Berlin Wall Jakarta -Kenapa Kalijodo? Lebih Baik Lubang Buaya!

I’m not sure that putting part of the Berlin Wall at Kalijodo is entirely appropriate.

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A former red-light zone, now a youngsters’ recreation area, KJ seems an odd site, but since the Indonesian artist was desperate to find a location for his work, why not?

Interesting, though, to note that nowhere in the Jakarta Post report –  http://www.thejakartapost.com/life/2017/10/05/teguh-ostenriks-berlin-wall-in-jakarta-art-to-overcome-divisive-powers.html–  does the moral blight of communism get a mention, despite communism being the raison d’etre of the Wall of Shame.

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The JP talks about the Cold War, but fails to name the evil ideology which that war was waged to resist – and which came close to devouring the Indonesian archipelago.

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Red border guards in Berlin retrieve the corpse of young Peter Fechter, whom they’d shot down while he tried to flee Communism

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It penned in Germans who wanted to be free of marxist misrule.

I suppose the Jakarta Post’s omission is down to their relentless compassion for the red vermin of the PKI, the Indonesian Communist Party…

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Jakarta Post – Never Miss a Chance to Re-Hab Reds! 

…which would, if given the chance, have subjected this lovely country to the same horrors that their comrades in Europe inflicted on countless victims in Eastern Europe.

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Worse, maybe, since the unlamented Aidit, PKI fuhrer, is on record as regarding North Korea as his fave totalitarian model.

For my part, I’d have thought the Lubang Buaya, on the east side of town, would be more suitable.

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That’s where the grand memorial to the officers murdered in the attempted Red take-over of 1965 stands, a perennial reminder of the evil of communism.

G30S/PKI – At Lubang Buaya, A Prayer Of Thanks

As everyone here in Jakarta knows, September 30th is the anniversary of the PKI (Communist Party of Indonesia) attempt to seize power and plunge Indonesia into a marxist nightmare.

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So what’s wrong with Indonesia’s armed forces, the TNI, making sure their men and women view a classic film about that episode in Indonesian history.

Pengkhianatan G30SPKI, which is directed by acclaimed director Arifin C. Noer, tells the story of Gen. Soeharto in quashing a coup blamed on the Indonesian Communist Party (PKI). In the big-budget film, communists are depicted as godless savages who mutilated military officers in a frenzy.   http://www.thejakartapost.com/news/2017/09/17/army-to-hold-screenings-of-pki-movie.html

Communism has more deaths to its discredit than any other ideology.

Communists are indeed godless savages!

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And always have been, along with contemptible fellow-travellers, like the late ‘intellectual’ Pramoedya, a key player in the LEKRA red front, on whom we’ve commented before.

From  Tempo, issue May 16-22, 2006 – an extract which explains why some 25 “prominent literary figures and cultural observers” put their distinguished names to a formal submission to the Magsaysay Award Committee in 1995, protesting at that body’s decision to give Pramoedya an award.

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Their reasons were simply stated, viz his unethical role during one of the darkest periods for creativity during the Guided Democracy era, when he led the persecution of artists and literary figures who disagreed with him.

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(this protest is air-brushed out of most Western references nowadays, though a brief mention is to be found in an otherwise slavishly pro-Pram article in the Economist  http://www.economist.com/node/168819 )

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If Indonesia in 1965 had fallen prey to the totalitarian hypocrites of the PKI, God only knows how horrific might have been the fate of this lovely archipelago.

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The PKI fuhrer at the time, D.N. Aidit, opined (before he got what was coming to him!) that North Korea was his favourite marxist model!

Not surprisingly, the Communist Party has been banned for fifty years in consequence of the treason that was then crushed.

Yet ten days ago, in an artificially stoked furore over the TNI’s move to have military personnel view the film, we had Aidit’s son opining that –

 “As long as poverty exists, Marxism will attract people. A challenge for this country is to make everyone prosperous so there’s no need for communism,” Ilham Aidit, son of the late Indonesian Communist Party leader Dipa Nusantara Aidit, said in Jakarta on Wednesday (20/09).   http://jakartaglobe.id/news/rise-new-wave-communism-red-herring-ministers/

This is an odd assertion. The worst, most rabid Reds have tended to be people not afflicted by poverty but those spawned by the privileged, like many of those in modern Indonesia who agitate to exculpate the PKI.

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A lot of present-day ‘intellectual’ posers and their media comrades, notably in the notorious Jakarta Post…

Jakarta Post – Never Miss a Chance to Re-Hab Reds! 

…and its competitor, the Jakarta Globe…

Like a Dog to its Vomit, Jakarta Globe Plays the Red Card Again!…

…are STILL trying to make out that the Reds were unfairly dealt with in the aftermath.

Even the far-away far-left, the BBC for one example, manage from time to time to jump on this bandwagon!

BBC Bias On PKI – So Kids Shouldn’t Learn Nazis Were Evil? 

As I noted briefly yesterday…

Inconsistent Agitation? Woe To Jakarta Commuters! 

…their tactics are to argue that many non-communists suffered retaliation unfairly (true) and that the families of PKI members and fellow-travellers were punished, despite not being themselves guilty of communist treason (also true)

But the pinkos fail clearly to distinguish between those wronged…

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…and the genuinely guilty, the card-carrying PKI scum  – who often did a runner to red tyrannies overseas (having abandoned a lot of simple folk they’d gulled into fellow-travelling to face the music in Indonesia!)

Incredibly, many ‘former’ PKI, even to this day, have refused to repent, failed to acknowledge the evil of Communism.

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

Why on earth seek to rehabilitate such swine, without a word of repentance on their part?

So on this anniversary, let’s join, at least in spirit, those assembled at the Lubang Buaya, where those officers were murdered in 1965…

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…and be thankful that Indonesians did not allow their country to be dragged into the darkness of communism.

 

Jakarta Post’s Red Re-Hab Campaign – Enter An Atma Jaya Prof!

From red bogey to anti-intellectualism

• That’s the headline in the Jakarta Post, 19th May, above an article by some geezer described as a professor at Atma Jaya University, which non-locals won’t know is the Catholic university here.
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• I dare say the late and much lamented Polish Pope may, as I type, be sitting in an honoured place above, discussing the Jakarta Post with his fellow-Pole, Father Popieluszko, murdered by the Red secret police –
• Murdered anti-Communist priest Jerzy Popieluszko beatified – France 24 –
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• …and perhaps with Hungary’s Cardinal Mindszenty.

  Or with the many Balkan Catholics slaughtered by the Communists there.  Vatican Recognizes 38 Albanian Christian Clergy Martyred by Communism.

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• Catholic parents paying hefty fees for their young to attend Atma Jaya should also peruse Setiono Sugiharto’s piece, and ask what sort of stuff their kids are being exposed to.
• That depends, of course, on whether they can understand what the hell Setiono’s rabbiting on about!
• It’s VERY hard work grappling with a vocabulary utterly alien to normal people.  
• …people today have become multi-literate and multi-modal, artistically blending linguistic elements with other semiotic resources and modalities such as symbols, imagery, sound and graffito to carry out successful verbal and non-verbal communication. 
• From red bogey to anti-intellectualism – The Jakarta Post
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• Can you imagine anyone churning out pretentious gobble-de-gook like that and expecting ordinary people, Indonesian or not, to take it seriously?

• This geezer doesn’t seem to get it, that writing for propaganda purposes should only be done in plain English, not academic ivory tower jargon.

• But on he flows…
• We shouldn’t forget that we live in an era of late modernity typified by the fluctuation of identities. Mediated by advanced technology, people develop unstable and fragmented identities…wearing clothes with communist attributes is just one manifestation of this identity reconstruction.
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• Sorry, Pak, it’s just a manifestation of ignorance!
• Look at all those chumps wandering around with t-shirts bearing the likeness of that evil Argie psycho!
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• •  Even as a youth, Ernesto Guevara’s writings revealed a serious mental illness. “My nostrils dilate while savoring the acrid odor of gunpowder and blood. Crazy with fury I will stain my rifle red while slaughtering any vencido that falls in my hands!”
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  • “When you saw the beaming look on Che’s face as the victims were tied to the stake and blasted apart by the firing squad,” said a former Cuban political prisoner Roberto Martin-Perez… “you saw there was something seriously, seriously wrong with Che Guevara.”
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  This passage is from Ernesto Guevara’s famous Motorcycle Diaries, though Robert Redford somehow overlooked it while directing his heart-warming movie...   .http://www.frontpagemag.com/2014/humberto-fontova/the-yaf-celebrates-no-more-che-day-on-campuses-nationwide/

• Has Professor  even heard of the reality of Cuba’s torment?
• I don’t know. He nevertheless gets very agitated about the confiscation of books on communism…the banning of their publication is an intellectual insult. 
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• But books about communism are useful, especially at colleges and universities.
• I had to read a lot of them myself. 
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Youngsters should be taught how evil communism was and is, and then they might not be susceptible to the revisionist garbage that fills so many column inches of the Jakarta Post.

• Jakarta Post – Never Miss a Chance to Re-Hab Reds! 
  Time for Indonesia’s Red Reprobates to Face Their Guilt! 
• By that, I mean the attempts to mix up the PKI totalitarians (who deserved all they got) and the genuinely innocent people (who were victimised because they were kin to commies or were duped into red front outfits by marxist hypocrites, or were slandered, falsely accused of being reds.
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• However, this particular academic, though he says he thinks all ideas should be open to inquiry, reveals his own slanted ideological views as we struggle through towards the end of his awful article.
• He witters furiously about the merits of Marxist theoretical insights to counter the hegemonic and oppressive power of Western domination….
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• WESTERN DOMINATION? Oppressive? 
• Yeah, sometimes. But in comparison to the monstrosities of communism?
• To this very day millions of people, in Red China, Cuba, North Korea, Vietnam and Laos, could give Setiono first-hand accounts of what an OPPRESSIVE life is like.
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• If those PKI vermin had come to power in 1965, and imposed their leader, the unlamented D N Aidit’s, ideal model, the Pyongyang Paradise, he himself would not be teaching in a Catholic university.
• Such reactionary institutions would long since have been extirpated.
• Nevertheless, Setiono’s disapproval of book banning is fair enough.
• Perhaps the Jakarta Post will give him another, equally generous amount of space to condemn book-BURNING, as practised by the conglomerate which owns the Jakarta Post?

• Grovelling Gramedia’s Book–Burning Bonanza – Appeasing Fanatics 

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  • Gramedia’s Hitlerite book-burning

• Pandering to rabid sectarian intolerance, Gramedia’s lbosses engaged in exactly that, just a year or so ago.