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nah, this good mr. benjamin netanyahu has agreed on the notion of two-state solution to resolve the israeli-palestine conflict. we cheer him for that. yet, the idea of a demilitarized palestine scripted in his late speech is a no brainer jotting.
it is like telling me:
“delvi you are free now. but, you cannot speak up your mind. you are not allowed to leave your compound without our permission. you cannot build your home on your rightful land. you cannot claim things belong to you. you cannot defend you self when we violate your honor. you are free but both of your hands and feet must be amputated. oh yeah, you are free but we take your tongue away.”
it is not freedom my boy. it is new form of oppression. i do think the prime minister is not serious about ending the bloody conflict between these two nations. in his speech, he did not offer peace to the palestinians. he offered them death instead. a country without military force is a body without immunity system. it will die soon it’s born.
i dedicate this provocative title to this lady. (this post is also dedicated to the lady in this pic and all people who suffered injustice just because their professional job is become a maid)
huh! another maid was beaten by her employer. this is an unknown story then, especially when this bestiality happen to take place in malaysia. everybody know, we, indonesia, is the biggest supplier for maid to that neighbor country of ours (as if the maids are commodities and you are free to beat them as though they are hordes of cattle).
i don’t say that they, those malaysian, are maid killer or hostile toward indonesian. but i heard this sad story too often; it’s either the maids are beaten, tortured, extorted, exploited, raped…..other grim things. and because lots of indonesian maids there, so there is high possibility that the victim of this cruelty is indonesian.
well whoever they are, indonesian, filipinos, thais, indians, bangladeshis, pakistanis, nepalese, myanmaris, vietnamese, cambodians, WHOEVER…those maids do NOT deserve this barbarity. then whoever you are, yes you murderous maid EMPLOYERS, where ever you are, you cannot, you have no for god’s sake fucking right to treat them that way.
they are people, mind you, HUMAN BEING.. with the same dignity as what you fucking asshole have.
god i am so mad here. MAD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
1. i wish somebody sane in the parliament will raise an urge to abolish the porn bill.
2. i wish somebody sane in the parliament will never agree to any bill which will rule out how the people should behave and dress.
3. i wish somebody sane in the parliament will agree that no racist, sexist, and chauvinist fellow should become RI 1 (The president of Republic of Indonesia). read my i need a president not a muslim president.
4. i wish that somebody sane in the parliament will seriously think how to press the government to improve any sorts of public service.
5. i wish somebody sane in the parliament will put forward an urgent assembly to discuss about annulling any variety of religious-based by-laws. that’s god’s prerogative not ours mortal.
6. i wish somebody sane in the parliament will press on how to include sex education in the school curriculum. i’m tired of reading ill-informed government sponsored ad that you get HIV because you commit pre-marital sex.
7. i wish somebody sane in the parliament will demand to scrap the rule that a wife must obtain her husband permit before she can process her passport. ayolah sir and madam, my mom is nagging me to get married soon day in and day out. yet, i am too afraid to be married out of a phobia to get a confining husband.
8. i wish somebody sane in the parliament will seriously think about improving our educational system. what about sekolah gratis (free basic education) up to senior high school? i think we can afford it.
9. i wish somebody sane in the parliament will pay more attention to our ailing ecological condition. god is not mad at us when when we are afflicted by massive flood or avalanche or mind-choking haze coming from forest fire. it’s us who are insanely inconsiderable when it comes to damaging the environment. i believe most of today’s disasters are man-triggered.
10. i wish somebody sane in the parliament will instigate a move to criminalize war. living in a peaceful country like mine, i could not bear myself to read or watch the plight of those living in war zones or conflict areas like gaza, afganistan, sri lanka or swat valley, pakistan. worst, i know as everyone does, those who suffer more in wars are women and children.
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m quite happy that secular and nationalist parties won at the last ge. you are free to say that m too allergic to religious or sectarian parties. yes, i am. you know what i think, so much blood has been shed just on the name of religion and narrow-minded sectarian movements. i don’t want it to happen to my beloved country. and i think god is with me since god’s listened to my pray.
disclaimer: this post is not in any sense of the word anti islam. so for those who think that m a cia secret agent who’s brainwashed by christian liberal secular school of thots and deployed to wreak havoc asian religious values; or a secret operative specially trained by some zionist ideologues to destroy islam; or a radical feminist illegitimate daughter of an aging white male canonite orientalist, who thinks that everything western is cultured and everything eastern is uncivilized, or an indonesian version of vs naupaul’s mimic (wo) man who reads salman rushdie’s the satanic verse at the very tender age of five, just go to hell.
on his comment of my me not religious: nevah wanta one, colson said that there was a gradual de-secularization on most part of republic of Indonesia, my country. well, i couldn’t agree more with him since such thing called de-secularization does exist and i terribly feel flabbergasted by it. just look at regions which are predominantly muslim like aceh, west sumatra, some parts of java and some parts of sulawesi. those regions implement the what so-called syariah law, or laws that take islam as their basic tenets. however, i never heard about regions with predominant christian or hindu or buddhist population impose laws which take those religions as their basic creeds. so, if colson is right about the de-secularization, soon probably we will read in the news about majority christian papuas oblige the papuans to go to church every sunday or get fined or jailed if fail to pay the fine or both for constant transgressors. who knows, may be such thing will happen in the future (i duly hope it won’t).
but, so far i notice that it’s only the muslim society which getting more religious lately. no. i don’t think the word religious is in a correct usage here. i reckon they are not going religious but going religiously backward.
i always believe that religion is a matter of choice. you can be considered as religious if you practice your five times prayers voluntarily. i will label you religious if you don your hijab by choice because you think this is one of the many ways to show your piety to your god. you are religious if you sincerely donate one third of your fortune to help the have nots without hoping for words of praises from clapping hands mortals. so, the key words here are: choice and voluntary. those words are key concepts that make religion sacred and holy.
nevertheless, today we see various kinds of syariah-based laws which are legal base for the authority to criminalize you when you do not adhere those laws. let say in aceh, un-hijab-ed muslim women are stopped on the streets by the authority and given a jilbab to wear. or, in my place, female civil servants serving in the office of the major must cover their heads. here, every morning i will see a laughable scene where a female civil servant goes to her office covering her head yet exposing her thighs. it is understandable since her boss just asks her to pakai jilbab (wearing head scarf) but cares not to ask her to cover her legs because to this religious boss what is religiously important is to see all of his female staff memakai jilbab since it’s religious. the same major also signed a bill that all female school students must pakai jilbab regardless their faith or they can’t attend classes. so, now it’s a common sight in padang to see school girls religiously reluctantly cover their heads but intentionally showing up some piece of hair in the front and in the back. i mean instead of keeping all of their hair inside the jilbab, those ‘rebellious’ girls let some flocks to peep out. i believe they behave this way because they wear the jilbab against their will. Things are different with those who ‘choose’ to wear it; they don their hijab properly (in accordance with their different brands of islam, ok).
i also laugh at law that bans an un-married couple to stay at the same room in a hotel for fear of an act of adultery. so, when you partner would book a hotel room you must show the front desk a legal document that you are married. there are sporadic raids committed every nights in hotels or motels around here. if caught red handed those sinful adulterers would be arrested, questioned by the police, covered by the media, in short publicly embarrassed for their (human) carnal desire. i heard and read they do the same thing in tanggerang, west java. what is so derisory about this law is it spares the homos and lesbians (i do not say i bear any grudge to these people, ok). let say if two women book a room in a hotel, it is so unlikely in this religious padang or bukittinggi the front desk will ask, “are you couples”. if adultery is what this law is trying to prevent, it fails in this particular case. what if those women are in love with each other? anything under the sun and in your dirty mind can happen in their hotel room, right? is this law endorsing homosexuality or what? If that is the case, muslim in indonesia are really great in any meanings the word might bear.
what m trying to say is these syariah-based laws only move on the cosmetic stage of the religion. to put it in another way, people obey the laws not because their love to god or their piety but because they are afraid of getting fined, jailed, fired, expelled from school, or raided. It’s so cosmetic, right? those pathetic people are not afraid of the wrath of god but the fury of the major or the head master or the shah. do we still call this vulgar coup d’état against god’s privilege to be feared by his creatures as ‘religious’? that’s what i call a downright bastardization of a religion. the implementation of these religious-based laws, if you’re trained to read between the lines, basically signs the failure the religion. in other words, it fails to make the believers to stick to its teachings and do what it asks the faithful to do that it needs human interference to make the day. does it mean god has failed? who’s the god now? do religions really come from god, then?
i think this kind of law has hurt those who are really religious; it has offended those who practice their faith piously. and i hope no more religiously backward people in power plan to make so more religiously funny religious-based laws which impinge the private domain of the citizen and endanger their civil right.
p.s. read this to view the take of the national commission for women affair on this issue.
well, this is my first serious take on indonesia’s general election. few days ago we just saw the beginning of the open campaign season. for the next 21 days we’ll be hearing all sorts of crabs and crappy promises from 11.ooo member of parliament hopefuls.
on my way from home to padang on last monday, i noticed scores of youths wearing jersey bearing a photo of an MP hopeful (we call them as Caleg here). they occupied an open truck or minivan weaving all sorts of buntings, posters and flags promoting the MP hopeful whose face and name were imprinted on the jersey they were wearing. I expected I would see some hilarious antics such as soaking your whole body with the signature color of a particular party; or shaving your head and leave only some segment of your hair that will form a symbol of a party. I did not see those antics though. Probably the party people thought it was not necessary yet at this early stage of the campaign.
During this election fever (shall i call it euphoria?) i develop a habit of studying all sorts of slogan written on posters of the MP hopefuls. let me introduce you to examples of them:
1. (Fill in the Blank) Bsc, Msc. Anak Petani. Memberi Untuk Nagari/ (Fill in the Blank) Bsc. A Son of a Peasant. Willing to give his all to his district.
2. Mohon Do’a Restunya. (Fill in the Blank), MM, MBA. Menuju Indonesia modern and religious/ I am seeking for your prayer and blessing. (Fill in the blank), MM, MBA. Toward Modern and Religious Indonesia.
3. (Fill in the blank)
19….elementary school no …. Bukittinggi.
19… junior high school no… Bukittingi
19… senior high school no….Bukittinggi
19… Stekpi, Jakarta
19…Southeast Washinton University, magister of economics ……
19…(Someting university in the USA,) liberal arts school, magisterial of International affair.
20.. a Ph.D candidate at UNP
Caleg DPD Bukittinggi.
4. (fill in the blank)…. pilih (……) ya! (fill in the blank)…….vote for me ok!
5. (fill in the blank), the granddaughter of Syeikh something something the founder of the great school something something.
I still have more ridiculous slogans but I’ll save them for future postings. But I surmise that none of these MP hopefuls’ slogan is appealing. None of the slogans can educate voters on why they should vote for them.
Lots of MP hopefuls are asking for our Do’a dan Restu (Prayer and Blessing) but they never tell us why we should mendoakan them (pray for them) and merestui them (give our blessing). Even those with the most sophisticated education have no clues on how to appeal to the voters. They might obtained their double magisters from universities in the US of A, but they cannot come out with a tagline which will make voters trust him to get their voice thru in the parliament. at least for my case, i am not impressed with this double master guy. however, if he tell me how he would help to eradicate poverty and stupidity in my neighborhood on his poster, probably i will spare my time to listen to his ceramah (campaign).
and this one “toward a religious and modern Indonesia” MP hopeful who looks intellectual enough has let me down. He does not give his topic sentence the controlling and ideas and supporting details it deserves. i m still in blue on what he means by a modern and religious indonesia. like i said before, i m allergic to religious people.
then, i just can’t stand MP hopefuls who use their father or mother or grandfather or grandmother or uncle’s name to attract voters. it clearly shows that they are nothing but a bunch of spoiled brats who do not know how to differentiate between a general election from a family debut.
i must say i feel like screaming, “Hello MP hopefuls…where is your program? where is your platform?”
so far, no body’s answering me. therefore, i surmise most of these MP hopefuls are unbelievably dimwits. I still don’t know who to vote for. I’m still skeptical since everybody is asking for my doa restu without telling me what i, the ordinary people, will get if give them that restu. i won’t vote for blockheads.
i do hope that my people can be smart enough not to vote for those dullards. at the last GE, we had already made some big mistakes. we voted for corruptors ( read the paper and you will know lots of MPs have been charged for taking bribes or gratifications), easily sexually aroused dunces who enacted the porn bill, or self-righteous MP from religious political party who can’t be faithful to his wife.
i never get impressed with anyone who tell the crowd that they are religious. i also have a serious problem of allergy to those who are ‘allegedly’ religious. as a result, i get numerous heart attacks whenever i see ballyhoos, placards, posters and pamphlets bearing this kind of slogan: “vote for (fill in the blank) for the national parliament….a young religious activist who insyaallah (god’s willing) will get your voice through”; “The university of (fill in the blank), an intellectual and religious campus”; and “we are indonesian youths: nationalist and religious”.
i’m scared to death if that young religious activist makes his way to the parliament since i envision another stupid law such as the porn law and other laws governing people civil right be enacted. in my city bukittinggi, we have such a ridiculous law which bans unmarried couples from holding hands in public. worse, here in padang, the religious twice-elected major obliged all of the female students to don jilbab (hijab, tudung, whatever you call it) regardless their faith to school. in my own department, a religious professor told the female student to wear the hijab if they take his class otherwise they won’t pass the subject.
i’m feverishly shivering under the scorching sun of the humid padang imagining university students are blinded by strict religious dogmas and never let some reasons prevail. on a not so big billboard, right in front of the secretariat of the student centre, there is written: “pakailah pakaian yang sopan dan islami” (students are expected to wear something polite and islamic). to my horror, what they deem as polite and islamic is different from my concept of politeness and islamic-ness. to me, muslim ladies are no less muslim despite they don’t cover their head. to me, they are no less islamic if they don’t appear like arabic girls with abayas or like afgan girls with burqas. to me, muslim boys are no less islamic if they shave their chin clean. to me, they still have chances to enter heaven even if they don’t have arabic names like nabila, abdul, najib, or salsabila.as a result, this difference sparks a problem: whose concept of politeness and islamic that will be used in our public domain?
most of the time, these people insist on believing that they are the rightest. it is not unknown that in my uni there are two divisions of students; those who spend most of their time in musholla–the abaya clad ladies and the bearded young men–; and those cafe(taria) lovers–the (some of them) smoking, jeans wearing youngsters– who listen to pop music and read ayu utami’s saman without squeaking so many “astagfirullahs” (oh god please forgive us) once they encounter the word kontol (penis) or melancap (masturbating). i belonged to the latter when i was a student, i bore no qualm to the former as long as they don’t preach on me about how i should don my hijab and do not look down at my jilbab which is minier that theirs. but most of the time i had skirmishes with them on what so profane about me wearing jeans is, or what so sacred about them wearing very loose skirts is.
i am in pain realizing that my country’s youths are going ‘religious’. it’s not that i’m religious-less nor m i god-less. i don’t even know why i religiously don this hijab since i was 12.
but, these days those who are ‘religious’ give more harm to people than good. more often than not, those religious people are at the same time self-righteous which is dangerous for the dissenting minds. look at what the front pembela islam (the guards of islam) and the like vigilant groups did in the past few years. they raid clubs which serve alcohol, mob the scantily clad hostesses, and humiliate the unmarried couples found rendezvouzing in the remote corner of the club. they have no authority to do so actually. or, last time i heard some religious muslims who believe that muhammad is the last prophet expelled the ahmadiyahs who believe that gulam mirza was the last prophet from their homes, business premises and mosques forcing them to live as refugees in a foreign place.
those kind of religious people act to purify the world from the sinners as if they were mandated by god to do so. they feel good about it and believe that they will enter heaven at the expense of god’s other not-so-religious-creatures. for the ahmadiyahs’ plight, they reason they do so to show their love to the prophet and guard the legacy of the prophet. but they forget that the great prophet never let people–even his detractors– to suffer before him let alone forcibly uprooting them from their home for what they believe in.
why does the word religious scare me that much? why does it affect me that much? the answer is: because i live in a plural, multi-cultural and multi-religion country.
i tell you i have no problem with people practicing the teachings of their religion. i’ve got no right to tell them not to do so. i admire those who are true to their faith; i admire those who respect other people’s belief even more. if religious people really practice what they preach, i believe, this world will be as safe as haven.
but today’s religious people are not as truly religiously as they say, especially those who busy themselves in politics. i see that to them religious is not a guidance to live a good god-fearing life but a mere political vehicle for power. for that reason, i believe those kind of of religious people should not sit in the parliament or in any government position if they only believe in the sanctity of their own religion. what they think not religious might be religious in other religions and vice versa. the dreaded porn law is the finest example which shows the grave blunder made by the so-called-religious people in my country’s parliament. to the predominantly muslims law makers in senayan, criminalizing nudity or partial nudity might not be a problem. however, they forget that for the papuans who only cover their penises that law is a real problem: the law criminalizes their way of life. to the self-important muslims (not me) this law might mean something good for they have saved their soul from sinning (or getting aroused?)by seeing less sexy girls strutting their stuffs on the streets. or, for muslim madams this law might help them checking on their easily sexually aroused husbands. but all of this religiosity is at the cost of other people’s way of life. so, what is so religious about that?
p.s. i don’t discount the same blunder will not happen in countries with another predominant religion. we see and watch on tv minority muslims or minority buddist or minority christians or minority bahais or minority liberals are unfairly treated by the more religious-driven and politically powerful majority. even once the colonizing western countries used christianity to justify their dreadful colonizing enterprise. got my point?
i talk mostly about islam since it is my own faith and i know one or two things about it. moreover, it is what happens around me.
saman is ayu utami’s, indonesian celebrated female writer, block buster which gained notoriety and much controversy for the use of words that are deemed as vulgars.
sigh…i am badly hurt. broken. suicidally betrayed. bitter. on my way to homicidal desperation.
people please tell me how i can mend this broken heart?
a man has let me down.
yup, the very man i voted to lead me four years ago. yes, that very man i used to trust to lead me and my people out of this mess.
that man just signed that dreaded porn bill. that man just legally slaughtered pluralism which is the very essence of this nation.
i am at a loss of words to express my grievance. i am too weak to spit my rage. my spring of tears has almost dried out.
man, why do you have to always hurt me?
been reading the jakarta post this afternoon. my eye caught news on a poll conducted upon islamic studies teachers on the issue of pluralism. the poll showed that most of those teachers reject the idea of indonesia has a non-muslim president. for the complete story read here.
rejecting a non-muslim president, huh? i might sound cynical but to me we need a president not a muslim president.
since our independence we’ve ruled by muslims and they failed to do a real ’something’ to this country if their muslim-ness is to use to asses their performance. the first was great. he proclaimed our independence. but, he was outsmarted by the second. even god was unable to bring this country out of the mess caused by our first president. worse, his fiery and electrifying speeches could not save millions of lives on behalf of the bloody ideological clash in the 60s.
the second was also great, they tell me, he brought prosperity that he was entitled to be addressed as bapak pembangunan (he who develops the nation). he was a hajji which signs his islamic piety i reckon. yet, he was responsible for the death of millions and other millions during his 32 years tenure. he was a thief and so were his entire clan. he robbed the people and made them poor to their wombs. what kind of muslim is that?
the third is a scientist. he was or is a pious muslim as well. but everybody knows being an excellent scientist does not mean being a good leader. people just could not trust him coz he was just the proxy of the second president.
the fourth was ‘real’ great. he was a pluralist. i admire his decision to abolish the draconian law which created the earthly hell for the family of the real/alleged communists of the 60s. he is a great pluralist kyai and of course he is a heavenly learned muslim. but he was a lousy president. his kyai-ness was unable to cure the ailing economy. people were still starving. ironically his progressive thoughts are deemed to be too progressive or high above the thick head of ordinary indonesians. so people kicked him out. yeah we were stupid and are stupid.
the fifth was a lady. well, she has the pedigree of being a leader. she is the daughter of the first. it was ironically funny if i recall gangs of ulamas (islamic scholars) across the country gazetted an edict that a female president is haram (forbidden in islam) but they said it was ok to have a president with a vagina when they learned that the vice president of that the not-so-good-muslim-un-hijabbed-female president was one of them. now you must understand that islam has been highly politicized in my country. she was just an ok president. yup the economy recovered a little bit. but still the presidential gene run in her vein could do no better to sort Indonesia’s myriads of problem. so she lost her post to another male president who was indonesia’s first democratically elected and the sixth president. he is no ordinary president i remind u. he holds a doctorate and was a general, a hajji and supposed to be a good muslim. people used to love him. but he let the mud caused by his minister’s private company drown his people. yeah that’s what happens when the government comprises of too many parties. you’ve got no strong leadership but a compromist at the cost of ordinary people. in my eye, his mortal mistake is his silence over that dreaded porn law. sorry sir, you’ve lost my respect and vote. what kind of muslim is that to condone such a law which is racist, chauvinist to boot, and sexist. good muslims won’t approve such a law i reckon.
folk we need not a muslim president. what we need is a leader who can help us with our problems; a president who can feed us at least three times a day; a president who enable us to send our kids to school; a president who eases us from worrying about the pricey health care system; a president who are learned that freedom of expression is not a sin; a president who is aware about global warming; a president who is not sexist, a president who……in short can lead us to the better not rule us to tatter.
if we have such a person, i will vote for him/her/it no matter if that individual is a drag queen, a homosexual, a lesbian, a ‘heathen’, a punk, a dangdut singer, a crippled, an albino, an atheist,…. you earn my vote though.
I just finished watching Lady Chatterley the movie and I instantly fall in love with Connie, the lady herself. She has uttered the most beautiful line, which I think more beautiful that myriads of stinky stupidity mouthed by the sanctimonious law makers in Senayan who just can’t hold their penises down on some “porn” or pseudo-religious ustadz who are bothered by the existence of the might-be-lesbian-tomboys.
The line is:
Lord Chatterley: Somebody’s got to be boss of the show…
Lady Chatterley: it seems hateful to me that somebody’s got to be boss and be bossed…
You are right Connie. We are human. we are equal before God. But the skewed interpretation of religion, man made culture, and capital divide us into the faithful and the sinner, the man and the woman, the cultured and the backward, the colonizer and the colonized, the white and the colored, the mainstream and the subaltern, the bourgeoisie and the proletarians. It is never God who creates slavery, colonization, gender inequality, class division, first or second or third or fourth world. It is us, human who make our lives as difficult as it is today.
Lord Chatterley epitomizes the bourgeoisie who has taken by the spell of the ideology that he is born into the class of ruler, the capital holders, the privilege few, the boss of the working class. He symbolizes those who bow down to the status quo. No. He is the one who is benefited by the system. He is everything ‘upper’. He is the faithful husband. He is the man. He is finely cultured. He is white.
Meanwhile, Connie epitomizes struggles. She braces the barrier which a woman might face: class, culture. She leaves her paralyzed, sexually disable, aristocratic, rich husband for a proletarian game keeper whom she loves. Of course, she is white. She will never know how it feels to be a woman of color. Of course she is aristocratic. She knows nothing about about hardship. But she succeeds to obtain what she wants (against all odds).
For me? Can I do a Connie? Can I really do everything I want without hurting those I love and who love me? There are so many walls before me. I am trapped in the anomaly of being subservient to the system and wanting to get rid myself from that suffocating system. Being the first born of the family I need to set a good example for the rest of the children. I have always to be number one. I cannot fail. I cannot make mistake.
I have to be the superego. Then everybody but me will be happy. It’s even difficult to be an ego. People stare at me in disbelief when I tilt a little from the usual me.
For once in a point of my life I want to become the id without feeling I have sinned. I want to run in the nude in the street. I want to make mistake. I want to do everything which is forbidden. I want to sin without feeling I have sinned.
But really CAN I?
so, this is the story…
i went home (what i mean by home is my country, indonesia) for three days. i have to settle down something back home ( u know, being the eldest daughter of the family in a matriarchal society can catapult u into a very very important yet ‘miserable’ position).
to tell u the truth, since those moronic pseudo-moralist law makers in senayan forced to pass the porn bill on october 30th, 2008, i feel like i won’t go back to my country for good. what is the use of going back if your country has stupidly produced such an idiotic and hard to implement law which can easily turn its every citizen into a porn star?
but why porn star? of course. the bill says everything that can incite sexual desire is pornography including voice, conversation and body movement. what about if when i am speaking someone is incited sexually? or when someone is walking i am sexually incited. we are all porn stars then. just be ready for the 12 years jail sentence or $600 thousand fine (where am i going to find this huge amount of money if convicted as a porn star?)
but, on my way back to kl this afternoon i got an inspiration how to deal with the supporters of this dreaded bill. I mean, how to save my ass from this ass licking bill. the inspiration in question is derived from reading a reader letter to tempo magazine elaborating how unsubstantial this bill is (she is a lawyer u know. so, she is equipped with legal terms when explaining her argument). she made a point when she questioned how the authority will measure whether someone is sexually incited or not? how to prove that someone is sexually incited upon seeing, for example, a painting? is there any tool that can tell that someone is sexually aroused? i believe, we in indonesia do not have any ( i think this earth of humankind does not have any either). in other words, there will be no evidence. to say it in another way, there will be no case. therefore, what is the use of this chauvinist and sexist law? null and void….
well folk, now i can sleep well in my tiny room in my modest flat. as long as the moralist scientists have not invented any tool to measure or prove someone’s sexual incitement, there can never be any case. and i can tell those ‘god-fearing’ moralists to kiss a very good bye to the idea of converting me into one of them. they can go to heaven but let me go everywhere. see, i win.
