Rahayu Saraswati, the DPR member for Jakarta III (North, West and 1000 islands), and deputy leader of Gerindra party, remains in the parliament after the DPR Council of Honor rejected her resignation today over remarks deemed elitist and hurtful to the public back in February.

Dulu buku bisa bikin orang tercerahkan. Sekarang… bisa bikin dicurigai. Dari Hitler sampai Orde Baru, penguasa selalu takut pada satu hal yang sama: Pikiran kritis. 📚 theconversation.com/membungkam-buk…

Be so successful that you become unbothered by someone who won’t return the Rp53 billion that you loaned them

Oi, so apparently Prabowo reckons he’s bringin’ in Kiwi English teachers, eh? From bloody New Zealand. Ta teach Indonesians how ta yarn proper before they head overseas. And I’m sittin’ here like, bruh, ya serious? You tryna make a whole generation who say sex instead of six?

When the c is a c

Looks like a huge scandal developing inside Wikipedia, with top dog Jim Wales swooping in to edit the Gaza genocide article and some others, buckling to pressure from the ADL and Israel.

it's genocide (Amnesty International) it's genocide (Human Rights Watch) it's genocide (B'Tselem בצלם بتسيلم) it's genocide (MSF International) it's genocide (IAGS) it's genocide (Al-Haq | الحق) it's genocide (UN Human Rights) it's genocide (UN Human Rights Council) it's genoicde (Palestinian Centre for Human Rights - PCHR) it's genocide (Al-Mezan الميزان) it's genocide (War on Want) it's

The genocide has just gone quieter, slower, more insidious. It has not stopped. Nor should we stop opposing it!

JUST IN: YouTube has removed the channels of 3 major Palestinian human rights groups, deleting over 700 videos that documented Israeli war abuses. Google says it did this to follow Trump's sanctions linked to their work with the International Criminal Court – The Intercept

The BBC finally gains access to Gaza. The result is this truly appalling bit of reporting. Up top Lucy Williamson observes "The Gaza of maps and memories is gone, replaced by a monochrome landscape of rubble stretching flat and still for 180 degreesm from Beit Hanoun on one

We are now fully in the “massive pressure on media/social media to re-write history/memory into a pro-Israel fiction” stage of Israel’s genocide of Gaza.

NOT OUR HERO!!! #SoehartoBukanPahlawan #TolakGelarPahlawanSoeharto

Soeharto is a hero to some groups in Indonesia, but obviously, not a hero to many other groups. It’s much better if Indonesia is to end these annual jokes about national heroes. Let the public decide their own respective heroes #GelarPahlawanUntukSoeharto arabnews.com/node/2621860/a…

#SoehartoBukanPahlawan

this country has no shame

Medal and national hero title cannot outweigh the tears and bloods of the victims under his dictatorship. The 'National Hero' title is a lie built on silence. Medals Will Not Wash Bloods, A title cannot erase atrocities. Don't let history be erased by the dictator wannabe. We

Damn, what have we been doing for eight years?