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And the good news is…

Colson — Wed, 16 May 2012 09:24:52 +0000

…Indonesians, with the considerable help of tourists, drink more beer now than last year. Consumption is up about 30%. Which is proof prospering people overcame pestering tax authorities that imposed 300% excise on this beverage.

Most people who don’t want to live a life of asceticism spice it with a few minor vices. To [...]

The Speaker spoke

Colson — Sun, 13 May 2012 08:41:50 +0000

It’s a cliché as big as the truth: corruption is a plaque. Just look at the current quarter’s issue of Inside Indonesia called “The many face of corruption“.

Anyhow I lost count on the number of members of the Indonesian elite who have been found guilty of this crime over the last five years. [...]

Two hundred forty million passionate people.

Colson — Wed, 09 May 2012 07:55:40 +0000

What we are doing in bed is private. But the consequences of two hundred and forty million people loving each other passionately are public. Another extra four million people each year is a challenge to any economy, to any government. Actually that’s what Indonesia’s fertility rate brings about.

It’s as high as [...]

The Battlegrounds of “De Balie” and “Salihara”.

Colson — Sun, 06 May 2012 09:13:57 +0000

Irshad Manji is a Muslima reformist and gender equality activist. She published titles like “The trouble with Islam today” and, recently, “” Allah, Liberty and Love”. No wonder she is controversial in Muslim communities because of her liberal opinions and her being openly lesbian.

Irshad pleads renewal of mainstream Islam. At the same time [...]

The VP is my man.

Colson — Wed, 02 May 2012 08:45:44 +0000

In my adolescence I lived in a place where three churches competed to be the most clamorous. It’s all over now but, boy, they were loud! Deafening.

At seventeen, eighteen we all week were looking for the weekend. Because Saturday night was the time to celebrate youth. From what I hear and [...]

Arrogant, arbitrary, violent, corrupt.

Colson — Sun, 29 Apr 2012 14:17:33 +0000

In 2009 Syahri Ramadhan was fifteen and apparently a decent boy. However he had the bad luck of being accused of stealing a laptop and a camera. He got arrested, abused, tortured and beaten into a confession. Though innocent he had to spend two months behind bars. Only after a lot of tedious procedures [...]

Public Crucifixion

Colson — Wed, 25 Apr 2012 09:35:40 +0000

Yesterday I read about photos and a videotape of a man and a woman making love on internet.

This morning I looked in the mirror and saw a hypocrite.

Let me explain.

I always pretend to make a difference between the public office politicians hold and their private lives. What they do in [...]

Believers are better.

Colson — Sun, 22 Apr 2012 08:30:05 +0000

Hidayat Nur Wahid belongs to the religion based political Party PKS. In that capacity he is one of the candidates in the imminent Jakarta gubernatorial elections.

He distinguishes himself by presenting a peculiar long term strategy to solve the metropolis’ daily problems; traffic jams, flooding,crime, slums. And it’s an original strategy, a metaphysical one. [...]