Sunshine, On A Lazy Jakarta Saturday…But After Next Week?

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Paper-backs purchased, a brief outing to SuperIndo to buy some beef for a rendang feast tonight, and we’ll see what delights the TV may have to offer.

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A fine week drawing to a close, which began with a brilliant Sunday brunch, continued through two excellent parties…

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…AND there’s another next week, before the gloomy month of Ramadhan descends, restos and even humble street-eateries shrouded with silly curtains…

Big Mackistan? Ramadhan Lock-Out at McD Sarinah? 

IslamoNazi Thugs Amok, Jakarta Cops Say ‘No Charges!’ 

Bigot Goon-Squad Bullies Vendor – Decent Indonesians Open Hearts AND Wallets!

…to ensure no fanatical fasters risk challenge to their spiritual discipline at the sight of non-fasters enjoying a simple meal.

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‘If we fasting Muslims want respect, let us also respect those who aren’t fasting.’

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One misses the wisdom of the late President Gus Dur, who was a notable Muslim scholar, so different from so many of the intolerant Islamist self-styled ‘scholars’ these days.

Islamist ‘Scholars’ – “Don’t Complain if You’re Attacked!” 

Hence one must make the most of it, so today and tomorrow my plan is to relax, conserving energy for fun outings before May expires…

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Bigot brutes attack a food vendor for its crime of serving lunchtime snacks to hungry workers.

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…and once again the TV news may be presenting us with scenes of IslamoNazi thuggery, of which the above is a good example.

Or maybe not!

Perhaps now that jihadist ideologues have come to dominate both law and discourse here in Jakarta..

Slouching Towards Shariah, Indonesia Jails Ahok! 

. …they too will take a relaxed attitude towards those whose mere existence affronts their sectarian arrogance.

Oh Yeah?

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Dissing Christians In Mama Stasi’s Germany

         

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The thing about Breitbart which upsets the Left is not that it produces ‘fake news.’

Trustworthy Media? Scant News of ‘Hamilton’ Hypocrisy! 

It’s that it reports real news, shocking news, that the biased so-called ‘mainstream’ media choose to ignore ( aka hide ) and the reason they ignore it?

Not because they are unaware of it but because they do NOT want us to know the truth.

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• Take that recent shocking story of ingrate migrants’ arrogance and arson, which did make it into the more responsible newspapers. 
• It’s all about some primitives in Germany who set fire to their ‘asylum centre’ because they didn’t feel they were being sufficiently pampered with confectionaries. 
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• But if you read down through the Breitbart report, there’s something that’s much more shocking –  not the savages’ behaviour, but the actions of those in charge.              T                                                                                                                                                     000000000000
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•  Ordinary lunchtime meals in the asylum centre were cancelled during Ramadan, to the dismay of non-Muslims, with hot food served only early morning and late evening. A spread of cold food was put out during the day for migrants who weren’t fasting.
• OMG.

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And last week Mama Stasi Merkel, Obama’s fave fan, has the nerve to announce she’s going to run for chancellor again as candidate of the CHRISTIAN  Democrats…

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•  …although we now know that her ‘asylum centre’ flunkeys treat Christians as second-class citizens?
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• You should read the whole Breitbart article  –http://www.breitbart.com/london/2016/11/21/migrants-burn-hall-candy-fasting-hours/ –  concerning the two ingrates now facing trial…  –
• The two men who have now been charged by the state prosecutor are Algerian Adel D., with aggravated arson and dangerous bodily harm, and Moroccan Mohammed B., who called on other migrants to start fires, with acting as his accomplice to both offences.
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• …whose arson cost German tax-payers TEN MILLION EUROS ( one hopes their snazzy handphones will be confiscated and sold to recoup some of that…
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• …and that the infamous ‘pocket-money’ the swine get, also from German tax-payers, will be stopped forever. 
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• But that’s almost incidental to the fundamental issue of the German authorities’ disgusting religious discrimination against Christians (and presumably others like Yazidis and Buddhists and Hindus)
• To put this in the context of where I live, I have often expressed concerns about the ridiculous curtains draped around street eateries here in 90% Muslim Jakarta.
  

  R-E-S-P-E-C-T – That’s How Ramadhan Must Be, Mr. UK Ambassador! 

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• It’s infantile, as if the sight of people eating lunch during ‘fasting hours’ will lure devout fasters to rush in and guzzle.
• Vendors also fear IslamoNazi thug raids, about which senior Islamic leaders tell us we shouldn’t complain. 
•  Islamist ‘Scholars’ – “Don’t Complain if You’re Attacked!”  
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• But even in my favourite warteg…

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• …., owned and operated by a nice Muslim lady, where some of the little waitresses wear head-scarves, it has never, EVER been the case that a good cheap tasty meal has been unavailable for those who wish to eat, any time of day it’s open.
• And it’s open all through the Ramadan fasting month, except for the week or so when they all go home to Central Java to see their kinfolks.
• If decent Indonesian Muslims carry on serving regular meals for those who don’t fast, there’s no excuse for publicly-funded German facilities to discriminate against Christians.
• Those guilty of this iniquity should be disciplined severely or better still…
• FIRED!
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• And obviously, savages like that Algerian and Moroccan, and any ‘migrants’who think their dietary habits must be imposed on those who don’t share their beliefs, should be instantly categorised as undesirable aliens, inadmissible to civilised countries..
• Fasting, when and what we eat, is a CHOICE!
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• In about a month, I’ll be tucking into Christmas Dinner.
• I won’t be trying to force everyone else to guzzle poultry and stuffing.
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Bigot Goon-Squad Bullies Vendor – Decent Indonesians Open Hearts AND Wallets!

No Ramadhan raids on eateries in Jakarta: Ahok –

So says the Jakarta Post, and I hope his assurance holds up. I’d be more reassured if the cops give an undertaking to use the guns they carry to deal with sectarian hoodlums who decide to run amok.

But the rest of the report is more interesting, both for the news it gives of a SatPol PP (civic militia) raid on a defenceless old lady in the nearby town of Serang last week.

Her ‘crime?’

Mrs. Saeni had served customers at midday during the fasting month.

Serang, as noted, is near Jakarta but is actually located in the adjacent province of Banten.

Banten may not be as steeped in pig-ignorant fanaticism as Aceh or West Java, but that’s not saying a lot.

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Shariah goon-squad, picking on Saeni’s food-stall Well done to Kompas.com for focusing on this

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Serang Satpol PP personnel raided Saeni’s food stall based on a regulation prohibiting eateries from serving customers during the day throughout the fasting month.

The JP report then adds needlessly that Muslims are required to fast from dawn until dusk.

http://www.thejakartapost.com/news/2016/06/13/no-ramadhan-raids-on-eateries-in-jakarta-ahok.html

So?

That’s between them and their God, not a bunch of bigoted local bigwigs who evidently see themselves as agents of Divine Wrath.

Here’s one of many YouTube links to the scenes. 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=URJS4aAHS9Q

Don’t know about you but it made me want to spit with fury.

Serang’s sort of evil intolerance is an insult to the declared spirit of Ramadhan, which is meant to be all about introspection and spiritual discipline.  I do sometimes wonder what God will say to these pusillanimous pea-brains when they arrive in search of their just reward for persecuting women like Saeni.

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I can, of course, not know the answer to that, but I can speculate.

However, there’s a happy ending to the story. 

Footage of the raid went viral on social media on Friday and led to a donation drive for Saeni, which had collected more than Rp 176 million (US$13,200) as of Sunday night. 

CNN says it now amounts to Rp.265 million.

And President Jokowi himself has apparently sent in another Rp.10 million.

http://newsmedia.co.id/presiden-jokowi-kirim-uang-rp10-juta-ke-pemilik-warung-nasi-di-kota-serang/

Hallelujah!

Just a pity he can’t order public floggings for the scum who reduced the poor little lady to tears.

Big Mackistan? Ramadhan Lock-Out at McD Sarinah?

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I used to spend a lot of time in the Sarinah area, back when Jalan Jaksa was fun and Baku Dapa was open, so when making one of my occasional returns to that part of Jakarta, I like to wander in and see what’s doing.

Since the terrorist attack earlier this year, it’s all the more important not to avoid the area.

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This week I felt like doing some writing and thought it would be nice to sit out on that first floor terrace/balcony that arose as part of the McDonald renovation a few years ago.  

With plans to meet up at Ya Udah for beer-chat in the evening, off to town I went mid-arvo, and dismounted from the TransJakarta Busway at 3pm.

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I climbed the big frontal stairway and turned left along the narrow terrace, which I noticed was partially blocked by a couple of chairs at the approach to the McDonald section but that’s not unusual, so I easily manoeuvred my way past…

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Every single chair and table ahead of me was up-ended, stacked as if for storage!

Bemused, I moved to open the door into the interior, where customers could be seen – that door was locked!

I moved around the corner of the building, tried the other door. Locked also!

So, defeated, I retraced my steps, having realised what was amiss.

Ramadhan. There’s no other logical ( ! ) explanation. 

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Ramadan fasting: It’s about discipline, reflection, humanity

Or so says the Islamophiliac headline in the LA Times. http://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/ramadan-fasting-itrsquos-about-discipline-reflection-humanity/ above an article which includes these admirable words.

Ramadan is a perfect time for Muslims to advance their relationships with neighbors and community, helping to improve the understanding of the true Islamic character in a free and open society.

Given that attitude, which is indeed shared by many Muslims in Jakarta, I find it incredible that a major multinational like McDonalds could slither so easily into crass intolerance, childishly rendering their outdoor area neither free nor open!

To what purpose?

The only people who might be ‘offended’ by folks having coffee or burgers on the terrace would be those who were having coffee or burgers within.

Non-fasters – who ipso facto wouldn’t give a rat’s ass!

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Photo from Sarinah Busway bridge – can YOU see who’s eating or drinking?

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Of course if people on the Busway bridge had binoculars and were DESPERATE to be ‘offended,’ they could train their field-glasses on the terrace.

Or maybe people in the car-park below, if truly craving spiritual affront, could peer up at sinful guzzlers? 

But even if they scaled the car-park perimeter wall, and stretched themselves to their tallest possible height, they’d still be hard-pushed to catch a glimpse of any sinful cups and plates, except when the sinners raised them to their lips.  

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Seems a dull way to achieve ‘offended’ status even for the most dimwit sectarian fanatic.

Downstairs, of course, they have draped their windows with those silly ‘fasting’ curtains, to prevent passing fasters resisting temptation, exercising the spiritual discipline, that’s supposed to be part of Ramadhan.

I know a few Islamists do look in on this blog to read my protests at the Arabisation of Indonesia.

Perhaps one of them might explain how this Big Mackistan policy of denying non-fasters a place in the sun is justified?

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PS I don’t know if that other catering outlet in Sarinah is still up to its old Islamist antics…

Cold Comfort at Chili’s, in Ghost-Town Jakarta! 

…I have eschewed the place since I published that report four years ago. Perhaps some reader can advise?

Kenapa? Macet Terus, di Jakarta!

Hell’s teeeth!

I was planning on going partying tonight, but when I wandered down after a langorous dog-day (so sorry, Ibi, cat-day) afternoon, it took just one look at the traffic on the main road to dissuade me.

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• Off to the warteg instead, reducing my expenditure for the evening by about several hundred thousand.

Now it’s home again, saving my energy till Thursday, if any brave potential visitor decides to risk the work-day macet, or if not, then Saturday. So how come traffc seems to be getting worse? As Ramadan runs its ourse, Jakarta usually thins out. 

 

I asked the gals in the warteg – they were not yet busy, since I was dining before the fasting break at sun-down – and they advised me that everyone was rushing home to eat. 

Whoever, I wondered, forgot the splendid invention of packed lunches ( or luppers – if breakfast at lunch-time is brunch, then lunch at supper-time should surely be thus described?)

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Then I remembered, that sun-down gluttony which frequently marks the month of self-denial. No packed lunch could sate such greed.

Not everyone’s like that, of course!

There are many who do take self-denial literally, but there is more food eaten during the fasting month than any other time of year!

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 Good appetites galore here, despite unappetising sticky-beaks a-prowl    https://rossrightangle.wordpress.com/2011/08/09/not-fasting-how-about-a-whipping-aceh-slips-deeper-into-barbarism/

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Mind you, I had SEVEN perkadel earlier, with rice, telor puyuh AND cap cay, and all for Rp 26,500 – and that included my es teh AND a take-away of three gorengan with a couple of eggy things that resemble veggie-omelettes, for a late-night snack.

So I must be getting into the spirit of the local Festive Season!

Islamist Bigot – “Why Should the Majority Respect the Minority?”

“Why should the majority respect the minority?” Ali Badri Zaini, the head of the East Java chapter of the Islamic Dakwah Forum..

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“The minority should respect the majority. The minister is [talking] nonsense. The Islamic faithful in East Java will never do as he instructs.”

He said it was considered customary for all warung to at least close off their façade with a tarp so as not to tempt those who were fasting.

Wow!

Temptation!?!

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This arrogant bigot is up in arms because Minister of Religious Affairs Lukman last week tweeted an appeal for MUTUAL tolerance. His words, on the need for mutual respect and understanding for those who were not fasting, echoed the late President Gus Dur.

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‘We Muslims should fast with respect for those not fasting.’ -A REAL Muslim scholar, the late President Gus Dur

Regardless of the specific fasting issue, it’s hard to see how anyone could respect such a rabid ranter as Ali Badri Zaini.

But he is only one of many enemies of tolerance here.

Jazuli Jawani, a legislator from the Prosperous Justice Party (PKS), said Lukman’s call for those who were fasting to respect those who were not was highly regrettable. 

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http://thejakartaglobe.beritasatu.com/news/ministers-call-mutual-respect-ramadan-elicits-conservative-backlash/

No it’s not. Those who are fasting only have to show a bit of self-discipline.

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Those who are not fasting risk the brutal intimidation we often feature here, meted out by fanatic savages like the IslamoNazi FPI.

And how dare any member of the PKS talk about any statement from anyone being highly regrettable – has Jazuli forgotten his party leader’s sickening ode to the mass-murder Osama Bin Laden? Written AFTER 9/11?

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That’s regrettable!

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But we can dismiss Zainal and Jazuli as outlandish extremists, singing from the same song-sheet as the IslamoNazis…...non-Muslim citizens who aren’t fasting, Zainal added, should take care not to disturb the sanctity of Ramadan. Especially eating and drinking in front of others at places open to public view…      http://nasional.news.viva.co.id/news/read/638009/fpi-janji-tak-lakukan-sweeping-saat-ramadhan That’s another Zainal,  Zainal Abidin Petir, FPI Gauleiter in Central Java.

Nevertheless, the same triumphalist tripe has just emerged from the Deputy Governor of Jakarta echoes this intolerance –  Djarot Saiful Hidayat also urged restaurants to install curtains on their windows during Ramadhan in order to respect those who are fasting. –http://www.thejakartapost.com/news/2015/06/15/jakarta-administration-and-residents-prepare-ramadhan.html

Respect again. Beause they’re fasting, everyone else has to hide behind a curtain? And bars have to be closed? Because fasters might be tempted?

What’s self-denial worth in moral merit, if there’s not a scent or sight of anything one’s supposed to be denying oneself?

And how contemptuous these Islamist extremists are, of those they purport to represent!

Not all Muslims fast, by any means – it’s up to them, after all – but of those who do, it bespeaks a commitment that they choose to make.

Not eating during daylight hours is no serious hardship, but going thirsty, in this climate, is no fun. Yet they undertake to do so, and a lot of them stick to it. I can admire such tenacity.

But it’s a personal choice. Their personal choice. It should not impinge on anyone else.  

Do bleating blow-hards like the Zainals really think that fasters will be subverted by the sight of me or anyone else sitting in my fave warteg having a plate of perkadel?

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Sure, if I held out my plate enticingly, like one of Odysseus’ sirens, urging some poor faster to share my delight.

Tempting then like that would be mean, but nobody does that.

If some fasters walk by a bar and – inexplicably! – choose to peer nosily into its dimly-lit interior, and catch sight of me with a cold Bintang? Is either Zainal seriously saying the devout will at once cast off their self-control and rush in to join me in a binge?

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• Sure, if I sent out some lightly-clad bar-girl, extolling the joys of a cool quaff on a torrid arvo.

Tempting them like that would be mean, but nobody’s going to do that.

The killjoys’ case is codswallop.

And they know it!

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Their only aim is to make minorities bow down. As Ali Badri Zainal, more honestly than the rest, indeed, puts it!

“Why Should the Majority Respect the Minority?”

But there’s always a silver lining in these stories, and in this one it’s an off-the-cuff remakr by one of Lukman’s critics, a legislator from ex-President SBY’s party.

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Khatibul Umam Wiranu, a member of the Democratic Party, accused Lukman of trying to curry popular support through the media through statements like his call for mutual respect. .

Which means that Khatibul, at least, perceives that’ popular support’ accrues to leaders who publicly espouse decency, and not to intolerant undesirables. 

 

 

 

Fourth of July, Jakarta – ‘Sexy Dance’ OK But NOT US Embassy Celebrations!

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The United States Embassy enjoyed its annual 4th of July celebration on Thursday, June 4, one month early, in order to respect the upcoming Ramadhan month, which will begin on June 17 and last for one month.

http://www.thejakartapost.com/news/2015/06/05/us-embassy-celebrates-4th-july-earlier-out-respect-ramadhan.html

Meanwhile, at the PRJ, the annual Jakarta Fair, Indonesians of all creeds will show up in their thousands, all through the Muslim Holy Month, to enjoy rock bands, local dangdut music, and all kinds of fun and hullabaloo, and nobody that I’ve met has taken exception to that.

Indeed, I recently inspected the PRJ Calendar and was giving serious consideration to going there on the Fourth of July!

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SABTU, 4  JULI – 16:00

PENAMPILAN SEXY DANCE DAN LIVE BAND DI BOOTH GUDANG GARAM

PRJ OK – Rolling Stones, Country Music, JKT48, Dangdut! 

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If this odd envoy wished to be respectful to Muslims, he could have had the music and conversazione starting in the afternoon, then cut the cake at 6pm, when observant Muslims break their fast.

It’s an established fact that more food is devoured during Ramadan than most any other month. Take a walk into every Jakarta eatery and see serious Muslims tucking in merrily as the clock strikes.

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I’m curious whether Canada (July 1st) or France (July 14th) or any other nations will emulate Obama’s pathetic national self-abnegation.

Actually, when Indonesia’s Independence Day (in August) occurred during Ramadan ( a movable feast) not long ago, I don’t recall President SBY ordering that date be changed.

Obama is inimitable!