Sudan Emerges From Dark Age – Ignoramusettes Protest!

Not that often that anything in the Guardian pleases me, but their report that Sudan’s Justice Minister, Nasredeen Abdulbari, has announced that the absurd, primitive law crimialising ‘apostasy’ is no more had to be cause for rejoicing amongst decent people everywhere.

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Only foul fanatics, of any creed, seek to punish people who use their God-given brains to convert from one religion to another.

Imagine wanting to hurt or even kill somebody for how he or she chooses to worship..

…or not worship.

 

But the Sudanese have a long way to go before they can say they live in a truly civilised society.

Mr. Abdulbari is also reported to have said that it will no longer be a crime if non-Muslims ‘drink alcohol in private.’

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In what lunatic alternative universe could it be considered criminal for ANYONE of any creed to enjoy a beer in your living room?

Yet this morning, on EuroNews, about noon, Jakarta time, we were treated to the sickening sight of a mob of primitive – and outstandingly unattractive – women – yes, women! – staging a demo against the reforms…

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….reforms that include their own right to go out and about without their husbands’ consent!

One hopes that Minister Abdulbari will ignore these ignorant expressions of sexist slave-think.

There must be many normal women in Sudan still savouring their country’s new-found freedoms.

Good luck to them!

The dimwit dames objecting are, of course, also free, to obey in robot fashion the diktats of their backward husbands.

Get Your Tickets Soon – Jakarta Shariah Tourism Boom?

We did report on Sandiago Uno’s astounding promise prior to the Jakarta election – as a  result of which he’s now Deputy Governor – that he envisioned a sharia-inspired nightlife entertainment network in Jakarta.

But we merely noted it, in a post which covered all the issues that were alarming normal people. 

The Ugly Face of Islamist Intolerance! 

Not that Sandiago Uno himself is in any way unprepossessing. On the contrary, he comes across as very presentable and personable!

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But now this rich, American-educated ( yes, truly!) entrepreneur has shown he’s a man of his word.

Sandiaga Uno to establish sharia tourism zone in Jakarta

http://www.thejakartapost.com/news/2017/06/28/sandiaga-uno-to-establish-sharia-tourism-zone-in-jakarta.html

Note, no question mark! This guy is serious about his plan, for the Senen area of  the capital.

 “I think it will be interesting if there is a religious tourism zone [in the area], which is properly arranged with tents. Hence, mobility can be ensured.”

I welcome that last sentence. Mobility – the ability to get through Senen as fast as possible – would need to be an integral part of any such scheme, as many of us encounter horrendous traffic jams there.

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I sat on a  bus a month ago for nearly an hour, just waiting to get through the underpass beside the big shopping area.

But what delights would await folks who flitted in and out of Sandiago’s tents?

Many places popular with tourists who come to Jakarta feature what are invariably described as ‘sexy dancers.’

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Not just ‘dancers,’ NB, which has always made me smile, wondering if the proprietors fear that patrons would not recognise the dancers’ sexiness without being told of it!

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However, I somehow doubt that the tents would accommodate any spectacle of that sort.

Sandiago previously talked of such joys as Koranic readings, but would that really draw shariah-fans to Jakarta when they can easily find THE REAL THING…

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…by taking a short flight up to Indonesia’s most northerly province, ACEH, proudly dubbed by some of its inhabitants as the ‘Verandah of Mecca,’ the ONLY province in the archipelago where shariah is enshrined in the local legal code of law.

No tedious tents required there, because the quintessence of shariah morality is displayed in the main squares…

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….young women being beaten by cowards too ashamed to show their faces, before a salivating rabble of voyeurs and fanatics.

Nor are dancers, either sexy or otherwise, a popular phenomenon up there, where such repositories of wisdom as this kindly old gent have made plain their demerits…

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Aceh’s Mad Mullah – ‘Dancing is EVIL – It Involves Body Movements!’ 

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…to the extent that even the graceful and utterly decorous traditional Acehnese dancing has drawn disapprobation.

Muhammad Thaib, Regent of North Aceh has  banned all adult women from dancing when welcoming guests in North Aceh, adding that only children should perform the tradition.

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Thaib

 “… cultural preservation should not damage Islamic Shariah values, such as dancing performed by adult women.”. http://www.thejakartaglobe.com/news/north-aceh-head-bans-women-from-dancing-in-public-2/

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Nightmare stuff, yeah?

But at least we can avoid going anywhere near Aceh, and Senen.

How long normal folk can expect to find fun in Jakarta remains to be seen, however.

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Sandiago’s big boss is the Governor-elect, Anies Baswedan, seen above with the currently hard-to-get –Police Add FPI Leader Rizieq Shihab to Most Wanted List -‘grand imam’ of the white-shirt sectarian gang calling itself the FPI, self-styled ‘Defenders of Islam…’

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….and Anies may be tempted to listen to benighted FPI views such as that expressed in neighbouring Bekasi.

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There the local government’s Tourism Special Committee was told awhile back by the Chairman of FPI in Greater Bekasi that the Muslims in Bekasi reject the draft law on one point – it would legalize nightclubs.

Enjoy A Night Out? How Dare You, Say IslamoNazis! 

And here in Jakarta itself, there have been serious calls for a shut-down of nightlife at MIDNIGHT…

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‘You’re Only An Adult! It’s Past Your Bedtime!’ Jakarta Rules, OK? 

…with a senior cop having somehow decided that drug abusers are clock-watchers.

National Narcotics Agency (BNN) chief Comr. Gen. Budi Waseso has expressed his support for the Jakarta City Council in its plan to restrict the operational hours of nightclubs until 12 a.m. as stipulated in a draft bylaw on tourism.

 http://www.thejakartapost.com/news/2015/10/17/greater-jakarta-budi-waseso-supports-nightclub-curfew.html
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It can’t happen here?

There’s a bill going through Indonesia’s parliament which could put you in the slammer for having a beer in your front yard, or even indoors…

Bigot Ban Hurts Jakarta Business – Creeping Shariah Continues! 

..and an innocent, inoffensive minority in next-door Depok is being bullied and oppressed by local government…

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“Mohon Ma’af?” Blasphemous Brutes Vandalise Depok Mosque! 

…while national government doesn’t lift a finger to intervene on behalf of religious liberty?

To paraphrase the pantomime audiences of my childhood days..

OH YES IT CAN!

Bigot Ban Hurts Jakarta Business – Creeping Shariah Continues!

 Well, there I was, just offering a rare nugget of good local news…

Bravo Densus 88 – Three Down, But LOTS More To Go! 

…when along comes some bad news, at least for normal folks, so I’m bound to take a look at this too.

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I was on the angkot going through Tanjung Duren the other day, and noticed that the local Sevel branch – the Seven/Eleven on Tanjung Duren Barat Satu –  had closed down.

It must have employed at least half a dozen people so perhaps a harsh holiday season for them and their families.

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Another Sevel, in South Jakarta….don’t know if it’s still open or not!

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But it was only today that I read in the Jakarta Post WHY this closure may have happened. 

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More 7-Eleven stores close down amid alcohol ban, high operating expenses

As the JP report reminds us, the dolorous decree  –  a regulation on the control of alcohol in April last year in a bid to “protect young generations from the dangers of alcohol” –  was ‘relaxed’ just over a year ago, in a move that handed the rights to control alcohol production, distribution and sales to regional administrations, including the Jakarta administration.

http://www.thejakartapost.com/news/2016/12/22/more-7-eleven-stores-close-down-amid-alcohol-ban-high-operating-expenses.html

But you can take a walk round the mini-marts here in West/Northwest Jakarta anytime and not find a single bottle of Bintang  or any other brew on sale.

No reason ever offered for such poor customer service, though I suspect the staff may be afraid of the kind of ignoramus white-shirt louts…

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….who think they have the right to raid and intimidate businesses which don’t conform to their primitive intolerance.

So the ridiculous diktat against selling a cold beer on a hot day is not only inconveniencing blameless citizens, many of whom used to sit around Sevels after work to let the traffic ease off before going home, but is also damaging the country’s economy.

And no nonsense, please, about protecting the young from the demon drink! ID checks would prevent under-age drinking and let the rest of us enjoy normal life. 

But the bigots don’t care. They are intrinsically opposed to fun of any sort, and intent on imposing their own sectarian prejudice on the rest of us.

‘You’re Only An Adult! It’s Past Your Bedtime!’ Jakarta Rules, OK? 

And unbelievably, the Indonesian national parliament is pressing ahead with a nationwide prohibition policy…

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…which could see us arrested and put behind bars for having a lager in our back-yard or even keeping some liquor indoors to offer guests who drop by.

This is a process that has been called Creeping Shariah.

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‘Creeping Shariah,’ Warns Prof. Muhammed, As Jakarta Dims! 

It certainly looks very different from the Mental Revolution promised by Presidnet Jokowi during his election campaign.

 

De-Wowsering Jakarta? Ahok, Alkohol and Anti-Miras!

Wowser.

In Australia, it is a derogatory word denoting a person who saps all the fun out of any given situation. Derived from the temperance movement….

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Wowser Wasters! Islamists pouring perfectly good beer down the drain

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 Some very confusing media reports floating around our fine city, with WNJ What’s New Jakarta | Jakarta Events Calendar, Expats & Guide saying that soon a new golden age will dawn with beer once more on sale in mini-marts after long boring months, a year or so, I guess, of petty prohibition.

Yet other people are warning Governor Ahok that he lacks the legal power to implement such a common sense reform.

The Guv has his faults….

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• ” But if you go to a party dressed in a bikini, it’s outrageous.” 
• ”Outrageous” Activity in Jakarta Pools? OMG – BIKINIS! 

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…but when he averred that beer should be sold in minimarts…Ahok: Seharusnya Bir Bisa Dijual di Minimarket …surely most sane Jakartans cheered.

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Yet I think What’s New Jakarta is jumping the gun.

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Ahok has been accused of not understanding the law ( in which case he’s not alone – very few rational people understood why such a mean-spirited crack-down was ever imposed on the cheerful capital)

But PosMetro.com quotes that noisy lady, Fahira Idris, an anti-booze activist who chairs Genam – that’s the National Movement Anti Miras (miras is short for minuman keras – strong drink, a category in which she apparently includes beer!)

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 Ms. Fahira Idris, the Anti-Alcohol Gal. She’s kinda cute, but not my type, nor I hers, I’ll bet!

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Fahira reckons Ahok erred on the facts because he has a lot of problems and is therefore unfocused.
She added that “Regulation 06/2015 is still in force. This means that in every mini-market in Indonesia it’s illegal to sell alcohol.”

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Now, despite her headscarf, I believe that Fahira is not motivated by the intolerant sectarian arrogance behind certain other elements that have long wanted to outlaw amber nectar.

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Enjoy A Night Out? How Dare You, Say IslamoNazis! 

IslamoNazis, for instance, appear to think that because they are religiously obliged to stay dry, all the rest of us else have to sling that abstinence albatross around our necks too.

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‘Okay, guys, let’s start swigging, fast!’

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Fahira, in contrast, comes across as genuinely convinced that drinking is just bad, for you, for me, for society.

But her logic seems faulty. .

Fahira revealed that Article 46 states “any person or entity is prohibited from distributing, storing and selling alcoholic beverages without the permission of the competent authority in accordance with the provisions of the legislation.’

If that’s the case, then Ahok, as Jakarta’s Governor, the competent authority, may bring the city back to its senses.

Or maybe not – he has no majority on the city council, which has an awful array of fanatics among its ranks. ‘You’re Only An Adult! It’s Past Your Bedtime!’ Jakarta Rules, OK? 

Fahira seems to think Ahok’s musings make people anxious.

Actually, the long trek to big shopping ccntres since mini-marts stopped selling what I want has made me anxious from time to time. She also has a strange notion that the ban was imposed because minimarts are all located in settlements..

By that, I guess, she means residential areas. 

Which is where beer is required. Otherwise we need to make those long journeys. But there’s no end to the lady’s belly-aching.

Bellicose belly-aching, at that. .

“If you still insist, we’ll fight. So do not try… “

http://www.pos-metro.com/2016/05/ahok-gagal-paham-fahira-saya-minta-ahok.html

But Jakarta’s IslamoNazis are also up in arms over the issue. http://megapolitan.harianterbit.com/megapol/2016/05/24/62307/28/18/Miras-Dijual-Bebas-FPI-Siap-Lawan-Ahok

Those intolerants want beer to vanish from the shelves of the big supermarkets too!

Where the heck would we go then?

Shoe-shops? Barber-shops?

Actually, that latter is no bad idea – a frosty lager while the tukang ramput is giving you a short-back-and-sides? 

Or how about department stores?

Those delightful assistants are at least as fetching as the bar-maids who were pouring for me last night!

But we can look at the white-shirt gangster group’s take on the problem later today, or tomorrow….

Last word to the Jakarta Post, which proclaims the Ahok reform as a done deal – http://www.thejakartapost.com/news/2016/05/27/consumers-vendors-applaud-relaxing-of-alcohol-rules.html …

…but then breaks our hearts by adding that the mini-marts have not acted on it yet! Their excuse is that management hasn’t sent out instructions.

Or perhaps somebody at head office is scared that IslamoNazi gangsters will resort to their usual cowardly ‘sweeping’ – mob invasions – to intimidate their staff.

Since many mini-mart staff are slightly-built young ladies, that’s exactly the kind of target these kind of thugs prefer. 

 

 

Aceh is NOT ‘Conservative’ “Barbaric’ Is the Proper Adjective!

I see Indonesia’s international reputation is once more being tainted by the bigot savages who run Aceh, the shariah-stricken province which likes to style itself the Verandah of Mecca. 

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The media reports of an ‘elderly Christian woman’ publicly flogged by a masked sectarian lout are sickening.

They would be just as bad, were the victim an elderly Muslim woman, or indeed a young Muslim woman.

In this case,the lady was seized for selling alcohol – the first time someone from outside the Islamic faith has been punished there under strict religious laws. The 60-year was whipped nearly 30 times with a rattan cane before a crowd of hundreds in Aceh province Tuesday, an official said, along with a couple who were subjected to 100 lashes for committing adultery.

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And as Parliament in Jakarta debates the Prohibition Bill,  which would extend the ‘offence’ of selling a drink across the entire archipelago, this sends a shudder through everyone except the worst elements in the land.

But PLEASE! Will the media please stop calling Aceh ‘conservative.’

‘Immoral Activities – Sitting in Coffee Shops Laughing and Talking…’ 

Islamist Inquisition in Aceh – ” Minority Religious Creed ‘Worse Than Tsunami!’ “

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Not Fasting – How About A Whipping? Aceh Slips Deeper Into Barbarism 

Islamist Mayor – We Know Where You Live! Submit to Indoctrination OR ELSE! 

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Aceh is in fact merely BARBARIC!

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Conservatism, in the Indonesian context, reflects the thinking of those who yearn for a return to the good old days.

They were fading even when I first came here,,just after the fall of Sukarno, an era of easy-going inter-faith tolerance of which my first students told me, when Christians and Muslims helped each other decorate their neighbourhoods for Christmas and Idul Fitri.

In those days it would have been unimaginable to see innocent people bludgeoned to death for religious dissent. Moronic rabble trying to prevent minority houses of worship being built may have existed, but they didn’t swagger with the impunity we see today. Headscarves were much fewer, and short skirts much more frequent.

A lost paradise?

Maybe, but it’s the Indonesian past that REAL conservatives dream of.

 

Minol Dilarang? Bright Morning Here But Dark Age Looms!

It’s a fine morning out there, and in here breakfast is being prepared.

Later I must get going and find a computer store, to install my latest Kapersky anti-virus. These modern computers don’t have a slot into which the disk fits, so I need the assistance of somebody who knows his (or preferably her!) way around technology.

However, before heading out, a word on some news spotted in Republika.com.

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Although I’m sure there are some sensible people among the ranks of Indonesia’s PPP  – United Development Party  – (the current Minister of Religious Affairs, Lukman, is a member and he’s a vast improvement on his predecessor, the unspeakable Suryadharma Ali, who was and is also PPP) its followers rarely say things which meet with my approval.

Thus no surprise to read the outburst from Arwani Thomafi, who sits on the House of Representatives Commission V.

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Arwani has just declared that the introduction of nationwide prohibition is the responsibility of the public and law enforcement officials.

Infantilising the population, denying that they are mature enough to decide for themseleves what they wish to drink, is, alas, only to be expected from the political establishment here.

We have, even in Jakarta, civic leaders who reckon all good little boys and girls, including adults, should be tucked up in their cosy wee beds by midnight! 

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‘You’re Only An Adult! It’s Past Your Bedtime!’ Jakarta Rules, OK? 

But Arwani did surprise me by denying that the Prohibition Bill, now reaching its final stage in committee, is sectarian.

The principle of the prohibition of minol by Parliament is not because of the religious aspect, but in of health, social and economic terms.

( minol  = minuman alkohol = alcoholic beverages)

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‘Larangan Minol Itu Bukan Islam dan tidak Islam’

Well, that’s like banning cars because some drivers are reckless!

So that’s not how others see this pending legislation.

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Creeping Shariah is one alternative perception, dragooning grown-ups by a Big Brother state which perceives a glass of cold beer on a hot day as haram – and is not satisfied with the normal age-restrictions on beer-sales and the already draconian restrictions on where we can buy such appealing products.

‘Creeping Shariah,’ Warns Prof. Muhammed, As Jakarta Dims! 

And thanks to Arwani, we learn that it’s not so ‘creeping.’ He boasts that there are numerous regencies (local government areas) all over the archipelago that have introduced such intolerant diktats, including Papua Manokwari,  South Jogjakarta, Sleman, South Kalimantan Banjarbaru…and provinces...

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The Sharia Hell of Aceh!

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…and of course let’s not forget the focus of brutal bigotry in Indonesia, Aceh, where the joys of shariah law are displayed to perfection in our photograph of a cowardly masked fanatic beating a young girl before an audience of baying savages. 

Kali Jodo – Think Again, Ahok! Why Delight IslamoNazis?

I’ve posted on Kali Jodo before, more than once. 

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Aduh! Adieu Kali Jodo? 

It’s a relatively short stretch of waterside road in Northwest Jakarta, which – as you can see from the night-time photo – is visually impressive.

From a distance! At night! By day, not so impressive, but it has potential, and has always struck me as slightly reminiscent of the promenade in Nice!.

Its demise has been declared imminent for more than a year, so nice to know it’s still there. But maybe not for long, and this acceleration towards destruction has been ‘justified’ in a most illogical manner.

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Kali Jodo,Northwest Jakarta

Nice, South of France

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According to Rancah Post, Jakarta’s Governor Ahok has chosen to use a fatal accident on nearby Daan Mogot, a main road down which I passed only yesterday, as his excuse to speed up plans to ‘crack down.’

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The driver is said to have been ‘downing beers in Kali Jodo.‘

That may be true, but are the bars, never mind the entertainment areas, where someone has consumed too many drinks, instantly targetted for total devastation, every time a drunk causes a fat-acc?

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Were that so, there’d be precious few taverns in the town, any town anywhere.

Ahok is usually a cornucopia of common sense, a good governor, but this time I can’t go along with his reasoning. Alas, Kali Jodo’s reputation as an area of ​​gambling and prostitution means that few folk will spring to its defence.  
The report describes the small area as having at least 60 buildings used as a karaoke home to about 15 to 20 prostitutes in each of the cafes.

Again, to declare war on bars that have 15 to 20 hookers hanging about would logically mean shutting down quite a lot of the five-star hotels in Jakarta. 

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I once took a girl-friend to a very posh hotel to celebrate my birthday. We got there at around 7pm, ordered a couple of very expensive drinks in an almost empty bar, and were mildly amazed when, shortly after 8pm, it was suddenly inundated by about a hundred kupu2 malam – night butterflies, as the euphemism here goes!

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The thing is, those ladies were hoping to cater to rich people, affluent tourists or local businessmen. Kalijodo’s little watering-holes are patronised by humble folk, off-duty ojeks, the motor-bike-cabbies, or equally off-duty satpams, the ubiquitous security guards, working men for whom the prices are kept sane, a bottle of Bintang costing not mucn more than you pay in a supermarket.

Knock those little cafes down, you’ll not stop prostitution, just shift it, and you’ll deprive the poorest section of Jakarta’s working population of bars they can afford to drink in. And there aren’t very many of those.

Among the many who will not speak up for the putative dispossessed are Jakarta’s IslamoNazis, the FPI (Islamic Defenders Front)

Far from it!

 …according to Chairman of the Islamic Defenders Front, Ahmad Shobri Lubis. “As community members we are ready to support the government. As long it’s for a good cause, we have no problem if asked to help the police and the military.”

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ITMA again!

Lubis’ idea of a good cause was exemplified when he exhorted a rabid pack of primitive fanatics to ‘kill, kill, kill’ members of the peaceful Ahmadiyah minority. Watch the brute’s hate-rant here- . http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U7RLCXNdKF4

And the brutal Lubis’s gangster group have made violent threats against Kali Jodo in the past. 

Jakarta’s IslamoNazis Threaten More Thuggery 

 However, back to the report. 

But it seems the effort to police Kalijodo will not run smoothly – thugs and the people in the vicinity are rumored to be against Ahok’s plan to curb the place.

Funny that the report only uses the word thugs once they have already finished covering the FPI aspect.

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Thugs perfectly sums up the FPI!

But let not the IslamoNazis get away with telling the media they are motivated by ‘good causes.’

There’s at least some element of revenge in there too. The report offers insight into why they won’t try one of their all-too-frequent amok-runs against fellow-citizens…

IslamoNazis V Freedom-Fighters? – Some Chicken, Some Neck! 

FPI in West Java – ‘Let’s Burn Out the Orphans!’ 

…not without a powerful police escort.  

According to the Commissioner Krishna Murti in his book entitled ‘Geger Kalijodo’, Kalijodo is guarded by thugs known as Tiger Cubs, whose duty is to maintain and supervise the practice of gambling and prostitution in Kalijodo.

Chaps not to antagonise, clearly. But sit back and enjoy the next extract, which is ABSOLUTELY DELIGHTFUL!

The toughness of this group was previously tested when they repulsed an FPI invasion… At that time, the FPI plunged headlong onto the motorway after being overwhelmed by forces armed with sharp weapons.

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 ‘FPI. Noble Life or Martyr’s Death’ – or scuttle across the road, sharpish!

.WOW!

That episode deserves to be immortalised, not just in the Commissioner’s book but in a movie.

It would be watched avidly and repeatedly in many communities across the archipelago which have been the scene of white-shirt thug depradations.

http://www.rancahpost.co.id/20160250728/dijaga-anak-macan-fpi-dan-ahok-siap-serbu-kalijodo/

Another report adds to the yummy yarn. 

It didn’t stop there, according to Krishna, the  Cubs had infiltrated their men in among the FPI to monitor their movements….

So these guys are not just muscle. According to Krishna, the Tiger Cubs have a neat organizational structure..  http://wartakota.tribunnews.com/2016/02/12/geng-anak-macan-bikin-fpi-terbirit-birit-dari-kalijodo

Givn the FPI’s record of cowardice, notably in Sukorejo or Purwakarta, you can see why they haven’t been back to Kali Jodo, and won’t, unless they go skulking along in the shadow of a major police operation.

Prost! Javanese Beer – Better Taste Than Prohibition!

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Went into Carrefour last week, and my eyes lit up to see decent-sized bottles of beer for just Rp.25,000 each, a ‘special,’ and a brand I’ve not seen before!

Naturally I bought some.

With the backward bigots pushing for prohibition throughout Indonesia..

‘Creeping Shariah,’ Warns Prof. Muhammed, As Jakarta Dims! 

…it seemed prudent to stock up, though regrettably stocks in my humble home tend to dwindle speedily on hot sunny afternoons.

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•  One of which was yesterday – between rains! – and hence it was with a sense of anticipation that I sampled the new brew.
• Not a bad brew, and a lot tastier than the prospect of a nationwide booze-ban, which the primitive parties launched but nobody seems to be blocking.
• Only the Balinese are making their voices heard, plus a few others, like –

…the chairman of the Association of Alcoholic Beverage Distributors (ADMA), Frendy Karmana, said he hoped the legislators considering the proposed legislation will send a team to Bali to consider local cultural and community aspects of the proposed ban.

“Don’t rush to create a law that will outlaw (alcoholic drink) everywhere. There are civil rights and the diversity of the natural culture that must be considered in any discussion of a new law that will make the law clear and certain for all concerned,” he said. http://www.balidiscovery.com.

• Drink up, while we still can.

 

Jakarta Minimart Beer Ban – Hopes Dashed for Real Reform?

Ludicrous reading how Ontario inches forward, somewhat hesitantly, on the issue of selling drinks to those who wish to drink…Beer is coming to grocery stories…so what’s the catch? …with ridiculous conditions that continue to show weird distrust of Ontarians.

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However, with a lesbian cultural marxist running the province, at least we can’t blame sectarian prejudice!

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But how sad to read the bad news here where I live, that our hopes for a rollback of the ‘creeping shariah’ gloom inflicted on Indonesia by the current government… Wet Season Comes Back To Jakarta – But Do We hear Cheers?…have been dashed, after a senior bureaucrat reaffirmed that the authorities don’t trust their own citizens enough to let them buy a cold beer on a hot day – at least not at any place convenient to where they live and/or work.  

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It’s quite pitiful, really, how foreign tourists (but not, alas, foreign residents!) are deemed more worthy of such a ‘privilege’ than Indonesians.

But that is the clear message from Ms. Srie Agustina, Director of Domestic Trading. 

“The director general regulation will only allow for the sale of liquor in tourist areas. It could be outside tourist areas, but such a distribution arrangement should have license permits from the regent or the major. But the sale will not be at minimarkets.  

http://www.thejakartapost.com/news/2015/09/23/revised-regulation-will-still-prevent-liquor-sale-minimarkets.htm

On the other hand, it could be argued that Jakarta, as a fascinating capital city, could be declared a ‘tourist area’ in its entirety!

Oh well, batten down the hatches.

I’m off on holiday soon, to a country where people are free to get hold of a beer when they’re thirsty. 

Wet Season Comes Back To Jakarta – But Do We hear Cheers?

Rain came beating down suddenly last night, no big deal at that time of day, since I was safely indoors with one of my frequent pleasant visitors!

But rain is not welcome, as the weather here in Jakarta has been positively brilliant for weeks, sun-bathing out front whenever I had time to do so – at least once a day!

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But hot air recently too, from the kill-joy element, which abhors anything like fun, and especially if that fun includes beer!

(Just wait till they have a majority in Munich – no more Oktoberfest! Oktoberfest Arabesque – Munich’s New Look? )

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Last week there was a report that the IslamoNazi gangster group, the FPI (Islam Defenders Front) were ranting against a possible roll-back of that damnable decree which forbade the sale of alcohol at minimarts.

Jafar Sidiq, described as ‘FPI Secretary General,’ has issued a scarcely veiled threat that if police do not satisfy demands to deny citizens the right to shop for beer, his bigot band foresees vigilante vandalism.

…if the authorities do not crack down on the source of all evil, then the public will take over and seize liquor that’s illicit and then destroy it.http://www.eramuslim.com/berita/nasional/fpi-kecam-ahok-dan-siapapun-yang-ingin-legalkan-kembali-miras-di-indonesia.htm

These jihadist hoodlums always cloak their thuggery in self-righteous slogans. The FPI’s record is particularly deplorable, not just vandalism but violence, as we have oftimes told you. 

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• IslamoNazis V Freedom-Fighters? – Some Chicken, Some Neck! 

FPI in West Java – ‘Let’s Burn Out the Orphans!’ 

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What’s got Jafar in a lather is the fact that the daft diktat looks set to be replaced by a new regulation, giving local governments the right to decide where the demon drink may be retailed.

Hence the headline on the Jafar reaction, which translates to ‘FPI CONDEMN AHOK OR ANYONE WHO WANTS TO LEGALISE ALCOHOL IN INDONESIA’

Meaning?

The white-shirt mob are scared that, while backward areas, like Aceh up north and Tangerang, right next door to Jakarta, would no doubt maintain the booze-ban, more enlightened authorities could restore to their citizens the right to buy a beer in, and even sit down outside, the minimarts, to slake their thirst on a sweltering day.

And arguably the most enlightened local leader in the archipelago is Jakarta’s Governor Ahok!

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Ahok said that he agreed that liquor sales should continue to be partly limited, and not just sold anywhere. He also expressed concern about rampant sales of bootleg liquor, which, he said, was dangerous for human health.

• http://www.thejakartapost.com/news/2015/09/16/jakarta-set-regulate-liquor-saleshtml

Good for the Governor! Home-made hooch kills.

A measure of legit lager, on the other hand, invariably revives. Nobody has proposed selling the cool stuff all over the place, in butchers’ or bakers’ or candle-stick makers’ commercial premises.  But a return to the ease and convenience of buying a six-pack at a corner-shop would represent a retreat from the dark road Indonesia has seemed to be treading for some considerable time.

‘Creeping Shariah,’ Warns Prof. Muhammed, As Jakarta Dims! 

If Ahok acts to bring back sanity to the capital, he will get a LOT of support from the common folk, because the original wowser rule, though primarily appeasement of sectarian parties in parliament, also carries a nasty whiff of class distinction.

Selling beer is no problem for posh hotels at present.

But places where the non-affluent hang out? No way! Even big supermarkets have been coerced into sequestering their provision of alcohol in special zones, no longer on the shelves like any other product sought by discerning customers.

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Last word to Interior Minister Tjahjo, who has been reported as talking sense. 

“Drunkenness should not be adduced as an excuse for disallowing the sale of alcohol.” .

http://politik.rmol.co/read/2015/09/16/217512/Aturan-Gobel-Mau-Dicabut,-Regulasi-Miras-Akan-Dikembalikan-ke-Daerah-