Megawati Didn’t “Whine” Even Once, Jakarta Post Jerks!

In what way is this straightforward question a ‘whine?’

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‘What’s your contribution to the country?’: Megawati whines about Indonesian millennials 

https://www.thejakartapost.com/news/2020/10/29/whats-your-contribution-to-the-country-megawati-whines-about-indonesian-millennials.html

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 Megawati Soekarnoputri, President of Indonesia 2001-2004

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That disgraceful, derogatory headline is not merely a gratuitous insult to former President Megawati but actually misleads Jakarta Post readers about the content of what appears below it.

She said to the President,”… don’t spoil them […] I want to ask a question: What’s the contribution of the millennial generation?” Megawati said in her speech broadcasted on the PDI-P’s YouTube channel.

The PDI-P is her party, an important party, the Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle…

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….which played a major role in bringing democracy back to Indonesia two decades ago.

So what did she say, to attract the slur of being a ‘whiner?’

“What is your contribution to this nation and country?”

“I don’t care if I get bullied. Are protesting and destructing the only things you [millennials] can do?”

Fair question, surely?

After this month’s Jakarta riots?

Portland Indonesia? Thugs Stone Cops! Black-Clad Louts! 

Brits and Americans have also seen riotous mobs, BLM racists and Red Nazi Antifa, destroying public and private property.

The JP writer adds that Megawati accepted that anyone has a right to engage in street protests  but that they should not result in destruction of public facilities.

Quite right!

“For those who take to the streets, what are you doing? If you are against a rule, go to the House of Representatives. There is a thing called a public hearing for you to get your voices heard..”

Use that link and read the whole piece.

Nothing Ibu Mega said can be remotely construed as ‘whining.’  

She simply points out the attitudes seen among certain millennials –  most of whom, BTW, IMHO, are nowhere near as awful as many of their deadbeat counterparts in the UK….

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…or the violent rabble amok in the USA…

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Nothing peaceful about murders, bashings, arson, looting and widespread property damage. BLM protests are not peaceful

https://www.heraldsun.com.au/blogs/rita-panahi/blm-protests-are-not-peaceful/news-story/41917a93a48d26baf539adda15e1e257

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…and calls into question things some of them say and do.

So whose agenda are the JP jerks following, when they diss Megawati by describing her legitimate question as ‘whines?’?

While we have the name of the person who wrote this ‘news’ story (who appears from her photo to be a millennial herself)  in normal newspapers, those who write the stories don’t get to create the headlines above them.

So WHO composed that headline?

Of course the JP is hardly a normal newspaper.

It is run by leftists – we saw a particularly bad example of left nastiness recently –

Trumpophobic Jakarta Post? Time To Pull The Plug! 

but that’s nothing new….

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

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However, there’s no obvious reason for the JP lefties to feel malevolent towards a former Indonesian head of state.

Towards the end of the article, there’s a suggestion that infiltrators caused the riot trouble in town.

So we’ve heard.

It’s entirely possible, but in any case, without knowing the age of these ‘infiltrators,’ it does not exculpate every millennial in Jakarta.

Nor did Ibu Mega criticise every millennial in Jakarta.

Nor at any point did she ‘whine!’

As I’ve said before, it would be no bad thing if the Jakarta Post sank without trace.

If any expats or overseas readers have been ill-advised enough to subsidise it, don’t.

Cancel your subscription.

Tempo is much better, or even the Jakarta Globe. 

 

Indonesia, 30 Sept.65 – When The Red Threat Ended!

Today there will be ceremonies of commemoration around Indonesia, but also attempts by the worst elements in society to rehabilitate the red vermin of the PKI – the Indonesian Communist Party.

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There can be no doubt that those red vermin, backed by Red China, were dead-set on establishing a totalitarian tyranny in this lovely archipelago.

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a 1965 demo by the totalitarian hypocrites of the PKI, the Indonesian Communist Party, in the heart of Jakarta.

• Lest We Forget! The Communist Evil Indonesia Escaped..

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Good people, of all religions, welcomed the action taken by part ( not all! ) of the armed forces to stop the Communists achieving their grim objective.

 

There can also be no doubt that many thousands of people, innocent dupes of the PKI, gulled into labour and peasant communist front organisations, were killed, left to their fate by high-up PKI scum who skulked off to safe havens in Red China, or the Soviet Union.

Some of them, disgracefully, were given sanctuary in Western countries.

Other poor dupes were not killed but still subjected to victimisation after the PKI threat was crushed, and, particularly unjustly, their families too. 

Most of those PKI exile swine have died off, but some not – we have noted in the past that several have never repented of their marxist evil.

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Their friends among the ‘intelligentsia’ here have very cleverly, shamefully, muddied the waters of modern history, arguing, rightly, that children and other relatives of those guilty of communism should not be persecuted for the sins of their parents….

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

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

…but then, in the slyest way, extending that argument to evil reds who have never repudiated the foul creed they served back then.

Just a few thoughts!

There has been much discussion recently about the dangers of a PKI return.

I doubt that will happen, unless the younger generation is misled into thinking that there marxism had some merit in 1965…

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Jakarta Post Trumpophobes? Give ‘Em Mirrors For Xmas!

Dehumanization still prevails, as evident, for example, in United States President Donald Trump’s warning about using violence to keep immigrants from the country’s poor neighbors at bay…   https://www.thejakartapost.com/academia/2018/12/22/a-silenced-night.html

WHAT A LOT OF RUBBISH!

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Skip the telling omission of the key adjective ‘ILLEGAL’ that should always be lodged securely in front of the word ‘immigrants’ in discussion of the Honduras Horde.

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Elaborately Planned” Caravan Brings Human Traffickers & Violent Gangbangers to Guatemala                                                 https://www.judicialwatch.org/blog/2018/10/elaborately-planned-caravan-brings-human-traffickers-violent-gangbangers-to-guatemala/

Skip the omission of the fact that even Mexican citizens on that border have demanded that those crimmigrants be sent back to where they belong.

Migrant caravan: Mexico deports group that stormed US border

There’s nothing at all ‘dehumanising‘ about any head of state taking responsible steps to defend his country’s sovereign frontiers.

America has more than enough undesirable aliens without importing more.

ICE bust of sex offenders underscores horrors of sanctuary cities   https://www.washingtontimes.com/…/ice-bust-of-sex-offenders-underscores-horrors

http://jw.structure.email/members-newslink/newslink-ice-arrests-6-5k-convicted-murderer-sex-offender-illegal-aliens-this-year

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I’m sure the American Ambassador in Jakarta will have been advised of this insulting JP rant and one hopes he will compose a corrective letter to whichever of that coy clique, the ‘editorial board’ of the Jakarta Post, he can put a name to.

It’s VERY telling that whoever wrote their offensive tripe felt it prudent not to sign it, preferring to hide behind the anonymity of the ‘board.’

What it tells us is that the Jakarta Post’s ruling clique is no more courageous today than it was when it held its collective tongue on its pay-masters’…

…the business empire, Kompas Gramedia, of which the JP is part  –

…collusion with sectarian zealot book-burning, an outrageous Nazi-style assault on freedom of expression.

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Any newspaper purporting to be concerned with ‘dehumanisation’ would have erupted in editorial thunder when that took place.

But not a peep of condemnation from the Jakarta Post ‘editorial board!’

Whether their sickening silence was because they approved of the bigots who aped the followers of Adolf Hitler…

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German Nazi book-burning, 1930s

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…or because they cowered from upsetting the collaborators in the parent company, who knows?

But it certainly disqualifies that sad section of the Indonesian media from pontificating on what is ‘dehumanising.’

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Perhaps somebody should run down to the shops tomorrow and buy a bunch of mirrors, so that every member of the JP board can make good use of them on Christmas morning.

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Or else use the above JP link to their ‘editorial’ and ask the anonymous clique, via the comment column, why their ‘Christmas Message’ includes not only a rant against Trump, but a one-side witter about ‘Palestine’ – with no mention of Hamas terrorism?.

 

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British Council Embraces Hacks Long-Silent On Book-Burning?

As you may know, the British Council is funded by UK tax-payers. It calls itself a ‘charity’ but is very much part of the Foreign Office apparatus.

“There is a widespread assumption that The British Council is a wing of our Secret Intelligence Services, however minor. Officially it is no such thing but there are connections……..”   Feuds and turf wars put Fresh Talent flagship plan in jeopardy

Unfortunately, UK tax-payers don’t get to know much about that sort of thing, nor do they get much say in what the BC does “Speaker Michael Martin in secrecy row over British Council trips”. The Daily Telegraph

And THEN there are such activities as….

Collaboration with Red China’s communist censors…

Ma Jian protest paints the London Book Fair red.

Bringing Censors to the Book Fair.

…and promotion of ‘gay’ propaganda…

In 2015, the British Council launcheda free, online, 10-day LGBT film festival…the first global online LGBT film festival  .^{https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Council}

If you are a Brit tax-payer, maybe you think that’s an outrageous abuse of your money.

Or maybe you are okay with that sort of nonsense.

However, today, a look at the British Council’s open collaboration with a newspaper infamous here for its failure to condemn IslamoNazi book-burning!

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“Writing on Diversity”, an event hosted by The Jakarta Post and The Jakarta Post Writing Center in partnership with Raffles Hotel Jakarta and British Council Indonesia.

The report adds that those present included former chief editor of The Jakarta Post Endy Bayuni…the discussion focused on how writers can employ diversity to help counter rising intolerance.    http://www.thejakartapost.com/multimedia/2018/04/02/writing-on-diversity-taking-up-stories-against-intolerance.html

I don’t know about the ‘writers’ present, but I do know about Endy Bahyuni, who, as noted, for some years held a senior editorial position at the Jakarta Post.

Endy has more than once presented himself as a fan of free expression and religious tolerance.

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“Don’t give any room to the hard-liners,” said Endy…“Please cover them when they’re violating the law, but don’t give space to small group of people when they rally against something absurd. They used the media effectively and deceive the media to suit their own means. ”http://www.thejakartaglobe.com/news/indonesian-media-needs-to-cover-religion-not-radicals-iarj/ 

That was a year after Gramedia collaborated with the bigots, and we duly took note!

Bayuni’s Bravado, Gramedia’s Grovel, Jakarta Post’s Double Standards 

That occasion, a couple of years ago, would have been a golden opportunity for Endy to redeem his newspaper’s good name with a spirited public denunciation of the Gramedia company, of whose business empire the JP is part.

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Alas, he did not take that opportunity, nor, so far as news reports tell us, did he do so at the Raffles Hotel this month.

Nor, to the best of my knowledge, has any member of the editorial clique ever done so. 

Despite its frequent blathering about the virtues of pluralism, I have yet to see any JP editorial condemnation of Gramedia’s disgusting grovel to sectarian censorship, which occurred five years ago…

….an episode which culminated in an action replay, jointly supervised by Gramedia and Islamist ‘scholars,’ of the sort of conflagration – book-burning- which characterised Hitler’s Germany. 

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Germany, 1930s (above)

Indonesia 2012 (below)

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I would suggest the British Council be instructed by the UK Embassy here in Jakarta to cut all ties with this pathetic rag until the editors thereof grow a set and disown their parent company’s blazing appeasement of Islamist bigotry 

Well Said, Jakarta Globe! But Will Gramedia Repent?

Thankfully in the modern era, no one in their right mind would burn books but censorship is still widely practiced. 

http://jakartaglobe.id/archive/editorial-let-courts-not-stores-decide-on-books-fate/

The editorial in the Jakarta Globe concerns a local issue, about bookstores removing books from their shelves that might, so it’s said, embarrass local political notables with “unverifiable information.”  If you’re interested please use the link.

But the point about book-burning is something that will resonate with many around the world…

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Nazis in the Thirties, burning books

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….who learned at school about such conflagrations in Nazi Germany.

Many will applaud the JG editor’s condemnation of such intolerant, anti-democratic activity.

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But not their rivals in the Jakarta Post, methinks, whose owners, the vast Gramedia business empire, committed such a crime against reason only a few years ago, and has NEVER repented of the book-burning that shamed Jakarta.

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Gramedia’s outrageous literary arson was all the more reprehensible in that it was perpetrated at the behest of arrant Islamist bigots.

We keep asking when the Jakarta Post editors will have the guts and/or decency to deplore the Gramedia book-burning.

But few others on the local scene have been prepared to swell our protests into what should be a nationwide chorus.

Perhaps now that the Jakarta Globe has, albeit obliquely, dragged book-burning into the spotlight, others may now join in and shame the culprits.

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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.

Pity Purwodadi – Vampirical Beasts Prowl In Java?

 In the backwoods of Java, something strange is happening.

Something wicked this way comes?

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A most alarming story in the ever-amazing Jakarta Post, about the residents of the hitherto obscure township of Purwodadi, who have been coming across goats fallen prey to an alleged attack by an unknown predator, which many suspected to be a blood-sucking herd of wild animals.

http://www.thejakartapost.com/news/2017/09/11/yogyakarta-village-shocked-by-chupacabra-like-attack.html

Scary stuff – and one feels sorry for the villagers, whose livestock  has been turning up  with bite marks on their neck and legs and … no blood left in the animals’ body.

But while the JP headline tells us where Purwodadi is…

Yogyakarta village shocked by Chupacabra-like attack

…its reference to Chupacabra is absolutely baffling.

I have read and re-read the entire report, and NOWHERE can I discern any definition of what Chupacabra actually is!

Indeed, whoever wrote and edited the report must be an afficionado of Latin American folklore…

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…and must assume all readers share his or her expertise, because, despairing of any explanation within the odd newspaper’s website, I turned to wikipedia, and lo…

The chupacabra or chupacabras is a legendary creature in the folklore of parts of the Americas, with its first purported sightings reported in Puerto Rico.

Immigration Ministry please investigate!

 

Jakarta Blackout? Top Cop Wants NO News Of ISIS ‘Pranks!’

National Police chief Gen. Tito Karnavian has called on the public not to overreact to this week’s incident involving an Islamic State flag tied to a fence at the Kebayoran Lama Police station in South Jakarta.http://jakartaglobe.id/news/national-police-chief-calls-for-calm-after-s-jakarta-islamic-state-flag-incident/

But while there’s a mention of a message attached to the flag, for details of that we need to look elsewhere.

…the letter also threatened to turn Jakarta into a warzone like Marawi in the Philippines…

 http://m.todayonline.com/world/asia/jakarta-police-find-flag-and-letter-threatening-turn-city-warzone

Not exactly the first time such warnings from the ISIS rape-gang have been heard here, as we reported quite some time ago.

 

Scumbags in Jakarta with ISIS flags -in 2014!

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“You don’t come to us, we will come to you. We will come back to Indonesia … to implement the Shariah of God.  The implementation of the Shariah of God starts with waging a war on you — with slaughtering you one by one….”    http://thejakartaglobe.beritasatu.com/news/indonesian-fighter-warns-tni-chief-soldiers-god-waiting/

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Satanic ISIS Threaten Indonesia Blood-Bath! 

General Tito says what’s just happened may be a ‘prank’ and maybe so.

But he has not so long ago displayed a laid-back attitude to fanatic gangs…

. Video Viral, Tito Karnavian: FPIOrmas Islam yang Sangat Toleran

It was so depressing when we read those words of his, regarding the notorious vigilante gang as a –

‘VERY TOLERANT MUSLIM COMMUNITY ORGANISATION.’

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Tito Karnavian declared that FPI is a community organization that is tolerant.

According to Tito, their activities like that he attended will get rid of the ugly stigma of the FPI as “radical and militant synonymous with violence and intolerance.”

Karnavian added that this stigma is maybe applied as a label by the mass media and then influences the public….

In the light of those comments we reported a couple of months ago, his concerns about public reaction to media telling it like it is about the “TOLERANT” FPI…

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…what are we to make of his plan to conceal sectarian incidents, like this week’s, from the people of Jakarta, indeed from all Indonesians?

 The police’s public relations unit has orders not to report similar incidents to prevent a public outcry.

Would a public outcry against the Islamist danger be such a bad thing?

Jakarta’s Governor seems readier to trust the people to show sense. Jakarta Governor urges public to be vigiliant (vigilant, actually, but skip the spelling error! )

Yet a shutdown on news is precisely what Tito appears to have in mind. “I have also instructed my personnel, not to reveal such incidents to the media….” Tito said.

Maybe he has worries about how much of the media here behaves.

Indonesian Media – Islamist Bias Still Shining Through! 

What’s Worse? Jakarta Bike Ban Or Jakarta Post Bad English!

The Jakarta administration and city police are decided on barring motorcycles from entering the city’s main thoroughfares – Jl. Sudirman, Jl. Gatot Subroto and Jl. Rasuna Said…

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Bad Jakarta bikers- I’m not fussed if they get banned from main roads, but I would be delighted if they were banned from sidewalks!

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….in an attempt to reduce traffic congestion in the capital.

One assumes the Jakarta Post hack means they have decided to bar the bikes. The clumsy English gets no better.

A meeting between city officials on June 7 concluded about the need to ban motorcycles from the three main streets..

Does this poor scribbler mean they concluded there is a need?

And on it goes…

“…We are going to hold another meeting to discuss further about it,” Budiyanto said on Monday, declining provide details on the plan.

OMG!

Even my slothful teen students, back when I was an English teacher at one of Jakarta’s many language schools knew that you don’t discuss about things.

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You can talk about things, think about things, but you don’t discuss about things. The preposition is redundant, incorrect! The Jakarta Post editorial staff should call a meeting of their hacks to discuss the problem –

NB –  NOT discuss ABOUT it.

What Vexes Most – Sectarian Bullies, Jakarta Post or Bekasi Cops?

Bekasi Police brought in a 15-year-old identified only as BBS from his home in Kaliabang, North Bekasi, on Monday, after receiving a formal complaint from a group who claimed the boy had posted a comment on his Facebook page that offended their religion. http://www.thejakartapost.com/news/2017/06/06/police-question-teenager-for-facebook-comment.html

One’s first reaction is why didn’t the Bekasi Police tell the arrogant fanatics to sod off?

Who cares if they’re offended?

Grow up, dingbats!

But then one recalls we are in Indonesia, where a distinguished city governor can be put in prison for the bizarre ‘offence’ of ‘blasphemy,’ merely for quoting and commenting inoffensively on an Islamic verse.

But the report gets more fascinating the more we read.

The group reportedly surrounded BBS’s house after discovering the social media post.

The HELL with that!

If a bunch of bigot bums ‘surrounded‘ my little house (a more or less impossible feat, because it’s part of a long block of houses!) because of something I said, then I would regard THAT action as offensive…

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…and, if their objective were to stop me saying the same kind of thing again, a clear attempt at mob intimidation.

Gun laws here prevent me keeping a shot-gun on the premises, but if I had one, I’d take it out front and tell them to ‘F-Off!’

Gangs of sectarian bullies deserve no less.

However, my definition of ‘intimidation’ does not, it seems, match that of Bekasi Police Chief Hero Bahtiar.

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“This is not considered an act of persecution because there were no signs of intimidation from the group…We came directly to [BBS’s home] and brought him to the police station.”  

Bekasi Jihadist Jerks Amok – Police Tear-Gas Hate-Gang! 

The boy’s home is surrounded by a hostile gang, and the cops take the boy to the police station? Why didn’t they order the sectarians to disperse, or take THEM to the cop-shop?

Indeed, were it NOT an exercise in mob intimidation, why did the mob not themselves just go to the police station to report the alleged ‘offence.’

Having once, to my eternal regret, lived in Bekasi, I was not greatly surprised by that report. It’s basically a satellite city, located in West Java (bad start!) but merges seamlessly into Jakarta. But it has a bad reputation for Islamist intolerance. 

Bekasi’s Islamist Regime – ‘We Won’t Allow Religious Liberty If Bigot Thugs Object!’ 

Christ’s Ascension Day – Islamist Savages Pelt Congregation With Sewage, Urine and Rocks 

Head-Scarfed Harpies Hurl Dung and Urine at Christians 

And while the Bekasi Police have sometimes done the right thing, as recently when they used tear-gas on a vile bigot mob trying to prevent the building of a church…

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Bekasi Jihadist Jerks Amok – Police Tear-Gas Hate-Gang! 

 …despite the congregation having applied for and obtained all necessary legal requirements, there have been many examples reported here, in the not very distant past, of behaviour by police personnel which was to say the least disturbing, leaving a load of questions to answer about things they’ve done – or not done!

• …like here – Christians Abused by Islamist Mob, Cops Fail to Enforce the Law 

  …and, most shockingly, here – ‘Off With His Head!’ – Jakarta Cops – No Sweat on Murder Threat! 

• And in case you prefer a direct quote from a newspaper that is in no way sympathetic to any views I have ever expressed, get this, from only last year!

• …Bekasi Police reportedly issued a circular on Dec. 15 while Kulonprogo Police released a circular on Dec. 17, in which both instructed owners and management of businesses not to force their employees to wear Christmas attributes.  http://www.thejakartapost.com/news/2016/12/19/police-to-revoke-circulars-on-mui-ban-on-christmas-attributes.html

• That arrogant intrusion was happily slapped down by less intolerant senior police, but the sectarian mentality exposed seems not to have resulted in any dismissals.

• But finally, let’s consider the reporting of this incident by the Jakarta Post.

• Why is the ‘group’ that caused the trouble not identified?

• It”s surely a matter of public interest if such a ‘group’ can enlist the police to act as enforcers for their enmity?

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• Did the JP even ask the police  who the ‘group’ was?

• Did the police refuse to tell? Did the JP ask the boy? Or his family?

• Or the neighbours?

• Trust me, here in Indonesia, neighbours are not backward in taking an interest if ANYTHING out of the ordinary happens along their street.

• That’s what journalists are supposed to do, after all – ask questions!

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• Did nobody own up to knowing the identity of the intimidators?

• Or does the Jakarta Post actually know who these anti-social fanatics are? Are they deliberately keeping everyone else in the dark?

• And if so why?

• One is inured to their approach, stories about ‘certain organisations,’ or even a ‘certain religion.’

• Failure to do basic research, basic reporting.

• Timorous as mice, the exact opposite of the ‘always bold, always independent’ slogan they blazon on their website.

• .But just because we’re used to it, that doesn’t mean we should stop despising it.