Indonesia Tattler » jakarta post http://indonesiatattler.com Tue, 10 Nov 2009 03:46:11 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 Population control ‘a weapon of the West’ | The Jakarta Post http://indonesiatattler.com/religion/population-control-a-weapon-of-the-west-the-jakarta-post/ http://indonesiatattler.com/religion/population-control-a-weapon-of-the-west-the-jakarta-post/#comments Mon, 27 Jul 2009 05:14:27 +0000 http://indonesiatattler.com/religion/population-control-a-weapon-of-the-west-the-jakarta-post/ Young Indonesian muslims are convinced that attempts by their government to control the exploding population in Indonesia are a western plot and stated this at an event organized by Hizbut Tahrir in Jakarta. The fact that they are advocating a return to a caliphate system of government just a few days after the bombing of two hotels seems to have slipped past the various security bodies in the country searching for clues as to why this sort of thing keeps happening.

At Ragunan Sports Center in South Jakarta, speakers at the conference titled, “Young Muslims, save Indonesia with Sharia and the Caliphate” asked the young attendants to reject contraception based on the rationale that reducing the population would weaken the country and draw it further into the conspiracy plans of the West.

The scariest thing about this is that they seem to really believe this! It is hard to know where to start with an answer to people who are this stupid. That is the best judgement that I can make of these people because absent a highly sophisticated brainwashing program I cannot for the life of me come up with a better  reason for such a lame conspiracy theory.

Here is another quote.

Cicin Yulianti, a student activist from the Bogor Institute of Agriculture, elaborated on the “genocide” conspiracy further, saying that more people in Islamic countries would increase the possibility of stronger human resources.

When you have a group this gullible it seems that it would be easy pickings for the likes of Noordin Top to find someone willing to blow himself to smithereens as long as he can take some of the hated westerners with him.

Population control ‘a weapon of the West’ | The Jakarta Post

]]> http://indonesiatattler.com/religion/population-control-a-weapon-of-the-west-the-jakarta-post/feed/ 0 Pertamina raises non-subsidized fuels prices http://indonesiatattler.com/incompetence/pertamina-raises-non-subsidized-fuels-prices/ http://indonesiatattler.com/incompetence/pertamina-raises-non-subsidized-fuels-prices/#comments Mon, 01 Jun 2009 07:22:14 +0000 http://indonesiatattler.com/?p=10 A report from the Jakarta Post  shows a complete lack of journalistic professionalism. The report stated the following regarding an increase in the prices of Pertamax and Pertamax Plus.

“The price adjustment was made due to the strengthening of the rupiah against the US dollar,” Pertamina’s spokesman Basuki Trikora Putra said.

I’m no economist but even a primary school student should be able to spot the obvious problem with that statement. If the Rupiah is strengthening it should take less of them to buy something with a dollar price base.

Not mentioned is the near doubling of crude oil prices since the government’s last reduction in price for the subsidized fuels. With an election coming up it is not time for the incumbent to raise the prices with the precedent set by the previous incumbent, Megawati.

Simple conclusion, either the spokesman is lying or he is stupid. For a national newspaper to let that sort of thing slip by unquestioned is also indicative of either collusion or incompetence by the press.

Pertamina raises non-subsidized fuels prices | The Jakarta Post

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