Pelopor Chat

Previous Next
Latest on Sat, 11:34 am

jerryvandenbrink/colson: @ Utomo: Your posts, your grandchildren, were my inspiration :) .

Utomo: Wow...I am glad to see you together again with your beloved grandson Kris !

Colson: @ Utomo: Thanks :) . Hope your 2013 may be healthy, happy and prosperous too.

Utomo: Wish you Great Holidays & Happy New Year 2013

jerry van den brink/colson: @ Luke: It would be worth the money, it would redeem Jakarta's historical cultural debt and it would be great to all inhabitants. So [...]

Luke: Hi Colson, Kota Tua has so much to offer once you are there and any improvement and change to the area to make tourist [...]

jerry van den brink/colson: I'll check my email :) .

Uti: Hi, Colson! I sent you an email. Just so you know, in case my email went to spam. :D

jerry van den brink/colson: @ Harry Nizam: Hope to keep it that way :) .

Harry Nizam: Hi Colson, your blog is okay now.

» Leave a reply

A revolution that didn’t come off

Rice and bread may be necessities of life, yet to many people energy, more particularly petrol, is the real essential requirement. And access to it a fundamental right. A real expensive one though .

The price of petrol is rocketing. When I bought my first car I paid the equivalent of 2400 Rupiah per [...]

March 28th, 2012 | Category: economics, indonesia, politics, social | 15 comments - (Comments are closed)

A coup d’état in Papua?

Papua’s bad luck is not over yet.

One and a half month ago the workers at the Freeport mine went on strike. Since than the situation went from bad to worse. At least partly because of passivity on the part of the government in Jakarta. And now it’s is running out of control in Papua.

[...]

October 23rd, 2011 | Tags: , , , , | Category: indonesia, justice, military, politics, social | 6 comments - (Comments are closed)

Waste of resources?

Indonesia is a rich country. It has a huge amount of talents and intelligence the size of millions and millions of youngsters at it’s disposal. It only needs the right educational policies to open up this goldmine. Educational policies which provide an educational system. An educational system which produces schools. Schools which turn children [...]

June 6th, 2010 | Category: culture, indonesia, politics, social | 10 comments - (Comments are closed)

Equality Works

This is a liberal age. And in spite of the neo-liberal causes of the present financial and economical crises which did and do hit Europe, the US and Japan, the solution tend to be more (neo-)liberal policies. It looks like Noami Klein‘s assumption she wrote about in “The Shock Doctrine”,  is still valid; neo-liberals use [...]

May 30th, 2010 | Category: economics, politics, social | 7 comments - (Comments are closed)

Hijacked

Yesterday was Labour Day. The President of Indonesia said: “We all celebrate the International Labour Day. On behalf of the state, people and government, I congratulate workers across the country”. At the same time in the vicinity of the Presidential palace water canons dispersed people who were protesting against appalling labour relations.

[...]

May 2nd, 2010 | Category: economics, indonesia, politics, social | 6 comments - (Comments are closed)
Page 1 of 712345...Last »