Comments that in most societies would leave the audience aghast get a laugh and applause in Indonesia. Even when a member of the audience is the President of Indonesia himself. PDIP Matriach Megawati, when addressing her party’s convention first took issue with Tukang Bakso (meatball vendors). She said she told her daughter Puan not to... Continue Reading →
Prolonging the death throes of a party
This in The Jakarta Globe online today: Taufik Kiemas, chief of the PDI-P’s consultative board, right, talking to Prabowo Subianto as chairwoman Megawati Sukarnoputri looks on at the party’s national meeting. (Antara Photo) Megawati Gets PDI-P Green Light The Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle gave its chairwoman Megawati Sukarnoputri full power during its national leadership... Continue Reading →
Mega xenophobia/hypocrisy?
This, coming from a party that embraces Twittering and Facebooking? Which part of Indonesian culture do such social media practices crawl out from? (assuming, of course, that the Jakarta Post is accurate in its reporting) clipped from http://www.thejakartapost.com Indonesian too open to foreign culture: Mega - Pro The Jakarta Post , Jakarta | Sun,... Continue Reading →
How to tell voters you don’t have your act together
Unspun supposes we all have to blame Oprah Winfrey. When she started Twittering, then it must be good for the masses and everyone should somehow Tweet as well. Perhaps it is for this reason, but maybe also because some young entrepreneurs saw a chance to milk the Indonesian Presidential candidates for some easy money, the... Continue Reading →
Vote against political elitism
If Unspun could vote, he'd certainly be casting his ballot for SBY and Boediono in the upcoming presidential elections. SBY's weaknesses in the past were based on perceptions that he is slow to decide if he comes to a decision at all; that he is weak when it comes to making tough decisions; and that... Continue Reading →
Foxy Obama-style New media campaign for SBY
What's with the name Fox and politicians? When Malaysian politicians wanted some help with their communications they turned to a company called Fox Communications (that was set up by some ex-journalists under the patronage of other ex-journalists). Now, with the Indonesian Presidential elections around the corner, SBY has turned to Fox Indonesia. The mission of... Continue Reading →
Kamikaze Politics
You could say Vice President Jusuf Kalla's goose was cooked when he first foolishly accepted Golkar officials' suggestion a few months ago that he should nominate himself as a presidential candidate.Once he swallowed this poison pill, some say administered by Surya Paloh, he was doomed, unless Golkar did so well at the polls that the... Continue Reading →
Megawati Facebook Page taken down, but for how long?
Would anyone like to take bets how long it would take the Netizens to put up another "Say No to Megawati" Faeffect. cebook page that has been taken down yesterday? Read also about the Streisand effect in Maverick Network. It's equivalent to shooting your own foot on the Net.
justified rap on knuckles or a threat on Press Freedom?
Update: Politikana.com has carried a story with a screen grab of the original Jakarta Globe story. It also questions why Okezone had retracted its story and issued an apology to SBY and his son when the story was balanced because Democrat party and presidential spokesperson Andi Mallarangeng had been asked about it and he had... Continue Reading →
Losing Face
Update: PDI-P has reported the Say No to mega Facebook Page to the police. Check out the link here. All this is going to drive a lot of traffic to the Facebook page.... Forgive them Father Sukarno...they know what they do. ROFL Now let's see how the new media strategists of our revered political leaders... Continue Reading →
The Prabowo thing
Tree can be pretty incisive, entertaining and a pretty good read when he focuses his attention on the more "serious" things in life rather than his Adrian Mole rantings and monologues about his life, dog and multifarious girlfriends present and exes. Good to see the Tree getting back to stride and lending an intelligent voice... Continue Reading →
Prabowo on why he’s engaging bloggers
Whatever you may think of the man's politics, human rights record or temperament, Presidential Candidate and Gerindra boss Prabowo seems to have taken his online initiatives seriously. His Facebook page, for instance, has more than 16,000 fans and he has a plethora of sites listed on it: http://www.perubahanuntukrakyat.com http://www.garudalima.com http://www.pilihlima.com http://www.hkti.or.id/ http://www.partaigerindra.or.id/ http://www.prabowosubianto.info/ He'd got... Continue Reading →
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