Baswedan chose, pribumi, is common here and has a very specific meaning – indigenous.

It is always used to differentiate between Chinese ethnic people and the majority, who are mostly of Melayu   (Malay) ethnicity.

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One of many Jakarta shops marked by their owners as ‘pribumi property’ in an effort to preserve them from looting during the 1998 anti-Chinese race riots

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There has always been some anti-Chinese racism around Jakarta, which we have noted from time to time.

Jakarta Jew-Haters Boo Chinese Christian Candidate 

We whites, who are mostly not citizens anyway, are bule, literally albino! Nobody I know gives a damn about being called a bule, We often use it to refer to ourselves!

Admittedly I was a bit miffed when house-hunting a few years ago, to be told that one owner would under no circumstances have a bule tenant…

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…but, unlike the ‘discrimination’ whiners in The Old Country, my attitude was that he owned the property and if he wished to behave stupidly, he had every right to be stupid.

If I had to hire a secretary, I’d certainly discriminate, offering the job to somebody, anybody…

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…who looks like the Indonesian songstress Dewi Perssik, before anyone else, no matter how secretarially qualified!

But that’s just me.

Anies Baswedan now runs all Jakarta!

“In Jakarta, colonialism is right in front of our eyes, felt in everyday lives.”

WHAT?

“In the old days, all of us pri­bumi (natives) were oppressed and defeated. Now after independence, it is time for us to be the masters of our land,” he said, as people in the crowd punched the air and shouted –

“Allah is Great.” .http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/world/new-jakarta-chief-stirs-ethnic-tensions-on-first-day-in-office/news-story/

Of course they didn’t shout ‘Allah is Great.’ They wouldn’t be shouting in English. The sort who love to shout prefer Arabic! What the reporters, and everyone else, heard was ‘ALLAHU AKBAR,’ words which cause an emotional response in Western lands and now, it seems, here too.

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Anies Baswedan wins a smile from FPI ‘grand imam,’ Habib Rizieq

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If Anies had been ranting thus at a meeting of his fanatic fans in the FPI, a violent Islamist gang which he courted eagerly during his election campaign, one might expect much such hollering.

But at his first speech as Governor?

At least people now know what to expect, if they hadn”t already! Even that Australian reporter knows Anies’ record well enough to describe him as –

‘the former moderate Muslim!’ 

The report mentions that Baswedan was once Rector of Paramadina University, which I passed on my bus last month. It’s long had a good reputation as a place where REAL moderate Muslims are abundant,

There’s a quote from a lecturer there, saying the use of the word was “inappropriate.”

That’s not a word I like to hear in such discussions. Right or Wrong, okay, or neither, but ‘inappropriate?’   Something of a cop-out term.

But the lecturer is correct when he added  that –

“The atmosphere in Jakarta is very different now compared to before the election and the term ‘pribumi’ could spark tension. We cannot blame those who took offence at this speech..”

And a former minister and human rights advocate described the speech as a “disaster” guaranteed to “open old wounds.”

I prefer the more robust observations from the Centre for Strategic and International Studies researcher, Tobias Basuki…

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…who defined the new governor’s words as “alienating, especially coming from him and his track record in the election. It’s quite obvious that he’s excluding Chinese Indonesians because that’s the narrative that propelled him into office.”

Inevitably, Baswedan – who’s no fool – is now claiming he was looking back at those wicked imperialists, the Dutch!

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“Who faced the Dutch up close? Jakartans,” he said.

“If we look at people in the countryside, they know about the Dutch. But do they face them up close? No. The bottom line is I was talking about the Dutch colonial rule.”

Best not to think what non-Jakarta pribumi, from Aceh to Bali, who put up spirited resistance to Holland, might want to say to that!

But Dutch colonial rule ended nearly seventy years ago! What tense, past or present, was Baswedan using to make Islamist bigots holler ‘Allahu Akbar?‘

What was that word he used?

NOW?

Some Chinese Indonesians may say that we bule are fortunate, because, when the current Creeping Shariah escalates into a nightmare stampede, we can leave, easily, whereas this is their country, in which they’ve lived for centuries.

But despite the horrified responses from decent Indonesians, including many pribumi, there’s no way I can feel fortunate.

It won’t be that long till I have been here twenty years, and I love Jakarta, never imagined how far and fast the fanatics would become major players in the political game.

When Islamist zealotry intertwines with paeans of ethnic triumphalism, it’s hard to find reasons not to be gloomy.

Final quote, from one of the banners on show along the governor’s convoy route to City Hall on Monday night, hailing Mr Anies’s election as a “symbol of the awakening of the indigenous Muslims…”

Time to read something else…

…a bit of Western literature, perhaps, before my pleasant (and pribumi!) guest arrives!

Bravo, Jakarta’s Djarot! Why Can’t Councillors Use Buses!

What a pity Governor Djarot will soon be replaced by a man whose fans include the white-shirt vigilante gang, the self-styled ”Islam Defenders’ Front” aka FPI!

Netizens React to Anies Baswedan`s Meeting with FPI`s Rizieq |

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• But Djarot is only there because his predecessor, the honourable Ahok, was clapped in jail, to worldwide dismay, for the bizarre ‘crime’ of ‘blasphemy.’

But in the few brief months Ahok’s deputy has been running Jakarta, he has done a pretty fair job…

Jakarta’s Djarot Talks Sense – ‘Shape Up Or Ship Out!’ 

…though I suppose some will be eager to see him out of City Hall, so the new regime can get to work on such inspirational schemes as the promoting of ‘shariah tourism.’

Get Your Tickets Soon – Jakarta Shariah Tourism Boom? 

Meanwhile, let’s applaud the news , yesterday…

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Djarot tells councillors to return cars

Jakarta Governor Djarot Saiful Hidayat has told all city councillors to return their official cars before demanding their transportation allowances.

“All the 101 official cars should be returned, then we can compensate for them with a transportation allowance. Otherwise, we’ll not disburse the allowance…” 

http://www.thejakartapost.com/news/2017/10/02/djarot-tells-councillors-to-return-cars.html

We’re not talking old jalopies here.

Another local report describes the vehicles as ‘luxury cars…’

Djarot Minta Mobil Dinas Mewah Anggota DPRD DKI Ditarik!

The Jakarta Post explains that the ever-diligent councillors have the right to a transportation allowance, rather than a car, to assist them in carrying out their duties.

Unfortunately, many have yet to return the Toyota Corolla Altis cars provided to them.

Not being a car-nut, I had no idea what a Toyota Corolla Altis might be like, so I made the effort to find out. 

Not bad, huh?

I guess if I possessed such a splendid vehicle, I too would be slow to give it up, but since these councillors do NOT possess the cars, only have the use of them, they have no right whatsoever to hang onto them when ordered to hand them back!

I wonder how many Jakarta citizens who, like me, go to and fro by public transport, would prefer to see their elected ‘representatives’ do the same.

Indeed, judging from the big ads around Jakarta…

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…urging us all to reduce traffic jams by using public omnibuses, the councillors ought to lead by example.

Give ’em a bus pass!

They can flash it as they board and go about their duties for free!

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Likely, if forced to use buses, they’d opt for the modern and usually very clean, although often very crowded, TransJakarta vehicles…

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But what a joy it would be to see them travelling on the good old kopajas!

Jakarta’s Djarot Talks Sense – ‘Shape Up Or Ship Out!’

Ii’s a great shame that Ahok is no longer Jakarta’s Governor…

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…but since he’s been imprisoned under Indonesia’s mind-blowing ‘blasphemy law.’ he can’t be.

However his deputy, Djarot, is now in charge, if only till Anies Baswedan, elected with the enthusiastic support of the most fanatical Islamists in the land, becomes big boss of the capital in a month or two.

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Djarot is a much more low-profile politician than his predecessor, but this week he talked a lot of sense about the unwholesome elements, telling his employees to resign from office if they feel the state ideology Pancasila is irrelevant to the country.

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New readers overseas should read up on Pancasila, but basically it’s the philosophical basis of how the founding fathers wanted Indonesia to develop, as a tolerant country – it needs to be, with its many ethnic groups and religious creeds!

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The rise of rabid jihadist gangs is a clear and present danger to that, so – somewhat belatedly – steps are being proposed, like the central government’s putative ban on the calipho-fascist movement Hizbut Tahrir, to curb the sectarian threat.

Thus Djarot reminded staff that all civil servants had sworn to protect and abide by the ideology. 

“If any civil servant thinks Pancasila is not appropriate, just be nice and send a resignation letter!”

Better still, he suggested those opposed to Pancasila should even leave the country and find other nations that accommodated their ideology.  http://www.thejakartapost.com/news/2017/07/24/djarot-tells-anti-pancasila-civil-servants-to-leave-office.html

All this, one must assume, is a mildly delphic reference to jihadists, whose allegiance is not to Indonesia but to Islamist supranationalism, the fundamentally treasonous belief that solidarity with co-religionists overseas should trump patriotic duty.

It is an offensive notion and not just to Indonesian nationalists.

Western countries too should echo Djarot.

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Djarot can’t be faulted.

Mama Stasi Merkel, however, CAN be faulted!

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• The Demented Fuhrerin‘s not only announced there is NO limit to the number of aliens she is prepared to welcome into Germany… …but Mama is apparently all set to bring BACK to Germany a foul ISIS rape-gang collaborateuse…

ISIS Slags Were ‘Jealous’ Of Sex-Slaves?!? Hell Mend ‘Em! 

… instead of letting her Iraqi captors finish her off as she deserves.

As for public servants here in Jakarta, or elsewhere in the archipelago, why should there not be a ban on Enemy Within jihad-addicts drawing teacher salaries from the Indonesian public purse?

In American schools, in healthier times, communities did all they could to exclude marxists from teaching posts, concerned that subversives bound by their own twisted codes would poison young minds with red toxins.

Jihadists too will stop at nothing to inject their vile dogmas into the class-room.

SO…?

Fire them!

I’m amazed, though, that the Jakarta Post editorial hacks have not begun whining at Djarot’s sensible views.

The JP is forever babbling about how unfair Indonesia is to the red vermin of the PKI…

‘We Don’t Want Communism?’ But if You Did, It’s Time To Apologise!! 

…and the JP’s parent company has a shameful record of collaboration with Islamist intolerance.

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• Never forget that company, Gramedia’s Nazi-style book-burning!

• It seems to be in that media camp that they parody Will Rogers, who famously said he never met a man he didn’t like.

• With the JP and Gramedia, the impression one gets is that there’s never been a nasty subversive for whom they didn’t feel sympathy!

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• Tolerance, as in Pancasila, is all well and good, but only suicidal societies tolerate the proximity of an asp to their bosom.

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Look what happened to Cleopatra!

There are plenty of decent young Indonesians eager to find work, and if undesirables were sacked, there’d be a lot of capable candidates to fill the vacancies.

Jakarta Election – The Ugly Face of Islamist Intolerance!

Just days now till Jakarta elects its governor, and the Christian incumbent, Ahok, is said to have done well in the last televised debate, which I didn’t see.

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But his Muslim running mate, Djarot, did not have much fun on Friday.

Djarot Expelled from Mosque after Friday Prayer

The report in Tempo concerns his attendance at Al-Atiq Mosque in Tebet, which is just a little east of downtown Jakarta.

I once had lunch at a cheap eatery in Tebet railway station and was received in kindly manner by all around me.

So there’s no reason to think that the average resident is a hateful bigot, like the fanatic creep who, on Friday, got hold of a loud-speaker and called on the crowd not to vote for a non-Muslim leader in the Jakarta Gubernatorial Election. When Djarot was about to leave the mosque, people shouted and told him to leave.

https://en.tempo.co/read/news/2017/04/14/057866116/Djarot-Expelled-from-Mosque-after-Friday-Prayer

Having said most Tebet folk are not Islamist ignoramuses, it’s fair to remind everyone that some of them are just that!

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And some of them have a long-standing grudge against Ahok.

They won’t have forgotten that, two years ago, the Jakarta Governor took a vocal stand against bigot brutes who harassed the inoffensive minority Ahmadi congregation there, shutting down their house of worship.

Jakarta This Week – Blameless Minority Creed Hounded Again! 

Djarot apparently took the display of sectarian intolerance calmly, though he argues that every Muslim has the right to conduct Friday prayer at any mosque….

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Djarot previously felt that the mass at the mosque welcomed him. People even asked him for a handshake and selfie.

However, the situation changed when a caretaker of the mosque called on people not to vote for a non-Muslim leader.

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• The election takes place on Wednesday.

• Ahok’s opponent, Anies Baswedan, has shown no reluctance about seeking the approval of the most extreme elements in the land.

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• If Anies wins, a lot of us foreigners who have lived here for years are wondering how long before we are left with little choice but to leave.  

• Not me!

• How could I abandon all my Indonesian friends to face the joys of ‘shariah nightlife!’  

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Jakarta’s ‘Moderate’ Anies, Adored By Extremists, Disowns Jewish Tune!

Hilarious story in the Jakarta Post, all about the once-upon-a-time ‘moderate’ Muslim ‘intellectual,’Anies Baswedan, who wants so badly to become the capital city’s governor that he toddled along to explain himself to a fanatic Islamist gang…

• Another ‘Moderate’ Muslim Hanging Out With Da Gang? 

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Anies Wins an adoring smile from ferocious fanatic Habib Rizieq, who thinks the Christian GovernorAhok should be slain for mere words.

“We encourage the government to process the death penalty for Ahok as soon as possible,” said Rizieq.  http://www.suara.com/news/2016/10/14/134313/

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Anies has been busily denying that one of his campaign ditties sounds highly similar to the song “Hashem Meleh” by Jewish singer Gad Elbaz. 

http://www.thejakartapost.com/multimedia/2017/04/07/anies-denies-campaign-jingle-copying-jewish-song.html

You’d think Indonesian politicians wouldn’t give a tinker’s cuss about whether or not one of their campaign tunes resembles Mr. Elbaz’s hits.

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• Indonesia, after all, is nowhere near the Middle East.\

• But if you think so, think again.

• Attitudes here are not dictated by geographical logic but by sectarian solidarity, as I had wearily to point out when Israel last retaliated against Palestinian terrorism.

• TVOne’s endless playing of a dreary pro-Palestinian song, and the way it decorated its ‘news’ programming with anything-but-impartial colours….

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.Hamas Pigs Gloat Over Baby’s Death! Will TVOne in Jakarta Highlight Their Sin? 

…exemplified the pathetic mind-set.

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So we should not be in the least surprised by stern denials from Anies’ HQ that his jolly jingle was plagiarized from the Israeli band’s song…

They boldly declare that  “our song came first, in April 2014, while the Israeli band released its song later, in January 2016.”

I rarely praise the Jakarta Post but this time the journos there did their home-work.

The statement, however, is in contradiction with the fact that the song “Hashem Meleh” was uploaded on Jan 27, 2013, as can be seen on the official Youtube account of Gad Elbaz.

So!

Something of a serious situation faces the folks working for the “moderate intellectual!”

But their attempted refutation of the claimed resemblance raises other questions, since they argue that their song was adapted from the Prosperous Justice Party’s jingle.

Now anyone who purports to be moderate would surely not want in ANY way to be associated in the public mind with the Prosperous Justice Party, known here as the PKS.

 Wahhabism and Women Spell Woe for Fanatic Islamist PKS ’ .

Likened by many to the Muslim Brotherhood, it is utterly fanatical. One of its recent leaders was the notorious Anis Matta…

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…whose infamous poem of praise for mass-murderer Bin Laden, after 9/11, we’ve mentioned more than once.

And even ignoring the Islamist angle, there’s another recent PKS leader who is not exactly a grand advertisement for political propriety.

Just read all about Mr. Luthfi!

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Beef Scandal – Islamist Fanatic Luthfi Jailed ‘Till the Cows Come Home!’ 

But it would be unfair to abuse Anies Baswedan for borrowing even a fanatic party’s music.

A tune’s a tune, right? I myself have no problem with adaptations of other people’s refrains.

You can keep your forty shades of green, or any other hue..

Just as long as you will leave, for us, that lovely royal blue!

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Anies certainly sees no shame in it.

So how come his crowd are so desperate to disown the Israeli song?

Does somebody fear even a whiff of Jewry will harm his chances against the incumbent Ahok?

With Huge Support From Decent Muslims, Ahok Fights On!

Looks like Ahok has got over forty percent of the votes in Jakarta’s gubernatorial election.

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• I’m certainly not saying that all those who voted for either of the rival candidates did so because of bigotry.
• There are numerous reasons why people mark ballot papers one way or the other.
• But I do say that all those many, many Muslims here in Jakarta who voted for Ahok showed maturity and character by refusing to heed the vile sectarian howling that threatened to drown out debate during the campaign…
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Without the votes of so many Muslims, Ahok could not have secured more than ten percent of the Jakarta electorate, at the most!

Such support for a man under attack by every evil element in the archipelago gives hope to all of us who love Indonesia and wish her well.

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Not Only Ahok’s Future But Indonesia’s…

It’s a public holiday, declared by President Jokowi to give everyone in Indonesia a chance to get to the polls today, 15th February, local elections nationwide.

Here in Jakarta, my home for many years…

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… the last thing they’ll care about is what we foreigners, resident or abroad, have to say about the choice they’re making.

That’s why I have waited till polling stations have been open for several hours (well, that and because it’s a holiday and it’s nice to sleep in then sunbathe out front!) before wrapping this up and posting it.

It’ll be 2pm, I think, when they shut. 

I will have no impact on anyone’s vote, but then neither will the distant thunder of mainstream media pundits in Australia or anywhere else.  http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/inquirer/governor-ahok-fault-lines-across-jakarta/

Indonesians can think for themselves and there are few major issues about voter fraud.

Unlike in the USA –

…some states are so notoriously slipshod in their controls (California, Virginia and New York…come to mind) that it would be shocking if many illegals didn’t vote.

 Trump Is Right — Millions Of Illegals Probably Did Vote In 2016

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• If Ahok wins, despite his occasional foolish  moves, and by that I largely mean the destruction of Kali Jodoh…

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  • …which upset far more than just the poor people who lived there, it will show the world that a majority of citizens in the capital of Indonesia are not susceptible to sectarianism.
  • Please note, 90% of the capital’s voters are Muslim, so even if Ahok only gets through to a run-off, it will show there are MILLIONS of Muslims…

Jakarta – Decent Muslims Challenge Islamist Witch-Hunt! 

Good Muslims Speak Up For Threatened Christian Governor 

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 …here in this ever-interesting city, who have no time whatsoever for the venomous jihadist demos we have, to our disgust, heard and seen for months now.

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True, where Jakarta goes, there’s no guarantee the rest of the archipelago will follow.

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But if he loses, for whatever reason, or even worse, gets knocked out in today’s first round, that will be perceived as a triumph for the ugliest IslamoNazi elements in the land, the savages whom we have mentioned before…

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…The protesters, most of whom were men dressed in white Muslim attire, were heard yelling, “We want a Muslim governor,” “Burn Ahok!”  Breaking News – Jakarta Cops Tear-Gas Islamist Louts! 

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…whose view – I guess they’d not deny it –  is ANYONE but Ahok.

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It need not have had to be like this.

If his two opponents had spoken up, denounced the jihadist vendetta against Ahok, criticised him for whatever they think he’s done wrong…

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  ”Outrageous” Activity in Jakarta Pools? OMG – BIKINIS! …( I’ve disagreed with Ahok more than once!)

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… but told the world that under NO circumstances should ANYONE ever be prosecuted for the ‘crime’ of blasphemy, then whoever emerges victorious tonight, Jakarta’s reputation would not suffer.

But instead, we had both his rivals attend last weekend’s ‘prayer session’ which we had to mention last night.

They could respectably have gone to pray elsewhere.

Jakarta Mosque – Yellow-Bellies Bash, Spit On, Journos! 

Unsurprisingly, I suppose, Agus Yudhoyono has STILL not disowned his father’s infamous call for universal religious censorship.

Agus, of all people, as a representative of the younger generation, should have stood up for a modern-minded appreciation of free expression, written, drawn or spoken, on matters of creed.  

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 …from the ferocious fanatic Rizieq, who thinks Ahok should be slain for mere words.

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Ever since this ‘blasphemy’ carry-on began, with Ahok’s good-natured observations at that Thousand Islands public meeting…

An Apostate Attacks Ahok – Denies Right To Criticise! 

… we have seen the ugliest face of Islamist intolerance leering and looming ever larger in the public sphere.

Whether Indonesia can pull through this time of aberration, I honestly don’t know.

I hope so, but deep down, I fear not.  

So Has Indonesia Come To This? Paradise Lost? 

 

 

Jakarta Kampanye – Meskipun Hujan Besar!

Last campaigning day, before Jakarta’s gubernatorial election on Wednesday.

After suggesting folks stay home today to avoid the disruption that might rise from the various events, I woke to thunderous rainfall, so no way would I have gone out anyway. Besides, a visitor was on the way.

But I did decide to watch Metro TV’s coverage.

It was particularly pleasant to contemplate the anti-Ahok bigot brigade getting soaked on their way to their ‘prayer rally!’

The rain abated and they’ll be dried out at home by now, mulling over which of the other two candidates is best placed to defeat the Christian incumbent, Ahok, whom they so abhor.

But the candidates’ rallies were interesting.

Ahok had his indoors, in some grand hotel, where those big ballrooms can hold huge numbers of people. 

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• Although I strongly disagreed with what he did at Kali Jodo…
  

  Wong Cilik, Ahok, TNI – Tragedi Kali Jodo! 

  …I have to say he manfully defend that episode during the debate.

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Agus Yudhoyono held an open-air gathering, somewhere in posh Kuningan, where  I was intrigued by his willingness to be bounced up into the air over and over again by his enthusiastic fans.

At least I assume it was he.

If so, I applaud his commitment to vote-getting.  Even when I was in local politics, far from Indonesia, many years ago, and somewhat famous locally for my ability to attract publicity, I never did that!

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Nor did Anies Beswaden.

He comes across as a staid character, which is more than can be said for the show-biz star he had out with him today.

Rhoma Irama is called The King of Dangdut here, and musically he is gifted. But his fanatical Islamist character has more often caught out attention.

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Irama–  ‘Muslims need the FPI!’

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“I was only reciting An-Nisa Surah verse 144, in which God says firmly that the faithful are banned from voting for a kafir [infidel] as their leader,” Rhoma Irama said in a press conference before being questioned by the Jakarta Election Supervisory Committee (Panwaslu Jakarta). 
“Muslims who vote for a non-Muslim leader become an enemy of God,” he added.  Jakarta Globe, 6/8/12

See also –

• When asked about his attitude about Ahmadiyah , Rhoma immediately replied firmly …” As for religious harmony,  eliminate religions that are destructive , ” said Rhoma after a press conference held at the Sari Pan Pacific Hotel , Central Jakarta, Thursday ( 5th December ) Cry-Baby Islamist Wannabe – “Religious Harmony? Eliminate Destructive Religions!” 

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After Anies was headlined for hanging out with the white-shirt vigilante gang…

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Baswedan, basking in FPI smiles

Another ‘Moderate’ Muslim Hanging Out With Da Gang? 

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… his decision to have Cry-Baby as his foremost entertainer might suggest a lapse of judgement, but never mind.

Then Metro took us back to the studio, where a yummy lady held court, much analysis and comment from various folks.

That went on and on, so much so I nodded off!

 

Another ‘Moderate’ Muslim Hanging Out With Da Gang?

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But alas, it’s becoming ever more difficult to highlight the truth about Indonesia, which is that most Muslims here are not Arabised klutzes who want a caliphate, but, on the contrary, rather nice, normal people whom I mix with on a regular basis.

We’ve seen, in the recent past, leaders like the Mayor of Bogor,...

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Bogor Mayor Bima Arya

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X-Rated Xmas – Foul-Mouths Bully Christians, As ‘Moderate’Mayor Denies They Exist!’ 

….once hailed as a ‘moderate,’ who got elected then continued the oppressive policy of his Islamist predecessor, targetting local Christians, denying them access to their own church despite a Supreme Court ruling in their favour.

Now we have another so-called ‘moderate’  – a fellow famed for his ‘moderation,’ so it’s said – showing up to grub for votes at an ‘event’ staged by the notorious hate-gang, the IslamoNazi FPI.

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Hate-gang on the march in Jakarta

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• You can read the whole story, in the Sydney Morning Herald, of all places Jakarta governor contender Anies Baswedan under fire for meeting …and such international attention indicates the extent of the problem, currently exemplified by a geezer named Anies Baswedan.
• Anies Baswedan is running for the position of Governor of Jakarta, against the incumbent, Ahok.

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•  Ahok

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• Ahok’s campaign is doing quite well, despite the fact he’s on trial for ‘blasphemy…’
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• …an offence one expects to find mentioned in history books, not in the courts of the “world’s largest Muslim democracy,” as this big country is often described.
• One of those loudest in demands for the most bizarre prosecution is Habib Rizieq, a fanatic who has publicly said the accused governor should be killed!
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• “We encourage the government to process the death penalty for Ahok as soon as possible,” said Rizieq.  http://www.suara.com/news/2016/10/14/134313/

• One might expect that respectable politicians would support free speech, on religion or anything else, or at least denounce deranged death demands.

• Or at the VERY least avoid at all costs public association with a man like Rizieq. 

• NOT Anies Baswedan!

He opted to share a platform with that ranting Islamist, seen with Anies in the photo below.

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Baswedan, basking in Rizieq’s smiles

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One of Anies’ men told the SMH that the whole thing had been blown out of proportion because it was the FPI. “We understand that.”

Imagine if a candidate for Mayor of New York  or any American, or British, or Australian city had agreed to honour a KKK rally with his or her presence!

That too might have been blown out of proportion, and no wonder.

Decent people do NOT consort with sectarian vigilante gangs – or at least should not.

For those of use who love Indonesia, this is little short of heart-breaking.

As it is for millions of decent Indonesian too, one of whom is also quoted in the SMH –

“Will this picture be remembered as the day moderates die?” tweeted Evan Laksmana, an analyst with the ‎Centre for Strategic and International Studies in Indonesia.

He’s not the only Indonesian lamenting that “Anies Baswedan, once known as a global voice of moderate Islam, campaigned at FPI HQ.”

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Never mind.

There’s a third candidate, Agus Yudhoyono, son of ex-President SBY. Agus has not seen fit to, and is unlikely to, repudiate his father’s unforgettable call for Indonesia’s awful ‘blasphemy’ law to be made a global fatwa.

SBY to ask the world to ban blasphemy | The Jakarta Post

• No reasons to becheerful then, if Agus comes out on top.
• So this morning, awaiting the arrival of a welcome Indonesian visitor, then later hoping to sit out front in the glorious Indonesian sunshine…

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• …maybe after a lunch in my local warteg –  $1.50 for a big plate of yummy Indonesian food! – perhaps you can understand why I don’t dwell as much as once I did on Indonesian news. 

It’s simply too depressing.