Visit Indonesia Year 2008

Ya, after staying at home and watching TV all day, I found this nice advertisement on TV, about Indonesia tourism resurrection.

Visit Indonesia Year 2008 – I can say this one is one more of such a delirious program legalized by that Tourism and Culture Minister. Haizzzzzzz, can’t he see that our infrastructures aren’t ready for that? Geez, I am questioning where that moronic existence got such an inspiration.
One instance, if you go to our international airport, Soekarno-Hatta, I fancy to see you try struggle out safely from there. Believe me, I myself felt ashamed when I first greeted my sweetheart Cedy when he first stepped in Indonesia and he saw that airport. Contrasting Changi in Singapore, which is prominent for its safety and well-arranged form, Soekarno-Hatta is veeeerrry messy in many ways.
Out from the arrival gate, you will be greeted by many people offering you transportation service; none of them is legal though. If you accept, usually you’ll end up being deceited, paying twice of the normal value, or even leaving you deserted in some strange place with no money or else. You should walk around the lobby (which is kinda afar) and look for Silver Bird taxi (the safest taxi in Indonesia, as far as I know) or better ask for your relative to pick you up.
And that’s not enough, on the arrival gate, there are people who offering to give you direction to the receptionist or help you with ticketing, of course not for free, even if you didn’t ask for their help from the beginning.
So, my advice, never let yourself alone in the airport. Even local people can get deceited, no less the foreign tourist one.

That’s only from the tourism department, here is another example of how they work in Indonesian government:

- The prices of basic needs, such as eggs, wheat flour, rice is rocketing.

- The price of soybeans also now rocketing. Soybean is main ingredient of tofu and tempe (fermented soybean) which are primary food for many low-economic people (for its cheap price and so). Now after the price are all rising. How could they eat?
FYI, in Indonesia there are still many people living with cost under US$ 1/day.

- That idiotic and hastily executed conversion from kerosene to LPG. If people cannot even buy food, how can you expect them to buy that expensive LPG?

“Indonesia on the Move” ya, that’s the title of the book wrote by and launched by our dear beloved President, Mr Susilo Bambang Yoedhoyono (did I write his name right?).
Self-contented eh you, Mr President?
Isn’t that sufficient enough that this nation was humiliated by idiotic people who think that they’ve actually found new kind of renewable fuel, so proud for their discovery, as called the fuel as “Minyak Indonesia Bersatu (MIB) – United Indonesia Fuel” and launched their ‘invention’ at the Global Climate Change Meeting in Nusa Dua Bali last December, legalized by Mr President himself. Even TIMES International chortled in laugh when wrote about that launching.

Please Mr President, don’t close you’re eyes and only made decisions based by macro-scaled data gathered by so-called Statistical Bureau. I believe your eyes are blinded by people surround you who filtered the bad data and give you only the sweet polished ones. See the society in the real life, and you’ll see, life is not as beautiful as you may think. Indonesia on the Move……..yes, but move downwards!

I have no mean of being skeptical though, moreover, it’s not usual me, that I get concern in such kind of issues, but yah… sometimes I also feel obligated because I live here.

See you then…