Beer Today, Gone Tomorrow: Muslim Indonesia Curbs Ale Sales. (Bloomberg) -- Alcohol can be a hard sell in Indonesia, which has more Muslims than any other country. It’s about to get a whole lot tougher. A regulation supported by Islamic groups that is scheduled to come into effect next month will prohibit the sale of beer at convenience stores and other small shops in the world’s fourth-most populous country. The ban adds to a growing list of measures by President Joko Widodo’s administration that run counter to the pro-business messages he presented while campaigning for office last year. At stake are beer sales in Southeast Asia’s largest economy, where domestic consumption makes up more than half of gross domestic product and the government is trying to spur growth, foreign investment and tourism. “Losing this channel will mean a big decline in sales for leading beer manufacturers,” said Yulia Fransisca, a senior analyst at Euromonitor International.
Beer sales climbed 11 percent last year, according to Euromonitor research. Mini Marts. Kids say poverty pushes them to drive public buses. Sixteen-year-old Randa relaxed in the driver’s seat of a Metro Mini bus on route S62, traveling from Manggarai Bus Station to Pasar Minggu Bus Terminal in South Jakarta, while waiting for passengers in Manggarai on Thursday. Although his driving was competent, his young age was apparent from his small build and innocent face. There are many underage Metro Mini, angkot (public minivan) and Kopaja drivers in Jakarta who have been driving for years and have somehow managed to escape the police. “I’ve been driving Metro Mini and angkot for about a year. I’ve been caught once by the police. He was behind the wheel again a few days later. Randa said he was an unofficial driver, locally known as “supir tembak”, without a Metro Mini or angkot driver’s permit or a driver’s license as he was underage.
He said he cut his education short after elementary school to make money and that his parents did not have enough money to pay his tuition fee. Dwi is an unofficial driver. Paper Edition | Page: 2. SÉCURITÉ • L'Indonésie inquiète de l'expansion de l'Etat islamique. Les Indonésiens découvrent que l'Etat islamique (anciennement EIIL) fait des émules dans leur pays. Les autorités cherchent à combattre cette propagation. 6 août 2014 | Partager : La presse indonésienne s'alarme.
Les islamistes de l'Etat islamique (anciennement EIIL) commenceraient à recruter sur l'archipel du plus grand pays musulman au monde. C'est ce que revèle une vidéo postée sur Youtube par l'Etat islamique et dans laquelle un Indonésien appelle ses compatriotes à soutenir le combat pour un califat mondial. Le général Agus Surya Bhakti, chargé de la "déradicalisation" à l'agence nationale de lutte contre le terrorisme (BNPT) en Indonésie a confié à Tempo que l'Etat islamique avait pénétré en Indonésie essentiellement via les réseaux en ligne.
Une photo du terroriste Abou Bakar Bachir prise dans la prison de haute sécurité sur l'île de Nusakambangan, au large de Java, le montre en train "d'initier" d'autres détenus à la théologie de ce califat mondial. S’up Mas Bro? | Indolaysia - Pale Moon. Around both Jakarta and Jogja on this recent trip, I saw the slang-y phrase “Mas Bro” everywhere. I’d seen it before, but it seems much more common this trip than before. Typical “Mas Bro” Usage “Mas Bro” is a uniquely Indonesian construction.
It combines “bro” (as in, well, bro, brostep, etc.) with the Javanese-inspired term of address “Mas,” used to refer to a young man. So it’s redundantly redundant. I can’t quite tell, as I’m not fluent enough in bahasa gaul, but I think using it even has the bro-y connotation that bro (or “brah”) have. Ada apa mas bro? And, because Indonesian slang is endlessly playful, the way that you address a young woman is to replace the Mas with Mbak, its female equivalent. Like this: Like Loading... Islamic Body Set to Ban Amplification of Mosque Sermons. “Seven-year-old kids cannot say they’re Muslims because of the bad atmosphere we have.” The mosque is just 40 kilometers from San Bernardino, where US-born Syed Rizwan Farook, 28, and his Pakistani-born wife Tashfeen Malik, 29, opened fire on Farook’s co-workers last week in what the Federal Bureau of Investigation is treating as an act of terror.
Malik had pledged allegiance to Islamic State on Facebook around the time of the attack and the FBI believes the two had been radicalized for some time. Muslim Americans across the country have said they are worried about a backlash, as happened in the aftermath of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks. A handful of incidents at mosques and a rash of anti-Muslim political rhetoric over the past week appear to be compounding their fears of growing Islamophobia. On Friday, a fire burned the entrance to a mosque in Southern California’s Coachella Valley, some 120 kilometers from San Bernardino. ‘We feel it more’ Reuters. Govt urged to quickly implement new immigration law | The Jakarta Post - Pale Moon. Indonesian Mixed-Marriage Society (PerCa) chairwoman Melva Nababan told The Jakarta Post on Saturday that the government should immediately issue an implementing regulation (PP) and technical guidance for Law No.6/2011 on Immigration; so, any Indonesians in mixed-nationality marriages would no longer face problems regarding their marriages.
She said the PP should have been issued one year at the latest after the government replaced Law No.9/1992 on Immigration with the new immigration law issued in May 2011. “In the absence of a PP that contains both implementation and technical guidelines for the new immigration rules, many immigration officials in the field still refer to the outdated regulations in dealing with problems related to mixed-nationality marriages,” Melva said.
Unlike the old law, the 2011 Immigration Law gives recognition to marriages between Indonesian citizens and foreign nationals. The Leaderboard: Angelina Sondakh – cogitASIA CSIS Asia Policy Blog. Who is she? Angelina Sondakh is a former Miss Indonesia turned lawmaker whose career path has come to symbolize the worst in Indonesia’s continued efforts to fight corruption in politics. Angelina was elected to the House of the Representatives in 2004 as a member of President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono’s Democrat Party (PD), and was appointed deputy secretary-general of the party in June 2010. She served as a senior member of the House Budget Committee and the Youth and Sports Committee until she was implicated in February 2011 in two corruption scandals involving government procurement projects.
Angelina Sondakh as Miss Indonesia 2001. Source: Wikipedia, used under a creative commons license. Why is she in the news? The Jakarta Anti-Corruption Court on January 10 found Angelina guilty of receiving $3.6 million in kickbacks from the Permai Group, a holding company belonging to former PD treasurer Muhammad Nazaruddin. What can we expect from her? Corruption in Indonesia and the 2014 Elections. Indonesia has experienced a historic and unprecedented transformation to democracy in the 15 years since the fall of the Suharto regime in 1998. It will hold legislative elections in April 2014 and its third direct presidential elections in mid-July. The campaigns for and results of these polls will focus on a range of issues, from economic growth to institutional reform to human rights concerns.
But one topic sure to play a prominent role will be the continued pervasiveness of corruption at all levels of society. Q1: What is the level of corruption in Indonesia? A1: Transparency International’s annual Corruption Perceptions Index ranks 174 countries and territories according to their level of corruption as perceived by surveys of both domestic and foreign observers. Transparency International followed this report with its 2013 Global Corruption Barometer, which polled individuals in 107 countries about their direct experience of corruption. LGBT website shut down by ministry. Ourvoice Indonesia, an NGO that promotes the rights of the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) communities, will discuss advocacy strategies with the Press Legal Institute (LBH Pers), on Tuesday, following a recent blockade of its website by the Communication and Technology Ministry (Menkominfo).
"We'll discuss effective advocacy strategies before we meet ministry officials. LBH Pers is studying our case," Ourvoice Indonesia secretary general Hartoyo told The Jakarta Post over the phone, on Monday. In a previous statement, Hartoyo said that he could not access the Ourvoice website via his mobile phone which used XL Axiata phone operator around May or June. He later reported the problem to the provider's customer service center at Plaza Semanggi, Central Jakarta, but the problem remained. On July 4, XL's customer service department sent an email to Hartoyo, saying it blocked the website at the request of Menkominfo.
INDONÉSIE • Comment s'appelle votre bonne ? Les familles aisées ne peuvent pas se passer de leur employée de maison, mais n’ont pas de mots satisfaisant pour la désigner. L’hebdomadaire Tempo revient sur les différents termes utilisés au fil du temps – qui marquent tous, d’une façon ou d’une autre, la supériorité de l’employeur. Pour un certain nombre de familles, les jours critiques sont terminés. La bonne qui était rentrée dans son village pour les fêtes de la fin du ramadan est revenue et a repris son travail “derrière” [dans la cuisine, toujours au fond de la maison]. C’en est fini du désordre dans la maison, des repas pris au-dehors, dans les centres commerciaux, et des prises de tête à s’occuper des enfants. On se lance alors à la recherche d’une nouvelle domestique. La société indonésienne ne saurait fonctionner sans bonnes. A la recherche du terme approprié Autrefois, juste après l’indépendance, le terme d’usage était babu.
Dans les années 1990, l’âge moyen des bonnes ayant baissé, le terme mbok n’était plus approprié. Indonésie-Gaza : Blogueurs contre médias à propos de Gaza. Les médias traditionnels indonésiens, en particulier certains journaux et stations de télévision pro-islamiques, ont réagi violemment à la guerre entre les Israéliens et les Palestiniens. A travers ces médias, nous pouvons voir que des groupes extrémistes proposent une “une formation militaire” pour que certains aillent combattre en Palestine pour le jihad. Les médias ont également signalé que ces groupes ont mené des raids contre quelques synagogues et qu'ils accusent “les juifs” d'Indonésie d'être “responsables” de ce qui se déroule dans la bande de Gaza.
Dans des mosquées indonésiennes, les prêches du vendredi ont abordé l'actualité. Certains [fidèles] considèrent que le conflit est une guerre entre l'islam et “l'ennemi de l'islam”. Israël représentant “les juifs”, tandis que les États-Unis qui défendent traditionnellement Israël, représentent “l'Occident” et “les chrétiens”. Gantyo Koespradono a également écrit sur son blog sur les sociétés israélienne et palestinienne. RI’s Muslim youth not interested in politics: Survey. Getting involved in politics apparently is not something that is appealing to young Muslims in Indonesia, a survey shows. The survey, held in November last year and conducted by the Indonesia Survey Institute (LSI) in cooperation with the German culture center Goethe-Institute and the Friedrich Naumann Foundation for Freedom, concluded that Indonesian Muslim youngsters were optimistic about the country’s democracy system even though most of them refused to become politicians.
Forty-one percent of the 1,496 Muslim respondents, aged between 15 and 25 and taken from all 33 provinces, said that they had little interest in politics, and 29 percent said they did not have any interest at all. When asked what were their goals and dreams were, none answered “to become a politician”. “But it does not mean they are indifferent about what is good or bad for democracy. She said that the survey had seen 66 percent respondents agree that opposition political parties were needed for a good democracy. La difficile «guérison» des djihadistes indonésiens. Le plus grand pays musulman d'Asie tente de «déradicaliser» ses exaltés. Harry Setya Rahmadi rêvait d'«anéantir les mécréants», de «mourir en martyr sous les balles américaines», il est devenu un jeune loup du marché des changes. Yusuf Adirima était un exalté en quête d'adrénaline qui pourchassait les chrétiens dans les Moluques.
Il fait rôtir des canards à longueur de journée. «Si ces deux militants de la nébuleuse islamiste Jemaah Islamiyah ont renoncé à la violence, c'est qu'ils ont été “déradicalisés” lorsqu'ils étaient détenus», explique Petrus Golose, à la tête de l'unité de lutte antiterroriste de la police indonésienne. Depuis l'attentat de Bali en 2002, le plus grand pays musulman du monde s'est lancé dans une campagne énergique contre le terrorisme.
Mais le revirement de plusieurs terroristes «déradicalisés» met en lumière les carences du programme. Sur les 200 militants relâchés après avoir purgé leur peine, une vingtaine a accepté de tisser des liens avec la police. Southeast Asia Islamists hail Osama as martyr. A man speaks after a “standing prayer” organised to honour Osama, in Khartoum May 3, 2011. — Reuters pic JAKARTA, May 4 — Indonesian Islamists hailed Osama bin Laden as a martyr today, illustrating sympathy for the al Qaeda leader killed by US forces among Southeast Asian militant groups, one of which predicted a major reprisal attack. Indonesia and the Philippines, both home to terror groups with links to al Qaeda, have heightened security after the killing of Osama on Monday, with Jakarta increasing police presence ahead of an annual meeting of regional leaders at the weekend.
“If it is true that was him, it was Osama who won, he has had that victory he dreamt of, that is to be shot dead as a martyr by his enemy,” said Son Hadi, spokesman for Jema’ah Ansharut Tauhid, an above-ground Islamist group founded by firebrand cleric Abu Bakar Bashir. “The impact of his demise is that Osama will be appreciated with prayers, support and some hateful comments against the US,” he said.
Komnas HAM Says 70 Still Missing Following Attack on Shiites in East Java. The National Commission for Human Rights (Komnas HAM) announced on Thursday that as many as 70 members of a Shiite community in Sampang, East Java are still missing since an attack on Sunday that left two dead and several people badly injured. Another organization said that dozens of people are hiding in the jungle near Sampang. “Some 24 families have disappeared. If each family consists of three persons, then at least 70 people are missing,” Komnas HAM commissioner Hesti Armiwuland said in Jakarta on Thursday, as quoted by Indonesian news portal tempo.co. Hesti also criticized what she called the government’s slow response to the problem, adding it remained unclear how they planned to deal with the situation. She added that some 340 Shiites seeking refuge at Sampang’s Wijaya Kusuma Stadium were living in squalid conditions, with poor sanitation and food.
“They are packed like sardines, without a divider between the men and the women,” Hesti said. SBY Orders Government Officials to Avert Future Shiite Attacks in Indonesia. INDONÉSIE • Le pied de nez des Balinaises au droit coutumier. Bahasyim sentenced to 10 years in prison. Reader riposte: Indonesian human rights. Indonesia investigates police 'torture footage' Kopassus killings test nation's resolve. Indonesia Suharto-era book banning law lifted. Asia-Pacific | Aceh outrage over Miss Indonesia.
Indonesia's blasphemy law.