Public Relations as I think it should be
I love the Eiger outdoor brand. Their products are affordable and often of good quality. A sandal I bought has lasted me years and looks like it will continue for at least another year or two. Damn comfortable too. But good as they are in making outdoor gear they apparently suck at customer relations. Here’s... Continue Reading →
That Siti Hikmawatty is stupid is a given fact. What else can explain an official for the Commission for the Protection of Indonesia Children (KPAI), and supposedly a one-time academic, would say that women can get pregnant from swimming in a pool with men? Her stupidity is stupendous. In apologizing for her statement she said... Continue Reading →
Former US Ambassador who reinvented himself as the organizer of Supermentor, Dino Patti Jallal, has a point in the ongoing feud with BEKRAF chief Triawan Munaf over Indonesian Rapper Rich Brian where children are concerned. Children should not be exposed to obscenities. But the whole episode is not as clear cut as he makes... Continue Reading →
Fascinating story in this week's Tempo of the mystery behind a strange series of attacks on the santri and kyais throughout Java since the beginning of this year. There is also a gem of a line in the story on how Encep Muhaimin, the head of a pesantren in Pandeglang determined that the would-be assailant... Continue Reading →
Not since Sumardi Ma, he of the coffin notoriety, has a group of humans shown such er...creativity? Unspun had many years ago spent some weeks in the Northern Territory and found a land of great beauty and desolation. Since then it seems that nothing has changed. The Northern Territory remains beautiful and desolate, so desolate that few... Continue Reading →
The Malaysian bomoh(shaman, medicine man, con man whatever you call them) Ibrahim Mat Zin, who won notoriety for his antics involving a magic carpet, several coconuts and some nuts serving as acolytes in the search for the missing MH370 is now back. Never mind that his methods did not yield any results in the search for MH... Continue Reading →
The ogoh-ogoh are effigies built for the Ngrupuk parade on the eve of Nyepi that took place yesterday. Ogoh-ogoh usually are fashioned after mythological beings or demons and they represent the Balinese people's spiritual or temporal aims. Often they also serve as social or political commentary. Hence this year they had an effigy of... Continue Reading →
Those of you who know Unspun would know that he looooves his pork. Not only that he would defend to the last bite the right of other porcine lovers to eat of their right to imbibe in The Other White Meat. The joys of pork consumption are many and profound but that should not make the eaters pigs... Continue Reading →
Common sense is not common and nowhere is it more uncommon than in the mind of the Transport Minister Ignatius Jonan. His latest feat of uncommon sense is in banning - and this is not very clear from statements his Ministry has made: online applications for commuter transport or anything less than three-wheeled modes of... Continue Reading →
Ah! how the world has changed. There was once upon a time where the needs of labourers were essential items that occupied the lower rung of Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs like shelter, food, decent wages. But that was in the Dark Ages. These days the labourers have morphed into worker and their basic needs have changed.... Continue Reading →
It must be all that grass they grow in Aceh. They are purported to have the best grass in Indonesia. How else do you explain the actions of the local education authorities in devising a questionaiire asking kids as young as 11 how big their genitals are? Unspun is unsure if the parents have been... Continue Reading →
Its amazing where chutzpah can get you these days in Indonesia. We are told bu the newspapers today that Roy Suryo, a self-professed telemathics expert has now been appointed by President Susily Bambang Yudhoho to be the new Sports Minister to replace disgraced Andi Mallarengeng. Unspun's theory is that Roy was chosen to fill in... Continue Reading →
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