A most peculiar, patchy piece in the Jakarta Post this week, on how deputy gubernatorial candidate Djarot Saiful Hidayat faced hostile opposition from supporters of his gubernatorial election rivals while attending an anniversary prayer for late former president Soeharto….
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Djarot is on the left, Ahok on the right
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Djarot is the running mate of Governor Ahok – the pluralist Christian seeking re-election next month. Ahok is hated by all the vilest sectarian elements here, and is currently on trial for the mediaeval offence of’blasphemy.’
One prominent Islamist bigot has demanded the DEATH PENALTY!
But let’s continue with the JP report. I won’t simply repeat it word for word but the link will confirm I am paraphrasing it faithfully.
…an unidentified protester threw a bottle…some protesters pursued him while hurling verbal abuse…some protesters even trying to block his access to the mosque….
http://www.thejakartapost.com/news/2017/03/12/djarot-faces-hostile-protesters-at-east-jakarta-mosque.html
Atrocious antics, deserving serious, thorough investigation. Yet the JP reporters do NOT identify the hoodlums, apart from that vague reference to ‘supporters of rivals.’
Compare and contrast.
So WHO were the loutish trouble-makers? The Jakarta Post’s rival English-language paper, the Jakarta Globe, has incurred my disapproval in the past…
…but does a far better job, with its report on the same disgraceful hoodlum display.
Members of several Muslim groups intercepted incumbent Deputy Governor Djarot Saiful Hidayat while on his way to attend an Islamic prayer to commemorate the issuance of the controversial Supersemar, or March 11 Decree…
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- Protestors loudly yelled abuse and the word “infidel” at Djarot…
- So it was not a manifestation of political conflict but of naked sectarian hatred. http://eyewitness.thejakartaglobe.com/news/protestors-try-to-prevent-djarot-from-attending-supersemar-commemoration/
- And another thing!
- That ceremony Djarot was attending?
- The Jakarta Post’s description – ‘ an anniversary prayer for late former president Soeharto’ – is more than a little economical with the facts of the occasion.
- It gives the impression that it was merely a commemoration of the dictator’s life or of his death.
- NOT SO! The Jakarta Globe spells out the truth!
- .The mass prayer was held to commemorate the issuance of the Supersemar letter, which transferred authority from the country’s founding father, Sukarno, to Suharto, who was the chief of the Army in 1966.
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General Suharto – the beneficiary of ‘Supersemar’
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Every Indonesian knows about that episode.
Some regard it as a good day for the country, after Soekarno’s erratic regime and his constant flirtation of the evil totalitarians of the PKI – the Communist Party of Indonesia.
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But many also see it as the moment when Suharto’s iron rule began, an end to democracy and the start of a dictatorship which lasted for for over thirty years.
Regardless, that’s what last Saturday’s event was all about.
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PS
As an interesting foot-note to the above, the list of those present at the Supersemar get-together includes none other than the very man we mentioned above but did not name, the blood-thirsty fanatic who reckons Djarot’s running-mate, our good Governor Ahok, deserves death for a qitty reference to the Koran.
Now we name him.
Habib Rizieq godfather of the self-styled ‘Defenders of Islam!’
“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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Mel Henderson 10:09 on October 30, 2020 Permalink |
Well said, Ross. I know France well and also liked Philadelphia a lot, when I was there quite a few years ago but who wants to go somewhere that has a deputy police commissioner like this?
WTXF-TV reporter Steve Keeley tweeted Wednesday morning that police officers were “extremely frustrated” after Deputy Police Commissioner Melvin Singleton allegedly ordered both patrol and commanding officers to “not arrest looters just disperse them.”
https://www.theblaze.com/news/philadelphia-police-ordered-not-to-arrest-rioters
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Chrissie Miles 11:42 on October 30, 2020 Permalink |
If Macron contues to talk sensibly ( even though I don’t trust him to follow through and cut out the cancer, he will soon start getting the Trump treatment from the media.
Though not as nastily, because Trump is doing his best and has been for four years, whereas Macron has watched it all happen and only now seeming to act.
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Allen Robertson 11:55 on October 30, 2020 Permalink |
The police in America are all under local control, so the Democrat cities handcuff them.
Democrat mayors don’t like to accept help from the feds or even their own states’ National Guard, that the federal government can direct to pacify BLM rioters.
I saw on the news that in Philadelphia the police have been put under orders not to arrest BLM gangsters looting stores, just chase them away.
I never approved of centralized policing but when our own local governments are working to make looting easier, I have to rethink on this.
If we could see good tactics, like shoot-on-sight, I would cheer the cops on.
But suppose Biden-Harris wins next week?
They will want to use federal policing to turn the USA into a police-state.
Pray for a Trump victory!
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Carl Sarken 07:37 on October 31, 2020 Permalink |
A good thought!
Nearly all of us think the same but the political establishment don’t and the media, especially the ‘social media,’ is suppressing our voices.
We need a revolution.
Power to the People!
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