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It’s in the papers here, there and everywhere: the Bali bombers will be executed at long last by a firing squad next month. That is five years after their death sentence. In the meantime they have become real media celebrities in the region. Almost pop stars. I don’t doubt this is the correct outcome of fair [...] It’s May. My girls are queens and demanding. So, just like the birds, I’m busy these days. So what to do about Pelopor? Okay. Let’s bore everyone born after ‘60 to death. Let’s feed the crowd (?) with some old fashioned stuff I myself am crazy about. Once popular artists endowed with the talents [...] Occasionally there is this discussion in the fringe of the public debates: the Dutch ought to say sorry and pay compensation for centuries of exploitation, oppression and violence in Indonesia. I’m afraid it was, it is and and it will be a non starter. Like the famous Flemish author Willem Elschot said ( in my clumsy [...] Men and dog. Dog and men. They have been companions for centuries. Ages! Roman mythology tells the ancient story of a Vestal Virgin, a priestess sworn to abstinence, who became pregnant nevertheless. She bore the twin boys Romulus and Remus. Amulius, brother of their grandfather, was enraged and ordered Rhea, his brothers daughter, and [...] After the riots in 1998 and a collapsing economy, Soeharto steps down as president. Soeharto, the general who seized power from Indonesia’s first president Soekarno. Soeharto’s reign was one with a very centralised government. And a military one as well. Soeharto’s precidency was highlighted by, aside from a relative long and stable economic period, several [...] |
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