Tag: Indonesia
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Silence is No Longer Golden
BOOK REVIEW: GODS AND DEMONS A foreign correspondent’s memoir | Deborah Cassrels It’s certainly not Scoop, and Deborah Cassrels is hardly Evelyn Waugh. But there are enough fanciful echoes of imagined distant drums in Cassrels’ book, and there’s sufficient colourful reportage, to prompt consideration of the demerits of figjamery. According to the book cover, it…
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Messing About in Boats
HECTOR’S DIARY His diet of worms and other non-religious fare Bali, Jan. 4, 2017 WE have a lovely friend, a former media colleague who goes by the pen name of The Global Goddess. She has a tough life, poor thing. She’s forever flitting off from Brisbane, her home city, to go to distant places…
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Clumsy Confections on all Sides
Nick Feik, editor of the online newspaper PoliticsOz, wrote this in his editorial note today (Feb. 17): TERRITORIAL TENSIONS The Indonesian government had only just finished protesting to Australian ambassador Greg Moriarty over the Abbott government’s border protection policies when its foreign minister Marty Natalegawa was again fronting the media to object to Australian conduct.…
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Rough waters and rocky boats, but we’ll get there
This side of the stretch of water over which Australian tourists fly in droves to exotic holiday destinations and considerably smaller numbers of asylum seekers travel in rickety boats in the opposite direction, frequently drowning in the process, it was never clear how the new Abbott government was going to get the Indonesians to stamp…
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Raffles Revealed, in a Javanese context
Indonesians are apt to say they wish their former colonisers had been the British instead of the Dutch. It is a comment anyone who lives in the country, and who talks to ordinary people, hears at least once, if not repeatedly. The argument goes that if the British had run what later became Indonesia there…
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SOME NECESSARY INFORMATION
28 February 2012 Statement Australia supports Indonesia’s territorial integrity Australia is fully committed to Indonesia’s territorial integrity and national unity, including its sovereignty over the Papua provinces. This is a fundamental obligation of the Lombok Treaty between Australia and Indonesia. The meeting being held by the International Parliamentarians for West Papua…
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