Tag: Prabowo Subianto
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Off We Go
HECTOR’S DIARY Titbits from his regular diet of worms The Cage, Bali | Wednesday, May 10, 2018 IT’S been a while between scribbles here at the Diary’s desk, for all sorts of reasons that really don’t rate a mention. We have heard no complaints, but we’ll ignore that silence and the signals it…
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Goodbye and Thanks for All the Words
HECTOR’S DIARY Tasty and distasteful morsels from his regular diet of worms THE CAGE Bali Monday, Jan. 15, 2018 WE’VE had to say goodbye to Jewel Topsfield, who has been the Fairfax media correspondent in Indonesia for three years. It’s one of those rotational things: people get posted in, and then they get…
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Talk to the Ants
HECTOR’S DIARY In the Bali Advertiser May 24, 2017 JEWEL Topsfield, the Australian Fairfax newspaper group’s Indonesian correspondent, wrote a lovely piece recently after an extended interview she had with Prabowo Subianto, who probably likes to think of himself as president-in-waiting. We’ll have to wait until 2019 to find out, but in the meantime…
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A Ridiculous Travesty
Bali, May 9, 2017 THERE are several things that can be said about the two-year jail sentence meted out to Jakarta governor Basuki Tjahaya Purnama (Ahok) for his astoundingly correct but politically incautious observation that matters of religion are often subject to varying interpretations. One is that no one sentient would argue with his point.…
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HECTOR’S DIARY Bali Advertiser, May 13, 2015
His fortnightly diet of worms and other non-religious experiences The Full Farce of the Law Sometimes a diarist in the Pancasila Archipelago finds himself wishing he were Archie Clark-Kerr, the British ambassador in wartime Moscow famous for finding himself grateful for any little shafts of light that came his way from heaven. He memorialized one…
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HECTOR’S DIARY Bali Advertiser, Oct. 15, 2014
His fortnightly diet of worms and other non-religious experiences Probability Prabowo People seem to be somewhat exercised over the coalition that failed presidential candidate Prabowo Subianto has fashioned in the national legislature. Why this should be so is an interesting question. Indonesia is far from alone in being a democratic entity in which rival political…
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HECTOR’S DIARY Bali Advertiser, Aug. 20, 2014
His fortnightly diet of worms and other non-religious experiences Trash Can be Beautiful A month or so back we dropped in on a Green Drinks meeting in Ubud organized by organic food guru and long-time Ubud luminary Darsih Gede. It was an interesting and inspiring occasion. The presentation was on the then forthcoming Bali…
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