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Oracle posted:What's up, Jakartagoons? [url]http://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2016/jan/14/multiple-explosions-gunshots-reported-in-jakarta-rolling-report 7 explosions, reports of 10-14 gunmen.
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sparatuvs posted:It's ISIS You think so? What makes you think that? (not being antagonistic, I genuinely want to know heh)
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It's a country full of western loving traitor Muslims, with just enough ISIS sympathizers to find a dozen or so people to run into american businesses loaded with bombs
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Jan 14, 2016 08:01
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It looks alot like those islamist militia factions in Java Wid was talking about.
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... did I just watch three police officers get blown up?
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Jan 14, 2016 09:58
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Err 7 dead of which 5 were the attackers. Kind of scratching my head at that
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shrike82 posted:Err 7 dead of which 5 were the attackers. Kind of scratching my head at that I am pretty much fine with this outcome. Would prefer just the five, or zero and a bunch of dudes arrested, but whatever.
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very strange, they seemed to be only targeting police. We can be thankful for this, otherwise the toll would have been much higher.
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How did Four Lions miss the chance to spoof a suicide bomber running after someone, desperately trying to catch them, holding the detonator in his hand?
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Jan 15, 2016 00:45
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Especially when there was that schlubby white goon muslim in the movie! 
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Do they expect anyone to buy the explanation for Najib's money? http://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/27/world/asia/malaysia-najib-razak-saudi-donation-1mdb.html?ref=world&_r=0 quote:Mr. Apandi, who was appointed by the prime minister last year after the previous attorney general abruptly left office, said the largest amount, $681 million, “was a personal donation” from the Saudi royal family.
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This is a pretty cool thread! I just spent a month traveling through indonesia and the last few weeks in Malaysia. Im in penang right now before moving into Thailand for a month. Our hotel in jakarta was a block from all the excitement but we left a few days earlier so that was pretty exciting. We are really looking forward to spending time in Burma in a few months along with just generally bumbling around the region. Keep up the good thread!
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bird cooch posted:This is a pretty cool thread! I just spent a month traveling through indonesia and the last few weeks in Malaysia. Im in penang right now before moving into Thailand for a month. Our hotel in jakarta was a block from all the excitement but we left a few days earlier so that was pretty exciting. You might want the T&T thread for travel and expat stuff.
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https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/hun-sen-fed-up-with-criticism-of-asean-meet-107661/quote:Hun Sen ‘Fed Up’ With Criticism of Asean Meet i really really love this. Also, I met Sam Rainsy a few days ago. Not as unbalanced as his reputation might have led one to think. Bit of an ego on him to be sure but he's a hell of a lot better than the alternative.
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So homophobia in Indonesia is somehow starting to flare up again and quite dramatically. And that's just the news from today. 
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Meanwhile Singapore censored Obama making what they deemed to be a pro-LGBT comment: https://www.washingtonblade.com/2016/02/23/singapore-censors-obama-lgbt-comments-on-ellen/
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CronoGamer posted:https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/hun-sen-fed-up-with-criticism-of-asean-meet-107661/ You might hate this: https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/construction-starts-on-prime-ministers-win-win-stupa-109018/ quote:Construction of a massive memorial in Phnom Penh’s Chroy Changva district designed to pay homage to the achievements of Prime Minister Hun Sen commenced on Thursday, with a Defense Ministry spokesman encouraging public donations to ensure its speedy completion. quote:“We have a financial plan, but we cannot disclose it because we want to be open to public contributions. The duration of construction depends on the financial contribution by Cambodian people both inside and outside the country,” Gen. Socheat said. “The more contributions, the faster construction will be.”
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Fragrag posted:So homophobia in Indonesia is somehow starting to flare up again and quite dramatically. It's a recent trend. There's been some slow, low key movement in trying to expand gay rights but then this folk singer with a religious slant who had been divorced for a couple of months (years?) got into a scandal where he was found sexually molested an early teens under-aged boy. The media decided this should be the ratings boost they needed since the political slapfight between Jokowi and Prabowo's camps are winding down with Prabowo's camp crumbling into dust. So starts the Indonesia Gay Panic 2016. Even people who I once considered to be intelligent started their spiel how kids these days chose the gay lifestyle as a form of rebelling from their parents. Everyone suddenly got their own theories how people turn gay.
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as long as those theories are not "it's a Western conspiracy to corrupt our youths away from the path of piousness", I'd consider it a win, really
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Ohhh if only. Along with most porn sites, they have blocked Reddit, and have started to move to Imgur and Tumblr, because of the lewd (Western) content and morals that are on them. The West have also been referred to by several figures in the LGBT debate, as its openness are claimed to be corrupting the youth. It's literally "THINK OF THE KIDS" here and meanwhile they're pushing laws to rein in the anti-corruption committee and ignoring blatant cases of corruption like the prosecution of the two teachers at an International School in Jakarta for alleged child abuse or the forceful chaotic evacuation of red light districts in Jakarta and Surabaya. I'm here on another three week visit for my school project and I still admire the people and the culture, but it's endemic structural weaknesses are starting to wear me down.
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How does Indonesia enforce online censorship, anyway? ISP-level DNS blocks? Singapore/China-style national proxies?
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Tranparent DNS proxy at the ISP level. Meaning thise who knows a bit about how internet works and a dollar or two can get a proxy to bypass the whole thing. Imgur was actually blocked a couple of years ago when the minister of information technology was a loving fundie who barely understood how computers work. Then it got unbanned. But they still banned vimeo and gawker for some reason. The aforementioned minister once blocked YouTube due to the mohammed cartoon fiasco but the backlash was so great SBY had to deal with it. So any bullshit they came up with by now just sounds so hypocritical. On the other hand, fundies had been a bit mum on website banning lately since the current minister kept banning hardline fundie and jihad sites. The biggest ISP even blocked netflix a month ago claiming it has pornography in its list even when the government didn't tell them to block it or even had a law about it. It's obvious it's a business move to curb bandwidth usage so popular website banning might not just be about moral outrage.
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A conservative Southeast Asian country is turning into a Boring World Where Dirty Jokes Don't Exist? Well I never! 
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Scylo posted:When I was in hospital in Indonesia, I couldn't even access the video game site I wanted to access without using a proxy. All I wanted to do was listen to a podcast about games so I didn't die of boredom, shits dumb. Sri Lanka has a weird loving blocking system. I swear to God they must have a random number generator to decide which sites to block/unblock each month. I know a guy who is peripherally involved (he does anti software piracy stuff) and mentioned that it seems like a shitshow. "I can't really talk about it, but yeah, it is.  "
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Malaysia stuff: Mahatir quits UMNO... again?
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We haven't really talked about 1MDB much in here at all have we? First, what made me think about it today; a WSJ article exploring Red Granite Pictures, the company that funded Wolf of Wall Street and most indications appears to have gotten all $155 million from the 1MDB fund (the chairman is Najib's stepson). Second, the fact that Mahathir and Anwar are aligned and have signed a pledge together on this is something that would have been unimaginable just a year or two ago. Mahathir and Muhyiddin quitting/being ousted, all the international probes into the 1MDB money, trying to replace the Bank Negara Malaysia chief with a crony and getting called out, that RIDICULOUS letter from the Saudi prince they trotted out as proof that they got a $350 million gift just for being good at Islam... I keep wondering how on earth Najib is still in place but the experts I talk to don't think he's going anywhere until 2018. What the hell, Malaysia.
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CronoGamer posted:Sooooo. How bout that Duterte win eh? Think you can bid farewell to the slim hope of a decent multilateral solution to the South China Sea issues at this point... Fuckin' a. At least Robredo's giving Marcos a run for his money. Heard about the Liberal Party conspiracy to get rid of Duterte and have Robredo take the seat, which sounds similar to a Marcos conspiracy to do the same should Bongbong win?
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toasterwarrior posted:Fuckin' a. Trillanes has been talking about ousting Duterte since before the election... not that Duterte didn't deserve it, since he was already threatening to dismiss Congress if they didn't help him pass his policies. But Trillanes has been itching for a good coup since GMA and he's bound to see the inside of a jail cell one way or another under Duterte. It would really be nice if the Philippines could go just two presidents in a row without an ouster, a stolen election or a post-presidency prison sentence.
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Considering the poo poo that gets heaped on you as the Philippine president before, during, and after presidency, sometimes I wonder why people bother to fight over it so much.
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Jippa posted:Is the Philippines as terrible as it's public image or do only the worst stories filter through to here? It's not as bad as it sounds, no. There are worse places to be; it's just that it could be doing so much better.
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Yeah, it's one of those things where you go, "Jesus, these people are basically keeping various parts of the world operating, but at home they get a poo poo sandwich." The legacy of the Spanish encomienda system, however they call it, can be seen so plainly in many facets of life, but, from the outside especially in who governs. Things have gotten a lot better for the emerging urban middle class in the last decade, frankly, but when you're migrating to Thailand for jobs in engineering, healthcare and so on, things are not good back home.
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