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Comment on Going gaga over Lady Gaga by anong

anong — Fri, 18 May 2012 13:00:58 +0000

Tradition and change: not an easy one

Comment on Going gaga over Lady Gaga by Jakartass

Jakartass — Fri, 18 May 2012 11:29:47 +0000

The security issue should not be overlooked.
It hasn't been; that's what all the fuss has been about.
Who [would] pay for it?
The promoter who has to get a police permit.
Who will do it?
No-one now, but we could have expected a private security force, possibly recruited from one of the Tanah Abang gangs who run 'protection' rackets, as well as the police.
Is anyone obliged to do it?
All part of the police permit procedures.
What if it [had gone] wrong?
Folk would have got hurt!
Could this be a factor in the cancellation?
I somehow doubt it. All the reports and excuses have been of a threat to our "moral culture"

Comment on Going gaga over Lady Gaga by anong

anong — Fri, 18 May 2012 05:25:21 +0000

The security issue should not be overlooked. Who will do it? Is anyone obliged to do it? Who will pay for it? What if it goes wrong? Coud this be a factor in the cancellation?

Comment on Going gaga over Lady Gaga by Jakartass

Jakartass — Fri, 18 May 2012 04:41:54 +0000

That's a shame, and a slap in the face for her fans. She could have made a more 'sympathetic' comment, perhaps on the lines of my introduction above.

Comment on Going gaga over Lady Gaga by Jakartass

Jakartass — Fri, 18 May 2012 04:27:30 +0000

Indonesia does violence very well !! A 5 star review of The Raid in the UK newspaper, the Guardian, says that "this violent, intense and brilliant bulletfest from Indonesia puts western action movies to shame."

Comment on Going gaga over Lady Gaga by ultratupai

ultratupai — Thu, 17 May 2012 22:58:46 +0000

It's hardly a tragedy that a bunch of rich kids from Jakarta's elite families are going to miss the Gaga concert. But it’s the principle of the thing that matters, I guess.

On a more serious note the FPI dogged the speaking tour of Irshad Manji, a Muslim reformist and out lesbian. Her promotional effort for her new book "Allah, Liberty and Love: The Courage to Reconcile Faith and Freedom" was cut short.

As the Christian Science Monitor reported today: "…congregants of Filadelfia Church in Bekasi, a poor Jakarta suburb, had rocks and sewage water thrown at them as they tried to enter to church to celebrate the ascension of Jesus Christ."

A Protestant church in Aceh province, at the northern tip of Sumatra, was shut earlier this week by local police under pressure from the FPI.

Catholic leaders in Central Java also complained this month they haven't been able to get a permit to build a new church, because of intimidation by the FPI and other Islamist groups.

The FPI has also been involved in recent years in attacks on Indonesia's tiny Shiite community and larger, but still small, Ahmadiyah sect, whom they consider heretics. Indonesia's President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono has been largely silent on the vigilantism.

Someone needs to go kick Habib Rizieq in the balls. Or better yet seize his bank accounts and his porn collection.

Comment on Going gaga over Lady Gaga by ultratupai

ultratupai — Thu, 17 May 2012 19:39:10 +0000

"I don't really give a Fuck at the end of the day."
- Lady Gaga

Comment on Bureaucracy is a hard nut to crack. by sportdesta

sportdesta — Thu, 17 May 2012 10:02:20 +0000

Lady Gaga not to visit indonesia

Comment on Bureaucracy is a hard nut to crack. by Jakartass

Jakartass — Wed, 16 May 2012 13:15:09 +0000

The Lady Gaga saga post is – erm – in the post. My tickets aren't 'cos they're c. Rp.3 mil.
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I presume that's why the Effing Perverted Idiots are making a fuss – they can't afford to go to her gig either.

Comment on Bureaucracy is a hard nut to crack. by ultratupai

ultratupai — Wed, 16 May 2012 12:22:43 +0000

Dear Mr. Jakartass,
I hope you can get a refund on those Lady Gaga tickets.