Message from @Der Kommissar
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I mean, he does say a lot of awful stuffs
to be honest
Good
yea but my point is
but I do get your point
Yeah well
i gotta vote in a few days
presidential election in Indonesia is in 2019
i gotta vote for local stuff i believe, cant remember
but damn, I'm more eager to see who's going to be the new mayor after her term ends next year
heh
since it would be a tough job to continue her excellent work
federal level politics here, honestly at this point i dont see how those matter anymore
it does matter here tho
yea i been pretty happy with the mayor we had here for the last few years
but im very unhappy with his party on the federal level
since the current mayor and the one before her had been excellent mayors and helped to clean up the mess from the new order era
tidied up the streets, made canals and better sewer system
I'm both eager and worried on what kind of candidate will come forward
I know nothing of indonesian politics but didnt u guys have some serious authoritarian issues not so long ago? or am i confusing that with some of the other countries there
where people had been killed and jailed for diverging from the reigning party
and we've had some transition era to dismantle much of the damages
although very slowly
see thats the thing with these authoritarian regimes
they never last
Its always a question about how much damage is going to be done before it collapses
Well i always think of those things and then it puts thing in perspective from the stupid things we need to deal with here
I remember that we were sent to another town to avoid troubles since there were plenty of anti-chinese tensions
like having a 30 year+ long debate about wether or not we gonna build a bridge.
ye man i cant really imagine how that is
i only heard stuff like that from my grandparents
there were riots, rapes and lootings in the capital as the regime changed.
it was a rather tense situation
especially when there were insurrections and racial civil wars that erupted
oh yeah i know about that
like the massacre of sampit, where maduranese were persecuted by borneo-born dayaks; Ambon civil war, where christians and muslims fought a bloody civil war; Rise of GAM (aceh freedom movement); rise of OPM (free papua organisation); etc.
and the advent of 9/11 also resulted in the rise of wahhabists and religious extremists who were heavily suppressed during the authoritarian regime
nice
we got a party here now called "islam"
and everyone was hysterical about it when it popped up