Jakartass Home thoughts from abroad. Alien thoughts from home.

Any chance that you will instantly recognise which country is being referred to in this article?

This is a country …. where democracy flourishes; where a president steps down after two terms in office because that is what the constitution required … and where the opposition freely criticises the government.

It is a country where economic growth has been strong, where literacy is almost universal and two-thirds of the population have a phone.

If you said "Indonesia", think again.

This is the next sentence: It is also a country that beats many EU countries in the Transparency International Corruption Perceptions Index 2011.

Indonesia is ranked at 100 out of 183 countries, with a score of 3 out of 10, categorised as "Highly Corrupt".

"For every corrupt politician, there are a dozen corrupt business people."
Mo Ibrahim

Any chance that politicians such as Aburizal Bakrie could relinquish one (or preferably both) of those two roles?

Any chance that Religion for Atheists by Alain de Botton will be translated into Indonesian, preferably by Majelis Ulama Indonesia (MUI – Indonesian Ulema Council)?

This book proposes that we should look to religions for insights into how to build a sense of community, make our relationships last, overcome feelings of envy and inadequacy, and more.

More pertinently, perhaps I should ask if they would understand its central message. If they did, then "deviant sects", such as Ahlul Bait Indonesia (Shiite) and Jemaat Ahmadiyyah Indonesia (Ahmadiyya) would be accepted as members.

Any chance either that its constituent members will remember that when first established by Suharto in 1975 its primary aims were threefold:

• Strengthening religion in the way the Pancasila describes to ensure national resilience.
• Participation of the Ulama in national development.
• The maintenance of harmony between the different religions in Indonesia.

Any chance that they will consider issuing a fatwa condemning attacks on churches by rogue elements of the Islamic faith.

Malaysia and Indonesia together account for 85% of the world's palm oil. In June last year, the United States Department of Agriculture issued a 'Commodity Intelligence Report' on Malaysia's palm oil industry.

Malaysian companies have collectively established over 1.0 million hectares of active oil palm plantations in Indonesia and own a further 1.0 million hectares of land (land bank) which has official permits allowing its development in the future. As a result of these sizable investments, Malaysian conglomerates have become the 2nd largest commercial palm oil enterprises in Indonesia – behind only the Indonesian companies themselves.

Wilmar, a Singaporean conglomerate, is the world's largest listed palm oil firm, with plantations in Sumatra, West Kalimantan and Central Kalimantan.

Singapore is also the headquarters of Cargill Asia Pacific Holdings; Cargill operates a 27,000 hectare oil palm plantation in Sumatra.

SBY is a great supporter, at least, he says he is, of  the REDD (Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Degradation) scheme, whereby countries are paid to not cut down forests. I wonder if he is aware that Norway, which has given $30m (£19m) to Indonesia to get the REDD scheme underway, actually made $150 million in profits in 2010 from Norwegian companies which are involved in "logging, plantations, and mining companies currently deforesting large areas of Indonesia." Source

Any chance that SBY will stop complaining about locally (i.e. government) registered, branches of international NGO's which criticise the environmental malpractices of these non-Indonesian companies?

Berry Nahdian Forqan, the executive director of Walhi (The Indonesian Forum for the Environment), a domestic environmental group which builds partnerships with many international NGOs, said, "The President has clearly misunderstood NGOs, which strive for sustainable development in Indonesia. It’s also obvious that he sides with the corporations. He should have launched an evaluation on the performance of companies operating in this country and meted out punishments to those who violated human rights.”

Ah, but he won't Berry; he's been greenwashed!

Any chance that any of the above will come to pass this year?

Fat chance!

……..to come home to Tegal.

How could I not let the world know what a fruitcake Regent Ikmal Jaya of Tegal, Central Java is? And how could I not try and boost my hits, eh?

That the story in the Jakarta Post which was in yesterday's paper edition but does not appear online could just be because the Simpering Twitterfool and his band of merry cohorts have included the article in their search for online titillation which only they are allowed to view.

Anyway, this is the gist of the story.

Two sisters, Jade and Nyomi Marcela have been working in the States for some years in the US pornographic film business. Apparently their home town is Tegal, but the Regent isn't too sure because he's trying to track down the girls' parents so he can offer them '"respectable jobs" in Tegal.

On Saturday, Ikmal made an announcement through local media asking residents of Tegal to look for the women's parents so he could "enlighten" them. Ikmal said he would like to talk with the women's parents directly and to talk with Jade and Nyomi, if there was a telephone number where they could be reached.

"I will ask them to come home to Tegal," he said.

As for respectable jobs, Tegal used to be a major centre of Indonesia's sugar industry but is now more 'famous' for the numerous wartegs (warung Tegal) where cheap meals can be had in generally seedy surroundings, and tea.

There are surely more important affairs for the Regent to get on with, such as water shortages in the dry season, and paying teachers a living wage.

Mind you, whereas in 2008, Tegal was named the second-most corrupt city with a score of 3.32, a year ago it was named as the second cleanest with a score of 6.26.

Transparency International chairman Todung Mulya Lubis said that despite being relatively cleaner than other cities, even the good-scoring areas failed to reach a score of 7.

"So we are seeing that some aspects of the cities’ administrations are still perceived as corrupt. We are still a long way from a 9. If a city got such a score, it would be a model for governance reform.”

Perhaps he was referring to suspected malfeasance in the distribution of books glorifying SBY to junior high schools.

No matter. It is the criminal corruption by public servants which concerns most of the rakyat rather than the supposed moral corruption of two 30 year old sisters who live in the USA.

I very rarely copy and paste anything straight from another publication, preferring to provide links to my references and sources. However, the article below, taken from the front page of yesterday’s Guardian Online does not need much by way of commentary, that is, apart from one line: the project appears to be hampered “by the byzantine Indonesian system.”

A UK conservationist plans to create four new islands in northern Sumatra for sick and injured orangutans currently in cages. Orangutans who are unable to be reintroduced to the natural habitat would be destined for the new islands.

A British conservationist is leading an audacious plan to create a chain of man-made islands in northern Sumatra that would liberate the Indonesian island’s population of caged orangutans.

Dr Ian Singleton aims to create four islands of grass, shrubs and trees for sick and injured orangutans – those who are unable to be reintroduced to the natural habitat – to roam, freeing them from the 3x4m cages in which they currently reside.

Singleton is currently in the process of securing land for the islands. The ideal location would be near the coast with a consistent supply of fresh water via a stream or river.

Diggers, operated by local contractors, will then carve up the land to create moats, thereby encircling the land with water. The earth removed by the digging will be used to landscape the islands to make them ape-friendly.

Orangutans, which can’t swim, will be reluctant to leave the islands due to the water, although Singleton plans to erect an electric fence to ensure the creatures don’t drown.

“Depending on the site, it shouldn’t take us too long to create the islands, as long as the moats don’t leak,” Singleton told the Guardian from northern Sumatra.

“The biggest challenge is finding the right land that has the right security and a water supply that isn’t full of effluent. Finding a clean stream in Sumatra can be difficult as there’s lots of pollution, but we have the option of creating a bio-filtration system to purify the water.”

Singleton and his team have released more than 150 orangutans into the wild over the past decade, but currently have 50 further apes in medical quarantine.

A handful of orangutans have been earmarked for immediate transportation to the island, including twins that made headlines earlier this year due to both of their parents being blind.

Singleton has been in Sumatra since 2001, following stints at zoos in Jersey and Edinburgh. He leads the Orangutan Conservation Programme in the country and is funded by a Swiss NGO, PanEco.

While the immediate aim is to protect the captive orangutans, Singleton hopes the project will inform local people about the threat to the animal’s survival via an education centre and guided walks.

There are only an estimated 6,000 orangutans left in Sumatra, due to deforestation and conflict with humans.

“These orangutans are refugees from forests that don’t exist any more,” he says. “You have animals like Leuser who has been blinded by an air rifle and you don’t want him living for 45 years in a small rusty cage. I want people in Medan (capital of the north Sumatra province) to see how these orangutans have been shot or had their arms chopped off or got hepatitis B.”

“There needs to be a change in behaviour, otherwise the project is a waste. It’s all very nice getting westerners here, but we need to reach the people who are chopping down the trees here and shooting the orangutans because they’re in their habitat.”

“Lots of middle class people, even policemen, steal orangutans and have them as a status symbol. The irony is that the people who are meant to uphold the law here are the ones with orangutans in cages.”

Singleton says that he is close to acquiring a 20 ha (49.4 acre) plot of land to create the islands, but claims he has been hindered by the byzantine Indonesian system.

“I fluctuate between cautiously optimistic [and] very pessimistic,” he says. “The business lobby is so powerful here and vote buying so prevalent, that it’s hard to change anything. One minute the government will say that it wants to protect the forest and then they will grant a permit to clear 15,000 hectares of forest. Very few people are prosecuted for keeping an orangutan as a pet.”

Singleton is working with the Australian Orangutan Project to raise funds for the island development.

The symbols of democracy pinned up against the coast, the outhouse of bureaucracy surrounded by a moat./ Citizens of poverty are barely out of sight/ The overlords escape in the evenings, brothers on the night.
Washington DC by Gil Scott-Heron

The only Wall Street here in Jakarta is an English language institute so I assume that apart from students and teachers demonstrating their language fluency, there won’t be much, if any, direct non-violent action by the have-nots in Indonesia.

Elsewhere, the Occupy Wall Street movement has gone global with protests planned in nearly a thousand cities worldwide today to show “the global solidarity of the 99 percent with their grievances against the 1 percent.”

Knowing one’s enemy is fundamental if change is going to come. And come it must if future generations are to experience the joys of humanity rather than being condemned to an abject and unfulfilled life of misery.

Another perspective for capitalists to consider is that their greed is depriving themselves of umpteen billions of consumers, but we don’t want or need that. It’s consumerism which is destroying Planet Earth.

Inequality
How much longer can elites hide their privileges from view?
Taxing questions
The Indonesian government wants more people to pay tax so it should stop tax evasion by the rich.
Evil and wealthy
Indonesian martial arts comics do not flatter the rich.
Be rich, stay rich
Why are the New Order billionaires still doing so well?
Lifestyles of the rich
These newsbriefs present snapshots of how the rich live . . . and die.
The rich in Indonesia
How do they live? How do they make their money? How good are they for Indonesia?
Fascinated by Versace
Beautiful living in Indonesia is possible if you are superwealthy.
Rich, fat, and sitting down
Childhood obesity is a growing problem among the urban rich.
‘We can’t be seen as cheap’
Money matters when preparing an upper middle class Batak wedding in Jakarta.
Who will tame the oligarchs?
Not democracy but rule of law is Indonesia’s central problem.
Prosperous in the provinces
Friends and connections hold the key to riches in Kalimantan’s Barito region.
(fr. Edition 104 of Inside Indonesia, the online magazine.)

This post is yet another indication of my solidarity with the 99%.

The death of Steve Jobs, the man behind Apple Inc., has occasioned an outpouring of grief from multitudes who viewed him as a lifestyle guru.

I didn't and the only gadget he designed that I have is a dead i-Pod which was given to me by Son. No.1 because, he told me, the battery was dead and he couldn't get it replaced. There isn't an Apple Store in Jakarta, but it isn't that difficult to find an approved retailer, all of whom advised me to buy a new one.

I didn't, and won't, as I'm not a conspicuous consumer. Nor would I ever buy a product which knowingly used child labour or whose outsourced workers whose "horrendous" working conditions were such that they were driven to suicide.

What Jobs did was to revolutionise computing – from introducing the graphical user interface to pioneering touch-based technology – but he "sold out many of his ideals like many of the baby boomer generation".

Many Americans of his, and my, generation, were called 'baby-boomers' because of the massive spurt of procreation as forces returned from World War Two and the Korean War, and we adopted 'alternative lifestyles' in the sixties and pre-yuppie seventies, partly because we could afford to.

The Jakarta Post regularly carries a supplement from the International Herald Tribune which generally focuses on business issues. Not unexpectedly, today's has an extensive overview of the life of Jobs.

It closes with this paragraph: If he had a motto, it may have come from 'The Whole Earth Catalog', the publication that he said had deeply influenced him as a young man. The book, he said in his commencement address at Stanford in 2005, ends with the admonition, "Stay Hungry, Stay Foolish."

"I have always wished that for myself," he said.

And me too, which is why I've posted below an article which I've had waiting for an opportune moment to publish.

This blog is both a personal and philosophical account of my experience working for and subsequent to my employment as a native speaker English teacher (NET) by Ukrida Penabur Internasional (UPI), a programme established by Badan Pendidikan Kristen Penabur (BPK Penabur) in partnership with Curtin University in Australia to raise the standard of English in Penabur senior high schools to a sufficiently high level (IELTS 5/6) so that graduates could then enrol in Curtin University.

As a qualified school teacher with a degree in education, a registered IELTS examiner and at that point 17 years experience teaching English in Jakarta, I was uniquely qualified, and the first recruit.

However, on October 11th 2006 my employment as a NET with UPI was summarily terminated. There were no warnings, apart from my own intuition, and no legal procedure followed, not even a letter of dismissal in writing.

I asked for one and this was couriered to my house the next day.  The reason given was "negative feedback", in itself a nonsensical statement, and was signed by David Nesbit, the expatriate Teacher Co-ordinator (TC). His signing of the letter was in itself illegal in that under the statutory regulations of Indonesian Act No.13 2003 Concerning Manpower which governs, among other matters, the employment of expatriate staff, Article 46 (1) states: "No worker of foreign citizenship is allowed to occupy positions that deal with personnel."

And so began a journey through the Indonesian legal system which culminated in a successful appeal to the ultimate authority, the Supreme Court, a decision which (BPK Penabur) has wilfully ignored to this day.
Why they should do so will comprise the philosophical aspect of this blog. In brief, I believe that they are guilty of a process of 'ethical fading'*, whereby maximising returns is encouraged over fairness to fellow employees and clients and any notion of right and wrong goes out of the window.

Much of what I intend to post here has already seen the light of hyperspace on my well-known blog Jakartass as well as Performing Monkeys, the blog I set up to highlight various aspects of the school system here in Indonesia.

There will be opinions freely given by former students, parents and teachers, both local and expatriate. And in many cases I will provide documentary evidence of rules which have been broken with alacrity (in spite of stated criminal penalties), and, although difficult to prove, brown envelopes.

On August 1st, through this (edited) email to Susiana Gunawan, then as now, the Business Manager of UPI, I gave due warning of my intention to expose the duplicity and criminality of BPK Penabur through the publication of various documents and through a media campaign, unless they responded by August 17th – today.

As they haven't, this is the beginning of a lengthy exposé which I will continue on a specific blog – Penalising Penabur. Assuming that BPK Penabur meet all their legal responsibilities, especiially those mandated by the Supreme Court, then I will take it off line.

And if they don't, please feel free to write to Susiana Gunawan and Roberto Robianto, the then Chairman of BPK Penabur (Jakarta) ultimately respomsible for the operations of UPI..
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—– Original Message —–
From: (ME)
To: Susiana Gunawan (Business manager of UPI)
Cc: Jac Poelemans (co-plaintiff, may have returned to Holland "in disgust"); Leva Chendra (British Consulate); Mark Wilson (Honorary Consul) ; SH& R (Konsultan Hukum) ; Geoffrey Nanulaitta SH (these last two are my 'legal team' who have given me 'permission' to go public)
Bcc. Current and former Penabur teachers, students and BPK Penabur Board of Governors
Sent: Monday, August 01, 2011 12:28 PM
Subject: Contempt of Supreme Court Ruling

“I can't change the past, but I have a chance to create my future. I can't go back and turn back the time. I can't change what I've done ..."
fr. Susiana Gunawan Friendster profile

That is not 100% true.

For a start, you can do what the Supreme Court has mandated you to do (Putusan No. 576 K/PDT.SUS/2008). Failure to do so leaves you liable to a term of imprisonment for contempt of court.

You may think that you can hide behind the Penabur Board of Governors, but they will hang you out to dry because you are the person named as representing BPK Penabur in the Supreme Court ruling, and you signed letters and other documents which admit to illegal acts, such as the non-payment of tax and the refusal to issue exit permits. There is also the matter of the employment of expatriates on tourist and business visas, and much else. (1 - an incomplete summary)

You are also named as the 'registrant' of upi-edu.com, albeit a defunct website, and you remain as 'business manager' of UPI, although no one seems quite sure what that entails. Presumably you are responsible for the recent recruitment advertisements in the Jakarta Post. These are de facto evidence that UPI continues to contravene prevailing regulations regarding the employment of "Qualified Native English Teachers".

I should not have to spell out to you what those regulations are, but for those of you who may have a direct interest, such as language institutions which do try to oby Indonesia's laws, I refer you to Act No.66 of 2009 About Granting Permission for Foreign National Teachers in formal and non-formal education units in Indonesia. It's online in Indonesian here, and English here.

I'm not seeking vengeance but merely what is owed according to the contract I signed in good faith with Ukrida Penabur International. Article 7 refers to Terms and Conditions, including termination of employment. Article 10 states that "the laws of Indonesia govern this Contract of employment and the determination of any disputes or claims arising in relation thereto."

The Supreme Court has ruled against UPI so in not settling matters with me (and Jac Poelemans) you are acting in contempt of court.

I am writing to you in good faith, expecting you to settle forthwith. As well as the sum stated in the Supreme Court ruling, plus the interest on that sum accrued in the two or so years since that ruling, there is the unpaid salary for work done prior to my arbitrary and unlawful dismissal, my legal entitlements under the law pending the settlement of this case (including medical costs), and the sorting out of my residence permit with the Department of Immigration.

When dealing with the latter issue, you may wish to refer them to the letter from my lawyers, SH & R, dated 23rd November 2009, ref no:158/SHR/PV/11/2009 (2) , which informed the Department of Immigration of your liability in law for my current situation until you have settled up according to the Supreme Court ruling referred to above. Your lawyers, Petrus Selestinus, will have a copy of that letter, and I separately informed the British Consulate of the situation. They were among the Cc'd recipients of the original email.

You would do well to read and inwardly digest your Bible, particularly Ezekiel 18 and Romans 12:19. However, in case you decide to ignore this, then let me assure you that if I do not hear from you or any of the board members before August 17th (i.e. today) – the second 'anniversary' of the publication of the Supreme Court's decision – as promised in my email to you, I am now posting online some of what will constitute some of the contents of my book, working title: Penabur – Contemptible and Criminal Christians.

Although my blog Performing Monkeys carries my opinions about your contemptible and morally corrupt management, I had yet to post any of the documents which demonstrate beyond any doubt Penabur's criminality and contempt for Indonesia's laws.

I do now, and this is but one example.

You do, of course, know that the regulations regarding the employment of 'native speaker' English teachers decree that they should be passport holders from just six countries: the USA, the UK, Australia, New Zealand, Canada, and, added to the list more recently, Ireland. Chile is not included. (Kenneth Olave, now back in Chile, has emailed me permission to post the above scan.)

However, this is but a common and relatively minor 'infringement' of Indonesia's laws, although one may legitimately ask the Corruption Eradication Commission (Komisi Pemberantasan Korupsi – KPK) to investigate.

As well as the documents accepted as valid by the Supreme Court, which include the many (c.30) Articles of Act No.13 2003 Concerning Manpower which BPK Penabur has ignored, there are the matters of the non-issuance of Surat Setoran Pajak (S.S.P.) showing that BPK-Penabur has, in fact, paid income tax on my behalf as per the contract signed by both parties, of avoidance of the Dana Pengembangan Keahlian dan Keterampilan (DPKK), the Skill & Development Fund Fee of $1200 per annum payable to the Department of Manpower, and, in some cases, employing expatriates still on tourist or business visas, and in other cases employing expatriates as English teachers, yet registering them as, for documented example, a teacher of religion, thus rendering those employees liable to deportation.

(For anyone interested, then full and regularly updated details of Indonesia's visa regulations can be found on the Living in Indonesia website - here.)

This has gone on long enough, Suzi. Settle up in full, and I will delete this post.

It's up to you, lah.

Terry Collins.
B.Ed. CTEFL
(1) UPI and non-compliance with statutory Manpower regulations
(2) Letter to Department of Immigration re. TC’s status
—–(i.e. Penabur refused to process exit permit etc.)
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*Download Ethical Fading: The Role of Self-Deception in Unethical Behavior by Ann Tenbrunsel and David Messick.
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A specific blog – Penalising Penabur – has been set up on which comments, feed back and developments will be posted.
If you too have a specific complaint against Penabur – and can back it up with documentary evidence – I will post it there.
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The media, both mainstream and social, are welcome to subscribe.

It's an urban thing; the mayhem and looting in the UK isn't taking place in rural areas, nor is it taking place in middle class comfort zones, apart from the cathedral town of Gloucester.

By and large, it isn't a race issue, nor does religion seem to be a factor, although three men were mown down by a car as they left their mosque in Birmingham, and Asians have been confronted by Afro-Caribeans. Some argue that these are shopping riots, characterised by the looters "consumer choices".

Many of the targets are the shops in their own communities, yet one can't really describe retail shopping parks, vast estates of hypermarkets and furniture stores, as being community orientated. The looted objects of desire have been objects for idle times: large TVs, bicycles, brand name trainers and laptop computers. Several phone shops have been looted too, but it appears that the looters already had these and through Twitter and instant messages have been able to co-ordinate their raids, drifting from shopping area to shopping area as the police have belatedly arrived.

And the same media have broadcast the news, allowing instant responses from the 'bring-back-flogging' brigade as well as enabling vigilante groups to protect their areas from approaching mobs, and communities to arm themselves with brooms (pic) to clean up their areas.

Certainly, these riots have few parallels with those I witnessed in 1981. Those were a reaction to heavy handed police provocations in pockets of social deprivation and lead to massive 'urban aid' programmes initiated by Margaret Thatcher's Minister of the Environment, Michael Heseltine. I had many objections to the Tory policies at the time, and still bear many resentments against her regime, and what we are witnessing now is in many respects her legacy.

Yet, one cannot continue to complain about one figure from the past. After all, Britain has subsequently been lead by the Labour Party which, historically, was diametrically opposite the Tories in prioritising social welfare rather than personal wealth. More recently, however, they continued 'market-friendly' policies, encouraged consumerism and competitiveness rather than co-operation and community action. Politicians have proved to be venal and uncaring, and that is the first connection with Indonesia.

So-called public servants and elected politicians, at all levels of society and across this vast country, have had their snouts in the troughs of easy money. Many have continued to run businesses for the benefit of their families without any consideration for society at large, or within sight of the environmental disasters they have caused.

In Jakarta, the consumer is 'king', even though many malls are half-empty, but will we see shopping malls ransacked by vengeful youths? I think not. Indonesians may be numerically speaking among the most voracious tweeters in the world and, as I witnessed today, even the poorest, smelliest busker on a bus has a handphone.

Would the forces of law and order stand by and watch if looters descended on masse? Quite possibly, but they are not to be trusted. As in the UK, they've stood by as minorities have been intimidated, even murdered, by mobs. They would probably wait until a paymaster, an oligarch or two, authorised bonus payments.

A more likely scenario is that one of the Betawi gangs would be paid to sweep angry rakyat off the streets, as they do when they are paid to 'protect' a plot of land with disputed ownership. However, it is the 'angry rakyat', otherwise unemployed young men, who may have left school at 14 or 15 having, possibly, completed junior high school albeit with few marketable skills  who tend to join the Betawi gangs because they see them "as a means of survival in an often cruel modern urban environment."

They offer the sense of belonging, of mutual respect, which has been lost in the UK.

In a recent interview with local TV program JakTV, the head of Bamus Betawi, Nachrowi Ramli, said such Betawi organizations might have a tendency toward aggressive behavior (i.e. protection rackets) because they were unsatisfied with the unbalanced distribution of wealth in the rapidly developing capital.

There's a distinct mutuality of concern in that statement, a mirroring of what can only be called a moral decay or ethical fading. Religion holds sway here, largely because the false promise of a better hereafter allows the abrogation of responsibility and respect towards one's fellow citizens.

Religion long ago lost its power in supposedly secular Britain, although that and the community spirit which had kept Britain afloat in World War II was the moral basis of society when I was a lad. It wasn't until 1957 when Prime Minister Harold MacMillan told his fellow Tories that most of we Brits had "never had it so good", that the notion of spend, spend became the norm and lead to the vicious cycle of inflation and wage restraint, borrowings and cutbacks which has now produced two generations of disenchanted and disenfranchised rakyat.

There are some here who long for the certainty of the Suharto era. They have yet to understand that the greed and corruption which is now endemic among the 'rulers' is his legacy.

Unless that is fully understood, assuming that future elections don't produce a generation of morally clean and respected politicians with a vision for a fair and equitable society which they are seen to be working towards, then that is when the streets of Jakarta, Surabaya, Makassar and other urban centres will resemble the London, Birmingham and Liverpool that we have been watching this week.
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First published in The Jakarta Post 12th August 2011
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+ An excellent article – well worth reading.