Bali Bollocks

Bali Tsunami - nearly

2010-02-13T00:14:00.011+13:00

Go on, take a good look; this is the tsunami that nearly hit Nusa Dua Bali at 3:00 AM local time on Friday 12th February 2010. The event out of the mainstream news around the world as foreign media and governments pander to Indonesia's government and their selfish big bucks tourism industry.

It is not of Bali, luckily, this time, of course. For one the near miss in Bali happened in the very early hours, so these terrified tourists would not be have been fortunate to have daylight on their side. No the picture is of tourists about to be battered and lose their lives in Thailand, in December 2004. Secondly the preceding earthquake when, not if, it hits Bali, would destroy virtually every building in the tourist south, so there would not be people able to run from the resulting tsunami even if they wanted to.

12 February 2010, 2:43 local time, a large 6.6 on the Richter scale earthquake struck 210 Km off the coast of Nusa Dua, 10 Km below the surface of the water. Had the quake been equal to the one off Aceh in December 2004 which first destroyed North Sumatra and then sent a 24 meter wall of water crashing into Aceh and then beyond, Bali would have been decimated; the loss of life making Boxing Day 2004 look like a dress rehearsal. As the oceanic shock waves sped towards the tourist south of Bali, with an average speed of 750 Km per hour, the resultant tsunami would have hit Bali in under 17 minutes later.

Phew?
Was the Nusa Dua Bali quake a one off? Or the main quake with ever decreasing aftershocks yet to come? Or was it an event which shifted the tension between the Eurasia and Australia tectonic plates; the very same fault line that produced the Aceh 2004 tsunami?

The Famous Tsunami Warning System!
While the very nasty Indonesian Government and tourism industry lords the Tsunami Warning System as the safety net that keeps Bali's tourist wallets safe, while the foreign governments and media play down the risks (recently heightened amidst reports by several scientific bodies) in order to suck up to murderous Jakarta and its paradise island of pedophiles and western criminals on the run, the tourists soundly sleeping in their beds at 3 AM in the morning got a nasty shock, but fortunately for them only a near fatal one.

Understand that no western foreign department is going to issue anything but general earthquake zone warnings for Bali on their travel information pages. Understand cheap trick Balinese travel agents will try and sell you mobile text messaging to warn you of an incoming tidal wave. Understand the Indonesian Government only cares about your foreign currency and that telling the truth, which they are adept at doing the reverse of, would cost them money. So you will be told that beach sirens will warn you and that hotels have trained in mass evacuations.

BS
When, not if, the Bali tsunami comes, there will be no need for beach sirens or text messages to your mobile. The reality is, anyone in Bali will more than feel the massive earthquake 17 minutes before they get pounded and drowned. With the building codes so lax, to say the very least, in Bali, the hotel you are sleeping in would almost certainly come crashing down on top of you. If you were "lucky" enough to escape without serious injury you would only be able to run a few meters with all the wreckage around you; forget neatly dressed smiling staff guiding you to safety, they will be running like hell.

There is increased tectonic activity and risk for Bali right now. If you must travel to the island of thieves, stay away from the Southern coastal areas (Nusa Dua, Sanur, Seminyak, Jimbaran, Kuta, Canggu, Legian, Candi Dasa, etc.); stay in Ubud or on the Northern Coast where the damage from earthquakes and tsunamis is less.

Do not be a stupid mutt. Do not become a victim of greed over good travel advice. And if you are as p'd off as you should be the truth / reality of earthquake / tsunami risks in Bali are not just played down but hidden so as not to deter your wallet's arrival, do what a honest, decent person should do and boycott Bali, Indonesia all together.

Update
It was a 5.7 quake facing Kuta to Canggu
Quake epicentre location map

Timothy Geoffrey Lee - all that is bad and sad about Bali

2010-01-14T20:27:00.018+13:00

The Timothy Geoffrey Lee story opens up so many cans of worms, where do we start, how can you give each worm due attention?

Dual British Australian national Timothy Geoffrey Lee has finally been arrested in Bali; it took some doing by the Australian Federal Police, though the AFP in Bali do not generally do much. Timothy Lee is said to be a drug baron, one of the narcotics king pins that Indonesia seems incapable if not reluctant to detain. But Mr. Lee's fate, or maybe not, came because the Aussies wanted their man for doing the nasty deed of putting drugs on Australian streets and having the audacity to flee Australia (clearly having received a tip-off) before they could nab him, a few miles to the western-criminal-on-the-run tropical paradise island of Bali.

The much trumpeted though tin whistle in effect AFP office in Bali, whose officers are charged with finding Australian criminals (drug barons, pedophiles, thieves, etc.) in amongst their unofficial island duties, finally got their man, or did they? And how come it took so long for both the AFP and Bali's narcotic police to do this?

Lee fled Australia for Bali on July 8th, 2006; the Australian Federal Police state this. So how come the AFP Bali only requested the Balinese police arrest Lee on the 9th November 2009? Over 3 years after! Seems the AFP officers in Bali were too worried about getting the final touches to their illegal villas just right!

And then, how come it took the Balinese police so long to arrest Lee? After all, there was an Interpol Red Watch order against Lee with the advisory "Warning: This person may be armed, dangerous and addicted to drugs"! Lee is in Bali on a long term visa! So he registered with the authorities and applied for and received a resident permit despite being on Interpol's most wanted list! How come a drug baron got a residency?

So then finally, after months and years of bumbling around, the AFP, Interpol and the Balinese police, best known for protecting and financially benefiting from narcotics proceeds than shutting them down, they finally caught Lee at his registered residence in Canggu north of the Kuta / Legian / Seminyak tourist strip where, it has to be said, many dubious expats live. I mean, if Lee had not been so good as to register, to get a visa and to stay at his registered home in Bali, how much longer would it have taken the combined forces of Interpol, the AFP and the Keystone Kops (POLDA) to arrest him? Wow, that really gives us confidence they can locate terrorists who are less considerate and "law" abiding!

Ah, but isn't this all a sign that Lee enjoyed Balinese police protection? That only when the AFP and Interpol drove these uniformed clod mafia to Lee's house did they arrest him? No? Well, let us look at a few facts and how the Lee show "must" now go on!

With all the drug barons in Indonesia, all the Interpol data and arrest warrants which exist for them, how come they hardly ever are arrested? Only mules like the Bali Nine (AFP tip off) and questionable mules like Schapelle Corby (probable AFP / Bali police set up) are arrested, along with undesirable Australian union leaders like Rob McJannett get theirs! With so many Bali street pimps / pushers to arrest, only those fingered by the Australians and a token number of set-up tourists dumb enough to buy from the police protected street dealers (who always, amazingly, manage to "run away" from the police) ever get nabbed!

Why? Because the drug barons are part of the Indonesian system of course; they pay bribes and receive immunity, most of the time, maybe all of the time, read on.

So what now of Timothy Geoffrey Lee? On an Interpol Red (the highest) Watch Order, considered extremely dangerous, arrest warrants and extradition proceedings from Australia made? Is Lee on the next (private tax payer funded) plane to Australia? Well, no, not quite. Lee denies being involved in drugs. He has appointed a chief fixer / negotiator "lawyer" (no such thing as a real lawyer in Bali) Erwin Siregar to come to his rescue; Siregar mired in many alleged justice bribery cases. The process will take around a year, going from one court to another, subject always to the inevitable bung of the Indonesian judicial [sic] system before ultimately, maybe, arriving on the desk of the Indonesian president to approve, or not.

All those Aussie tax payer dollars going to try and secure Lee's incarceration (itself tax paid); the failed arrest in Aussie (courtesy some bent police officer who tipped Lee off), the AFP holiday villa in Bali club, and now the legal and not so legal costs to bring Lee to justice. Ripper mate! Let's go to Bali and give those bar stewards some more of our money!

One small drop in the ocean, the ripples heard but unfelt amongst the scores of western criminals in Bali. A circus where the suspect stands accused by perhaps greater social whores; the AFP, the Balinese police, the Australian Government.

Indonesian Jails; chalk and cheese.

2010-01-12T20:49:00.008+13:00

Now, if you are nothing but a poor sold out Australian pawn like Schapelle Corby or one of the Bali Nine, Indonesian prison means a cramped cell, where you have to rent your mattress space from the cell boss, where the prison food is not fit for your dog and that is before the prison guards play their favorite game of urinating and spitting on it, where drugs are not just available but participation is required (to ensure loyalty to the thugs that operate certain financial aspects of your incarceration), where dengue and malaria and drug resistant TB are the name of the game (hundreds of inmates dying within their first 6 months of arrival), where you are raped or if even more unlucky sodomized by one of the cell bosses and / or prison guards and / or police who are infected with STD's at best, HIV at worse. You can perhaps start to imagine what an abuse of human rights just being kept in an Indonesian jail is.

Ah but then, if you are one of the lucky, chosen few, whose trials and convictions are all arranged with your consent in order to "show" Indonesian justice applies to all, a sham affair where you are guaranteed to be released upon appeal, then your time in an Indonesian jail is slightly different; it is a life of luxury and even freedom. For example bribery convict Artalita Suryani currently serving time at the Pondok Bambu Penitentiary, East Jakarta. Plus corruption convict Aulia Pohan, former deputy governor of the central bank and the father-in-law of President Yudhoyono’s eldest son, serving time at the Kelapa Dua Penitentiary in Depok, West Java.

These "special" inmates as they are termed by the Indonesian prison service have large well decorated rooms to themselves with wide screens, en suite bathrooms, special food privileges and even private entrances / exits to........., you've got it, the street outside. Why, lucky Artalita Suryani even has her own adjacent karaoke room! How lovely!

But do not bank on your luck turning up trumps if you end up in trouble with one of the most corrupt, human rights abusing police in the world, oh no! These luxury "Tommy Suites", so called because they are where Tommy Suharto spent his short amount of time after arranging and paying to have a judge murdered; these are reserved for Jakarta's elite [sic]. Corrupt members of the corrupt society that afflicts everyday Indonesians who get publicly caught out and with that need to be punished without being so; so Indonesia can claim it is fighting draft, etc. The fact is the whole Indonesian state system is corrupt from the top down, so they can not really convict these crooks unless they defrauded the state without consent, without being a part of the corruption pyramid scheme. If they convicted someone from within the ranks they might squeal, so they do a deal, and that deal involves spending time in a Tommy Suite until your appeal is guaranteed to acquit you.

Remember Marwoto Komar, the Garuda pilot who crashed his plane in 2007 crash at Yogyakarta airport killing 21 people. Remember how his legal fees were paid, almost certainly by Garuda. Remember how he wore his Garuda pilot's uniform to court even though Garuda said they had suspended and fired him? Remember how he left court having been convicted smiling, boasting he would soon be free. Marwoto Komar enjoyed a few months in a Tommy Suite and now he is free, acquitted as he predicted. Not only that, we learn he is to be allowed to fly again! So why did Marwoto Komar get the special treatment? Why, because state airline Garuda had a pilot's bonus scheme that caused the crash, that's why! Pilots were paid a bonus if they did not go round on landing a second time, because this saved fuel. About $20 is what Marwoto Komar is believed to have killed 21 people for. But Indonesia could not admit the truth so he had a sham trial and became a special inmate.

Of course first, in the morning of the 11th January 2010, Untung Sugiyono the Indonesian penitentiary director general denied any such luxury prioson cells existed. But as the news and evidence was already in the public domain, it was mearly minutes before both the Indonesian president and Justice and Human Rights Minister Patrialis Akbar admitted there were luxury suites at most if not all the main Javanese prisons, so as not to be caught lying themselves. But this is a road to nowhere because it is every bent official's insurance policy, and as every Indonesian official is bent the practice is hardly likely to change. The "We will do everything possible (with BS)" now starting with Patrialis Akbar stating there will be an investigation "But firstly we will review the level of violation"; ah, the good old Indonesian "review".

Remember this when you go to Bali / Indonesia. Remember what these scum bags get up to, often against foreigners like yourself. Give a thought to all those not so special inmates because their lives are hell. And boycott Indonesia, that includes Bali as well. You stop spending your tourist dollars there; you watch the changes!

Missing Australian federal travel warnings to Bali

2010-01-07T20:00:00.006+13:00

Following the debacle of the terror warnings for Bali on New Years Eve, given out by the Bali Tourism Board of all people (what they know about terrorism can be written with a water based felt tip pen on a plastic Australian five dollar bill) in the name of Made somehow now Mangu Pastika, Bali governor, former police chief, as bent as they come and who denies he made such a warning. We decided to look at the Australian Government's "Smart Traveller" advisory page for Indonesia (yes folks, that include Bali) and sure enough, the Australian federal mutts had repeated this unsubstantiated piffle from a bunch of drunken hoteliers on their site. It is not that we disagree a pronounced terrorist threat exists for Bali, it is just "What the hell are the Australian Government doing? Is this the extent of their expertise in assessing terrorist threats against their citizens?" It hardly gives you any confidence in their "system" does it? Especially as the garbage remained on their site until January 5th!

Anyway, we noticed many of the threats to Australian citizen's health and safety were not even mentioned on the Australian government's travel site. I mean we are talking about well documented factual risks here, not perceptions or wacko reports by Bali's hoteliers. So we decided to email the Australian Consulate in Bali to ask why their warnings were short on the risks faced by Aussie passport holders going to Bali. Of course we knew they would not answer and didn't, or rather haven't yet. Suspecting the reason for omitting these areas of risk was due to politics being more important then their own citizen's lives. Playing the Javanese game of silence, not responding to questions which show them to be frauds. Not able to deny the nasty facts regarding risks while in Bali. Only able to keep quiet, like thieves caught in the act.

We have put our questions below. Please, email the Australian Consulate yourselves and see if you can get them to reply! Their email address is Bali.congen@dfat.gov.au

Here is our unanswered email;

Hello
http://www.smartraveller.gov.au/zw-cgi/view/Advice/Indonesia
You do not warn Australian citizens about corruption.
You do not warn Australian citizens about having narcotics planted on them by police protected dealers and customs officials.
You do not warn Australians that Bali is a UN pedophile black spot and even luxury hotel crèches (where Australian children have previously been raped and infected with STD's) are not to be trusted.
You do not warn Australians that they should pay bribes to police or risk going to jail.
You do not warn Australians about the visa scam operated by immigration officers.
You do not warn Australians they could be jailed for complaining under Indonesia's criminal libel laws.
You do not warn male Australians that while homosexuality is legal in Indonesia, somehow sodomy is not, and they should only practice oral sex or face arrest.
You do not warn Australians that the UN has stated Bali's police commit torture including beatings, rapes and shootings.
You do not warn Australians that "policing" in villages is delegated by the POLDA to vigilantes and to be careful of ex-judicial problems.
You do not warn Australians about villa scams, where people try to sell them villas / land they can never own under Indonesian law.
You do not warn Australians that most of the luxury hotels in Bali, especially Nusa Dua, are owned by criminals (e.g. certain members of the Suharto family) and are thereby funding crime.
You do not warn Australians that you will sell them out like pawns if they get into trouble with the police / justices, even when these "officers of the law" act outside it.

There's plenty more of course.

You know, all the things the Indonesians do not want you to say.
Are you taking bungs?
Would like to know why you do not warn Australians fully.
R.S.V.P.
Mr. Bollocks

Bali Terror Threats

2010-01-03T20:15:00.005+13:00

If I can be accused (by the self-serving supporters of abuse in Bali) of talking bollocks, what then of the Bali Tourism Board's "well" timed New Year's Eve message; “The Governor of Bali Mr. Mangku Pastika wishes to share a message with all of us: ‘There is an indication of an attack to Bali tonight, but please don’t panic, but put your security system to full alert.”

I have some questions.
1) How come Pastika no longer calls himself Made Pastika like he used to?
2) How come Pastika's office denies he made this statement? Did someone make it all up or is Made Pastika mentally ill; he has been looking a little gaunt lately!
3) How come the Bali Tourism Board are now responsible for issuing terror threat warnings to the Australian Government, who repeated these warnings on their Smart [sic] Traveller web site?
4) Why would the governor of Bali issue terror warnings anyway, surely it should be the job of the Bali mafia police?
5) Isn't this 11th hour or rather 59th minute warning like Bali's tsunami warning system, a little too late to protect anyone?!
6) Where do you get one of these security systems the Bali Tourism Board speak of, so we can all turn them to full alert?
7) What confidence does this give you about the security in Bali if there is not so much as a credible warning system in place? The Australian authorities taking notice of a bunch of drunken hoteliers! The Balinese police being unaware of and predictably not responding to the threat?

Sounds like comedy central to me. Trouble is, it is your lives you entrust to these clowns when you go to Bali.

Kuta Bali, just another sex holiday destination

2010-01-02T20:05:00.014+13:00

Bali continues to show it is far from the tropical island paradise portrayed by the self-serving tourism industry, that it is just another tacky cheap thrill, cheap sleazy sex destination like Patong in Phuket, from which many parallels can be made.

Here now the case of 41-year-old female Japanese "tourist" Hiromi Shimada, brutally murdered in her holiday home in Moral Cesspit and Cheap Tackville on the Sea, Kuta. Two Indonesian male suspects arrested. A knife and a used condom taken as evidence; thank you Bali POLDA (police), we all wanted to know that! The Balinese police also allowing unlawful disclosures about "confessions" made by one of the two men to be released to the media; "I did not kill her! My friend was with her in the bathroom and then she come out covered in blood!" Was Ms. Shimada having a threesome? I doubt the Balinese tourist police (actually tourism industry police) will disclose this as it would be bad for business. The term "Kuta Cowboys" saved for the dribblings of Australian tourism blogs.

Just like the so called "Jewel of the Andaman Sea" Patong, a byword for prostitutes, garb, transvestites and dumb tourists, Kuta is a Balinese public toilet; cheap tropical destination for foreign men and women mostly past their sell by date looking for orgasm rather than organic. Surrounded by drones of "party" minded red necks and substance fuelled youngsters all somehow seeing the Kuta area as an experience to be enjoyed time and time again.

Perhaps it is the malarial mosquito infested water ditches around the outskirts of Kuta, Legian and Seminyak that attracts them? Or the police protected drug and prostitute peddlers that adorn every main tourist walk-by route in Kuta that makes it so charming? Or the polluted ocean where fishing is illegal because of the severe bacterial contamination courtesy of untreated sewerage? Or the rip-off, fake garbage sold in virtually every shop?

The police story about poor Hiromi Shimada now suddenly having changed. Gone from many Indonesian newspaper sites are the statements about a used condom being taken as evidence. Now the official line is the evidence points to her having been robbed and raped. Either way, it does not work, does it? If Hiromi was nothing more than the victim of a crime, what an awful yet typical Balinese investigation and police statement regarding a used condom being taken as evidence. On the other side, the statement having been made and documented, are we to somehow believe the rapists were so caring as to use condoms yet then go on to murder her? The truth for the sake of the tourism industry will likely never be known.

Where did you go for holiday?
Kuta Bali!
Urgh, good bye!

Addendum
Bali's mafia (police) are now saying Hiromi Shimada was a resident of Bali for 10 years, though it seems she was more a frequent visitor. Additionally, reports in the likes of the Bali Post are stating nothing of hers was actually taken, so the robbery modus operandi for the murder statement by the police seems to be very much in question, like most of what the POLDA say and do.

Indonesian prison deaths

2010-01-01T19:27:00.004+13:00

According to the Indonesian directorate general of penitentiaries, Untung Sugiyono admitted on Thursday that an incredible 778 prisoners died in Indonesian jails in 2009; mostly from "illness" (disease). 509 of these died within their first 6 months of prison life!

Indonesian jails are infested with malaria, dengue, drug immune TB, HIV / AIDS. Indonesian jails are overfull, packed to the seams against people's basic human rights. Crime in Indonesian jails is endemic; you have to rent the space on the floor to place your matress from the cell boss. Homosexuality and sexual abuse is above the world average in Indonesia; their jails are even worse. Prison food is designed to be inedible, infested, contaminated with prison guards urinating and deficating on it; not that it is wholesome to start off with. So prisoners need to buy food as well. The UN representative for torture has stated that beatings, rapes and shootings are frequently carried out in Indonesian jails by police, including Bali.

The Indonesian justice [sic] system is one of the most corrupt in the world where the guilty of Indonesia imprison the innocent. Indonesian police can and do fabricate reasons to arrest people where they can imprison them for 90 days (60 days with a virtually automatic extension of 30 days) without charge; 90 days to extract a false confession from a person which the police are renowned for attempting.

Remember this when you go to Bali. Think of the poor souls your own governments have sold out on like common whores (the Bali Nine and Schapelle Corby for example). Remember drug dealers are the friends and sponsors of Bali's corrupt police; so called officers of the law who run and protect brothels. Remember drugs can be planted on you. Remember false criminal charges for just saying what you believe can be brought against you.

Is it worth taking such risks to go to Bali? Is it right to engratiate the Indonesian dogs of Bali with your tourist dollars? Remember who actually owns all the big hotels in Bali. When you go to Bali you afflict the Balinese and sell out to the devil.

Indonesia's break up - Australia gives it 20 years

2009-05-06T18:06:00.009+12:00

At last Australia appears to be turning the corner of doting supporter of and accomplice in the illegal Indonesian state to one which realizes the break up of its neighbour is inevitable, within 20 years.

Unlike the Australian defence white papers of the past, the previous one being just ten short years ago, 2008's "Defending Australia in the Asia Pacific Century: Force 2030" makes four critical points regarding Indonesia. First, it no longer sees Indonesia as a military threat. Second, it openly debates the break up of Indonesia. Third, it predicts an increased Australian military role in "stabilisation", humanitarian and peace-keeping operations, like those in East Timor and the Solomon Islands. Forth, it discusses the potential for Indonesia to fragment either as a result of developing democratic transformation or from anarchy, revolution, Islamic militancy.

Clear then, Australia does not believe Indonesia, or what would be left of it, could be a major threat to western "civilization" one way or another. If Indonesia remains intact, which is unlikely given increasing discontent amongst its impoverished population forced to watch the world of plenty, it will continue to be a poor third world nation whose bloody military are stretched to their limits with the role of containing self-determination ambitions. If Indonesian Islamic Extremists come to power as is possible given the introduction of Sharia Law (AKA Anti-Pornography Law) and President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono's alignment with the radical Islamic Prosperous Justice Party (Partai Keadilan Sejahtera), then clearly Australia believes this would be the final straw for many Indonesians who would likely take to the streets in a popular uprising. If Indonesian democracy matures, then international legal rights such as self-determination will likely see all but Java and Southern Sumatra remain of the RI.

It is not announced in the political sense as Australia still tows the Jakarta line, officially supporting a "Unified Indonesia", though quite how unified the Papuans and others feel is another matter. It is simply part of the facts of strategic planning, which is a far more credible crystal ball then the rhetoric of any politician or federal officer. It is a fact a Unified Indonesia has three main beneficiaries; Jakarta, the USA and "Great" Britain. Australia would stand to clean up in a break-up of the RI, not least because of its strategic position, its expertise and fortunately, its willingness to put right previous wrongs, vis-a-vis peacekeepers in East Timor. OK, on that subject, East Timor is no paradise right now but why? Look closely and you will see the hand of Jakarta; another reason for wanting to see the back of Java as a substantial political centre.

I say "Bring it on, let's give it as many little legal pushes here and there as we can!". Let us boycott anything and everything Indonesian for starters. Wake up and smell the Java; who do you think you are financially supporting when you buy questionnably made or sourced Indonesian products? Whose pockets are you lining when you go on holiday to Bali; the Balinese slaves on minimum wage? If you claim to love the Balinese, help give them their island back. Hopefully then one day all the Australian and other "bule" foreign idiots who have sunk their life savings into properties they can never own (under Indonesian law) or even stay in their villas legally for any amount of time, hopefully Bali will gain independence from its historical adversary, vile Jakarta, and do what is right for the western money trees who are currently being ripped off.

Come on, think about it; making the world a better place, giving the regions of Indonesia their legal rights, telling Uncle Sam and its patsy British lapdog to go and stick it where to sun does not shine all in one foul stroke! Don't "Buy Buy Indonesia" say "Bye Bye, Good Ridance Indonesia"!

Indo Heath Minister Siti Jackass Supari

2009-05-05T22:17:00.007+12:00

Indonesian Health Minister Siti Fadilah Supari is not just a jackass but a fraud and a dangerous Islamic freak the world needs to see the back of, along with the Republic of Indonesia itself.

While Indonesian language TV programs broadcast outside (on youtube) but of course not inside the RI the fact Siti Fadilah Supari is not a true doctor as her phoney doctorate "Drs" title alludes, because she never went to university and her "degree" is conferred (bought), Islamic nutter Siti was spurting off her latest "research" revelations regarding swine flu.

First came her revelation that Indonesia was safe from swine flu because a) The RI is tropical and swine flu was from colder regions and would hopefully not survive in the tropics; the fact it emanated from very hot Mexico was somehow lost on this genius, and b) because Indonesians have different physiology's to non-Indonesians; you will not find me disagreeing on that score you dumb mutt but even if it were true, swine flu can and does jump species.

Then, former cardiologist and with that fact reason enough for never seeking medical help in Indonesia, the mad Muslim madam went on to blurt swine flu was man made, which by her definition means it did not come from Indonesia. Of course Siti is well known for her anti-infidel rhetoric about the origins of viruses, having previously claimed H5N1 Bird Flu was made as a weapon by the USA!

All this is fine for me except that it risks the lives of many Indonesians and also human beings; OK, OK, many Indonesians are human beings, just not Siti and her cohorts. You may remember Siti not so long ago tried to claim intellectual rights to H5N1, so she could make a profit from it; she even went so far as to stop vital infection samples being sent to the WHO in case some western pharmaceutical company made money from them! Then, because Indonesia's handling of the bird flu problem was so kak handed, the publicity of which being bad for pride and business, she blocked the reporting of new infections so the Indonesian tourism industry would not suffer. Like all bad news that affects pride and business in the RI, it is covered up. Thing is, what is worse? The Indonesian Health Minister for doing this, the foreign governments who do not warn their citizens of this subterfuge, or the dumb Aussie and other tourists who go to Bali because of a false sense of safety?

Kept quiet by the WHO this time and lost on most too is the risk of highly human-to-human contagious H1N1 swine flu becoming an unreported pandemic in Indonesia, like SARS was where Indonesia claimed never to had an infection while thousands of sick Indonesians went to hospital and never returned. The WHO is petrified, as they should be, if someone catches both viruses, that H1N1 swine flu could mutate with deadly H5N1 bird flu and then give the world something to remember Indonesia by; billions of people dead worldwide suffering horribly in the process.

This is why we need our governments to get rid of the illegal state of Indonesia, to ensure its people are given their legal right to self-determination, to get rid of the mutts and monkeys kept in power by a sordid blend of corruption and human rights abuse. With Islamic psychopaths like Siti Fadilah Supari running Indonesia's health system, surely people can see there is no future past death and destruction from Jakarta. Don't just boycott Indonesia including Bali to help bring on the end of this sick pariah regime, tell your politicians it is time to act against this human garbage. Indonesia militarily is weak and inept, how about some regime change down under? Annexing everything outside Java and Sumatra like Jakarta did in reverse in the 50's and 60's. Giving the people of West Papua, Sulawesi, the Moluccas and Bali some hope for the future, and the rest of us some peace of mind and good conscience. Come on, do your bit to get rid of Islamic wacko Indonesia and the problems it increasingly poses to the world.

Indonesian Corruption Commission - Antasari Azha!

2009-05-05T19:00:00.005+12:00

So Antasari Azha, chief of Indonesia's bogus KPK / Corruption Eradication Commission (bollocks), has been arrested for murder. It made the news, whoopee; people act shocked! But it is no surprise to me as Indonesia is a country run by murderers and fraudsters. The KPK is and never was anything but a political witch hunt organ for the truly powerful; able to investigate corruption against someone who is not flavour of the month on the basis everyone in the RI is as bent as hell. The only people the KPK are unable to touch being the Indonesian police and military of course, as these are beyond reproach despite being the most prolific and aggressive corrupters and human rights abusers in the archipelago.

So it seems Antasari Azha paid to have a businessman murdered because, wait for this, he was also shagging the same 22 year golf caddy girl. What pride Jakarta can take out of all of this. I wonder whether the powerful person who fingered Azha, because that is what it takes in a land where justice does not exist for everyday people, whether they somehow now regret the fallout from this oh so typical dirty laundry of a nation run by thieving monkeys.

So why put such a dodgy character seemingly with such an easily provoked desire to kill in charge of the KPK? Well, when you look at what is available from the ranks and vile of Jakarta's elite [sic], you really do not have much choice, do you! Do not believe for one moment Antasari Azha is someone different or worse in Indonesia; he epitomizes middle to upper class Indonesia. So many of its leaders wanted for war crimes, so many mired in fraud and corruption; hell, its the reason they want to be elected to head the government, police, military or important department, to make a lot of money and be what they were born, bastards.

The problem for poor Antasari Azha is not that he is any different to the rest of Jakarta, it is because he picked on one too many people while heading the KPK; he was a victim of a witch hunt himself. As one party decided to knobble another party's man by spilling the beans to the KPK, Antasari Azha is guilty of lack of balance and restraint, of playing one political group off against another, of never favouring any particular sect too much. He made the mistake of being a witch hunter too much and too often for one group, so another group decided to witch hunt him abusing the police to get their man.

Pundits will spout off this is a victory for anti-corruption in Indonesia, that Antasari Azha's arrest is a sign the system is working. The thing is, the system is working, but it aint the anti-corruption or judicial system, it is the age old Indonesian system yet again that is the player here. For the anti-corruption and / or judicial system to start to work you would need to see police officers and TNI (Indonesian military) officers being tried. Until that time, Antasari Azha is getting his, but not in the manner it should be dealt. Until that time anti-corruption and justice in Indonesia is just a load of bollocks.

Bali Bikini Bollocks

2009-05-05T00:57:00.008+12:00

Tourists will possibly, maybe get to witness only one aspect of the so-called and duly legislated Indonesian Anti-Pornography Law's impact on Bali, as this repugnant de facto Sharia legislation has been altered so as not to affect the valuable tourism dollars of course. What westerners will see are plenty of nubile to horribly fat western women in bikinis leaving nothing, often unfortunately, to the imagination, but what you will never see from now on is a Balinese woman in one. Why, in a bizarre and insulting prime example of how Indonesia violates human rights, Balinese women can and most likely would be arrested if they wore one; it is illegal for Indonesian women to wear bikinis in public but not foreign tourists! In the same manner, it is perfectly legal for tourists to wear flimsy airy clothes, tight fashions and kiss each other in public, but it is now illegal for the Balinese to do likewise on their own island.

OK, to be truthful, not many Balinese girls are so immodest as to wear such attire anyway, but they used to in small numbers and why not? Why? Because the nasty Islamic state of Jakarta wants to afflict its people yet again and in increasing form. It is not however the sad loss of seeing the occasional piece of Balinese totty in a g-string, it is the hidden side of this nasty Muslim law that should concern us all.

Many rural Balinese have no choice but to bathe in rivers. Many Balinese like to wear their traditional tight fitting dress. Many Balinese like to dance their evocative Jogged and Ramayana. Many Balinese like to hold hands and kiss their partners in the open air, sitting on the beach. Many Balinese girls like to show off their curves to attract the perfect partner. These things are all natural and part of Balinese culture yet are now all illegal. Did Bali's governor Made Pastika fight for the rights of his subjects when the bill was made law? No, he fought solely to stave off the impact on tourism. Made Pastika is not Balinese any more, he is Indonesian.

OK, in most respects, the law has not been enforced on Bali, but it does get abused like all ambiguously worded, selectively applied Indonesian laws. You see any Indonesian has the right to "sweep" for offenders, which means the Muslim minority now hold the ability to abuse the majority Hindus. Indonesia has a large enough problem already of young girls and boys being sexually abused and even forced into the sex industry, which is run and / or protected by the police, the most corrupt government officers in one of the world's most corrupt countries says Transparency International, so there is no legal protection. So now you can sweep for a vulnerable Balinese girl doing nothing more than bathing or wearing the dress of her ancestors and blackmail her into throwing her life away.

It does not happen? Yes it does, yes it does, yes it does! It may not get reported partly because of the shame, partly because going to the police only creates more problems, and partly because of exceptionally tight media control. But it is going on right now. Balinese girls are being abused all thanks to this evil Islamic law designed to destroy anything and everything non-Muslim.

But what the hell do we care? We can go to Bali for a few bucks, buy fake bling, shout profanities at the subservient smiling Balinese, act like Javanese, and hey, maybe even get a piece of the action ourselves; find ourselves a poor Balinese girl and blackmail her into having sex with us!

But the rot which has started will not end. The fact only nationalist and nationalist Islamic parties are allowed in Indonesia. The fact all politicians are sworn in with a copy of the Koran over their nasty heads. The fact the western governments and media's darling, President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono has now formally aligned himself to the Prosperous Justice Party, an Islamic organization with radical Egyptian links responsible for the Anti-Pornography Law and the banning of the Ahmadiyah religious sect (a peaceful law-abiding more liberal version of Islam). Yudhoyono and the Prosperous Justice Party are nothing about prosperity and justice, they are about Sharia Law.

Go ahead, have your cheap thrills in Bali, but don't bleat when the bubble bursts or even goes bang. Don't you dare say "Why didn't anyone do anything about it?". Your governments may be whores for the corporate buck and shortsighted short term regional political gain, but you do not have to be. It is easy enough, find somewhere else to go on holiday. Somewhere where you are clearly not just a money tree. Somewhere where murder, rape and oppression are committed with your holiday bucks.

Welcome to the new Bali BS - Important Notice

2009-05-03T22:11:00.007+12:00

After a year of silence from one of my favorite reads, Bali BS (The Bali Broadcasting Service), in April 2009 I heard the bad news the operators of this anti-Indonesian BS site were to close due to health reasons; I suspect the Indonesian military, police or special services were going to murder them (health reason enough). So I, who shall be nameless for obvious safety reasons, decided to copy their site (with the original owners' permission and support of course) and have a go at the Javanese and foreign "Anjing Kurap" myself!

All of the blogs on this site after this message date and time wise are my own work! All the earlier blogs on this site before this message are an archive of the original Bali BS. I toyed with dropping a few of them but decided to keep them all to be fair to Bali BS, may they rest in peace.

For legal reasons, after consulting with my lawyer, I decided to drop the original Bali BS site and methodology of emailing out a BS Update. Instead I decided to move the site to this blog and allow people to "follow this blog" if they want to in order to get notifications of when any changes or additional blogs are made. Apparently this is the safest way for me to ensure those who want to know the other darker side of what goes on in Bali and Indonesia get notifications without the Indonesian authorities being able to claim such notifications come under their jurisdiction.

To follow this blog, to get any updates, all you need to do is a) have a Google account (if you do not, open one here), b) log into that account c) and then just go to the bottom of the green column you see to the right and click the "Follow" icon. Following this blog does mean you agree with the content, so you should not worry about falling foul of the Indonesian goon police. However, if you are at all nervous, you can just check in on a regular basis of course.

“Justice” for sale (official) admits Indonesia’s top judge

2009-05-03T22:08:00.002+12:00

By Christian Bendover
Mar 5, 2008, 02:31

If you go to Bali / Indonesia after reading this, you deserve to be locked up.

Jimly Asshiddiqie opens his bank statement

Constitutional Court chief Jimly Asshiddiqie, Indonesia’s top judge and someone who wants to see Islamic and Indonesian law “harmonized” (so much for secularism in Indonesia), described the Indonesian judiciary over which he partly presides as “court mafia”, “judicial mafia”, “vultures” and involving a systematic “squeeze”; we would like to add “street dogs”, "Islamic hate merchants" and “cheap whores” Jimly. Ah, but there are bent judges everywhere the Bali piggy bank pundits squeal! True, but Jimly Ass (hiddiqie) admits in Indonesia justice is a “system everyone 'squeezes'”, meaning every police officer, prosecutor, court registrar and judge is bent and commits extortion against victims.

We knew and have been saying this for a long time; pointing out the fact that American installed Suharto deliberately created a totally corrupt system, where state officials were not paid enough wages on the basis they would commit corruption so as to support the corrupt regime. Bali BS previously publishing the fact that all Indonesian police officers, prosecutors and judges have to come from nepotistically acceptable families and pay bribes in order to be admitted to the whore rank and file; clearly, paying thousands of dollars to get an officially low paid job does not foster ideal conditions for justice!

Despite this, for years though, we have been receiving emails from self-interested (expatriate and Javanese) state “kupu kupu malam” supporters and had to read garbage from the likes of Dr Greg Barton, associate professor of politics at Deakin University Australia, claiming the Indonesian judicial system works in largely the manner its supposed to after Schapelle Corby was convicted on the basis of a bag of drugs the police manhandled so as to destroy the fingerprint evidence (editors note: we have never said SC is guilty or innocent, just that the investigation and trial were so seriously flawed so as to render the verdict unacceptable). For years we have read the ingratiating statements put out by western governments justifying the unjustifiable, all in the covert name of making large corporate bucks out of de facto closed bid contracts in Indonesia. So finally we can say, expatriates in Bali, Javanese leaches, failing hack reporters, western (US, British, Australian) governments, the Indonesian civil administration (AKA “government”), Australian Federal Police, wayward political professors and all; Nyepi day cometh and may it last a lifetime for you. The truth has been admitted at last by the highest authority in Indonesia and now we can all realise what this truly means for most foreigners in Indonesia; a good old judicial rodgering. Remembering that their duplicitous governments view them as sacrificial lambs if need be, injustice comes white washed by the western governmental spin they can not legally interfere in domestic Indonesian judicial matters. This all means you can and likely will be stitched up right and proper, and no-one is going to come to your rescue, especially in Bali.

You see in Bali, as well as documented wholesale judicial corruption, Balinese police, prosecutors and judges enjoy impunity from the KPK (Indonesia’s deservedly derided corruption witch hunt body for "in favour" politicians against out of favour state employees). You see, the KPK (Kash Pluk Kan) has publically stated it can not investigate cases of corruption in Bali, wait for this, because it does not have an office there! But do not doubt for one moment that those involved in justice for cash in Bali are not as bent as they come, vis-à-vis one of the Javanese prosecutors sent to Bali to represent the state in the trial against the Bali bombers, one Urip Tri Gunawan. Mr. Gunawan was caught red handed with around $800,000 (AUD) cash in his home which has been traced to super rich Syamsul Nursalim, whom Mr. Gunawan dropped charges in a state $3,000,000,000 (AUD) fraud case just two days earlier! Urip Tri Gunawan claims the money actually came from the sale of diamonds to unspecified buyers; as well as working as one of Indonesia’s top state prosecutors he also had his own jewel business! Of course the benter than bent Indonesian Government through their especially corrupt Attorney-General’s office denied the fraud case and stack of cash were related in any way, although how would they know? But then of course they would deny it, wouldn’t they, as this massive fraud implicates so many, uh, politicians!

Anyway, the fact is in Indonesia if you are arrested for an alleged crime that is not yet in the public domain, you can first pay the police off, although that may only get you an agreement for the police to withhold certain evidence. Then you can pay the prosecutor to file for the minimum possible criminal charges and / or to do a piff poor job in court. Then you can pay off the court registrar to lose some of the evidence on the day of your trial. Finally you can pay off the judge to hand you down a “not guilty” verdict as, by that time, the charges and evidence against you have hopefully been watered down enough. If the case is in the public domain and published in the media however, the cost and possible sentence you ultimately may have to serve will increase for sure. If the case becomes a political issue, as with Schapelle Corby, you can be certain you will be sent to jail as the government will tell the judges to convict you. However, although Indonesian prisons are notoriously bad, they do have some luxury jails in Java you can pay to go to, such as Tommy Suharto did when he was convicted of killing a judge, where the cells are like five star hotel suites complete with private street entrances, so you can pop out for dinner on the basis you are a good boy! Even if you can not afford this, local prisons regularly allow prisoners out for a few hours for a bung; hence the reason Australian tourist Elizabeth Short was recently able to take pictures of Schapelle Corby and her sister, Mercedes, at the Kebab Palace Restaurant in Kuta.

The problem past the fact this is not justice and does not work anywhere near as it should, despite what the sick western advocates claim, is that the Balinese police are crooks themselves and out to extort money from foreigners. This generally means finding foreigners abusing their visas and having their pimps (offering children for sexual acts) and drug dealers finger western customers for arrest and fleecing. Now and again of course actually prosecuting a hapless foreigner or two to show they are doing their jobs! However, it does not stop at entrapment, oh no; the Balinese police think nothing about planting “evidence” on foreigners in their quest to make money. Never believe it can not happen to you. Only last year the now former Czech Consul to Bali sent out a newsgroup warning notice that Bali’s police had recently planted narcotics on a number of innocent westerners. Police also implicated in the theft of belongings from luxury hotel rooms in league with the staff; when thefts are reported, the police turn up and take notes but then claim the tourist had not made a proper official complaint after the foreigner leaves Bali, so the police can not investigate the theft; this also helps keep Bali’s official crime rate figures down of course.

Naturally the police limit their crimes against middle and upper class western families staying at luxury hotels because that would be bad for business, and as most of the luxury hotels in Bali are owned by the Suharto family this would be a very bad career move to say the least for an officer. Naturally foreign expatriates are the first target as they have family ties and investments in Bali to prevent them from spilling the beans about how police officers extort money from them for make believe crimes. Next, visiting pedophiles and other sex tourists are targeted; be careful that lovely Indonesian girl you pulled does not turn out to be a police plant! Next, young tourists are targeted as their unforgiving western governments and media assume all are there to take drugs which to be fair many probably are. Trouble is when you are in a club and there is going to be a raid, who’s to say whether the person next to you is going to drop a pill or two or some powder into your pocket?

The court rules Muslims won, Westerners / Christians zero (chance). Kerching, kerching ($), Allah Akbar, all rise, all kneel.

It is not just the fact Justice is for sale in Indonesia, it is also the fact that Muslims are treated much better and given leaner sentences. This is why Australian underwear model Michelle Leslie wore Islamic dress and claimed to have converted, so she would and actually did get a lighter sentence. It is ironic though, instead of criticizing Indonesia for this bias that the self-serving western media lambasted poor Michelle, whose parents lost thousands of dollars in lobbying (yeh right) AKA extortion money to their Bali “lawyers”, for feigning conversion. Perhaps the western media hack reporters in Bali should spend less time attacking others and more time shoring up their own legitimacy though, as most are in Indonesia illegally having failed to register for taxes as is the legal requirement for any foreigner (editor’s note: diplomatic staff are exempt) staying there for more than a total of 2 months in an 12 month period. Just how bad this bias is towards Muslims and against westerners and Christians is perfectly illustrated by the executions of Christian leaders in Sulawesi (editor’s note: they were actually beaten to death by police officers before they could be executed) while Muslim thugs who beheaded Christian schoolgirls got off with light prison sentences. Also, just look at the fact that the Judicial Court of Indonesia denied members of the so called Bali 9 a judicial review of their death sentences because they are foreigners and therefore not entitled to the same constitutional rights as Indonesians, while the Bali bombers have been given two judicial reviews of their death sentences. OK, the Indonesian Government has probably politically decided that the Bali bombers have to be executed anyway, but the judicial process tells the real story of perverted Indonesia justice.

In any event, whether or not you are unfortunate enough to become the victim of Balinese police crime or not, the fact is it is widespread and disgusting. Just because western governments are prepared to sell their own citizens out while they are in Indonesia does not mean you should too; if you travel to Bali, you are selling out on those that get entrapped and even falsely set up in order for the bent Bali police and judiciary to extort money from. You are also funding a regime which discriminates against westerners and Christians. The only way to change things in Bali and Indonesia as a whole is to let the politicians play their duplicitous dirty games perhaps but for western tourists to demand change by voting with their holidays to other destinations. Please, do not ingratiate the mafia police, prosecutors and judges of Bali. Please do not put yourselves or your friends and families at risk. Please, boycott Bali, boycott Indonesia; if westerners continue to do this in large enough numbers, Indonesia will have no choice but to change. Do not think for one moment the Balinese will suffer if tourism to Bali dies; only the Javanese and foreign rats that feed off them will drown on the sinking ship. Please book your next holiday in your own country, in Thailand, in Malaysia, in Europe; anywhere but Indonesia.

Balibo – The British show just how ugly and bent their foreign policy is.

2009-05-03T22:06:00.003+12:00

Ah, so killing these five western reporters will actually earn me medals and guarantee me a political career, mmmm.

In November 2007 we reported that a decent, just Australian, Dorelle Pinch the NSW coroner, recorded a verdict of unlawful killing by the Indonesian military under the direct orders of Jakarta of a five man Australian news team in East Timor. These five men, two Australian, two British and one New Zealander were sought out by the Indonesian commander involved in the covert invasion, Captain Mohammad Yunus Yosfiah, now a senior Indonesian politician, killed in cold blood and then dressed in Timorese military uniforms to try and cover up their cowardly (is there any other Indonesian way) act. Dorelle Pinch braved the nasty flack from the federal Australian Government under xenophobic pseudo dictator John Howard who clearly wanted her to whitewash the event and sweep it under the carpet as Australia and Britain had officially done for 30 years already. It could be said Dorelle Pinch just did her job, but when you have so many powerful people and bodies corruptly doing theirs and trying to stop you from doing yours through nasty self-interest, this lady, make no bones about it, deserves to be held as a heroine and what all Australians should aspire to be. Not least she and the prosecutor involved referred the case to the Australian Attorney General with the recommendation Islamic state murderer Mohammad Yunus Yosfiah be required to stand trial for war crimes according to the Geneva Convention. If only justice were that easy, but first this has to be approved by an English speaking government!

So the clock is ticking and two and a half months and a lot of bucks passed and still made. The various Australian authorities playing musical chairs with the Balibo verdict hoping it is not them individually that is left standing and either having to tell hostile Jakarta they want Yosfiah and one other extradited, or the rest of the world they have decided to let Indonesia get away with state murder. Of course there are three governments all involved with embarrassingly murdered citizens, there also is Britain and mini-Britain (New Zealand) who along with Australia have been at pains not to admit to or deal with this diplomatic time-bomb for years. While New Zealand and Australia are still quietly, yawn, evaluating their positions and options, events in good old Blighty have taken a turn for the better and also worst. Step up our next hero, British Liberal Democrat MP Don Foster, who raised the matter in the House of Commons with a demand for Britain to have Interpol place an arrest warrant against Yosfiah to force New Tory (or was it New Labour, hard to tell the difference these days) Foreign Office Minister Meg Munn to respond; clearly something she would rather not do!

Muffler: Will a freebie to Bali fix things? A good deal on pensions maybe? OK, front row seats at the next Labour conference in Jakarta?

Megg “Muffler” Munn as she is becoming known, for muffling the sounds of “Hang on, the British Foreign and Common-welt Office are not doing their job, they are supporting wholesale human rights abuse!” vis a vis Iraq, etc. Muffler Munn and her cowpokes keen to point out they have no mandate to interfere with the domestic policy of sovereign nations, are unable to judge other countries’ judicial rulings, yet are somehow unable to explain how it is British foreign officials including two peers no less went paratrooping into the Sudan demanding the Sudanese Government release dimwit teddy bear loving blasphemer Gillian Gibbons from a special luxury (privaledged) jail cell a few day early except to say “They can not discuss individual cases for privacy reasons under the Data Protection Act”, even though everything was in the public domain; a case where Ms Gibbons, no matter how naively, did insult Mohammed which is a criminal offence in the Sudan, but was given a very short sentence and was treated exceptionally well. Yet Muffler was not prepared to send the “troops” into Indonesia for anything so trivial as pre-meditated state murders (war crimes) against other British citizens. Of course she is not alone in all of this, there at Muffler’s side is British Foreign Secretary David Wright Miliband, grateful for and busy with the wall-to-wall media coverage of how Prince Harry of Afghanistan is a hero (Harry’s words that he missed nothing in Britain and considered killing people a chance to live normally left retort free by the media), but now was the time to bring him home as the Taliban hoards might all come out from hiding and attack him (why not leave him there and use his presence to bring lure large numbers of the Taliban into a trap?).

Megg Mutt (editor’s note: in the political “pedigree” sense of course) Mundane and David Whitewashing Milibung showing their true colours when it was pointed out the FCO (Foreign Covert Operations) actually did have a published (on their own website) mandate (legal duty) both to protect British citizens from serious crimes overseas and to intervene with foreign governments committing human rights abuse and / or serious miscarriages of justice. It was actually one Mark Austin, public enemy number one of the Balinese mafia police (you may recall they placed Mark’s name on Interpol’s watch list as a suspected terrorist) in order to get his home address then in Thailand to give to old chestnut and suspected transvestite Jack Daniels (Bali Discovery Whores) to try and murder him, who pointed this out to Muffler and the Dulux Kid when the FCO said they would rather not ask the Balinese police to stop acting like the murderous monkeys they are. How did Muffler and Persil react to this? Why, they removed the statement from the FCO web site of course! Unfortunately for New Blairite Labour / Tories Munn and Daz, regular Labour MP Dr Tony Wright, Chairman of the Public Administration Select Committee, and Liberal Democratic Shadow Foreign Secretary Michael Moore MP made a complaint against the FCO on Mark Austin’s behalf with the UK’s Parliamentary Ombudsman no less; hmmm, no division of ranks in Labour there then! Unfortunate also for Munn and Miliband was the fact they left the FCO’s mandate on the recruitment pages of their web site thus quoted to and until, that is, the Parliamentary Ombudsman accepted this complaint against them and then it miraculously disappeared too, of course.

Anyway, Megg Munn having been confronted in the House of Commoners by those nasty liberals who want Britain to uphold the rule of law both at home and internationally, responded as only a Tory could; she agreed to meet with the families of the murdered Britons in private, of course, to discuss this terrible incident, 30 years of British cover-ups on! Recently declassified British government records adding hopefully to the list of things Megg has to discuss with the families of Indonesian state murdered British citizens Brian Peters and Malcolm Rennie, such as the fact Britain knew Indonesia planned to invade East Timor covertly a whole month before (oops) and that they told the Australian Government not to bother raising the issue of the murders at the time with Jakarta as it would be a waste of time; thus showing they knew it was murder all along and also they basically condoned the act, as in Peters and Rennie were both expendable pawns in the sick duplicitous British foreign policy game. Of course that was in the past and Britain funding Indonesian police directly (hmmm) with “soft loans”, BP and others being allowed to break sanctions to Burma and elsewhere by using Virgin Island subsidiaries, plus Tony Blair cancelling the UK’s Serious Crime Squad’s nearly completed investigation into corruption by BAE in Saudi Arabia, after the Arabian royal family told him to do it because they did not want to be exposed for what they are; these are all minor blips in an otherwise brilliant white current British foreign policy.

Do we think Megg is going to see the dead men’s families’ side of things; that justice has to be done, that Britain needs to file an arrest order with Interpol against the Indonesian TNI’s most decorated man and political leader? We bet no! We can almost hear the wobble from Mutt Munn now; Indonesia is a valuable ally of and trading partner with Britain; Indonesia is a fledgling democracy which needs our help and support (tear in eye); that was Old Indonesia, this is New Indonesia (a bit like New Labour of course); rocking their political boat right now could cause an Islamic revolution; many British jobs rely on a continued close relationship with Indonesia; Indonesia is a proud country and the shame of this has hurt them deeply already; President SBY has asked me to personally pass on his best wishes and official re-election T-shirts for you to wear on your way out to the press conference.

Of course the realities are slightly different than what Muffler is likely to tell them in an attempt to sweep yet another unfortunate (in the public domain) incident under the FCO carpet. The fact that Indonesia, if it had an Islamic revolution would do so because the people felt they had no other option, because the British, Americans and Australians saw to it in the 1960’s that no centre or left and no regional political parties were allowed. That Indonesia used to be a doting proxy colony of the English speaking axis of evil but that is changing; Russian military orders (causing Australia to spend yet more money on “defense”), Russian oil company contracts, massive Chinese civil engineering contracts, even arms deals with Israel, a country Indonesia say they do not recognize and want to see obliterated. Also too a statement that Indonesia wishes to share in Iran’s nuclear program! The thing is, the Indonesian rat is still a nasty rat but it has turned. Britain’s considerable corporate interests in the archipelago are at risk from competition! Gone is the red under the bed phobia which sparked the USA and allies into making the TNI their puppets and with it making Indonesia a pseudo colony. Gone are the sacrosanct corrupt deals solely benefiting major English speaking western corporations; the corruption is still very much there but now Indonesia has learned it can deal with the devils (China, Israel, Russia, France, whoever), so Britain is desperate for brownie points with murderous Indonesia; pulling up / upsetting Jakarta over Balibo would have the likely same effect as happened when they tried to pull Moscow up over Alexander Litvinenko.

The problem for Britain and its axis of English speaking evil partners can be best described by the old adage “You made your bed now lie in it”. In common with their nasty foreign policy elsewhere in the world while feigning decency, in 1965 Britain et all provided the Indonesian military with weapons, names of anyone center or left (Britain had massive intelligence from its time policing the area after WW2 and from Malaysia / Australia) and the green light (logistical support) for US favoured Suharto to remove democratically elected Sukarno from power in order to “save” Indonesia from communism. As with the US proxy war in former Soviet controlled Afghanistan, the western allies created a very nasty monster called present day Indonesia, without regional and / or central and left political parties; all that was and are allowed being right wing military (TNI) stooge parties like Golkar (Suharto et all), PDI (Megawati et all) and PD (Yudhoyono), plus Islamic parties such as the PPP (Muhammad Yunus Yosfiah), so now you know. Incidentally, Indonesia is not just undemocratic by fact it forbids certain political parties, it is also not a democracy because ultimately the TNI, who have their own constitution as protectors in all matters of the Republic, state the “government” is solely a civilian administration. So this monster created by paranoid and regional influence / massive natural reserves greedy western powers offers virtually no hope to its unfortunate citizens to this day. Therefore, should the house of cards collapse as it did in Iran for example, Indonesians have little else direction / option but to turn to fundamental Islamic leaders, as these are tolerated / exist already; vis a vis the fact Jemaah Islamiah has still not been banned by Jakarta.

In point of fact, the British Government is so keen to brown nose it with the murderous military and police of Indonesia, to get favours for favours, that it quietly provides what are called “soft loans” directly to these mafia in uniform, under the “War on (by) Terror” banner (editor’s note: Britain, Australia and the USA qualify under International law as terrorist states over their invasion of Iraq). Of course these de facto donations direct to the uniforms would otherwise be illegal! Never mind the fact the only actual anti-terrorist unit of the Indonesian police is Special Detachment 88 (Detasemen Khusus 88), or Delta 88, who do nothing expect arrest or sometimes bungle arrests when given the exact location of the West’s most wanted, courtesy of attendant AFP (Australian Federal Police) who work with and rely heavily upon the American CIA and their permanently parked surveillance satellite over Indonesia (BS Passim). White washed British Government payments to the Indonesian “Brimob” falsely described anti-terror (actually anti-independence) police, with their thousands of thug police officers, murdering people advocating separation from Jakarta as well as totally innocent civilians across the archipelago, hardly shows a British foreign policy able to take issue with Indonesia over a few “unfortunate” incidents involving their own citizens.

Truth is Britain is in such a piff poor economic state right now with billions of tax payer pounds poured into failed bank Northern Rock that political whores like Munn, Miliband, Blair and Brown are very nervous about any prospect of its major corporations BP, Shell, Rio Tinto, BHP Billiton, etc. being told their ever so slightly dodgily negotiated contracts are henceforth terminated for insulting the state murderers of Indonesia by calling them exactly what they are. Let us not forget the Arabian BAE Blair corruption fiasco and British citizens who “enjoyed” human rights abuse there, getting only lip service at home; Saudi Arabia very much the same “special friend” as Indonesia. The British Government right now very, very sensitive to the fact that city investors in Northern Rock shares, due to get next to nothing out of the bank’s nationialisation include pensions companies (with Labour’s private pensions “program”, to get the UK off the hook regarding already broken state pensions) and with so much pensions investment in BP, et all. Of course, if Britain and its foreign agenda friends had not created the Javanese Frankenstein in the beginning, their corporations likely still would be benefitting, albeit fairly from this region today but without the monster.

So then, Muffler Megg Munn, the mutt of the still somehow new (after 10 years) Labour party, is hardly “able” to do anything than her best to pacify the Balibo relatives. So let us hope the new Labour party of Australia might now show some class and application of the law for its own citizens regarding Indonesia. Or perhaps hitherto very quiet on this subject the New Zealand Government might like to see justice, not lip service and spin done. After all, the hate state of Indonesia is going from strength to strength and one day that hate, complete with a share of Iran’s nuclear program, may well explode into an Islamic state. Will never happen? Funny, that is what they said just six months before the US lackey Shah of Iran got his.

If you are Australian or New Zealander and have any humanity and decency, please lobby your respective governments to bring war crimes charges against Mohammad Yunus Yosfiah. If you are British, there is no point in lobbying either a Tory or New Tory (AKA Labour) government into acting; they absolutely will not. The only way Britain will change and for the better is for their Liberal Democrat party to be elected at the next general election, as this is the only large enough party in Britain (or perhaps England) who accepts British Foreign Policy is bent and will one day come back to haunt or worse the UK. If Megg Munn does not agree to instruct Interpol to issue an arrest warrant against Yosfiah, we say she is a mutt in every sense and anyone that votes for her party knowing of her failings has the same pedigree. Australia ditched goose step Howard and friends, if Munn and company do not deliver on Balibo, it is time for Brits to do the same to their little Nazis.

Until Balibo is given the justice it deserves, the best way to show Indonesia and in particular Yunus Yosfiah you do not personally support in anyway state murderers, is to boycott Indonesia (including Bali), boycott anything Indonesian at home and even boycott the corporations that ingratiate these Javanese street dogs. Please, tell the anti-westerner hate state of Indonesia and those that support them for a buck to go shove it where the sun does not shine, thank you.

Bali Tsunami Risk Heightened – Geophysics and Pirates

2009-05-03T22:05:00.002+12:00

By Lori Dengler and Ted Bryant
Mar 1, 2008, 13:29

Indonesian tsunami warning buoy: "Whoever has the mobile, call Achmed and let him know it is getting choppy out here"

It would have perhaps been the total irony of the century; Mother Nature, furious at mankind’s pollution based destruction of the planet and the lip service, no agreement made, expense account creating its own massive carbon footprint Climate Change Summit, sending a massive tsunami to wipe the lot of them off the face of the planet. During this particular UN sponsored farce, a 5.9-magnitude earthquake struck 261 kilometres south-west of the Bali resort of Nusa Dua. Had the quake been of the same magnitude as the Aceh disaster on December 26th 2004 just “up the coast” and on the very same fault line, perhaps 15 or even 20 meter high waves would have wiped Nusa Dua off the map just 20 minutes later. Of course most of the buildings in southern Bali would have collapsed during the quake itself with the massive tsunamis that followed just sealing the fate of anyone in the area who was not killed by the collapsing structures around and above them.

Although it is wrong to wish the loss of any life, perhaps the Balinese Gods themselves would have wished for such a tsunami at such a time. After all the delegates were insulting Bali by token of the carefully orchestrated segregation of manicured Nusa Dua from the realities of Bali; illegal effluence tips, refuse landfill sites so unable to cope that neighbours dump rubbish on neighbours, some of the most bacterially infected waters in the region, etc. Plus of course Nusa Dua is basically owned through theft by the hated Javanese Suharto family, denying the Balinese their legal rights by preventing them from accessing their own public beaches, putting so little money into the Balinese people’s pockets so as to make Nusa Dua a virtual suburb of Jakarta. With all those thousands of Javanese and Sumatran police and army officers sent in to protect the delegates, because the Balinese police couldn’t protect anything past their own corrupt greed. What a perfect opportunity it would have been for the Balinese Gods to literally wash the figurative filth off their hallowed, desecrated island. But it was not to be, the 5.9-magnitude quake perhaps a reflection of once proud, noble and strong Bali’s more recent Jakarta inflicted pacifism.

But this near miss for 10,000 delegates unable to make any decisions past their drinks orders, the thousands of attendant press hacks glad too of their expense accounts, plus over 7,000 murderous Indonesian state thugs with uniforms and badges, should count as a very big warning for western tourists with enough bad taste to ingratiate Nusa Dua with their holiday dollars. You see, recent tectonic activity in the region has been on the increase and Bali is officially recognized by the UN sponsored scientific team set up to try and predict quakes to be on the “red” list; surprise then the UN put their delegates at such risk, hmmm!

Of course the Indonesian authorities and very, very nasty Balinese travel agents lie to try and make foreign wallets feel safe about coming to Bali by claiming that the new tsunami warning system with buoys around Indonesia will somehow save lives on Bali, “forgetting” to add that any warning from such a tsunami producing quake as devastated Aceh in 2004 would only give holidaymakers 10 minutes warning they did not need anyway, as the massive quake would be warning enough! The island’s nastiest and most crooked travel agent, Jack Daniels of Bali Discovery Tours even sinking so low as to pimp a mobile text warning system to his customers from which he would earn a commission. The notion someone half dead buried under the rubble of their hotel needing a text message to let them know they would be drowned 10 minutes hence is a very sick thing indeed; apparently unless you belong to PATA (Pacific Asia Travel Association), a fee based marketing corporation, let not the name fool you. Fact is, if you are unlucky enough to be in Southern Bali when a major quake hits a few miles offshore, your survival chances are next to zero, period. The reason these tsunami buoys are actually being placed around Indonesia is not to be able to give people on Bali enough time to get to higher ground, but to warn countries such as Australia, The Maldives, Sri Lanka, Thailand, etc. of the massive killer waves coming their way in a few hours time, so they have time to clear their beach areas.

Past this, the fact is the Indonesian tsunami warning system is so flawed that residents of Aceh actually pulled down warning sirens last year. Why? The problem is that the Indonesian Tsunami Warning Bureau is incompetent to the extreme; they issue tsunami warnings anytime and every time there is an offshore earthquake reported irrespective of the magnitude, the depth (a very important factor) and / or the type of fault line; only certain types create the upward movement necessary to displace a large enough amount of water to create a tsunami. As a result, after multiple pathetically false alarms and a growing number of deaths through heart attacks and panic driven motoring accidents as terrified people raced to get to higher ground, many locals decided they would rather face a repeat tsunami risk then the Indonesian warning system! The Indonesian tsunami warning system was so piff poor, relying on some unqualified idiot issuing warnings solely based on earthquake occurence, and then only removing the warnings when it became clear no waves had hit the beaches! In fact, when tidal waves formed through tropical storms the Indonesian tsunami warning system failed to detect these with the result the waves made landfall and yes, killed people.

So how come these wonderful tsunami buoys did not detect these non-earthquake induced killer waves? Ah, here comes Indonesia’s next sorry admission; one if not more of these expensive tsunami buoys provided by the International community had been stolen! First came some pathetic wobble from Indonesia's marine technology research centre that an essential part of their buoy warning system had “gone missing” in the Sunda Straight; the supposedly tightly monitored waterway between Java and Sumatra. Then came a request from Australia to Indonesia to instruct their navy to help protect two such buoys they planned to place in International waters between the two nations from “pirates”. You see these “pirates” are in fact Indonesian fishermen who regularly flaunt the law and International boundaries to fish illegally in Australian waters. At the moment, denoting the modus operandi of all Indonesian government officers, the Indonesian Navy ignores fisherman going off to loot and pillage another sovereign nation’s assets. Not so of course for any unfortunate foreign fishing vessel they catch in Indonesian waters; vis a vis the time Indonesia’s most advanced warship was sent to shoot and destroy some Chinese fishing boats whose owners, Jakarta claims, had let their permits lapse.

So it is that one of the most corrupt and lawless countries in the world threatens the tsunami warning system which could save thousands of lives. Because law enforcement in Indonesia is nothing about upholding the law but making a dishonest buck, because everyone from the president down are virtually all thieving bar stewards, local Indonesian fishermen are sailing out to steal fish and “junk” metal they can sell at home. This is why Indonesia has one of the most accident prone railway networks in the world, because local vagrants remove nuts and bolts from rail sleepers to sell as junk metal; fact. Recently Indonesian fishermen pirates have removed automatic weather stations from Australian waters which later appeared for sale on an Asian black market! That is why Indonesia relies on some guy with a phone who pushes a button that sets off the tsunami alarms whenever someone calls him and says a quake was felt out to sea. A joke? Yes, a very nasty, sick one; the name of which is “Indonesia”.

Although the risk of a tsunami hitting Bali while you are on the island is remote, tsunamis can and will hit Bali sometime(s) in the future. Greedy Balinese travel agents spout off that the percentage risk to each person is less than being hit by a vehicle in their own country, but the fact is it is added risk; it does not replace the risks we all face in normal life. In any event, the fact the Indonesian government and tourism industry are prepared to lie to us while doing nothing about their own thieving fishermen are reasons enough to tell them to stick it. Please, show some class, wake up and smell the Java; boycott anything and everything Indonesian, including Bali, until the BS and worse stops.

Balinese Expatriates – where their next Indonesian caning is coming from!

2009-05-03T22:03:00.001+12:00

By Inspector Spanky
Feb 29, 2008, 02:20

Indonesian girl to be caned: "Bali expats, its your turn next!"

It is very hard to feel sorry for the vast majority of foreign expatriates AKA expats living on Bali, the most derided expat community [sic] in the world, where even Jakarta’s expats, who are hardly the world’s winners, call resident foreigners in Bali every name under the sun and with good reason (just look at the Indonesian Expat Forum). Bali’s expats comprising of ex-cons, western criminals on the run, pedophiles, losers (think about it, Bali is hardly commerce central), hippies, drug abusers, spiritual “la-las” (them that hold Bali as a cultural paradise while the Balinese themselves suffer), de facto Nazis (those who like to bully and abuse the local population in other ways) and OK, the odd decent western island life seeker as well. But you have got to feel sorry for this generally tasteless, sordid and often downright nasty group of people recently, as they get theirs!

First the immigration authorities in Bali started “clamping down” on expats who basically abused holiday visas employing so called “visa runs” to illegally live on the island. Of course the immigration officers are very flexible when they clamp down as it is very profitable for them as individuals to do so; ching, ching! Of course this was previously the extremely corrupt and woefully inept police’s main tool of choice to extort money from foreigners living in Bali, but when the immigration officers moved in on their profit margins by securing special visa privaledges for many expats, the police had to move onto their second most profitable extortion method, narcotics, and expand it. So many of Bali’s expats are “dope-heads”, a testament to their IQ in a country where possession is no misdemeanor and being caught with too much can result in the death penalty. But unless someone, an aggrieved associate perhaps, substantially fingered them they could at least continue their spiritual enhancing habit in the secure knowledge the Balinese police are so bad at policing they were unlikely to get caught. Ah but then the cunning Bali POLDA (police) came up with a cunning plan to compensate for the fact their officers couldn’t catch a cold, they began to plant drugs on foreign expats in order to extort more money from them in lieu of lost earnings from visa busts; oh yes they did, the (former) Czech Consul for Bali even sent out a newsgroup warning about this.

Next came news that the hotel industry in Bali, which is basically controlled by Suharto’s family and close friends, decided that falling profitable western tourist figures against an increasing western owned villa business market share had gone far enough. Fortunately for these Javanese hoods, excuse us, business people was the fact foreigners could not legally own nor operate holiday villas in Bali, despite the fact they had stood by for years and saw a whole very, very nasty real estate industry build up telling these poor schleps they could! So then, easy enough; have the authorities clamp down on these illegal villa operations by insisting they become registered and legal when they could not, then the hotels would pick up the tourists who could no longer book into these foreign “owned” villas. Of course the authorities tried to do all of this under the feign of legitimacy but accounts of back “tax” demands amounting to more than each villa’s worth showed it was nothing to do with getting these properties legal, but rather giving foreign money trees' wallets a good self serving caning. As more and more foreigners were forced to realize they could not own property and / or run an accommodations business in Bali, despite the fact the authorities still allowed the nasty real estate masses to say they could, foreign owned villa after foreign owned villa were and still are being forced to close down.

Naturally the taxation officials and police are very flexible towards foreigners who “own” villas in Bali if they receive a “little” backhanded cash incentive to be so; the problem being there is much less profitable independent western traveler type tourism coming to the "paradise" island these days, so less cash in the villa owners’ pockets to be able to afford this flexibility. Ironically and thankfully this hotel industry and let us not forget Jack Daniels of Bali Discovery Tours (he collected the initial list of illegal foreign owned villas for the authorities) sponsored nasty, jealous act backfired on the Indonesian tourism industry. You see, villa loving westerners were quite rightly a little disgusted about what was going on and decided to give Bali a miss altogether. Some of these quite naturally so because villas and rooms owned and operated by hotel groups and the Javanese are simply not up to the standard of those which were being closed down by the nasty Balinese authorities. In fact the act has actually cost Bali’s hotels more then it gained them. Now most if not all of the so called large luxury resorts in Bali are having to offer “down to the bone” packages to Javanese and Asian guests, reducing further their standards and luster with discerning western tourists. OK, western red necks and camera clicking, breakfast table Marlboro smoking Asian package tourists think they have a good deal, but they are not earning the hotels much money and are actually further putting the fat wallets off!

As a side story we wonder just how many of the Bali expatriate cuckoo brigade, the ones that have been there so long they even have given themselves Balinese names, are really aware of what lies down the road for them! You see many of these foreign wannabe Balinese males married local girls and then bought land and houses in their wives’ names. Ooops! Unfortunately Indonesian law expressly forbids any foreigner having a claim to land title in Bali, which foreign men would have if they subsequently divorced their Balinese wives, so the way the authorities got around this problem was to forbid Indonesian women who had married a foreigner to be able to own land after the marriage. Of course western women marrying Indonesian men do not have this problem as they have no rights as women under Indonesia’s nasty Sharia based laws to anything if their husband divorces them. Some foreigners recently realizing this problem have gone to the extreme of renouncing their foreign citizenship in order to acquire Indonesian citizenship, whereby they can own land. Trouble still lurks though for those who changed their citizenship to Indonesian (you have to feel sorry for them) after they / their spouses illegally bought land. You see, the previous land owner thereby has a claim to get what they sold back, gratis, and the authorities still have such documented events to come and extort a buck or thousands from them over!

Anyway, on to the next financial (extortion) caning for the west’s finest [sic] residents on Bali; income tax! Oh dear, did no-one ever explain to them that Indonesia has some pretty draconian, of course, taxation laws? Item one; Any foreigner who is in Indonesia for a total of more then 2 months in any given 12 month period must, repeat must register for personal taxes whether or not they are actually liable to pay tax or not. Tax registration involves obtaining a “NPWP” tax number; if you fail to do this it could well mean imprisonment for a maximum of six years (that is a long time in some of the worst jails in the world) and a maximum fine of four times the total amount of tax due (or a very big extortion bung). Item two: Indonesia taxes people on their worldwide incomes, including income (interest) from overseas investments / deposit accounts and pensions. So even retired people in Bali have to do this and likely pay taxes, which is not what they expected or rather are used to, especially as NPWP requires monthly tax office reports on incomes and various other financial activities! Of course even the dumbest extorting clod in Indonesian uniform can work out foreigners that have nice things and eat out have to pay for this from somewhere, so it is going to increasingly get very hard to avoid.

So bad official news then for Bali’s expats, given expats in Jakarta likely are registered for tax, from Djoko Slamet Surjoputro the Director of tax services at the Directorate General for Taxation. According to Mr. Surjoputro only around one in five of those people in Indonesia liable to pay income tax (earnings above 1 million Rupiah per year) are registered for tax and are doing so. Like many taxation systems, Indonesia taxes higher earners a greater percentage then the lower paid. Oh dear, those expatriates on Bali who almost certainly all earn over 24,000 USD per year are liable at the maximum rate of 35% of their worldwide income. So when Mr. Surjoputro says his office plans to increase tax revenues by over 25% each year, given one big fish feeds more tax officials than many little ones, given certain Indonesians enjoy favorable unofficial status and exemptions, where oh where can Mr. Surjoputro and his army of beaurocrats known for their laziness easily find some dishonest top taxation rate dodgers? That’s right, Bali and its expats!

Oh dear, oh dear, it looks like foreigners stupid enough to have invested their money into Bali on the basis it is easy going and somehow not Indonesian are going to get yet another particularly painful wake up lesson soon that Bali is very much part of nasty Indonesia. If you intend to spend more than 2 months a year in Bali, get ready to pay income taxes there and to pay someone to report monthly accounts to the tax office for you. For the first time ever expatriates are going to have to secure and keep receipts, account for staff salaries, investment returns (onshore and offshore), assets and “perks” such as vehicle usage and provide this every 30 days or so to the Indonesian tax man! Come on Bali’s expats, tell us what you think, is Bali still a paradise?

Never mind, you can always pay some bungs and / or play the Indonesian game, if you can get away with it like some! With most of the Javanese owned hotels in Bali operating “twin book” systems (one set of accounts for the tax man, one real set of accounts for the directors) and overseas collection accounts, there is some hope for dishonest foreign expats yet. Just look at Jack Daniels of Bali Discovery Tours! We have documented proof he wholesale avoided and likely still avoids Indonesian income tax, and his dubious travel agent company cheats on sales taxes (BS passim). But then Jack has “friends” in the police force and elsewhere that might cost him a few thousand bucks a year and multiple betrayals (be careful about what you tell or get involved with Jack) to maintain, so you had better be prepared yourself to sink to his level (stab others in the back) if you want the same privaledges in Bali.

Or, an even better idea is see the writing on the wall and avoid Bali like the plague. If you want some tropical paradise where you can stay all year and pay nothing on your overseas income, go to your nearest Malaysian embassy and ask them about their five and ten year multi-entry “Second home visas”. Tell Indonesia and its greedy, corrupt, dishonest, nasty government to stick their over-rated islands where the sun does not shine.

H5N1 – The Mad Haters & Hatters of Indonesia

2009-05-03T22:01:00.002+12:00

By Charles Lutwidge Dodgson
Feb 27, 2008, 07:36

I, President SBY of Indonesia support the theory God gave us H5N1 to make a profit from.

For anyone who does not quite understand what the fear is with H5N1 Avian AKA chicken flu mutating to become a human pandemic (worldwide epidemic) is, let us explain. In the late 1910’s, a chicken flu virus migrated to become a human virus and killed an estimated 50 million to 100 million people worldwide, that was 5% of the world’s population died with and another 15% suffering horribly from it but surviving. H5N1, which is extremely unpleasant and basically causes victims to drown slowly in their own body fluids, has a much higher mortality ratio than that, and as there are around 6,650,000,000 humans on the planet right now; this means H5N1 with the potential to kill 3,000,000,000 people would make Spanish flu look like a common cold. Spanish flu is reckoned to have come from the battlegrounds of the first world war where chickens were kept for food by soldiers in their trenches; a sick chicken with deadly avian flu infected a sick soldier with a totally different human variant of flu, the two viruses merged and so was born Spanish Flu. Indonesia is at risk from making a human form of H5N1 because so many Indonesians live in close proximity to chickens. In fact, Indonesia has subsequently developed the most virulent form of H5N1 and by far suffered the most number of human deaths from it according to official statistics which are known to have been falsified downwards by Jakarta.

Drs Siti Fadilah Supari, Indonesian Health Minister, Liar, Fraud, Anti-Western Islamic Psychopath

Dr Siti Fadilah Supari, our first mad hater and hatter, is an anti-western Islamic extremist and nasty, greedy Javanese woman who also unfortunately happens to be the Indonesian Health Minister. In late 2006 she ordered that the World Health Organization (WHO) be denied any more samples of H5N1 taken from victims in Indonesia. Why? Because Dr Supari claimed the particularly deadly Indonesian variant of H5N1 belonged intellectually to Indonesia. Although we might quip that a virus has about the same intellect as Indonesian ministers, what she meant and went on to expand upon was that she wanted to make profit, money out of H5N1 and expected the WHO and foreign pharmaceutical companies to pay for it, big time. Dr Supari withheld the samples for “bargaining power” on the basis they ultimately were going to make western companies money and that was not fair to Indonesia or more likely her own personal corruption siphon. Lost on Dr Supari, who apparently bought her degree on eBay, were the facts a) anti-virals are the least profitable area of pharmaceutical work with much being done as a community service, b) any vaccine would be immediately made available by the WHO to every country and technically appropriate pharmaceutical companies in the world, c) foreign governments and aid agencies currently pour billions of dollars into Indonesia by way of vaccine programs for things such as measles and the very nasty drug resistant TB (Tuberculosis) which Indonesia is the third largest sufferer from and relies solely on other countries goodwill.

Several times this Islamic freak AKA Indonesian Health Minister has promised to resume samples to the WHO but each time reneged on her word; that’s right, Dr Siti Fadilah Supari is not just a mad hater and hatter, she is a liar and cheat as well. Dr Supari wants to make a buck out of other people’s misery and is quite prepared to play at God, risking billions of deaths worldwide from a disease her own mismanagement has allowed to spread and mutate to a highly dangerous level previously anyway; the Indonesian Government lied about having H5N1, lied about culling chickens, lied about preventing the transportation of chickens and lied about the number of human infections.

But it gets worse.

Dr Siti Fadilah Supari keen to make some money for herself from H5N1 and currently being daunted by the fact there is no foreign H5N1 money to rip off from her own ministry, decided to write a book about it called “It's Time for the World to Change: The Divine Hand Behind Avian Influenza.” Her book is not just designed to make her some money, it is designed to stir up anti-western hatred amongst Indonesians stupid enough to buy her literary garbage by telling lies about WHO virus sharing and vaccine production, plus expone her very warped conspiracy theories that the west intends to make a biological weapon out of Indonesian H5N1 to potentially use against Indonesia! So now you know where a lot of these murderous anti-western Islamicists get their hatred from; their own government.

But it gets worse.

Next up comes our second mad hater and hatter; a former low ranking Indonesian major who only made general after he left the army (hmmm) and it is clear was elected in a wholesale fraudulent election helped by Suharto / Golkar (who he now governs alongside) on the basis he pardoned Suharto of all crimes (which he did); that’s right, none other than Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, the president of Indonesia. SBY as he is known is our second mad hater and hatter because he personally endorsed Dr Supari’s book and position over H5N1. Yes, the Indonesian president believes his country should make some bucks out of other people’s painful deaths, also God himself gave them this virus and that foreign governments want it to make a biological weapon! Shame the facts are different and any real degree holder would explain H5N1 is not an ideal subject for biological weapons, not least as it has not become human-to-human contaigent yet.

But it gets worse.

After International amazement, disgust and more hard to take (by the mentally impaired accused) ridicule flooded the media, SBY stated that he had withdrawn support for the book and had ordered Dr Supari to withdraw it from sale. Liar, liar, liar! First, the book started to disappear from shelves as anti-western idiots bought it and shops were not restocked because the book was undergoing some editorial changes, hmmm; not because it was being withdrawn. Did the anti-western element get deleted? No! Did the accusations about the WHO go? No! Did the falsehoods about how virus sharing and vaccine production / distribution go? No! Did the claim God had given it to Indonesia (certain Indonesians of course) to make profit from go? Why no! In fact it seems nothing seems to have been removed but some more text has been added, an introduction from SBY himself endorsing the author, book, statements and theories.

Enough is enough.

The world now has official proof of the extent of the anti-western hatred in the maligned minds of the rulers of the hate state of Indonesia. If you buy an Indonesian product, if you go to Indonesia and that includes Bali and spend some money there, you are not only putting yourself at risk of becoming one of the first victims of a human pandemic of H5N1 (in a country whose hospitals are not that good to say the least), you are endorsing the likes Dr Siti Fadilah Supari and Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, you are putting money in their nasty pockets and you are increasing the risk of furthering a viral Armageddon. We must all boycott anything and everything Indonesian which means stopping our own governments and self-centered massive corporations from lining their pockets too. The risk from getting de facto sole award contracts for minerals, oil and gas by supporting the Jakarta hate regime has become too great. If H5N1 kills half your family and leaves you crippled against a backcloth of decimated worldwide healthcare and infrastructure, will your slightly discounted gold rings, copper pipes and cheap holidays to Bali be worth it to you then?

Boycott Bali.
Boycott Indonesia.
Support the legal right of Papuan and other peoples to Independence.
Tell you governments to stop funding the mad haters and hatters of Indonesia.

Bali International Conference Centre; rats, not mice

2009-05-03T22:00:00.001+12:00

By Drs Sudarmaji
Feb 26, 2008, 07:08

Indonesian Anti-Corruption Delegation

MICE conferences and exhibitions are now the staple diet of Bali’s rat travel business which sees millions of dollars come into government and corporate travel agent pockets but next to nothing into Balinese pockets; most of these events are held at the “BICC”. The B.I.C.C. AKA Bali International Conference Centre is located in Nusa Dua, quite appropriately, in a very Balinese unfriendly ghetto area of land principally robbed from the locals by the Suharto regime using false / broken promises and well below market value compulsory purchase orders. Supported by and benefiting immensely from all this are the Suharto family owned / part-owned resort hotels, themselves on “stolen” land AKA Nusa Dua, such as the Laguna Resort and Spa, the InterContinental, the Four Seasons, Nikko Bali, Westin Nusa Dua, AmanNusa and Nusa Dua Beach Hotel, the BICC now is the focus of the rat pack Indonesian tourism industry to make a buck in the absence of many thousands of affluent western tourists who are boycotting Bali out of good taste and common sense.

Ironic then where independent western travelers vote with their air tickets to other destinations for Indonesia to reform its nasty ways that International governmental organizations like the UN should disgust their own staff and human rights organizations by holding very lucrative conferences at the Bali International Conference Centre, such as the immensely insulting Conferences for Climate Change and for Anti-Corruption. The climate change fiasco with polluting generators brought in, illegal effluence dumps near Nusa Dua hidden behind hoardings and the fact Indonesia is the world’s 3rd largest greenhouse gas polluter through illegal logging operations which are owned by or otherwise financially benefit senior politicians is well known. But for the UN to follow through with their anti-corruption conference in an area which is the corruption capital of Bali with master and host Indonesia one of if not the most corrupt countries in the world defies belief.

But it gets worse and should raise serious questions about the true mandate of the United Nations with any balanced person. At the start of the UN Anti-Corruption Conference the man the UN themself describe as the world’s greatest corruptor, Suharto, died and no doubt went straight to hell. Good news for the world and the conference delegates? Not really, you see Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono cancelled his place at the conference to attend an insulting (to humanity) state funeral for the man who is said to have stolen billions, been responsible for hundreds of thousands of state murders, and ruined the economy of Indonesia through corruption. Oh well, the conference was a week long shindig so “SBY” as he is known came the next day or day after right? No, no he did not. So here was a lucrative (for hotels owned by the world’s greatest corrupter’s family) UN anti-corruption conference allegedly held on Bali to support anti-corruption efforts [sic] there, yet whose president cancels to afford one of the most corrupt and evil men this region has ever seen a full state funeral, then avoids the conference thereafter out of grief or more like shame and to avoid the flack.

You see it gets worse and shows that Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono and the Indonesian “government” are actually just as corrupt as Suharto himself in that all the anti-corruption delegates at the BICC were forced to stand and observe a minute’s silence for Suharto by order of yes you’ve got it, SBY and the Indonesian Government. Delegates from around the world forced to honour the very man they had come to dishonour, while sleeping in beds owned by Suharto’s children and sipping drinks supplied by the murderous Indonesian military (TNI) owned local alcohol wholesaler (they supply all Nusa Dua hotels of course). Of course we could not expect anything better from mini-Suharto (SBY) as he clearly struck a deal with the "devil" promising criminal corruption charges would be dropped against his mentor if he was elected president; which he was and which did happen. What a joke? Yes, but a very sick joke and made worse by the fact it was all sponsored by the United Nations.

But it gets worse! These very, very profitable conferences are ultimately paid for by yes, you’ve got it, tax payers in the countries which sent delegates. Of course the ultimate insult that much of Suharto's billions came from extorting foreign tax payer's money poured into Indonesia by western governments will not be lost on many. What is more these delegates were further abused without their knowledge by the Indonesian government and Bali MICE brigade. First these conferences are misrepresented as “proof” that Bali is a safe place for normal tourists when all along the local highly ineffective Balinese police were pushed out of Nusa Dua so the Indonesian state police and army could protect these dear souls. Second, the delegates who typically made 3 round trip journeys each to their embassies in Jakarta and / or neighboring countries during the course of their respective conferences were abused statistically to falsely claim Bali’s tourism business was booming, not bombing as it really is. You see, every time each of these foreign delegates flew back into Bali even on a domestic flight from Jakarta the Indonesian Tourism Ministry and Bali Tourism Board counted these as foreign tourist arrivals! These falsified foreign arrival figures then used to try and make sheep out of foreign tourists, by attempting to fool them them into following the example and direction (to Bali) of the non-exitent sheep in front of them.

Yes sir, Bali International Corruption Central made some big bucks, useful faux PR and even managed to insult the foreigners they openly hate with these MICE events. We just hope that now, knowing the truth, foreign tourists with humanity and taste will continue to boycott the corrupt hate state of Indonesia (including Bali), not become unwitting sheep or worse lemmings at the hands of the wholesale dishonest Indonesian travel industry. Also that event organizers and / or even individual delegates will refuse to travel to Bali, sleep in a Suharto owned bed / hotel on stolen ground, drink a TNI supplied drink which profit pays for bullets, and sit in the BICC, the place which insulted the world on that infamous day on the 28th January 2008. Event organizers please, if you have any humanity, any decency, any class, take your conferences somewhere other than Bali. And delegates, if you are asked to attend a MICE event at the BICC or elsewhere in Indonesia, just say “No Bali way!” Do the world and Indonesians a favour; boycott Bali until the Republic of Indonesia respects human rights and international law.

Balinese Police – Bali the most lawless place on earth

2009-05-03T21:59:00.002+12:00

By Ahmad Subarkah and Erwin Chahara
Feb 25, 2008, 06:15

Bali's chief crime scene detective: The murderer knew Heidi. Um, they did not take anything. Um, it was a lewd act gone wrong. Um, oh ask the AFP, I can not even find my own banana! The USA, Britain and Australia pour how many millions into Indonesian police training?! Well I never see any of it and I deny selling reporters Heidi's personal items.

Bali’s police have to be the largest criminal syndicate on the island, with the Golkar political party’s youth wing with their narcotics and prostitution rackets second, and the TNI (armed forces) with their illegal alcohol and protection rackets third. But even allowing for the fact Indonesians only join the police force in order to extort money from victims, confirmed by the fact they themselves have to pay large bungs (bribes) to be accepted into the ranks to the most hated government institution in Indonesia. But even allowing for the fact, because of truly endemic corruption, they receive less law enforcement training then western traffic wardens. But even allowing for the fact all of the resources poured into the Indonesian police by western governments in their so called “War on Terror” going to “Brimob” police units who ultimately suppress and murder civilians seeking a better life (independence), not hunt down terrorists; proven by the fact the Indonesian terrorist group JI / Jemaah Islamiah have not been outlawed by Jakarta. Even allowing for the fact the Balinese police are nothing more then lazy thieving crooks. You would have thought, given all the hashes and balls ups the Polda Bali have painfully emitted in recent years, such as man-handling the evidence in the Schapelle Corby case which destroyed the fingerprint evidence which likely would have proven her innocence or guilt, you would have thought that the Balinese police would have learnt some lessons, be able to conduct something resembling a credible police investigation! But oh no, the Heidi Murphy murder gives credence to the age old insult “You could teach monkeys to do a better job then that!”

Heidi Murphy, an apparently good hearted hippy Australian entrepreneur was savagely murdered in her bed, that we all know, but let us not forget the series of gaffs both investigative and reported by the Balinese police which show them for exactly what they are; useless, clueless, inhumane thugs in uniform; one of the main reasons why Bali is such an unsafe place and why the true extent of crime in Bali never, ever gets reported. It is not just the fact Indonesians fail to report crimes to the police because their officers will then use this to commit further crimes against them; vis a vis the old Indonesian expression “Report a stolen chicken, lose a cow”. Nor because the fact the Indonesian authorities and government lie wholesale about crime in their nation [sic] as it is bad for business, as illustrated by the police’s blurt that they were surprised Heidi Murphy did not employ security guards as most western expatriates do in Bali; some low crime rate paradise! But one of the main reasons crime in Bali does not get brought to the western public’s attention is because it is conducted by the police and other state run and / or sponsored organizations themselves. But if one silver lining can come from the frenzied murder of Heidi Murphy, it is a catalogue of events and statements which show us what a nasty and useless bunch of banana eaters the Balinese police truly are.

First of all came the police statement that whoever killed 34 year old Heidi must have known her because there was no sign of a break in. They even suggested the murder could have been because Heidi owed money, which was a particularly typical nasty falsehood as it transpired she was an exceptionally kind person and prompt payer of bills. Plus of course the fact that she was discovered by builders who could not gain access to Heidi’s villa in Canggu to do some work as arranged, so jumped over the wall and discovered her body was somehow lost to the police, that the murderer quite likely did the same thing. Second came the fact that after years and years of investigating crime scenes and being lambasted for lack of their basic policing discipline, the Balinese police somehow still have not cottoned onto the fact you isolate crime scenes until experts arrive to preserve evidence, not walk around touching and trampling over everything, chests puffed out, hands on hips, revolver covers open, making pathetic exclamations as they apparently did yet again. Then came the clear inference that the police had both missed vital clues and allowed reporters access to the crime scene, or had taken a bung from western reporters to gain access to evidence when the Sydney Morning Herald tastelessly reported in this case they had “discovered a journal of love poems, which was confiscated by police”.

Of course the dubious and highly insensitive actions of the Balinese mafia police and cream of western reporters [sic] was not disguised or made any better by token of the fact the SMH (Sydney Mutts & Hacks?) published one of poor Heidi’s private poems describing herself as being “stripped naked and waiting”; the day after she was murdered for all of her friends, acquaintances and family to read. SMH's classy [sic] Bali reporter Mark Forbes, who has declined to answer our questions regarding his alleged financial interests in Bali, defended himself in an email to us basically admitting it was his theory this might have been a sex game gone wrong; "My assistant there spotted the journal and pointed it out to police, they said they were not interested (I think their English reading skills were not great). They had talked about their theory on the murder and after she read out some of the contents to them they then decided it was relevant evidence."

Mark Forbes AKA Sherlock Holmes claims he did not pay the police to enter the crime scene and man handle material which might contain fingerprint evidence; “Unlike some, we never pay bribes (even in Indonesia).” but has thus far eluded to name the reporters who do! When asked by us about whether he or any other SMH staff were now disgusted at what they published, to us a wacko theory designed to be nothing more than false sensationalism targeted at a moronic audience, published words which really must have deeply hurt Heidi Murphy’s friends and relatives, he replied “I'm not disgusted with what we published, it was based on what the police were saying”; the operative word being “based”. We understand Heidi's mother was understandably made very much more distraught then she was already at news of her daughter’s death by the rancid comments being spewed out by western hacks. Mark Forbes’ colleague in Sydney Alex Tibbitts admitting he was “struggling to fit in quotes from Heidi's mother” to SMH’s valiant news coverage on her daughter’s death, although we can only wonder what comments she made to Alex as they appear not to have been published!

Shame then on the Balinese police and western gutter hack media for falsely pandering to allegations of some perverted sexual act claiming Heidi was naked (who does not sleep "eu naturel" in the tropics) and may have been gagged when she was murdered, as subsequently dismissed by the poor girl’s mother. At least SMH can pride themselves that they did not sink as low as the local Balinese press who described Heidi as a “bule”, a derogatory term used for a Caucasian; nice! What a disgusting nasty world we live in; no thanks to Bali’s boys in brown and callous reporters who possibly even probably would be in jail now if they got up to such acts in their own country.

Then we heard the Balinese dummy police tell the world that nothing was taken from Heidi Murphy’s villa and that no knives were missing from her kitchen, so the assailant had to have brought his own knife to kill her. Well, how many people reading this would know if one of their own kitchen knives went missing or not? So how would the Balinese police know if one of Heidi’s kitchen knives were missing or not? The answer is, they would not, the Balinese just showed yet again they open their jaws and fill in the empty hot air as it escapes their clueless mouths as they bungle along. Subsequent news then that someone had been caught in Java with Ms Murphy’s mobile phone and laptop computer shows the Balinese police wouldn’t have known whether anything had been stolen or not unless the robber had been kind enough to leave an IOU note; what utter imbeciles.

Surely though, the Indonesian police are to be congratulated for catching someone with Heidi’s electronic equipment? Eh, no, you see it was not the Indonesian police that actually caught the person. Yes, the Indonesian police arrested the man, one Nuryanto Din Sudar at a central Javanese bus station, but it was the Australian Federal Police assisted by the CIA with their permanently parked spy satellite over Indonesia that actually nailed the fellow. Oh yes, and if ever one story demanded another, this is just such a case.

Shortly after the Balinese police had destroyed the crime scene and created a PR nightmare (bad for business), news came that two AFP officers were to “assist” the Balinese police in hunting down those responsible for Heidi Murphy’s murder. Of course, drowning in failing self-esteem the Balinese police went on and on about how AFP officers were simply there to lend assistance if required and could not themselves lead the investigation, they somehow left out the realities of the case; without real (foreign) police officers to do their job for them yet again, the Bali plod had less than a snowball in hell’s chance of ever finding the murderer(s) in what ultimately seems a very simple case. What is perhaps interesting is hapless Nuryanto Din Sudar was caught exactly the same way Bali’s bombers were caught and with it the complicity of western governments in aiding and abetting wholesale human rights abuse in Indonesia.

You see, once the AFP officers had found the crime scene to be damaged beyond repair with western reporter and Balinese police fingerprints plus boot marks everywhere, they had only to establish that Heidi’s mobile phone was missing to realize this was likely, in fact, to be a robbery gone wrong by stupid Indonesian thieves that did not know mobile phone signals can be pinpointed, although not by Indonesian police, that’s for sure. Although the murderer apparently sold Heidi’s phone afterwards, he made the mistake of calling his accomplice from it. When the AFP got the dummy Bali plod, who thought nothing was missing (duh) to contact the phone company, they were able to come up with the number the murderer called on Heidi's phone. In the same way the Bali bombers (Amrozi Bin Nurhasyim, Ali Ghufron AKA “Mukhlas” and Imam Samudra) were caught; the AFP obtained the accomplice’s mobile phone number, had the phone company report which land transmitter it last used (giving a vague geographical area), passed this all to the CIA who then monitored around that area using their satellite for this mobile’s specific signal and Bingo! Having pinpointed where this mobile was to within a few centimeters the CIA were able to talk the two AFP officers in to the person carrying that phone for the Indonesian police to arrest and claim all the glory for.

But “Hold on!” you say, “If the CIA and AFP can nab someone as easily as this, how come our governments are pouring money and resources into the Indo police, especially the so-called anti-terrorist police in Indonesia? What is the point? Where is all the money going?” Ah, but there is the nasty other truth about all of this. Western governments know crime is endemic in Indonesia. They know the Indonesian police are inept at best through corruption, at worst a large and direct part of the crime problem. They (the USA, Britain, Australia and maybe others) provide so called “soft loans” (loans that fund arms / training and likely will never be paid back) and other covert / dishonest funding to these crooks, because this loophole permits them to feed the corrupt state of Indonesia in return for favours for their armament mining and oil companies, plus of course ensure western friendly Indonesia remains an ally. Actually, the money they pour in gets stolen or worse, used by the very nasty Indonesian “Brimob” anti-terrorist (lies) police to hunt down and murder regional separatists seeking nothing but their legal rights, and with them innocent civilians. So the story of Heidi Murphy actually opens up a greater murder story and with it reason to keep away from Indonesia and do something about the duplicitous politicians back home who fund state murder overseas because they can currently get away with it.

Most westerners do not realize Heidi is just the tip of the iceberg though. As reported by the Jakarta Post in that same week an Australian and a Philippino tourist were murdered in Ubud. As reported nowhere, numerous Indonesians and Balinese were murdered that week in Bali at the hands of the police, the local mafia (Golkar youth party), local vigilantes appointed by the police to enforce the law [sic] in villages, the odd hit by a business or love rival (normally involving an off duty police officer to perform the assassination – the same week Heidi was murdered an improvised hand grenade was thrown at a car in Bali), and even the odd TNI murder; well, they murder civilians in large numbers elsewhere in Indonesia so do not believe Bali is somehow exempt. Truly, what a cesspit Bali actually is; unless you are an uncaring holidaymaker enjoying some smiling Balinese subservience and lucky enough not to become yet another victim. Just because your own governments and self serving media (we wonder how many western reporters have villas or other financial interests in Bali) put your safety at risk and make fools out of you by pandering to Indonesia’s Freudian need to be held as a real democratic country with low crime rate and effective police, these lies do not mean you have to ignore the facts and make fools and possible victims of yourselves.

We said earlier that Heidi Murphy’s murder was probably a simple crime, nothing too taxing for a decent, honest, diligent police officer, if only you could find one in Bali. And it seems this is true with news then Heidi was apparently the victim of an attempted roadside robbery, just yards away from her home a few weeks before. Shame the Balinese mafia police couldn’t have asked a few questions before coming up with their theories of lewd acts gone wrong, etc. Seems the roadside robbers would have been able to seen where poor Heidi ran to for shelter, her home. Of course because the Balinese police do nothing except contribute to crime, these men probably went on with impunity and perhaps the occasional police bribe to commit yet more crime, even Heidi’s murder.

So we all should be sorry for Heidi and her family but at the same time grateful her death was not in vain, that we can tell the story of how the Balinese police make Bali such a nasty, dangerous place to be. In the hope others will stay away from the island until a real government is in place which exercises the only option to turn around a wholly corrupt constabulary along with the judicial filth that supports them; replace the lot of them. After all, how can anyone ever enforce the law if they originally paid an illegal bribe in order to join the force in order to extort money from victims? That should be a problem alone for the Balinese / Indonesians, not decent everyday people like Heidi Murphy. Let us all learn a lesson; stay away from Bali, boycott anything and everything Indonesian until Bali’s police officers are all where they belong; behind bars, not in them.

UN confirms Bali’s police commit torture and other human rights crimes.

2009-05-03T21:56:00.002+12:00

UN confirms Bali’s police commit torture and other human rights crimes.
By Eric Ellis Fan Club
Nov 25, 2007, 07:07

Manfred Nowak, senior UN human rights monitor

After years of denying access to or otherwise obstructing the UN Human Rights Council, Indonesia finally allowed the special rapporteur on torture, Manfred Nowak, to visit the archipelago including Bali; Mr. Nowak’s report is unsurprisingly damning and confirms the Balinese police use torture and commit other human rights violations. Of course the level of brutality by the corrupt Balinese police pales into almost insignificance with what goes on in North Sulawesi and other regions, and it was of no surprise that this UN human rights monitor was denied access to the worse human rights abuse areas. Mr. Nowak said in summary of his visit “The problem of police abuse appears to be sufficiently widespread as to warrant immediate attention” and regarding police immunity “In all the meetings with government officials nobody could cite one case in which a police officer was ever found guilty and sentenced by a criminal court for ill-treatment or other abuse of a detainee.” Mr. Nowak visited Bali, Jakarta, Yogyakarta, South (not North) Sulawesi and a carefully stage managed short visit to West Papua.

So now every step of the so called judicial process in Indonesia, including Bali has been exposed officially as not just corrupt, but also illegal in that victims of unlawful criminal investigations and prosecutions are also subjected to human rights abuse, including beatings, yes beatings in Bali. In fact Mr. Nowak cited sufficient evidence existed to show the Indonesian police and jail officers used systematic beatings, electrocution and even shooting detainees in the legs as part of their regime of terror against human beings in custody. You may recall it was not that long ago Human Rights Watch detailed evidence of rape and murder by Indonesian police as part of their portfolio of interrogation methods, particularly in West Papua under the term of then police chief of that illegally invaded and suppressed territory, Made Mangu Pastika, former police chief also of Bali and governorship election contender; we will come to Made Pastika again a little later.

Foreign tourists in Bali looking at seafront land for sale on Uluwatu's cliffs

Anyone with an IQ above that of the threatened orangutans of Kalimantan not brainwashed with brand name “Bali” must wonder why the hell it is therefore that so many governments, expatriates and tourists continue to not just ingratiate this hate state, but portray it as a different form of legitimacy, with Bali somehow not Indonesia and a paradise. After all, the Indonesian state is estimated to have murdered more of its citizens in the last 40 years than Burma / Myanmar. Also the facts show that Indonesia is just as much a military dictatorship with the so called government in Jakarta simply a civilian administration "elected" within draconian political party limitations and wholesale election fraud. So why is Rangoon the subject of International condemnation while Jakarta gets praise, a seat on the UN Security Council, billions of foreign aid which the donating governments all know is subject to extortion and misuse by Indonesian murderers in uniform to commit yet more human rights abuse? Why is it the police in Bali commit human rights abuse and nothing is done about it expect for foreigners to describe the island as a paradise with a judicial system that is different but which actually works, when clearly the facts prove it is not and does not? The answer is easy enough; selfish agendas, de facto enslavement pandering to nasty untenable foreign tourism egos, self-interested foreign policy and consumerism. Some of which is already starting to backfire with threatened foreign owned villa closures, advanced Russian military equipment procurement and de facto Sharia law.

The ignorant bleatings and self-serving, falsehood purveying nonsense is clearly shown on virtually every foreign owned travel forum and blog for Bali, with the consumerist wolves in sustainable sheep’s clothing harping on how they love and are helping the Balinese by continuing to go to Bali with their bags of peanuts and chicken feed, claiming they have verified what they do and where they stay is 110% ethical and Balinese friendly, while all along they fund hotels owned by the Suhartos, drink alcohol supplied by TNI owned wholesalers and boast how they negotiated down to cost some tacky item from a poor Balinese market vendor who can no longer afford rice for the family dinner table.

Of course the mass tourism sheep are led there by their own government’s highly selfish foreign agendas, where political parties operate from donations provided by business entrepreneurs and major share holders, whose corporations make billions of dollars of profits from actual or de facto closed bid contracts from Jakarta where the true market value of what they mine or pump or do is never realized by Indonesia because a deal is done that benefits certain Indonesians only. Just look at how Indonesia involved foreign corporations like BHP Billiton and Rio Tinto can turn a downward Australian stock market back into positive territory; great for the major shareholders but not truly (despite the claims otherwise) of benefit to everyday Australians. So then the foreign governments pour aid into Indonesia, which they know gets filtered off through corruption, plus provide limited selective programs for the betterment of some Indonesians, while publicly endorsing Jakarta at home and on the world stage in order to pander to the crooks and hate mongers, ultimately to maintain and increase their corporate market share of Indonesia, Inc.

The foreign tourist sheep to Bali also have the particularly selfish expatriate community and western media to turn to for support of their consumerist needs for a cheapo holiday with smiling Balinese foot servants, pandering to their every “need”, while all along ingratiating and falsely purporting what they and their tourist dollars actually do for the Balinese. You only have to look at the average house and wage of an expatriate in Bali in comparison with that of a Balinese to understand something a tad beyond disparity exists. Oh, so the expatriate community is bringing something to Bali are they? So why then do they market “Balinese style this” and the main reason for coming to Bali is the people themselves? No, the spin, the yarn is there but the fabric is woefully missing. And it is not just about economic advantage providing grateful smiling slaves and a sick sense of superiority, while all along nosing a claim to love the Balinese. No, no; it goes beyond that, it extends to full blown Animal Farmism with the pigs in Jakarta at the top having learnt to walk on two legs, the dogs the local Indonesians (including those born in Bali with Balinese names and foreigners who have become Indonesians) that control the Balinese, the sheep that are the everyday foreign expats and tourists, with the Balinese the hens (if they are lucky) and other, lower ranking animals.

The foreign sheep, with reference to George Orwell’s classic, come to say and believe “Four legs good, two legs better”, a perversion of the law “Four legs good, two legs bad!”. “Above” the foreign sheep are the ranks of the middle class Indonesian blight plus the failures of / on the run from justice expatriates of Bali; the literal and figurative dogs of the island. The foreign sheep and dogs in Bali with their low IQ’s and / or plain selfish lack of humanity and corresponding sense of elitism, do wrong to the chickens and lower Balinese animals on the pretence they are helping them, while all along showing their clear contempt for others within their perverted misunderstanding of equality.

An example of a foreign Indonesian dog must be Eric Ellis, a nepotistic award winning reporter who contacted us in August 2005 in a clearly subversive attempt to establish the identity of Bali BS’s owners; you may see and realize we can not be identified as we and our families in Indonesia would be subject to human rights abuse at the hands of the authorities. Eric Ellis contacted us on the basis he was interested in what we had to say from a journalistic point of view after we published an article about Schapelle Corby’s unlawful investigation and trial, which of course also stated how the Balinese suffer under Bali’s notoriously corrupt police. To jog your memories we are neither saying Schapelle Corby is innocent or guilty; we do not set ourselves up as judge and jury as so many feel able. All we said and say to this day is the investigation was flawed (police tampering with evidence), the trial was unlawful (accused rights to a legal presumption of innocence not being observed and defense evidence being ruled inadmissible), and that under the letter of Indonesian and International law the verdict was therefore unlawful. It amazes us that in the EU, Australia and USA criminal convictions are overturned on the basis some of the evidence is later shown to be unreliable, while in Bali evidence that has been blatantly and massively tampered with is somehow admissible, and hacks like Ellis condone this.

Australian born Eric Ellis asked us to provide contact information without guarantee of confidentiality (a clear breach of his trade's code of conduct) but we decided to do a little easy research on him first, before even considering such a request. It transpired Mr. Ellis won an award for an article he wrote praising the Indonesian and Balinese police and judiciary for their conviction of Schapelle Corby. Ellis described the Australian people who supported justice for Schapelle Corby as “whingers” but somehow failed in that article to disclose he owns a villa in Ubud Bali and with it likely has some selfish motivation for such complicit civil and human rights betrayal. He also failed to mention that he has direct access to and values his relationship with none other than Made Mangu Pastika, and that saying anything other than the police investigation was legitimate would cost him that relationship and probably a lot more. Eric Ellis who no doubt feels safe with his Aussie passport and special pro-Indonesian relationships, probably never having to suffer corruption to any degree in Bali himself because of his media safety net, feels he is able to sentence another person to 20 years in an Indonesian jail in which the UN says they are likely to be abused; well, Eric Ellis truly is a dog n’est pas? Ellis even went on to deride Corby’s family and background as if to say she did not deserve justice coming from humble origins as any true blue Conservative come closet fascist might; Ellis less a traitor, more a born to be nasty nose lifter. So we declined to give him the honour of passing our personal details to his dog come pig acquaintance Pastika as you will understand.

We believe Eric Ellis is a very typical representative of the expat dog community [sic] in Bali given the text of his article against poor Corby. Ellis’ opening statement “The Bali expats and intelligentsia are disgusted by Australia’s racist reaction.” clearly showing he believes he is one of that intelligentsia, a contradiction in terms given Bali has only slightly better numbers of scholars than Antarctica. Also anyone that knows the real Balinese will also know they would never express any such disgust as Ellis claims; only the Indonesian dogs do that. Eric Ellis then going on to partially quote and therefore misquote a Deakin University professor as saying “The West, including Australia, has been at Indonesia for years to fix the corruption in their legal system and yet when it works in largely the manner its supposed to, we don’t like it”, in an attempt to legitimize the unlawful Corby conviction and law enforcement generally in Ellis’ new found sty. Congratulations Eric, we believe you have become an Indonesian with an Australian passport; bully for you pal. We are sure the no other option, grateful rice bowl to rice bowl doting Balinese around you add to your false sense of benevolence and legitimacy. We say you can not see beyond your own big fat ugly Tory nose and privileged position in the Animal Farm called Bali. We just hope the real Bali or should we say Indonesia will actually show you personally what it is about one day, and have no doubt you would squeal like a pig and then cluck like a chicken if it ever does. We hope your blue nose one day gets the treatment it deserves from real people, be they Balinese or Australians disgusted at your literary filth.

Of course the foreign sheep going to Bali despite the facts feel safe because of what the pigs in their own governments and foreign dogs like Eric Ellis already in Bali say. But hopefully as small rays of hope for the truth becoming increasingly offically made and therefore more widely accepted, like the report from the UN rapporteur on torture and the Balibo ruling by a decent and just Australian, Dorelle Pinch, plus a new Australian Prime Minister who has said he is there for all Australians and the people responsible for Balibo must be brought to justice. Hopefully, finally, self-interested hacks like Eric Ellis will shut the hell up and more foreigners will wake up to the fact that going to Bali does not support the Balinese in any way shape or form. You only have to look at Burma / Myanmar where western oil companies through offshore subsidiaries avoid sanctions and where western tourists still go on holiday despite the more open, honest coverage of that regime to understand uncaring consumerists with feigned ethics will still go to Bali. But hopefully, just hopefully, enough truth not selfish hogwash can be told about Bali to change foreign perception about the very real animal farm there, even if that ultimately costs Indonesian dogs like Eric Ellis their villas and their subservient Balinese staff. And hopefully, yes it has to be said, increased awareness will see justice, not police lynching and a kangaroo court rulings for human beings like Schapelle Corby.

The Indonesian hate state reconfirmed and exposed.

2009-05-03T21:54:00.002+12:00

The Indonesian hate state reconfirmed and exposed.
By Alfred Nobel
Nov 20, 2007, 08:08

Trained by the CIA and AFP, paid for with western tax dollars, anti-western murderer of civilians

Indonesia is a hate state today as it has been since 1949 when the USA and its puppets Britain and Australia decided to make axis war criminals rulers of an entire region in return for sole exploitation and political influence rights. President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono is a military puppet in a suit; a liar and a fraud. Where do we start?

In recent months and years the Indonesian civilian administration under Indonesian military rule, which poses as a democratically elected government but is not, has gone to great public relation pains to try and convince the world the murderous TNI are becoming an army, not the repressive terror unit we have all come to hate under Suharto, falsely claiming the TNI are now answerable to the politicians and the people of Indonesia. After Suharto was "removed" from office, Jakarta has been busy issuing statements that the TNI must separate itself from politics, which it claimed they substantially did when the TNI officially renounced its sole allegiance to Suharto’s Golkar party. Busy also telling the world the TNI was to get out of businesses in Indonesia without explaining how this was financially possible given only a third of the TNI’s budget comes from Jakarta; the rest comes from private enterprises, often murderous, mostly to do with alcohol, gambling, narcotics, protection rackets and prostitution. How disappointed Jakarta’s politicians said they were when the TNI only admitted to owning three companies that qualified under the set of rules they themselves had set regarding what constituted a TNI owned business!

To understand why we challenge Indonesian claims to having a true democratically elected government, why instead we say SBY simply presides over a civil administration in a military controlled country, you have to look at the facts, not what Jakarta, Canberra, London and Washington DC tell you. First, the Indonesian TNI has a separate constitution in which they declare they are the supreme or ultimate rulers of Indonesia. The so called government and president are elected amongst some of the greatest ballot box fraud in the world. Only a small number of political parties are allowed in Indonesia; these all have to be nationalist parties (no talk of independence or devolution). Regional, left of centre and non-Muslim parties are all forbidden either by the constitution or by default; the only regional party is in Aceh which came about as part of a UN brokered peace deal and only then on the basis they aligned themselves to (joined / partnered) a national party. Because becoming a politician is a “club” therefore, only certain people, namely ex-military officers are allowed to stand for office.

When former low ranking general SBY was elected as president amidst wholesale election fraud as reported by the monitoring NGO’s yet somehow the US election monitor declared as fair after having visited just 3 polling booths in Jakarta, it soon became clear he had been given the presidency by Suharto in return for pardoning the former president from all criminal charges once he was on in office. To the utter disgust of the International community, that is exactly what then happened of course. Despite this, SBY declared himself to be a reforming anti-corruption advocate. His promises about curtailing corruption now clearly show this was nothing but a false PR exercise with even the House of Representatives Ethics Committee being told they do not have the jurisdiction to do what their name says they do, plus the partially effective corruption court was, yes, closed down under SBY. However, it almost seemed that despite the limitations some progress might be being made in separating military from state control as Jakarta publicly talked tough about the TNI reforming.

Of course we should have known better and any tiny gains made in separating the armed forces from politics and business have just been dealt a huge stealthy blow; it was a ruse all along. Wait for this; the Indonesian Government is working on a bill which seems certain to make it to the statute books soon, for every Indonesian citizen to take part in compulsory military training and then to permanently be enlisted into the Military Reserve Component of the TNI. It goes beyond conscription; it is about forcing every man, woman and child in Indonesia into lifelong servitude to the murderous armed forces. Of course this bill will mean that even if the TNI officially is no longer connected with the political process, even if the TNI officially revoke their own constitution to release control of the country to the elected politicians, they do not. With this bill the TNI will continue to control the people and the archipelago but from a different angle. If every Indonesian citizen is to be made a military reservist, the TNI can call upon each and every one at any time and give them orders; including the president and politicians. Not just that, but the TNI will be able try any Indonesian civilian in a military court! No doubt though the inevitable subsequent International PR acts by the TNI to hand control over officially to the Indonesian “Government” will be heralded as a triumph of true democracy by the foreign office hacks of the English speaking avis of evil, but it will all be BS; the TNI will never peacefully hand over control of Indonesia.

To understand why and the way now should be very easy for you. The TNI hold sway over Indonesia; the military commanders are bloody and CIA trained in suppressing the population, keeping them from their civil and human rights. TNI generals go on to become politicians, and only generals and other TNI friendly lackeys ever get into office as the number and modus operandi of the political parties is controlled by, yes, the TNI. The TNI and the politicians are the main business owners in Indonesia, so they make vast amounts of money. They make money from business and from corruption; filtering money given by western governments for infrastructure programs, deforestation avoidance, tsunami aid, educational programs, etc. In return, corporations from certain countries get actual or de facto closed bid contract awards for the vast natural resources of the archipelago. Western politicians fool their electorate that they are striving to help Indonesians and improve the chances of a real democracy there while the corporate shareholders that benefit immensely out of Indonesia make generous donations to the political parties of these western politicians. Not forgetting the western media companies that control the news are owned by such wealthy corporate shareholders. A small number of very nasty Indonesians get rich and the egotistical lip service western political brigade along with the very wealthy western corporations get what they want. The only people to get cheated out of the equation are the vast majority of western tax payers and Indonesian people.

So western leaders have no true wish for Indonesia to change, nor do the TNI. The TNI being comprised of two main groups, the Islamicists and the Secularists creates the political rivalry you see in Jakarta despite the fact both sides are loyal, neigh subservient to the TNI. At this time the Secularists are the more powerful, but the Islamicists are catching up and therein lies the danger for western foreign policy and Washington et all know it. In a crazy situation where Australia is ultimately promoting the growth of a fundamentalist state that will one day threaten their own security, the Islamicists have made it quite clear they want Indonesia expanded to include Thailand and the Philippines.

Indications of the increasing Islamic militancy within the TNI and government is shown by the so called “Anti-Pornography” legislation, which in fact is a de facto Sharia law. This also explains why the terrorist group Jemaah Islamiah has not been outlawed by Jakarta and even, according to ex-President Abdurrahman Wahid AKA Gus Dur and others, that elements of the TNI helped the JI bombers commit terrorist bomb attacks in Bal in 2002 and 2005. When you understand Bali is a considered a “wet” (alcohol profitable) area of Indonesia, that the Secularist TNI element controls the liquor trade and Bali, you then can understand why these claims of military support from the Islamacist element within it against western targets is not so far-fetched as the pundits would have you believe.

Perhaps now you can understand why it is possible for western governments to not just support but sing the praises of Indonesia, while all the time Indonesians, generally, hate westerners. This fact was confirmed when thousands of polled Indonesians said that they supported JI attacks against westerners. It has also very much been confirmed officially now by Indonesia’s Constitutional Court in a landmark ruling that proves the Indonesian state itself is very much anti-western and that they deem westerners are beneath Indonesians in respect to human rights. Recently members of the so called “Bali Nine” on death row mounted a challenge to their death penalty at the constitutional court on the basis that as drug dealing does not kill people per say, so it should not carry the death penalty. All the western media reported the legal challenge failed but what they failed to tell westerners is there were two challenges. The first made by three members of the Bali Nine was dismissed without being considered on the basis that, as non-Indonesians, they were not entitled to protection under Indonesia’s evil constitution; civilized countries of course offer the same protection to foreign nationals. It was only because three of the Bali Nine were joined by two Indonesian women, also on death row for narcotics dealing, did the constitutional court allow a sitting to review the death penalty for this offence.

If you cast your minds back to the Michelle Leslie case, you will remember all the flack the underwear model received for claiming she was a Muslim. But not a single western media source we saw criticized the Indonesian judiciary for actually giving Muslims lesser sentences than non-Muslims; a well recorded and documented fact. As the majority of people reading this are not Indonesian and not Muslim either, they need to understand that they are socially and legally considered beneath Indonesians on two counts. So if a foreign Christian on holiday to Bali gets into trouble, they do not have anywhere near the legal rights they think they have and indeed should have. Why the hell would any person in their right mind want to go to such a country therefore and ingratiate such a hate regime with their vacation dollars? Answer: Because the facts are deliberately suppressed by foreign governments in order not to upset Jakarta, in order to keep their major corporations in Indonesia making billions of dollars for the corporate wealthy stockholders that donate the money that keeps their political parties going.

East Timor what commission?

We only have to look at East Timor today to see just how much official hate exists in Jakarta and the TNI. The so called “Truth and Reconciliation Commission” on Bali yielded no truths, no reconciliation and a boycott by the UN because it sought to pardon mass murderers within in the TNI. Even while this farce was being conducted, TNI soldiers were pumping bullets into the back of East Timorese stupid or perhaps unfortunate enough to try to cross the border into Indonesian controlled West Timor. Using the pathetic pretence that they needed more soldiers on their border with East Timor to stop the violence there spilling over their border, Indonesia actually put itself in a position to help the very people in East Timor who were causing the violence in the first place; the pro-Indonesian elements (former soldiers). One poor man trying to get back into East Timor with his motorbike after visiting relatives in Indonesian Timor was shot in the back after he had made the other side of the border. That bullet was quite possibly paid for by a foreign tourist in Bali buying an alcoholic drink as the TNI run the vast majority of the booze business in places like Nusa Dua. To this day Indonesian Government and TNI money ends up in the hands of so called East Timorese rebels; Indonesian “Wanra” (Perlawanan rakyat, people's resistance). So why the hell are western tourists with their stated yet untenable claims to ethics still going to Bali?

You, westerners, can not have it both ways. You can not go to Bali to “help” the Balinese (help yourself to a cheap holiday waited on hand and foot by smiling subservient Balinese pandering further to your pathetic egos by calling you “Mr. this”, “Mrs. that”, “Miss whatever” all the time) without financially supporting the very people that want to see you dead or turned into slaves. If you go to Bali you are a traitor to your stated values, a traitor to your country (along with your politicians), a traitor to the every day Indonesian people, a traitor to the people of the region, a traitor to your children, and a stupid fool. Do not go to Bali or Indonesia as a whole, do not invest money in Indonesia, do not send charity or aid to Bali / Indonesia as this only gets bled, do not buy anything made in or has material from Indonesia, stop your governments from doing it in your name, wake up and smell the Java.

Balibo, shame on Britain and Australia, you frauds.

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Balibo, shame on Britain and Australia, you frauds.
By Christoforus da Silva
Nov 20, 2007, 06:11

The Balibo verdict means any Australian, Brit or for that matter New Zealander in, going to and / or investing in Indonesia is a traitor to what they say they hold dear.

Mohammad Yunus Yosfiah, TNI hero, senior politician, coward, liar, fraud, murderer, anti-western street dog.

Balibo has nothing to do directly with Bali but very much to do with Indonesia including Bali and we believe constitutes a defining moment when Australians and to a lesser degree Britons and New Zealanders will either lie down and take it from the state murderers in Jakarta for a buck they will never receive at expense of their own principles, or when they will live up to them and boycott Indonesia en mass. We say Balibo and the sickening statements from Jakarta, Canberra and London that followed it gives any decent minded human being due cause to not just boycott anything and everything Indonesian, and yes that includes Bali, but to stand up and act like real men and women when it comes to election time in Australia and the UK. It is quite possible the next generations of Australians will ask one day ask their parents and grandparents if they ever voted for John Howard and kick them down the street if they reply “Yes”.

Dorelle Pinch, NSW coroner should be voted in as Australia's next prime minister

First though, we want yet again to praise the dignity, honesty and sense of justice of an Australian lady by the name of Dorelle Pinch, the NSW coroner who reached a verdict of unlawful killing in the case of Brian Peters, a British reporter working within a 5 man Australian news team in Balibo East Timor in 1975. All five men (2 Brits, 2 Aussies and 1 Kiwi), after 30 agonizing years of seeking justice by the friends and relatives, heard the coroner rule they were butchered to death by Indonesian “Special Forces” in a premeditated act of murder which constitutes a war crime on several counts under the Geneva Convention. Further these murders we committed at the obvious instruction of the very “government” Australia and Britain go to great lengths to this day to support for purely political and economic gain; the so called leaders of Australia and the United Kingdom put corporate bucks before the rights and lives of their own citizens. News of Balibo and the murder of two British citizens by the Indonesian state has somehow failed to make the news in Britain and if you seach the Foreign and Commonwealth Office web site, there is not a single mention of Balibo.

Brian Peters, a British reporter murdered in cold blood with another British journalist, 2 Australian reporters and a New Zealand pressman after surrendering to Yunus Yosfiah and his brigade of TNI cowards

Down under, it is abundantly clear the Australian Government and Federal Authority did almost anything and everything they could to prevent the truth coming out, stooping so low as to apologize to the former governor of Jakarta Sutiyoso when Ms. Pinch rightfully sought to summons him for his possible role in and to give evidence regarding Balibo while he was in Australia without diplomatic immunity. The Australian Feds not only allowed Sutiyoso off the hook (he got on the next plane and high-tailed it back to Jakarta like a guilty coward would) but instructed their patsy in Indonesia, the Australian Ambassador, to apologize formally to him for the incident. Even the Australian Defense Chief, Chief Marshal Angus Houston, inappropriately opened his fat mouth to stand up for his friend, yes friend Sutiyoso and with it showed decent Australians he was a sell-out, not fit for his job. It is very clear given the unusually long time between the inquest hearing and when Dorelle Pinch finally gave her verdict, after several delays, the Feds and their top string pullers Downer and Howard were pressuring her to tow the official line; that the Balibo five were killed in crossfire. Good on yer Dorelle, you hold high the principles many Australians only claim to have, while so many of your peers lied down and rolled over for Indonesia.

Alex Downer, the nastiest, most anti-Australian man down under today?

Now the case has been referred to the Australian Attorney General with a recommendation from Dorelle Pinch that those responsible be tried for war crimes, yes war crimes under the Geneva Convention. Trouble is for the decent world and Australians that Alexander Downer (Australian Minister for Foreign Agendas) has already given clear indication that if John Howard, he and the other traitors of real Australian people get reelected, the Balibo incident will be buried again. You see, upon hearing Dorelle Pinch’s verdict and decision to refer the matter for a war crimes indictment against God knows how many senior Indonesian politicians, remembering most senior TNI officers go on to become politicians (including SBY and Suharto), Downer quickly pitched in claiming the Australian Federal Police as well as the Attorney General would have to “see what the status of evidence is, whether there is sufficient evidence” for an indictment to be made. While the Attorney General Philip Ruddock was trying to pass the buck or rather hot potato on to someone else claiming “it was not up to him to launch prosecutions against alleged war criminals”. So it seems Howard and Downer are passing this to their friends in the Australian Federal Police; yes, the same guys who sleep with corrupt Indonesian policemen and have even trained the Burmese Junta how to track down dissidents so they can murder them. Thing is guys, a tribunal (court) has made that assessment already; this review process circus therefore can have no possible function other than to unlawfully overturn a lawful verdict.

John Howard, Indonesian lacky and jack boot liberal? Down plays Balibo, prattles on about lap dancers! We pray decent Australians will deport Howard, not vote for him

It seems the only hope for justice in this world in this case is for Australians to kick Howard and his cronies out of office and elect Kevin Rudd who has indicated he supports bringing a war crimes charge against the Indonesian military at the UN and / or Commonwealth, or for the governments of Britain (yeh right, they have towed the official Indonesian line all along) and / or New Zealand to seek justice for their murdered citizens. Be of no doubt Australians, if you vote for Howard in a few days time you will be lying down, turning over and sticking your ungracious behinds in the air for Jakarta, not Australia! It says it all that when you ask non-Australians what political party John Howard belongs to. The answer often, if they do not know for fact, is “Tory?”, “Republican?” or even “Far right”; John Howard can go down in history as the first ever jack boot liberal! Oh well, fascist / Nazi Hitler was a national socialist after all. But why are Whitlam (previously) and Howard (presently) so keen to sanctify the indefensible illegal hate state of Indonesia? Simple, because having a pro-western murderous regime with a civilian administration instead of a true democratically elected government suites the USA, Australia and Britain’s regional and corporate aspirations. But do not be fooled cobber, these things do absolutely nothing for the everyday men and women of Australia, they simply ingratiate the power mongers and wealthy corporate shareholders.

Anyway, what exactly happened in Balibo according to true Australian Dorelle Pinch?

1) Australia and no doubt Britain and the USA knew Indonesia was going to unlawfully invade East Timor; evidence shows then Prime Minister Gough Whitlam knew at least a full 2 days before the Indonesian forces invaded, yet did nothing to protect Australian and other Commonwealth citizens who might be caught up in it.

2) Indonesian troops dressed up as Timorese “Fretlin” defense volunteers, as they feared they might be defeated otherwise by a much smaller and lesser equipped army (the Indonesian TNI are probably the most ineffective armed forces in the world as they have been trained to control and even murder civilians by the US CIA).

3) The guilty Indonesian military detachment led by Yunus Yosfiah, now a respected politician in Jakarta, knew the Balibo news team was there and hunted them down with the explicit order to murder them. This was confirmed by evidence from the Australian Defence Signals Directorate which intercepted Indonesian military radio transmissions at the time from East Timor confirming to Jakarta that the journalists had been murdered as per orders.

4) The two Australians, two Britons and one New Zealander were murdered after, repeat after they had surrendered to the invading Indonesian forces.

5) Since that time, despite knowing what really happened, Jakarta, Canberra and London have maintained that the Balibo reporters were killed in crossfire, when in fact they were shot and macheted to death and Yunus Yosfiah both gave the command to kill them plus took the honour of firing the first shot into a defenseless western journalist at point blank range. It should be noted that the Indonesian forces could not even kill unarmed civilians without botching it as two of the reporters made it to a house for safety but were then dragged out to be hacked to death. The way they were murdered goes beyond state orders; it shows the Indonesian troops involved enjoyed what they were doing.

Why did Jakarta order its troops to kill the five Balibo foreign reporters? Because they did not want film evidence of their dirty cowardly tricks, such as dressing up as Timorese soldiers, or their wholesale murder of East Timorese civilians making it to TV newsrooms and Newspaper editor’s desks around the world. Jakarta had invaded East Timor under the false pretence that it was going in to save Timorese civilians, so it did not want the world to have hard evidence they were actually going in to do the reverse. Plus the fact the rulers of Indonesia, street dogs from Java, Sumatra and South Sulawesi hate westerners, especially Australians; do not ever doubt it.

Jakarta’s reaction to the Balibo inquest is they are irritated by something they see as an internal Australian affair. Even the military controlled murder state’s civilian administration chief Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono was quick to say that Indonesia did not accept the verdict, that the reporters were killed in crossfire and that it was a closed case which they would never look at; hmmmm. Opening up this old can of worms would show the world, besides the western politicians that support them and know already, just what an unlawful and illegal state Indonesia is to this day. You see, the TNI are never, ever going to allow their most decorated officer Yunus Yosfiah to stand trial for war crimes, especially when he was taking orders from even more senior officers and likely Suharto himself. Plus Mohammad Yunus Yosfiah, to give him his full name, is a member of the powerful People's Consultative Assembly and actually stood for election this year as chairman of the Muslim-based United Development Party, the third most powerful political party after Golkar (Suharto and Kalla) and the PDI-P (Megawati). Plus Yunus was Minister of Information in the Indonesian Government in 1998 to 1999 during which term evidence exists he was responsible for channeling government money to pro-Indonesian East Timorese militia groups to murder civilians (and peacekeepers) prior to the referendum, so his murderous ways lingered on and implicate virtually every powerful Indonesian politician in and out of office today. My word but if Yunus Yosfiah stood trial for war crimes outside Indonesia, every nasty piece of human garbage in office in Jakarta would be exposed.

Do not forget Indonesia still accepts no wrong in East Timor, both regarding the invasion in 1975 and bloody withdrawal in 1999, claiming no human rights violations were ever made except by the UN, Australia and Portugal of course. Do not forget Indonesia murders civilians to this day using the same tactics of blaming others and has never repeat never accepted fault over a single human rights abuse case, despite the fact Jakarta is reckoned to have committed more state murders than Burma (Myanmar). Do not forget the man Howard’s feds let off the hook and then sucked up to Sutiyoso, who was a senior TNI commander and reported to be involved in Balibo stands a good chance of being elected as Indonesian president in 2009.

So what are you going to do cobbers? Are you going to keep on sticking your pious noses in the air, making out Indonesia is somehow OK, pretending Bali is somehow not part of Indonesia, making out you have some high moral standing, falsely believing Howard’s jack boot foreign agenda puts dollars in your pockets while he dishes our his mix of almost racist domestic policies inciting the Neanderthals in you? Or are you going to kick Howard out and hold Rudd to his word (quote: "The people responsible for the Balibo Five murders in East Timor 32 years ago must be held to account") that justice will be done before your own children start kicking you? Because many analysts agree Indonesia is a time bomb and what the west has done and is doing is simply delaying what they created in the first place, making the inevitable explosion greater. So your descendants will have to live with the cesspit created by Uncle Sam with your help and which you are sustaining to this day across the Timor Sea. Howard and company deliberately make Indonesia out to be a potential military threat today, hence the need to befriend and massively financially support them. Actually tiny Singapore is more militarily capable right now according to military experts but murderous Indonesia has plans to change that and with Australian tax payers dollars no less. So the only reason for supporting Indonesia is to get a corporate shareholder piece of the stolen West Papua cake and closed bid oil and gas contracts around the archipelago, hoping the suppressed population will smile the theft by in perpetuity without grudge. Let us be candid, the everyday Indonesian people have every right and justification to hate Jakarta, the USA, Australia and “Great” Britain, and unless something about the illegal farce called the Republic of Indonesia is done soon, the bang when it comes will afflict Australia like no-one care imagine.

If you are British or Australian and you go to Bali on holiday or otherwise support Indonesia, you are traitors to your own stated values and your children. Do not travel to or invest in Indonesia until Brian Peters and his four friends are given the justice they deserve. Do not ingratiate the hate state of Indonesia with your dollars until they have fair elections, until the government runs the military (not the other way around), until all political parties are allowed (including regional, Christian, pro-Independence and yes, even socialist parties), until human and civil rights are respected and upheld, until those who committed state crimes against humanity in Indonesia are bought to justice and the victims compensated. Do not believe the BS that Indonesia is a democracy and ally of the west; they are enemies of humanity, despise foreigners (especially westerners) and friends only to crooks out to bleed the people of Indonesia of their natural resources and human rights. Do not vote for the foreign agenda cronies in your own elections. Cut off the money supply to the murderers in Jakarta and they will fall from power and the sooner the better for everyone’s sake, especially Australians.

The Bali Climate Conference Circus and Zoo

2009-05-03T21:48:00.004+12:00

The Bali Climate Conference Circus and Zoo
By George Smart and Joseph Glass
Nov 20, 2007, 06:06

Illegal forest fires in Indonesia and what they do.

Already the experts are warning the UN Climate Conference Circus in Bali in December will achieve nothing but a massive carbon footprint from all those extra unnecessary flights. The simple facts are the 3 main producers of greenhouse gases; the USA, China and Indonesia all pay lip service at best to the destruction of our natural environment, at worst as is the case with Indonesia, almost certainly deliberately causing pollution to make a buck from mega-profitable supposedly eco-friendly biofuels and carbon offsetting.

The latest predictions from the world’s leading climate change experts say that there is already enough carbon in the atmosphere to ensure sea levels rise up to 4.6 feet in the most vulnerable areas of the world, around the equator. So enjoy Nusa Dua while you can gentleman, for maybe as early as 2020 it will soon enough be Nusa Unda! And while they are there let us hope the delegates will have time to go to one of the beach fish restaurants along Jimbaran Bay for dinner, mmmm yummy, and see the thousands of dead fish washing up along the Kuta area coast right now; yes they are, the authorities yesterday had to stop people from going into the sea over health concerns.

But this fiasco gets worse, not least as it is being held in Indonesia, whose civilian administration government is screaming for financial aid at every opportunity, whose politicians are then personally pocketing the money they receive, whose businessmen supported by politicians are stealing land from villages around the archipelago to commit acts of illegal logging which get sold to western companies as timber from sustainable forests, to burn anything else to clear the land and destroy both wildlife and the atmosphere, to plant palm trees which do nothing except put the final nail in the coffin for the indigenous animals of the region, to produce palm oil which western corporations buy up to sell as biofuel in order to BS the world environmentalism is important to them. So villagers are having their land stolen, the planet and endangered species like the Orang Utang are being destroyed, foreign donations which were meant to stop all this are being pocketed by Suharto Inc. and the UN sponsored delegates coming to Bali to try and find a solution to all of this are staying in Suharto family hotels, while the UN puts Suharto at the top of their corruption blacklist; perfect!

Freshly deforrested and palm oil trees planted; big bucks for Indonesian politicians

Of course Indonesia, not Bali, is going to make a ton out of all these bums in beds during the current foreign tourist drought. Of which Indonesia’s tourism ministry plus their doting lackys and hacks are going to have a field day misrepresenting and no doubt claiming double the number of foreign arrivals to make it look like tourism congestion hiding the actual desert again, again, again. Of course this along with Bali Airport’s removal from the US Homeland Security blacklist, because US delegates could not attend unless it was, is currently being trumpeted by the PATA mites as “proof” Bali is now safe and a paradise once again for foreigners. Of course the 5000 extra policemen drafted in with clean uniforms and orders to shoot anyone resembling a bomber will ensure the only terrorists that get into the area are those with an invitation; no doubt this huge, massive amount of resource guaranteeing an uneventful conference will be heralded as proof Bali is safe again, although it never actually has been, even after the uniforms go home and the local plod get back to extortion as normal.

Not happy with wholesale stealing land from Kalimantan Dyaks (see: Indonesian Borneo), miss-selling the illegally felled timber, polluting the whole region’s atmosphere with black smog, to create bleak landscapes of nothing but palm trees, while all along taking large sums of money not to do just that from western governments keen to maintain their special relationships with Jakarta, the Republic of Indonesia is now seeking more money to steal this time mostly from its Arab friends. That’s right, after having secured and no doubt pocketed billions of dollars from idiot Australian, British and American tax payers, Jakarta is asking Arab nations to donate 50 cents per barrel of oil they produce! It is a fact that Indonesia knows International carbon credit and offsetting is a big bucks business and is expecting to earn a staggering $US13,000,000,000 from the Bali Climate Change BS Circus; that is on top of what they have screwed from western, especially Australian tax payers already (see: Indonesian Foreign Aid). If the Indonesian Government were legitimate, they would stop the illegal deforestation anyway of course, which is what it is, as it robs from the state and people. Just to give you some idea, Indonesia is estimated to lose 27,000sqkm of forest annually, the equivalent of a soccer field of trees every 10 seconds.

But the facts are that the relationship between politicians, armed forces and big business in Indonesia is so intertwined it is the damn suits in parliament that are guilty of the crimes in the first place. That is why the Indonesian Government [sic] will not stop the devastation even when they get their massive grants; because the politicians themselves are making large sums of money hand over fist from these illegal acts. What is more everyone knows that anything and everything Indonesia gets in International aid is subject to corruption on a massive scale with probably 80% of what they get ending up in the pockets of individuals and the Indonesian armed forces (TNI) that truly rule Indonesia. What makes this even more sickening is the TNI murder civilians including westerners using that cash and are now embarking on an ambitious military hardware acquisition program with their new “friends” Russia. Ironic then billions of Australian tax payer dollars go to Indonesia as environmental grants, get siphoned off and some is used to buy Russian stealth submarines and vector fighter planes which the Australian military then has to spend billions to counter; everyday Australians must be plain stupid to allow their government to continue doing this. While the everyday people of the Indonesian archipelago are choking on poisonous fumes, facing fuel and now food shortages as SE Asian rice production is beginning to drop dramatically due to climate change (yes, we know Indonesia managed to produce more last year but only with large scale chemical use which ultimately will poison the land), the street dogs in control of Indonesia make more and more money for themselves while threatening global security and the climate.

Proof that Jakarta has absolutely no intention or even perhaps ability to actually stop deforestation and with it smog or the abuse of other people’s land to produce palm oil comes from a recent sick joke of a court case against an Indonesian corporate logger Adelin Lis. Lis was the subject of an international manhunt and who was arrested in Beijing, then deported back to Indonesia for trial; pah! As head of the forestry Majur Timber Group and two subsidiaries, Adelin Lis was charged under anti-corruption laws with failing to pay forestry concession fees and compulsory reforestation funds. However judges at his trial ruled that the evidence was inadequate to prove anything other than "administrative neglect". Of course not coincidentally, when the police went to arrest Adelin Lis again to face further charges, he had disappeared, apparently with the help of the prosecutor who was meant to be trying to put him behind bars! What makes matters worse yet so all-telling is the Indonesian Forestry Minister, Malem Sambat Kaban, the man meant to protect the forests and recipient of much of the foreign aid to do so, wrote a letter to the judges urging them to drop charges against Adelin Lis. Even with the UN Climate Change Conference around the corner, even with Greenpeace’s Rainbow Warrior en route to block an Indonesian cargo ship laden with 33,000 tons of palm oil from leaving port, the clearly bent as they come forestry minister felt able to help Mr. Lis get off scott free.

The fact Indonesia is going to be one of the worst hit places in the world as the oceans continually rise, with action already to move Jakarta’s main airport because the existing one will one day soon be under water, shows just how little the greedy hate mongers in Jakarta care about anything, including tomorrow. They see a buck and want it; what comes next? The UN going to Bali to support Indonesia’s ailing tourism is nothing but a sad, sick joke which nobody but the same nasty extortionists in office in Jakarta will benefit from. The Balinese sure will not benefit past some extra labour need and therefore guarantee of a few minimum wage jobs for a week or so. The everyday people of Asia who account for two thirds of the world’s population and who will be hurt the most, with droughts, floods and disease, yes extra disease with global warming, with many of them migrating with government support to this day to coastal regions are going to suffer and big time. A conference in Bali of all places is not the answer; absolute accountability for foreign grants, international pressure to uphold the law and stop the wholesale rape of Indonesian citizens and forests alike, plus individual foreign tourists and investors saying “Screw you Indonesia” is what is needed. You think the weather patterns are a little crazy and problems with a malnourished third world are bad now? Just wait a few more years of unabated lip service foreign agenda and consumerism and see what hell we have already committed this earth; it will really spoil your ignorant pre-packaged day.

Just because western politicians work principly to fuel their large corporations, do not be taken as fools by them. Stop your governments from pouring your tax dollars into Indonesia with impunity all for the sake of short term regional influence and corporate shareholder profits. Do not go on holiday to Bali or otherwise pass more of your money to Indonesians, until this corruption fiasco fueled environmental massacre and anti-western hate program ends. For God’s sake, wake up.

Bali, health and safety bombs away!

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Bali, health and safety bombs away!
By Florence Nightingale
Nov 20, 2007, 06:00

Do not quaff, it is a fact.

Bali’s Airport is safe and has passed the US Homeland Security standard to coincidentally have its warning status removed by the Americans just before all the world’s delegates arrive for the UN Climate Change Convention, after the US airport safety team’s inspection earlier this year failed to get the warning removed; how convenient and comforting! Funny then The International Civil Aviation Organization has told Indonesia that its airport security is riddled with holes, primarily because Indonesian state-owned airport operators PT Angkasa Pura I and II are responsible for making the airports safe, while other countries give the responsibility to their state police. This on top of the fact that baggage theft and interference generally by airport staff is at an all time high with serious robberies occurring even at Jakarta’s own principle International Airport. The simple truth is that if Indonesian criminals can take things out of passengers’ bags, Balinese police and other terrorists can put things into tourist luggage. This not only gives due cause for an investigation into claims Schapelle Corby’s bag had drugs planted into it (which the Balinese police conveniently mishandled so as to destroy fingerprint evidence), but also raises the specter of JI putting a bomb onto an outbound Qantas or Singapore Airlines flight. Feel safe now?

So Bali is safe from terrorism now is it? Not so as it is revealed that Indonesian prisons have allowed terrorists to continue conducting business as normal from their own prison cells, even recruiting fellow inmates into joining the terrorist organization Jemaah Islamiah, which the Indonesian government still refuses to ban despite its claim to be fighting terrorism. Of course news that the security chief at Bali’s Kerobokan Jail is to face criminal charges for operating a narcotic’s operation at the prison should come as no surprise to people in the know, as Indonesian jails are the cheapest and safest places to buy drugs in the country. Generally Muslim fundamentalist and Golkar party youth wing gangs called “laskar’ compete with one another for the trade, so a prison officer turned freelancer was always at risk of becoming a fall guy; a PR exercise since Bali Governor wannabe Made Pastika said Bali’s jails needed to clean up their narcotics act after failing to do anything about it himself when he was the Polda’s (Bali police’s) top dog. Seems you can get anything you want if you are prepared to pay for it in jail; women, drugs, laptops, mobile phones; the grinning terrorist Amrozi even sells phone top up cards to fellow inmates! With masses of explosives still unaccounted for in Indonesia, this is not a time to take safety with complacently.

News that Indonesia’s airline businesses have all cleaned up their act has been taken with some skepticism worldwide to say the very least, as the Indonesians would say that, wouldn’t they? Smiling faces and confident statements from Indonesia’s air safety board regarding the EU safety delegations visit to Indonesia to review alleged improvements with a view to lifting the EU ban on any Indonesian airline flying into its airspace have become somewhat muted after comments from the EU came out that Indonesia still has improvements to make, plus no lifting of the ban has happened yet. Maybe it will soon though in good old diplomatic style, as Britain, France and Holland bellyache about how this safety ban may work against them in their efforts to compete with the USA, Australia, Japan and now Russia to rob the people of Indonesia of their natural resources.

The case of the Garuda Indonesia pilot responsible for the March 7th crash in Yogyakarta killing 21 people including 4 Australians pretty much shows what the problems are. The Australian Government has called for pilot Marwoto Komar to be prosecuted as he would be in any decent country (fat chance then). You see, Marwoto Komar ignored some 15 very loud audible cockpit warnings and yet he still went ahead and tried to land his plane at breakneck speed and at too steep an angle. The problem is though what the Indonesians do not tell you is Garuda had a bonus program in place to conserve expensive aviation fuel supplies, with pilots rewarded with a few dollars, we understand 25 dollars, if they landed their planes first time and did not circle around. So Marwoto Komar almost certainly went through with his gung ho landing because of this, and so the Indonesians do not want this going to court. OK, so maybe Garuda and perhaps other Indonesian airlines have stopped this practice, but that does not change the fact a senior pilot with Indonesia’s top airline would take such a risk. If his mental conditioning and state allowed him to take such high risks for a few dollars, what are the other pilots like and what would it cost to have one crash a plane into a tourist hotel in Bali for example? Do not quaff, Indonesian sources initially stated that Marwoto Komar had some form of marital problem at the time. The Indonesians now claim they have added ongoing pilot psychological evaluations, better management practices and improved pilot training, but how do you fix something that quickly which is clearly so corruptly broke? The answer is you can not, it is just more lies from Jakarta.

With airport security problems, pilot problems, budget airline aircraft safety, bits falling and breaking off their airplanes, plus previously reported wholesale ground control system failures in Indonesia, you have got to be brave or rather stupid to step onto a plane bound for Bali, let alone an Indonesian owned or piloted plane!

Even when you get to Bali, security, terrorism and violent crime risk is still way too high, courtesy of the corrupt in it only for extortion Balinese (most come from Java) police. This has all been confirmed twice recently, first when the Chief of Police told villa owners in Ubud he was not happy with them asking for police help to catch burglars and said the villa owners needed to improve security themselves. What this means and is reference to is how the police operate in Bali. As the police are only there to extort money from victims, they appoint “Pecalangan” (violent vigilantes, normally linked to Golkar) to actually provide “policing” on the ground. Of course being vigilantes the pecalangan do virtually everything but that, including summary ex-judicial murder and rape. The second confirmation came with news that Jakarta was sending 5000 state police and probably the same number of soldiers to guard the World Climate Change Conference in Bali, with the Balinese police being ordered out of the Nusa Dua conference area because they are so hopeless at actual policing. Sure, the airport and Nusa Dua are very secure during the conference, not that tourists can enter or get hotel rooms there, but after the UN circus has left it will be bad inept criminal business as usual for the mafia police of Bali.

Of course, if you get into trouble with the “police” in Bali it is better to pay a bribe / extortion money (fines without receipts) as soon as possible as the longer you leave it to pay off a brown uniform, the higher the required bribe amount will become. There is no point in turning to your consul in Bali either; most are as bent or afflicted as they come. For example some report the German Consul is involved with corrupt business deals with his partner, lawyer Irwin Siregar, while we hear the British Consul has himself likely been the victim of police extortion regarding his meal ticket (business) on Bali, the appropriately named “Cat and Fiddle” pub in Sanur; my how the British Empire has sunk! If you are principled or perhaps stupid enough to go to court regarding a crime you did not commit in order for some bent plod in Bali to relieve you of some weight (from your wallet), you will of course be delighted to know that Transparency International ranks the Indonesian Judiciary as one of if not the most corrupt in the world; as in “You may not have been at the scene of the crime when it happened but the witness that said you did it has more money and / or power than you!”. Plus the fact you, as a foreigner, are not as equal as an Indonesian, especially if you are not Muslim (see: Love Indonesia). Just how warped it has all become now is clearly illustrated in a recent statement by a senior prosecutor in an interview with the Jakarta Post. He moaned how it cost him personally US$4,400 in bribe money to get his own son appointed as a junior prosecutor, but held this up as a reason Indonesian justice [sic] is fair, because everyone has to pay bribes, even prosecutors (and judges). Of course the reason “people” pay bribes to become policemen, prosecutors, judges, senior army officers, etc. in Indonesia is because they know they will make back their investment and a lot more in what they can extort from other people.

Unfortunately it does not end there. Thousands of dead fish washing up along Kuta Beach give testament to just how polluted the sea is around Bali and how nuts anyone eating seafood there must be. Anthrax, yes Anthrax cases are being reported in Indonesia, dengue fever and drug resistant TB epidemics are sweeping Indonesia, Indonesia has the most recorded H5N1 human deaths in the world now as their health minister continues to refuse to share samples with the WHO because she wants some money out of this, malaria cases are up, illegal effluence dumping in Bali is on the increase, chemical use on crops is rising dramatically, the hospitals in Bali are ill equipped and often staffed by disgraced western ex-doctors who can not practice medicine anywhere else, seismic activity in the region does not bode well for Bali as the tsunami causing fault-line also runs just off its southern tourist beaches (Bali is an official red risk area), and a European consul has warned of Balinese police planting narcotics on westerners in order to extort money from them.

Bali is definitely not a safe place to take your family on holiday and the vast majority of the problems can be put down to corruption and anti-western sentiment. You see, Indonesian “policy” is not to address such problems, in fact their inaction makes matters worse; instead they use patronizing lies to try and cover the state made or worsened risks up. So, do not give your valuable tourist dollars to the Indonesians until they clean up their act and change their nasty attitudes. Boycott Bali and maybe one day it will become a safe tropical paradise island again, which it certainly is not right now.

Bali should be renamed to Pulau Kucing or Ayam

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Bali should be renamed to Pulau Kucing or Ayam
By Galina Frango
Nov 20, 2007, 05:58

The inhabitants of Pulau Ayam, formerly Bali

Bali is not Bali anymore; it is a foreign (including Javanese) summer home (“Rumah Liburan Asing“), where the inhabitants have lost everything except their Chinese made underpants. Once a proud and cultured island with feared warriors that defied neighboring Java; now nothing more than a begging bowl satellite of very nasty Jakarta Inc. The natives clucking and watching on as most of the money from the mega bucks generating tourism industry, which ironically and uncompassionately portrays the Balinese as the main reason for going to Bali, actually going elsewhere. Jealously seen too are the kings for a week tourists and dodgy expatriates in subservient “grin for a grain” land, as they throw the Balinese crumbs just as they do chickens. How appropriate indeed the term “chicken” for the Balinese has become; maybe the presently and inappropriately called "paradise island" should instead be renamed “Pulau Ayam”, or worse.

OK, OK, in the late 1960’s while hippies were smoking reefers on Kuta Beach and singing “Love, love, love”, Jakarta sent its murderous “military” the TNI to Bali to murder thousands of Balinese and suppress what was left; which it has to be said the Javanese soldiers did with great relish; butchering their old feared advisories with a smile. OK, OK, to this day the Balinese can not speak up against anything as individuals as they will be beaten to within an inch of their life, or worse. So they have had the living daylights kicked out of them by Jakarta while millions of foreign tourists have come, loved their passive façade smiles, thrown them a few crumbs and then left again. Some dopey foreigners have actually made Palau Ayam their home, squawking on how about much they love the Balinese, emulating a passive peaceful life which does not exist in reality, plus thrown the grateful smiles a crumb or two from their luxury compounds. Some nasty foreigners, often criminals on the run, have made Chicken Island their home, dishonestly bleeding huge amounts of money from the tourism machine, literally and figuratively raping the Balinese as they go. So sure, the Balinese have been knocked repeatedly to the ground, but that does not excuse their gutless lives; their ancestors must be turning in their ash piles.

With television and now the Internet making the world a much more difficult place for politicians, army and police officers and businesspeople to commit civil and human rights abuse with impunity. With Bali the center of so much media attention and with so many foreigners there to witness events, why haven’t the Balinese stood up for their corner like the students of Jakarta have for theirs for example? Isn’t it a fact the people of the island are no longer literally Balinese; they have become pussies. Look how the Carrefour Supermarket went ahead in Kuta even though virtually every local was against it. Why? Because the real owners are powerful Javanese with links to Suharto and the Balinese have become pussies. Look how the Javanese owned firm PT Restu Maharani demolished two Balinese temples illegally in a land clearance to build a hotel in Sanur and all the locals could achieve after "protesting" (of sorts) was a donation of bricks and cement to build some new ones somewhere else! What a joke that the Mayor of Denpasar was behind the act and no doubt being given a bung to act outside his legal remit. What a joke the lowest western travel agent in Bali, gay friendly and police corruption specialist John Daniels of PT Bali Discovery Tours claimed the outcome was a triumph of peaceful mediation and goodwill! Latest is the plan to build a huge development in Canggu and affect the river there, but all the inhabitants of Pulau Kucing (Pussy Island) can muster is mute dissatisfaction.

In the 1990’s the World Bank warned Indonesia not to allow Bali to develop any more, but the limits recommended then have already been doubled and more. New hotels with empty beds here, weird looking villas with stupid names appearing everywhere; Bali has become a resort with a car park from which the Balinese peck for crumbs. With pedophiles packing their knotted hankies and leg bindings and setting of for Bali, it has become the region’s child sex abuse capital; not that the Indonesian and Balinese are blameless as they make out either, just ask any Balinese child what happens at school and in the house of the village leaders! Recently, Bali has become so sick that numerous Thai lady boys have been seen in Sanur, imported in by local expats keen to practice their ever increasingly foul perversions without leaving home (Bali). Perhaps not coincidentally, these bizarre Thai lady boy appearances have been linked to our old fiend Jack Daniels.

The Balinese are now hatched to become subservient lackeys without hope past meager minimum tourism industry wages, or to become Indonesian, or should we say “Javanese” as the everyday people of Indonesia get nothing out of this nation [sic]. Prime example is former police chief and Bali governorship contender Made Mangu Pastika; born in Bali and now 100% Javanese. Oh sure he has a charming Balinese face and smile, but this guy was the police chief of West Papua before he took the top job at Mafia Polda Central! Do you know what the police do in West Papua? My God, they murder and rape victims as part of their standard operational procedure according to Human Rights Watch, so how is Pastika such a golden boy? Even the Balinese hate him because he banned cock fighting in Bali in an anvil to crack a nut operation to enforce Indonesia’s no gambling laws; strange that now Indonesia is going to allow gambling on Bintan (near Singapore) and maybe certain Balinese Resorts (hint, hint, those owned by the Suharto family), but the Balinese can not bet a few Rupiah themselves.

So when tourists go to dance performances of the Ramayana in Ubud or wherever with tales of fearless acts by the Balinese against evil dark forces, it is simply a history lesson being performed by chickens. Gone are the days of pride, Bali is now about looking cool smoking a highly addictive clove cigarette produced by a Suharto family company, stealing or perhaps it should be termed “kidnapping” their neighbour’s chickens when they have no job and need money for their motorbike to race along the road to nowhere. With no real education because the tax money still to this day goes to Jakarta, not Bali as was once promised, a young Balinese man’s best hope past a crumby insecure hotel job in a rich man’s world on his own poor island, is to get a job on a cruise ship where they earn 20 times as much for some strange reason. Just how is that exactly, Balinese workers on a cruise ship in the Caribbean or Mediterranean earn 20 times as much as they can at home in a hotel on Bali which basically charges the same as the cruise ship for accommodation? Of course a few and we mean a few Balinese will be accepted into foreign universities under special grants and programs concocted by western politicians to try and make it seem they are doing what they can for Indonesians, while subversively actually helping their own major corporations achieve closed tender contracts that rob everyday Indonesians of their natural resources. Bali is not Bali any more and is never likely to be so again, so let us all be honest and rename the damn island so at least we can be honest about what goes on and the reality of life there.

Please do not get us wrong, we sympathize with decent real Balinese. Some people might say their problem goes back to when the Dutch took over Bali as a colony, but the fact is the true Balinese spirit was not broken then as many of their number fought the Dutch after WW2 for independence. No, the real rot and mass culling of the Balinese came when the USA, Australia and Britain interfered out of self-interest and first forced The Netherlands to give up their colonies, while Britain kept hers, and then when the English speaking Axis of evil installed the murderous Suharto regime at the expense of the elected Sukarno government.

The ultimate problem for the Balinese to be able to realize and stand up against what is happening to them is very much down to tourism. You see, when the poor, defrauded people of Bali see foreign tourists from every country coming to their island, they of course believe that means the International community is for their lot, what they have, Chicken Island. The people of Burma take comfort from the fact the acts of their regime are not condoned by the world, but the Balinese are sold out and accept their subservience with every foreign tourist that arrives on their island. All they can do is look on and wonder how it is the foreigners are so fortunate and they are not; it must be “fate”, which is exactly what their culture and religion allows them to believe and therefore be abused by.

So what is it? Rumah Liburan Asing, Palau Ayam or Pulau Kucing? No matter what you call the island at least be honest that the indigenous people on it have no real hope and no balls left to change things themselves, of becoming proud Balinese again. So go there knowing everything is fake and phony or better still boycott the whole archipelago until the lack of foreign dollars does the job with Jakarta that the Balinese are no longer capable of doing for themselves.

Bali Tourism Board to compete for stand up comedian of the year award.

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Bali Tourism Board to compete for stand up comedian of the year award.
By John Graham
Nov 19, 2007, 08:06

Bali Tourism Board's Chairman off looking for foreign tourists on Kuta Beach in late May during record arrival figures. Unfortunately he was the only person on the beach as the foreign tourists were hiding in their hotel rooms to avoid having drugs planted on them by the Balinese police.

Here we go again, Bali’s tourism is booming according to the Bali Tourism Board and unofficial mouthpiece John M Daniels (PATAmite and falsehood purveyor of Bali Discovery Tours). “Record numbers”, “another record month”, “34.98%” up on the same period last year“, Arrivals Up +39.65% (but you just said….)“, “Bali raises the bar again”, arrivals up 30.2% (hmmm, just 2 weeks after it was claimed they were up nearly 40%)”; what a load of BS concocted with ever increasing ludicrousy in an attempt to save national and travel industry honour, plus to try and convince actual tourists that there are plenty of other holidaymakers in Bali in the hope of invoking the follow me sheep instinct. Bali is not alone of course, Jakarta still in late November drones on about or rather dishes out PR that 6 million people are expected to visit Indonesia in 2007, when the Indonesian Central Bureau of Statistics only in early November admitted they were way off and now could not achieve this figure; so why do the tourism hacks still throw this garbage up?

During the peak summer season this year photographs were published that proved both the tourism and security claims put out by the Balinese authorities were false when Mark Austin, who is on the Bali Mafia Police’s most wanted list, claims he was able to visit the island without interception for a meeting and took photographs of a deserted Kuta town centre and beach at midday, when the place should have been packed according to official figures. Despite the official boom in tourism, hotels, businesses and even Bali’s only airline went bust. The explanation in the face of a reality that Bali’s tourism arrival statistics were clearly a pack of lies? That they were, wait for this, a different type of tourist! Ones that stayed more in their hotels and did not venture out so much and stayed a little less longer than normal tourists”! Ah, so, all the thousands or even millions of foreign tourists were just hiding! No doubt they stayed in their hotel rooms to minimize the risk of becoming the next terrorism or police corruption statistic on the island!

Of course when there is an uproar of laughter from foreign travel agents, many of whom have either dropped or scaled back Bali as a destination, plus cries of disbelief from the poor Balinese tourism businessman, the pundits back off for a while and start droning on instead about how important the domestic tourism market is, until the coast is clear. The problem in citing the increased domestic (Indonesian citizens and foreign residents) tourist market though is it means much lower profits and brings unwanted attention to the fact foreign holidaymakers are charged around twice as much as Indonesians for the same room, which only boils the blood further of potential foreign visitors fed up as it is with paying taxes at home to be squandered through foreign grants on corrupt Indonesia.

The domestic arrivals diversion from the realities of tourism life on Bali also highlights another problem on the horizon for Bali; fiscal departure taxes. You see, in an effort to export more maids and other workers to foreign countries to earn and then send back home foreign currency, the Indonesian government is going to cancel the exit tax levied on their citizens when they leave the country. The flip side to this is it also makes foreign holidays more attractive to the average middle class family, who would otherwise get clobbered financially if they flew to Australia, Singapore or Thailand for their summer vacation. These middle class Indonesians would normally be booking into hotel suites and villas at knock down prices in Bali, but not for much longer. While Indonesia has fared the worst out of all ASEAN countries with a huge net loss in tourism, Australia for example has recorded record arrivals generally and of, yes, Indonesian holiday makers! While ASEAN countries generally improved their tourism figures by 29.08% in the four year period ending in 2006, Indonesia shed 24.97% off its market share! But of course Bali is booming; just not the kind of “boom” their tourist board want you to think about though!

At the end of this year of course no mention will be found about how Indonesia failed to achieve the tourism targets they set and repeatedly lauded for 2007; focus will then shift to the 2008 tourism debacle. Bad omens exist for this already as after threatening to sue Kuala Lumpur for using “Truly Asia” in Malaysia’s tourism slogan (Jakarta claimed this was originally an Indonesian expression), Indonesia has now almost copied Thailand’s former slogan with “Smile, It's Visit Indonesia Year (2008)”. Of course the reason President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono decided on this particular message was nothing to do with stealing from Thailand, in fact he hopes to attract more visitors from Siam! Actually, plenty already visit Bali as there has been a considerable number of Thai lady boys (transvestites) in Sanur recently to service the deviant foreign expatriate society [sic] there. SBY’s message was actually to tell Indonesians generally that their frowns against foreigners, which reveal the archipelago’s real feelings of jealousy and antipathy towards westerners, are not going to bring in the tourism dollars they so desperately need. “Smile. It’s Visit Indonesia” sends a message to foreigners that Indonesians are friendly, when actually they are not. This fact was inadvertently confirmed by Indonesian Culture and Tourism Minister Jero Wacik who said “The success of the program will hinge on the friendliness of ordinary Indonesians. Our people must be friendly, show smiling faces, and all concerned must cater to foreign tourists in a friendly way so as to help the country promote its tourism industry next year."; we say fat chance Jero.

When you get the facts from the airlines and statistical bureaus it proves Bali lies through its teeth to try and con foreigners into coming on holiday there. Next month is the UN Convention on Climate Change in Bali, a farce in itself and an event which will allows the Balinese fakirs to spin yet more yarn, not just misrepresenting delegates as tourists but also performing their secret trick; MICE delegate multiple counting. “MICE” in this context means “Meetings Incentives Conferences and Exhibitions“, such as with the Global Climate Change Circus. The great thing about MICE for the Bali tourism rats is that delegates coming to an 11 day event, as the Climate Change shindig is, will each generally leave and re-enter Bali perhaps 4 or 5 times on average; perhaps flying to Jakarta to visit their embassy, perhaps taking a quick trip to Singapore, etc. What the Bali Tourism Board does is count each one of these re-entries as another foreign arrival. So each delegate on average will be counted as five foreign arrivals; that’s how low Bali’s falsehoods stoop. We can guarantee the Balinese Ministry of Tooth Fairies (Bali Discovery Tours) will herald an all time record for foreign arrivals in Bali next month, while all the hotels outside the Suharto owned Nusa Dua security compound will see diddly squat of course yet again.

Don’t believe the liars, don’t let them get away with it; Bali will never improve all the time it is rotten and dishonest to the core. Look at what real, not imaginary tourists are actually doing as shown clearly by ASEAN’s own figures; they are boycotting Bali in their thousands and with good reason. The attempt to repeatedly make foreigners feel like sheep, following another which does not actually exist, while putting probably the largest number of health and safety risks on that family if they were stupid enough to go Bali is insulting. Do not be insulted, do not be fooled, stay away from Bali until the tourism and government culture there changes, for your own sakes.

Bali Bombs (2002) 5 years on – the final insults?

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Bali Bombs (2002) 5 years on – the final insults?
By Norman Dennis and George Erdos
Oct 12, 2007, 08:52

Bali Bombing 2002 (courtesy Nasty Bali)

There were tears they say at the memorial service in Bali 5 years on from the date of the first of two terrorist bombings, committed by an organization listed by every western country as International terrorists and yet which the Indonesian Government refuses to outlaw to this day. As well as the tears from the friends, families and plain drama queens weeping at the loss of human life, there were also tears of joy too for the extra tourists coming to Bali for the event; a sad irony if ever there was one.

If you want to see what Bali's police were up to directly after the 2002 Bali bombing, visit Nasty Bali and ask yourselves; If that is how much diligence they had then, if they showed it was the same old corruption business as usual instead of chasing the bombers after the event, why are we trusting them with our safety now?

Just hours before the 5 years on ceremony, news came of a charming BBQ which had been held by Indonesia’s latest candidate for The Crass Cop of the Millennium Award, Brigadier General Surya Dharma, head of Indonesia’s so-called anti-terrorist police squad which actually does nothing except sit back and allow the Australian Federal Police to do their job for them. Dimwit Dharma held his up market BBQ not for fellow police officers or dignitaries in the diplomatic sense, but for jailed Indonesian terrorists including Ali Imron and mastermind of the 2002 attack, Mubarok. Subsequently attempts to hurriedly cover it up with claims it was an intelligence gathering exercise can only lead to the comment that Brigadier General Dharma personally needs all the intelligence he can get.

Made Mangku Pastika had this instead of hankies in his pocket

As news of the ill-timed haute cuisine kebab event filtered to the mourners at the ceremony in Bali, chief PR prayer and onion sniffer, former West Papuan rapist and murder chief Made Mangku Pastika told Australians not to be angry and that he understood the reasons why Dharma had done what he had, to fight terrorism. Of course Made Mangku Pastika is also a contender for The Crass Cop of the Millennium Award due to the fact, despite well publicized warnings, he failed as Bali’s then police chief to get his extortion loving subordinates to tighten up security by 2005. Even the Indonesian President confirmed security under Pastika had been lax at the time of the subsequent August 31, 2005 terrorist bombing, because President Yudhoyono ordered the over-rated or perhaps over-trumpeted Pastika to tighten security after the bombing. With all the warnings of that attack (including our own) being imminent, is it not an insult to the people who lost their lives in 2005 to have Pastika make a guest appearance at the 2002 memorial?

But it gets even better or worse. Remember how the Howard Government in Australia was chastised over the Australian Federal Police fingering of the Bali Nine to the Bali Plods, thus putting several Australians on death row in Indonesia when they should have allowed the narcotics ring to return home with their drugs and be arrested in Aus? Now cast your mind back to recent attempts made by Australia to get the Bali Nine members on death row off of it on the basis it was not constitutional, etc. Remember how the Bali bombers decided to appeal their own death sentences, failed and then refused to show remorse for their terrorist crimes and so give up their right to ask for clemency? Guess what? The efforts of the Australian Government to have the Indonesians review their capital punishment has worked, and now the Bali bombers may well also be spared their lives! It is true, the process to save to the Bali Nine has also granted an official temporary reprieve for the JI 2002 bombers as well, as they would likely qualify under any change in policy! Well done Australia. Well done Jakarta. Good job!

Still, all-important tourism things (fat wallet arrivals) are allegedly improving in Bali, or so they say. Deep joy amongst the sincere sorrow for the 2002 victims coming from Bali’s aviation chief Budhi Mulyawan Suyitno, who while paying tribute to the western tourist wallets sadly departed, opened his mouth and blurted his hope that many more tourists will come to Bali now the US Transportation Security Administration has lifted its 2 year old security warning on Bali International Airport. Yes, this will be trumpeted amongst the “Come to Bali Tourism Band” as proof Bali is now safe, again, yet again, once more, no really this time! Ah, but the cynics amongst us wonder if Bali Airport is actually safe now, why the US TSA did not say this directly after their inspection in April 2007 (see: Bali Airport Safety). How come the inspection clearly did not alleviate their concerns but now suddenly they consider Ngurah Rai Airport to somehow be safe, without a further investigation? Could it be the safety warning was going to be a significant political embarrassment for the upcoming December 2007 UN climate talks in Bali? That, although the event will receive massive additional security to remove any risk to powerful delegates from 189 countries, if the warning remained the US delegation would not have been able to attend legally?

Finally, talking of Bali Airport, did everyone enjoy the triumphant defeat of corruption meated out by none other than Vice-President Jusuf Kalla against Head of Bali Airport Immigration, Mr Nanang Yunanto after he demanded a huge bribe from 2 Australian tourists who had arrived in Bali with an Aussie Passport set to expire in, critically, just under 6 months (most countries have this 6 month thing but are generally flexible about it)? Australians Geoff and Dorothy Longhurst arrived on the 16th September after their airline, Jet Star, had failed to properly check their passports at Australian check-in. If Jet Star had done their job properly, they would have been able to call Ngurah Rai Immigration and ask if they would allow the two in anyway; chances are, with tourism in Bali as it is, Indonesian Immigration likely have been told to be flexible in such matters. But as Jet Star messed up, so the Longhursts, who have supported Bali even after the bombings, landed in a whole lot more mess.

So the Longhursts say, Bali immigration chief Yunanto took them to his private office and demanded US$4000 from them to let them in. When the Longhursts offered US$500, they say Yunanto stormed off in disgust shouting to his subordinates to put the Longhursts on the next Jet Star flight back to Australia; of course Yunanto was disgusted at the Longhursts only offering him the equivalent of 2 months wages! Well, good on the Longhursts for complaining about their treatment and they got “lucky”. Reeling from news that his country was diving down the International corruption league once again, embarrassed by Suharto the former Golkar party president winning millions in a highly dubious Supreme Court ruling against Time Magazine (see: Suharto / Time), in Bali partly to see why all of Suharto’s hotels were empty due to the downturn in western tourism, the Longhursts’ letter now being widespread on forums everywhere, Jusuf Kalla was in the right place, at the right time and in the right mood.

What amazes us though is Jusuf Kalla, the Indonesian Vice President and likely runner in the 2009 presidential election for Golkar, did not demand a full investigation, oh no; Kalla in a sea of publicity told the Immigration chief of Bali to sack Yunanto and publicly so. Now we do not doubt the Longhursts, but isn’t immigration patsy Yunanto legally and morally due an investigation to determine if he is guilty or not? And if so, what does that tell you about the Indonesian system to this day? We actually were in contact with the Longhursts and pointed out that even though Kalla had intervened, to remember they had offered a Balinese immigration official a bribe (the US$500 counter offer), and that as such they still could be arrested if they ever went back to Bali! The Longhursts said they did not care about that so much because anyway they were planning to go to Fiji instead now!

We say the events of the 2002 and 2005 Bali Bombings, plus the sham of the 2007 memorial service and surrounding events means you would have to be plain stupid to holiday in Bali right now. Forget about the faux support for the Balinese AKA having a cheap holiday with subservient people smiling at you and calling you “Mr.”. If you really want to help the Balinese, help them get rid of the corruption and associated human rights abuse that keeps them subservient, without a decent hope for the future. Don’t tell others you are helping Bali when you catch a flight to Ngurah Rai, be honest; admit you are purely and simply helping yourself. If you a give sincere damn about the people murdered in Bali with the help of state nonintervention (because law enforcement in Bali is not about law but extortion), for God’s sake, boycott Bali until the garbage in uniform and office have been removed.

Foreign owned Bali villas being closed down, tourists left in the lurch

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Foreign owned Bali villas being closed down, tourists left in the lurch
By Puertas Cerradas
Oct 12, 2007, 08:22

Welcome to your Bali villas holiday rental

Tourists to Bali be warned; if you book and pay for a villa, you may be out on the street when you arrive in Bali. Incidentally, If you own or know someone who owns a villa in Bali, we urge you / they read our article on Bali Villa Rentals as we offer a solution to this anti-western crackdown by the Balinese and Indonesian authorities. Do not let the hate state of Indonesia rob you of your life’s savings!

Foreigners who bought into the false dream, still perpetuated by the greedy and powerful of Indonesia such as the current president, of owning a holiday home in Bali when they legally can not, are becoming increasingly aware their dream likely is about to be taken away from them. While tourists staying at foreign owned villas in Bali have already started to be afflicted in the great 2007 illegal villa crackdown!

Badung Regency, tourism wise, covers everything from Tanah Lot down (excluding Denpasar and Sanur), which includes the prime foreign owned villa zones around Canggu and Seminyak. It has said any unregistered villa in its jurisdiction as of the 31st December will have the legal process started to have it closed down. But it seems they are not just going for unlicensed holiday villas (villas rented out to tourists without operational permits), oh no; the hundreds of villas they cite include foreign owned or rather paid for holiday homes (villas used solely by their owners and perhaps family and friends of theirs). What makes matters worse is that Gianyar Regency, which covers the Ubud area where many foreigners have sunk their life savings, is going to join them!

So what is the problem some ask? If you are a foreigner with a property in Bali, why not just register your villa? The answer is, despite the fact even now the current president of Indonesia is appealing to westerners to make Indonesia their second home, he is not being literal; everyday foreigners can not own villas legally, which means foreign villa owners do not own anything but bits of paper! The problem comes that foreigners can only legally lease residential properties in Indonesia and only then if it is used as their Indonesian place of residence, because they are working / paying taxes there. Oh sure, there is tons of baloney around doled up by the criminal and ignorant about any foreigner being able to lease a house according to the 1996 revision of that law; but that revision is wrongly “interpreted” and abused (see: Hak Milak Bali Villas). So if a foreigner with a bit of paper that says they own a villa in Bali registers that claim under this crackdown, what will happen? Secondly, the other problem is that only legal Indonesian entities and therefore only Indonesians can obtain operational permits for villas. Third, Badung Regency has not issued new operational permits for some time, so none are now legally available. Get the picture, something like a rock and a hard place?

Already the process has started with villas in the Bukit Peninsula being raided by armed police officers and, strangely, tourism officials (hmmmm). Already tourists have been impacted, have lost money and been forced to find somewhere else to stay.

Of course when these foreign wallets (punters) were sold the villas they do not actually own, everything was smiles and sunshine. With so many licensed agents selling “freeholds” and “investment opportunities”, the truth was kept or rather fraudulently misrepresented to foreigners and the authorities did nothing except encourage the practice of attracting all this foreign currency to the island; of course. So what has changed or gone wrong?

Foreigner are encouraged to open their wallets
Prior to and even after the first terrorist bombing in 2002, buoyed on by false claims and promises, foreigners poured their life savings into “owning” Bali villas; their own slice of paradise and a rental return “investment”. The people in authority knew what was going on and allowed it to continue, as it suited their purpose at the time. The real owners of all the large hotels in Bali, the Suharto and other powerful families just watched on.

The tourism boom bombs
After the 2002 and especially the 2005 Bali bomb attacks and other events like the Corby case, foreign, especially western tourism to Bali plummeted, while a large number of foreign villa projects were midway. As big buck western tourism numbers declined, the so called luxury hotels in Bali lost a lot of customers. In addition, because large luxury hotels in Bali were increasingly only seen as luxury by the less wealthy, those with healthy bank balances still going to Bali increasingly chose to rent a luxury villa instead.

Upset wealthy hotel owners
Matters were not made better by the continual lies put out by the Indonesian Tourism Board that Bali’s tourist industry was doing much better than it actually was; wealthy Javanese who owned hotels in Bali believed their nonsense and got increasingly angry about their own falling profit margins, believing foreign villa owners were creaming it. The wealthy Javanese families started building their own villas, which mostly were nowhere near as good as foreign “owned” accommodations, as the foreigners had much more love for Bali and for their projects. Recent news this month that the Indonesian Government is planning to drop the exit fiscal tax levied on Indonesians means former domestic guests will more likely holiday outside Indonesia as a result. As the Javanese owned villas failed to turn the hotel tourism tide around and with even less trade looming, so the foreigners who invested in Bali had their property fate sealed.

Get them!
So the hotels, often it has to be said who trade unlawfully and cheat on taxes themselves, used their instruments of persuasion to get the authorities in Bali to start cracking down on foreign owned villas, which they knew by default were unlawful or even illegal across the board. The logic being “Get rid of the foreign owned villas and then foreigners coming to Bali will have no choice but to stay at our hotels, and our villas too”.

Yes sir!
So the Balinese authorities duly oblige, forgetting all the false promises made to these foreigners with their implicit knowledge. Told they are doing this for the good of Bali, because these unlicensed villas are cheating on taxes. This is true, but then so do the vast majority of hotels in Bali with the well known “twin book” system, so why not crack down on twin book cheating hotels? As the amount of tax major hotels defraud the island out of is likely to be far higher than the foreign owned villas ever do. Of course the fallout that will come from all of this with western tourist wallets if their fellow countrymen and women lose their life savings has not yet dawned on the wealthy hotel owners and authorities; but then it wouldn’t, as greed clouds the eyes.

The protagonist and informant
Amazingly, the authorities in Bali, who are not known for their investigative powers and record keeping, had a list of foreign owned villas with web sites in waiting, already targeted; clearly someone, probably a westerner, had done the Internet research for them (see: Not So Gay Bali Villas).

So now you know why this is all happening and who is responsible. If you are a foreign “owner” of a villa in Bali, we again urge you to read our Bali Villa Real Estate report as it offers a potential solution to the problem. But if you are caught in the crackdown and lose your life savings or have to stump up a lot of cash to hold onto your dream, just remember where it all came from. Bear in mind the fact the authorities in Badung Regency are talking about closing down private holiday villas as well, just goes to show it is not just about tourist dollar greed but also about anti-western sentiment. Westerners who have done nothing more than bought a villa in Bali for their own use and only their own use from licensed real estate agents with the knowledge of the authorities are to lose everything? So why allow them to buy in the first place?

Tourists have the problem now of identifying which villas are licensed and which ones are not, in order to avoid arriving at the airport with screaming family and heavy bags in tow only to find out the villa driver is not waiting for them and no-one answers the contact villa phone number. But identifying unlicensed villas is made difficult by the fact so many villas which have not, claim to have one! This is made worse by villa rental agents who claim the villas they represent are covered by an operational license when they are not. You see, so many agents have what they call a “group license” themselves, but the authorities have stated these do not cover individual villas; each villa has to have an operational license itself in its own name! So can you work out which villas are at risk and which ones are not? No, of course you can not, and therein lies the danger.

So tourists really need to ask themselves some questions like; a) Should they go to Bali at all? b) Should they stay in a so called luxury hotel in Bali? c) If they book into and prepay for a villa, will it be there when they arrive? We say the easiest and best thing for everyone including the foreign villa “owners” of Bali and the Balinese themselves is go on holiday somewhere else; When and only when the Indonesian Government and Balinese Authorities put in place measures that protect and respect foreigners, should any foreigner think about giving them their hard earned vacation dollars.

Welcome to your second home in Bali, which you can not own or rent.

2009-05-03T21:38:00.003+12:00

Welcome to your second home in Bali, which you can not own or rent.
By Charles Darrow
Oct 11, 2007, 08:33

When I leave the TNI I will sell unreal estate

Read on poor foreign villa “owners” of Bali; we tell you the truth, which will go down like a shot of fermented Thai chili sauce, and then we offer you hope and a legal alternative the frauds of Indonesia do not.

East Javanese born President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono AKA mini-Suharto, AKA SBY, one time student of the US Command and General Staff College, has opened his ever-empty wallet arms to Australians, telling them that a bond exists between their country and his and that Australians should treat Indonesia as their second home. But the term “home” is a conditional one, as it is not legally possible for a foreigner to have a home, let alone their second home in Bali, unless they pay taxes on their worldwide income to the Indonesian tax authority, which is not a very good idea!

We know, plenty of deluded Australians, Brits, Americans, Dutch, French and others all claim to own villas in Bali, no doubt such false assumption based on smiling faces, nodding heads, being called “Mr.” for the first time that year, what the real estate crooks told them, a little cheap plonk, the sound of gamelan and maybe even the odd puff of a highly enlightening cheroot. But the fact is, they own diddly squat except the piece of paper which convinces them otherwise. Oh course, the plethora of bent, mostly foreign-criminal-on-the-run owned real estate agents, claiming to offer freeholds to suckers with more bucks then brain cells, also helps to convince these kings for the day that they really haven’t sold the shirts off their backs and are now walking around butt naked. Like the millions of losers who have succumbed to the various Nigerian pyramid fraud emails, they live in hope and firm expectation of the “cheque (check) not bouncing”.

It is a fact foreigners can not own land or properties in Indonesia, period. So the scum that floats on the top of the sesspit offering freeholds to foreigners should be in jail, but they are not, why? Is it incompetent law enforcement or hand rubbing corrupt law enforcement or both? You see, if you own something you legally can not, you are the perfect target for extortion from Bali’s bent police; one of if not the most corrupt in the world. For the same reason they allow pushers and pimps to ply their sordid wares openly on the streets of most tourist areas in Bali, the police grin like the theiving monkeys they are about the foreign fools investing thousands and sometimes millions into worthless pieces of paper.

So now the publicity about the freehold bait and switch con, where some “generous Indonesian name-giver" is appointed to actually own the land and villa for the foreigner and contract all rights thereof in perpetuity, which agreement holds as much legality as a sieve, is becoming well known; so it’s “All change for the New 2004 foreign property law”. This change in sales tactics by the foreign real estate mutts of Bali shows you just how unknowledgeable these barrow boys really are, as the law they refer to was introduced in 1996; Agraria RMA 7/96. Basically the law concerns the right for certain foreigners to lease a property. However, what these property sales frauds do not know or tell you is;

a) Most of the “law” that is cited is not law, but an extract from a letter written by the then minister of Agraria (property and land) which is not law, just his opinion.
b) The Bali la-la’s interpretation of RMA 7/96 that any foreigner can benefit under the regulation ignores other laws and legal definitions such as the highly connected KITAS regulations which clearly govern what certain terms within RMA 7/96 mean.

If you want to read a well written article on the subject that quotes the various sources for the true legal definitions of RMA 7/96, see: Bali Real Estate Fraud Blogspot. Bottom line, unless a foreigner first, stress first obtains a KITAS visa (work permit) and registers for tax in Indonesia, they can not lease a house under RMA 7/96. And guess what? Running a villa is not on the list of occupations available to foreigners that qualify them for a KITAS! Be clear, RMA 7/96 is a law that allows foreigners deemed to be providing clearly defined benefit to and living in the state of Indonesia to rent a house, period.

Oh sure, the extent to which this ignorance and fraud has spread is incredible, with even an Indonesian consular site in Australia reporting how this new 2004 law allows foreigners to "own" properties, somehow without being specific enough to be held legally accountable. But the fact that most “we need your money” pundits get it wrong and show their total lack of knowledge of the law by getting the date wrong by 8 years says it all, if you have a brain that is.

It is not just the owning or leasing of a property that lies outside the grasp of the everyday foreigner to Bali, it is the fact that even if they manage to somehow control a property for the time being, they can not legally rent it out to other people (tourists). This is because rental villas need to have an operational license and only Indonesian citizens, partnerships between Indonesian citizens and private companies whose directors are all Indonesian citizens can get one! Publicly traded Indonesian companies which foreigners can presently control a majority of the voting shares of are hardly suitable for running a 4 bedroom bed and breakfast!

Of course, some developers and sales agents have gone up-market and the PMA (private foreign investment company) route; problem is, using a PMA to “own” a villa in Bali is a circumvention of the law that has dried up it seems recently as well (See: Hanno Soth / PT Hanno Bali / C151 villas article).

But now comes an even more dangerous period with the Balinese authorities mouthing off that they need to crack down on illegal villa rental operations; properties "owned" by foreigners which are unlawfully being rented out to tourists. The amnesty deadline for illegal villas in the la-la preferred Seminyak / Canggu area to report themselves and start down a road to legitimacy they can never take, has come and gone with only a handful of villa owners taking up that generous offer. So it is backs to the wall, “What on Earth do we do now?” time for thousands of foreigners owning bits of Balinese paper.

Pretty in pink? Jack Daniels advertises for and personally deals with gay inquiries.

Although the crack down has clearly been pushed for by the Indonesian hoteliers, let us not forget where this crackdown almost certainly started from; corrupt police loving Jack Daniels of Bali Discovery Tours who in 2003 sent out a circular email asking people to report illegal villa operations to him, so he could in return report them to the police. Our pompous, clearly under the influence of his own adopted less than classy name, friend Jack Daniels, who after sending out the email and facing an almighty backfire claimed, wait for this, that his business competitor had sent out the email in his name! Trouble is, the electronic transaction information contained in the normally unseen header showed the email not just came from Jack’s mail server but also shows that the person who initiated it used Jack’s password protected Telkom account to connect to it. Bottom line is Daniels showed his intent in 2003 and we believe has been busily documenting unlicensed villas for the authorities ever since. It is a shame Jack Daniels does not love Bali's villa owners as much as he loves gay visitors to Bali; you see his company Bali Discovery Tours advertizes gay friendly services and Jack deals personally with them while leaving other (straight) inquiries to his staff; Are you free Jack!

Enter Jack Daniels of Bali's emails again, with his PATA newsletter ezine of the millennium award, offering advice about foreigners owning or leasing and operating villas in Bali; interviewing his friend Rainy Hendriany to add yet more false and very bad information into the pot. So here is a man, well, person with a well documented unlawful and very jealous past in Bali, interviewing a well respected property law expert, lawyer, perhaps law maker from Bali? Why no, Rainy Hendriany is a public notary! So she is not qualified to give legal advice, just put a stamp on bits of paper to say you have signed something and Jack Daniels is dishing what this legal hack says as fact! Wow, no wonder you are known to yourself as the (Indonesian) Ministry of Truth Jack! Ms. Hendriany goes on to say, no doubt with a little help from doting Daniels “there are already several banks which will now provide loans against such (Hak Pakai – right to lease) title.” We would like to ask Ms. Hendriany, who seems unavailable to comment with anyone else, which banks are these Rainy and how many foreigners have qualified?

Of course Jack and Rainy side step the all important question of how a foreigner can legally own or lease a property and then rent it out as a holiday rental using meaningless verbiage about “there not being one ideal solution” when in fact they could not name one, plus “balancing investments with understanding and sensitivity” plus “having Backup provisions” and performing “due diligence”. Yes, that’s right, utter tosh. Although the Bali mutt brigade are heralding Jack’s article as “great” on the Bali bog blog, the fact is Jack’s yarn will land anyone who follows his advice in yet more hot water. And with Mr. and Mrs. Joe Blow Foreigner’s life savings on the line, such poor, rambling and perhaps malicious advice is very dangerous indeed.

With foreigners finally waking up and smelling the Java, they realize it is likely only a matter of time before they are forced to give up their dream tropical home, or more likely bend over and open their wallets when the charming boys in brown come a knocking. Previously Bali’s police had to plant narcotics on foreign expatriates in Bali to be able to extort money from them, now their next unofficial bonus seems guaranteed and likely to be very generous! Though with the tourism business so bad in Bali right now as it is, the prospect of foreigner's having to pay unooficial police fines to keep their tropical 2nd homes is not so attractive.

OK, Bali villa owners, you are pretty much all stupid. If you have a “nominee” agreement, or a Hak Pakai agreement and are not paying tax / got your KITAS after you "bought" your villa, or have a villa courtesy of a PMA agreement, you have nothing but a piece of paper if the Indonesians decide to apply the law. So what do you do? We promised you a legal option to your problem and we will deliver. This is not because we want to support tourism presently to Bali or your own desires to make money, because we do not. The fact most foreign villa "owners" have avoided paying tax and other licensing charges for years while prattling on about how they are helping the Balinese, no doubt a reference to the breadcrumbs they throw their staff, makes us sick. We also get very nauseous at the prospect of the Bali Bill / Plod owning anything other than a 1986 Suzuki Jimmy as well. So understand we are only helping you, so you stop raping the Balinese and the police have less to rape you over.

The “secret” for a foreigner to control and rent out a villa in Bali is to take the matter out of the restrictive, corrupt and anti-foreign Indonesian jurisdiction. The method is called the “ABN” method and basically entails you setting up Indonesian friends to own the land and start a PT (private Indonesian company) to get the required operational permit. You and they then sign loan, marketing and reservation agreements outside Indonesia, probably in your home country, which then get duly notarized as a lien / right against the land title and PT company operation in Bali. By doing this you qualify for business visas which do not require you to pay tax in Indonesia yet allow you to conduct business relevant to your commercial interests there, as well as stay for extended periods. This method allows you legally to control the guests and money, and therefore the property / land. If you like it is a variation of the totally unlawful nominee / loan agreement where the all important aspects are put outside yet are still protected by Indonesian law. What is more it allows the foreign villa “owner” better control of the cash coming in by writing up deposits paid by guests as commission. The full details can be found on the official ABN Bali Villas Page; our thanks to the author and our recommendation to foreigners with bits of paper to get onto this ASAP.

Footnote: Hanno Soth (see our article: C151 PT Hanno Bali) told us on the 10th October 2007 “You might like to know that over the next week or so the government will be announcing a solution to the issue of illegal villas in Bali.” First, to be candid, we would not believe anything Hanno Soth said anyway. Secondly, we are not aware of any new such legislation being put before the state legislature in Jakarta, so we must presume this, if it is true, is a local Balinese or even national politician based initiative which carries about as much legal weight as one of yesterday’s free London underground newspapers carries value; given that Indonesian judges ignore even presidential decrees on the basis they are not the law.

Suharto is still the boss; Indonesia is now the most corrupt country in the world.

2009-05-03T21:37:00.001+12:00

Suharto is still the boss; Indonesia is now the most corrupt country in the world.
By Time Warner Getoutnow
Oct 11, 2007, 07:52

Just popping out for a minute dear

Suharto’s salary by the time he was toppled out of office in 1999 was just US$1764 per month, yet he somehow managed to amass an estimated minimum $15,000,000,000; making him the world’s 6th wealthiest man in a nation where the average wage is not officially known (of course) but where Nike contractor worker’s earned just US 6 cents per hour at that time. How on earth did Suharto make all that money? Graft, corruption, extortion, theft! Generally in league with western governments keen to earn billions of dollars from Indonesia’s vast mineral wealth plus political anti-communist advantage in the region, while feeding their own citizens at home lavish servings of whitewashed, pious humble pie. Most of Suharto’s bent fortune actually came from foreign / International grants and aid.

Typically it seems, in return for exclusive and highly profitable mining rights to places like West Papua, Western Governments would pour aid into Indonesia for the betterment of the impoverished people there. At least that was the drool they fed their electorate, knowing all along that the money actually went to foundations and not so charitable trusts controlled by the Suharto’s and their lackeys. In addition foreign corporations generously paid the Indonesian Military (the TNI) for security services to protect them from the nasty mostly unarmed civilians in each region who wanted change and even independence, while western governments allowed military hardware sales and provided training to the TNI in order for them to murderously suppress the civilian population. These military hardware orders went through agents, the Suharto’s or other well / military connected families, for large commissions. Payments by the Indonesian “military” for the hardware too went through these same commissionable agents. The money sent to Indonesian foundations / trusts for aid, infrastructure projects, education, etc. would then distributed to where it was needed, mostly it seems the Suharto’s offshore bank accounts. Think of it in terms of an idiot tax paid by western citizens to their governments who gave the money to Indonesia to gain lucrative closed bid mineral contracts from Suharto’s government to the betterment of wealthy western shareholders, with Suharto et all in turn then robbing the Indonesian people of that idiot tax money. Of course, it was not just the money Suharto stole that inflicted economic misery on his people; it was the closed bid contracts which meant the true local and even national economic potential of say a gold mine was never achieved by the Indonesian people / state.

Under Suharto corruption became a mechanism for governance, as did the synonymous mass human rights abuse, like the murder of thousands of Balinese in 1966 while the west was chanting “Groovy”. Although corruption did nothing but harm for the country as a whole, it enabled very nasty, neigh evil people to amass vast fortunes. It seems ironic that Myanmar / Burma today is the world’s supposed Military Junta Enemy Number 1, yet it is very hard to see the difference between Burma and Suharto’s Indonesia; oh yes, we were forgetting Indonesia has greater mineral wealth and strategic importance plus Burma’s ally is China. Anyway, the UN and others confirm billions of whitewashed western tax payers money found its way into Suharto’s offshore bank accounts in payment for some of the west’s major corporations making their wealthy shareholders very rich indeed thank you. To this day results from Indonesian focused companies like BHP Billiton can and do turn around Australian stock market downturns.

As a result of poor governance and the Asian economic crisis, Suharto’s house of cards came tumbling down, or did it? After all those years of installing a pecking order of corruption with Suharto at the top, the very top was symbolically removed for a new era in Indonesian government while the old infrastructure pretty much stayed in place; perhaps we should call post-Suharto Indonesia the “Baloney Era”. During the Baloney Era (post 1999), Indonesia was suddenly a democracy, of sorts, except left wing parties were not allowed, religious (except Islamic) parties were not allowed, independent and regional parties were not allowed (Aceh’s leaders were allowed to form regional parties only as long as they came under the umbrella of a national party), pro-independence / separatist parties were not allowed, etc. The TNI (military) continued to state they were in fact the true rulers of Indonesia and that the Indonesian Government was just a civilian administration. The TNI aligned or rather controlled political parties Golkar (Suharto et all) and PDI (Megawati, Sukarno’s daughter et all), each full of ex-generals, dominated elections which were excessively rigged / fraudulent according to the monitors; although whitewashed as milestones in democracy by western governments. Jakarta learnt from the USA and others the “art” of “Spin” and “PR”, making strong statements about fighting corruption, even setting up corruption eradication commissions, plus hogwash about getting the TNI military out of politics and business. The TNI in business? Oh yes, they have to be, as they only get 30% of their expenditure from the government; so they run protection, booze, narcotics, prostitution and other rackets, as well as some legitimate(ish) businesses, sometimes in partnership with others; politicians for example.

In reality nothing except the verbiage changed. The separation of East Timor through independence from Indonesia proved the Indonesians and TNI were as murderous as ever; none of the Indonesian murderers were ever sentenced for their mass murders / genocide. The Truth and Reconciliation Commission set up by Jakarta is a perfect example of how they have learned the power of words and deliberately toothless bodies over real action, as the commission is boycotted by the UN because it seeks to allow pardons for all the Indonesian murderers. The Indonesian KPK or Corruption Eradication Commission proved to be yet another worthless PR act; only prosecuting ex-bankers who committed fraud, not corruption, and as a witch hunt mechanism between party rivals. With the KPK saying it could not investigate police officers or anyone at all in Bali because it did not have an office there, they showed their true mandate, or rather lack of one. The only time the KPK prosecute a politician or policeman is when they have no choice and the president says so; they never prosecute TNI members of course. One semi-effective Indonesian anti-corruption body, the corruption court was actually closed down in 2007 by the Indonesian House of Representatives, reckoned to be the most corrupt institution in the whole of the country, when the court got too close to powerful corrupt Golkar and PDI politicians; as if there were any other kind.

Under Megawati as president, corruption was reported to have spiraled. Yudhoyono or “SBY” as he is called was a minister in Megawati’s cabinet who left to form his own political party (PD) under the anti-corruption banner after a dispute with Megawati’s husband. In almost miracle fashion, SBY stood for the 2004 Indonesian presidential election with Jusuf Kalla (Golkar) as running mate and won amongst cries of foul (mass fraud) by the NGO’s monitoring that election. Despite the fact SBY and Golkar do not get along too well, mostly because Golkar was abusing their influence to get at SBY’s own politicians in his cabinet, it ultimately became obvious SBY had done a deal with Suharto and Golkar to become president in the first place. It was clear that Indonesia and the world were not ready in 2004 for another Golkar president so soon after Suharto, so Golkar decided second best (Vice President) was their best bet at the presidential elections. Soon after SBY became president he amazed the world (although we suspect not the White House, etc.) and non-Golkar politicians by pardoning Suharto of all criminal corruption charges. It seems apparent that SBY was handed the presidency via a fraudulently held election on that basis and thus showed Golkar was still the party of Suharto, not the other way around. It is a fact that criminal Tommy Suharto who paid to have a judge murdered, still gets invited to senior TNI events where all the officers have to bow to him.

Opposition in Indonesia to the pardon grew to the point the Attorney-General was forced to announce, wait for this, a civil case against Suharto for corruption. But not for all the money Suharto, his family and his minions are said to have extorted, oh no; a single and it retrospectively seems a very carefully selected and orchestrated single case of Suharto’s alleged wholesale extortion, which is becoming increasingly clear is bound, or should we say designed to fail. The prosecution in the case over Suharto’s Supersemar Scholarship Foundation is looking for US$440 million of the US$1,700 million they believe Suharto stole; yes, why are they looking for so little of what they say he stole? The Supersemar Scholarship Foundation is also pretty unique amongst all the foundations and charitable institutions Suharto is said to have created and bled in that it appears to be one of the few that actually still exists; the others presumably all went bust. So why did the Attorney-General not just only pick one case, but this particular one?

Enter the next chapter in this apparent farce when the carefully orchestrated students presently receiving scholarships from the Supersemar Scholarship Foundation demand to be included as a named party in the court case. What on earth says the world and even the prosecutor to his credit have the students currently receiving grants from this foundation got to do with any money Suharto stole from it years ago? Nothing of course, but that is not what the obliging scholars and Suharto’s defense team say, oh no; they claim that somehow the scholars could be hurt by this action, so they deserve to be involved, and also that they go to prove Suharto’s foundations were legitimate. Ah, so there we are! So the whole thing was almost certainly scripted from the start. When so many people and the International community got upset over Suharto’s pardon, a soap opera with Suharto coming out the hero at the end is what was needed. Oh no, the concluding episode has not been played out on film set (court) number one of the Supreme Court yet, but the script was likely written some time ago, so just wait and see.

Speaking of Indonesian Supreme Court soap operas staring and directed by Suharto, the Supersemar Scholarship Foundation was / is just one of two at around the same time. In 1999 Time Magazine did extensive research into Suharto’s corruption antics and business / Investment Empire then published the details of these; they estimated he handled US$73,000,000,000 of stolen / misappropriated money. Suharto did not like this published report and sued Time Magazine in Indonesia, and lost, and appealed, and lost, and appealed to the Supreme Court, and the case got buried / lost and everyone forgot about it. Then in September 2007 it was revealed in August 2007 a Supreme Court sitting was actually convened and upheld Suharto’s appeal, awarding him around US$129,000,000 in damages for defamation against his good name [sic] against Time. No-one could believe it, except those who know Indonesia better than the BS spoon fed majority perhaps. If Suharto did not wholesale rip off the Indonesian people and the world, how the hell did a less than US$2000 a month salary president amass at least $15,000,000,000? If Time Magazine had libeled Suharto, what the hell is the Indonesian Supreme Court going to do about the United Nations and World Bank? As days after the Time case was announced the UN and World Bank had put Suharto at the very top of the list of the world's highest-earning (defrauding) political leaders accused of stealing state assets; they estimate as much as US$42,000,000,000. What a joke? Yes, but a very sick one given it is the reality of Indonesia today. The only appeal open to Time Magazine in Indonesia is a judicial review, which is not exactly an easy thing to get done. Our earnest advice to Time and every foreign business in Indonesia that does not make so much profit they do not care about such things is “Stay the hell away from Indonesia and let Suharto and his cronies sing for their supers!”

The award shows exactly what we believe to be true though, that the mechanism still exists and as the Suharto’s built that mechanism, so they still ultimately control it. All the PR and Spin put out by SBY and the other Jakarta hacks is slowly crumbling away. Corruption can not be measured accurately because of its nature; you don’t have people lining their personal bank balances declaring how much money they are stealing of course. So corruption is measured by “perception” by business leaders around the world and then calculated by Transparency International. Of course, when SBY came to “power” on a ticket of fighting corruption without anyone seeing the strings of the puppet master above, when he formed corruption eradication commissions and more, the perception of corruption in Indonesia went down; Indonesia scored better. But now the realities of SBY AKA mini-Suharto are becoming abundantly clear, Indonesia again is actually slipping further down the index and is now perceived as one of the most corrupt nations in the world.

We believe Indonesia will go all the way, that it will soon ultimately reach the bottom of the corruption index. Why? Because the effect of the anti-corruption spin and toothless inept without a mandate KPK (Indonesian Corruption Commission) is still having a positive effect on perception; but it is eroding fast in the face of reality. And the reality is it is corruption business as usual in Indonesia. The UN's former deputy director of investigations, Frank Montil, this month said that at least US$500,000,000 has been lost already from all of the money donated by the world for tsunami relief efforts; so all those well meaning people who donated yet more of their money after tax (including idiot tax) can sit back and feel warm at the fact bent officials in Indonesia have bolstered their offshore bank accounts. Mr. Montil was sent to Aceh as the senior UN corruption investigator and his frightening report just sat on the desk of the UN’s secretary-general for 8 months. As reported by us only a few weeks ago, Singaporeans joke that the number of Indonesian millionaires moving to their country doubled after the tsunami; newly created Indonesian millionaires moving that is to avoid the prospect of justice. While nearly 3 years after the tsunami, many people in Aceh are still living in yellow emergency accommodation tents without power, mains water or sewerage; the sewerage is clearly all centered in Jakarta.

It is apparent Suharto still runs the hate state of Indonesia and western citizens are still paying idiot tax so he and his minions can extort yet more from foreign “aid” and “grants”, while the only people that benefit are the extortionists in Jakarta and the major shareholders of the massive western corporations that steal from the Indonesian people and buy political influence with the politicians back home. If you are happy paying idiot taxes, may Saint George Bush the Second, the patron saint of big, questionably gained corporate bucks smile down upon and bless you. If you are not so happy, use the money you have to buy holidays and products that have nothing to do with Indonesia, and vote in your country’s own elections for the party that has a foreign policy, not foreign agenda. Please, help the Indonesian people and everyone else in the process, boycott Indonesia and the grinning political clowns that support them. Your holiday money and your vote is the most powerful thing in the world.

C151, PT Hanno Bali, Hanno Soth; the bubble blurt or burst?

2009-05-03T21:35:00.002+12:00

C151, PT Hanno Bali, Hanno Soth; the bubble blurt or burst?
By Donald Trumped
Oct 11, 2007, 07:05

Hanno Soth then (with Carmen Herbert) and now (Bintan Islands signing) - Bali's most successful developer or failing, murderous flim-flamer?

My goodness but Mr. Hanno Soth has a history; some of which we agree with him is best just referred to, not restated again in full. Hanno Soth is a Badbramstedt German born Canadian, ex-Hawaiian (sort of) handy man and suspected by some gerontophile and murderer at the age of 26, who came to Bali under somewhat of a cloud over an inheritance (which the US Courts subsequently repealed) from the late Carmen Corrine Herbert, who died under somewhat unusual circumstances and was cremated it seems somewhat hurriedly aged 84 years old. The story was actually published by reporter Ian Y. Lind of the Honolulu Star-Bulletin (see: Hanno Soth Story) who had traced Hanno to Bali and included several statements regarding Soth’s meteoric rise to wealth by one of his friends on the island, Thomas Henderson, who says he gave Soth free lodgings for 18 months when Soth first arrived in Bali

What intrigued us most was despite the fact we think the comments made by Thomas Henderson were somewhat flattering about Hanno Soth, in true Balinese expat form Hanno Soth actually filed a criminal libel complaint with the very corrupt Balinese police over what he said! If Henderson was a friend of Soth, can you imagine what Hanno might do to an enemy? What amazed us more was that Hanno Soth included the Honolulu Star-Bulletin reporter Ian Y. Lind in the police complaint, which the Balinese police in typical if not paid for fashion accepted. Forgetting the complaint element against Thomas Henderson, who presumably was in Bali and therefore covered by Indonesia’s nasty jurisdiction for a while, what on Earth could Hanno Soth hope to achieve by making a Balinese police complaint about a newspaper reporter in the USA who has never been or is likely to come to Indonesia? Hanno Soth even publicly confirmed the police were investigating the complaint against Ian Y. Lind and cited a police investigation number dated 31 March 2005 to prove it. In fact, Hanno Soth went to the extreme of building his own news web site, News Clips Net, which claims the police had confirmed Ian Y. Lind had a case under Indonesian criminal law to answer for!

Of course like much Indonesian criminal law and Balinese police investigations, this is a yet another nasty joke. No, we believe Hanno Soth that the police “took” a complaint from him and started an “investigation” about an article written outside Indonesian jurisdiction. Ian Lind had been contacted by Soth by email 4 years after his article (see: Ian Lind’s August 2nd, 2004 diary) but never heard back from Soth again after responding to him; we recommend people read this to see what Soth considers defamatory. Ian Lind then discovered about the police complaint in 2006 (see: Ian Lind May 8th 2006 diary). We contacted Ian Lind and asked him, in light of the defamation allegations made by Soth to him, whether he was sure of his facts regarding Soth being a handyman for example; Lind replied he had the trial transcripts which frequently referred to Soth as “a kind of handyman”. As for the statements indicating Hanno Soth was believed to have had a romantic and perhaps even sexual relationship with Carmen Herbert, these were clearly someone else’s words, not Lind’s.

So not only does the reasoning behind Soth’s allegations of defamation seem bizarre, but the Bali police investigation itself is clearly just yet another case of pandering to the whims of someone with connections or a full wallet in Bali, with maybe the police waiting to see if the “suspect” ever comes to Bali where their corrupt law applies. Hanno Soth now editor of his own “news clip” site justifies the police action by claiming the published item was then circulating throughout Indonesia and therefore was damaging to his company, PT Hanno Bali. Of course, for Indonesian criminal libel codes to be correctly applied, the article would have to be written in or published within Indonesia or in the Indonesian language in order for the Balinese police to claim any jurisdiction whatsoever; we bet they and Hanno know this. When we read some of Hanno’s text, for example the terms and conditions on his C151 net site claiming that anyone who so much as visits the site is bound by PT Hanno Bali’s rules, plus that no-one can so much as link to his site without his express permission, gives us additional cause for concern that Hanno Soth may well be mentally deranged. Having said that we are sure we will be the subject of yet another Balinese police “investigation” against us, this time by complainant Hanno Soth and all we can say is “Bring it on boys”.

Many people get confused about Internet or other forms of defamation AKA libel, for example with the Times / Suharto case. It is actually quite simple; there are two forms of libel, criminal and civil. Most countries have criminal libel laws but only pretty much as legacies from a darker time when used to protect the powerful from the less powerful, as with Indonesia and its criminal libel code from the Suharto era; this basically means you can not publish anything about another person in Indonesia that is even slightly defamatory, no matter how true and in the public’s best interest it is, unless you have that other person’s permission! The English law that forbids any of its subjects from defaming the Queen shows that criminal libel still exists in many places, even when and where the subject is generally left well alone by the judiciary, normally due to other constraining legislation such as in Britain’s case with Article 10 of the European Convention on Human Rights (freedom of speech); Indonesia’s very corrupt judiciary does not have such a constraint. All criminal law though is constrained by one thing; national boundaries, except with some countries who can apply aspects to their own citizens while overseas. Conversely, civil libel is often portable jurisdiction wise in that it is possible for say a Russian to sue an American in London for a defamation written by the American in Australia, if that defamation was untruthful and / or not in the public’s best interest and harmed the Russian subject in England. However, in this example, if the American who committed the alleged defamation had neither residence nor asset in England, the courts would have to reject any action there.

The above hopefully explains why nasty Indonesian businessmen, politicians and police officers love to abuse the criminal libel law in that sordid country, even when they know they do not have jurisdiction. You see, by making a criminal investigation for Hanno Soth, the Balinese police gave him PR, nothing more regarding Honolulu Star-Bulletin reporter Ian Y. Lind. Of course if Lind ever went to Bali he would probably find his name on the detain list with the immigration officers at Ngurah Rai Airport, as totally outrageous criminal libel and other investigations give the chance for Bali’s mafia in uniform to play the “failure to respond to a summons” card. It is very likely that although Mr. Lind and the Honolulu Star-Bulletin never heard anything about this complaint until someone pointed out Hanno’s “news clip”, an unlawfully made summons was made and equally unlawfully executed. Ignoring a summons allows the police in Bali to detain someone for up to 60 days without charge; 90 days with a 30 day court extension, like when they afflicted poor Sang Ayu (see: Candi Internet Bali). With Balinese jails being places to avoid and because human rights groups report Indonesian police regularly murder and rape victims, you can see why the Balinese police basically make sure anyone who wants to come to Bali honours their perverted law outside the law, which generally means paying extortion money or going to jail for fabricated crimes. So Ian Lind may well qualify for some free accommodation in Bali should he ever decide to go!

So anyway, what did friend and ex-business partner Thomas Henderson, who presumably had something to worry about from a police complaint being in Bali at the time say? And why did now wealthy (or perhaps not) Hanno Soth get so upset about it? Ian Lind’s article quoted Mr. Henderson as follows; "He (Soth) posed as a major developer. He tied up twenty acres of beachfront property with no money at all, and was trying to get investors. He had about $60 in gold jewelry, and traded that for rights to the property. It's not really flim-flam. He just tries to tie things up with minimal investment. He's what I would call very shrewd." So why is that so bad? It sounds flattering to us! Ah, is it perhaps now Hanno Soth considers himself to be the cream of the business community in Indonesia and that such references to his humble past without his permission are defamatory to his present standing in the community? After all, despite Hanno Soth’s denial to us, clearly he could not have had a lot of money when he arrived in Bali, having been a lowly “sort of handyman” in Hawaii and without the benefit of the inheritance from Carmen Corrine Herbert, which he ultimately never got. It seems that in Indonesia you have the right not to have had a lowly previous life if you have money and influence now. Or is there more hidden reason behind Soth not liking his past to be known?

So how did Hanno Soth make so much money in Bali? Mr. Henderson got it right, Soth was very shrewd. We can only speculate on certain areas of his rise to the top of Bali’s too often cesspit of expatriate life as follows; by getting some real estate deals going with little more than bravado, by up-selling small villas which others describe as looking like units in a mid-1970’s English housing estate surrounded by palm trees, by working with very well connected people both within Indonesia and in neighboring countries, by taking the false perception that a foreigner can legally own a villa in Bali a step higher using the PMA (private foreign investment company route), by selling to the rich and famous, and by working the nepotistic designer (big bucks) tourism industry to get glowing media praise plus a prestigious international real estate company involved, thereby perhaps over-valuing and “legitimizing” the whole operation. Hanno Soth and PT Hanno Bali are hoping to move on to different things these days though (Bintan Islands), but let us just focus on the C151 villas that got them where they are today.

We said we can only speculate on how Hanno Soth precisely did business with his C151 villas because he actually denies certain things personally that his company and agents published on their own and various other web sites! It seems now the C151 villa bubble was nothing but “blurt” and has now burst. Hanno Soth admits his C151 web sites are out of date, but we wonder whether that is just a smoke screen to hide business as usual when he can now get it. On the C151 web site it states “C151 villas will be owned by private investors and managed by C151 Management Group” and goes on to say that Colliers International, a real estate sales company, is its sole international sales agent. But in an email to us Hanno Soth stated “Pt. Hanno Bali - does not now or have we ever sold Indonesian freehold real estate to foreigners”. This seems to be more than a mistake by Mr. Soth; a deliberate falsehood and spin, a tricky lie. We do not doubt PT Hanno Bali has never sold freehold real estate to foreigners, because it can not, but we believe the company clearly did and perhaps still does offer villas for sale to foreigners, the “shrewd” difference being “sell” Vs. “sold”; you can advertise you sell something you can not, but it can never be sold. In the same email Mr. Soth said “Pt. Hanno Bali has offered leases to foreigners interested in investing in our projects”, but we do not believe this either, as his web site talks about investment, not rental. It may well be a very shrewd and selective Mr. Soth has leased out some villas to foreigners, but that we believe is not how his business fundamentally operated. You only have to do a cursory search of the Internet to find statements like “Club 151 (C151) makes owning a dream Villa easy, affordable and profitable”.

Even on PT Hanno Bali’s own web site is a press cutting which says “PT Hanno Bali's Seminyak properties, consisting of both leasehold and freehold”. So we are sure PT Hanno Bali “sold” “freehold” villas to very wealthy foreigners using PMA (private investment company) formations; Hanno even said his villa resorts were operated under PMA approvals and that PT Hanno Bali itself is a PMA company. It is hard to clarify exactly how Hanno Soth “sold” his villas, but it is clear his company did market their villas as being for sale, and it also clear things are not all sunshine and light with C151 right now.

For one, when you visit and search Colliers International it appears they no longer sell villas for PT Hanno Bali, despite the fact Hanno Soth’s web site says they do. When we contacted Colliers about this we were promised a response from the regional director in charge of that area but never got it. Hanno Soth himself said “Not on the Colliers website - because we are not actively marketing our Villas in favour of developing our own resort properties”. However, a search on the Internet revealed that sure enough, Colliers were still offering C151 villas in Bali for sale on their Hong Kong Residential Property site. We wondered why these listings were not appearing for searches on their main site; it almost seemed they had buried the C151 listings there for specific customer referrals only, not for general public discovery or digestion. We put Mr. Soth’s comments about not being on Colliers any more and that the statement these villas were for sale was fraudulent as they could not be under Indonesian law, but Colliers have declined to substantially reply.

Hanno Soth also, unfortunately under a caveat of confidence so we can not state specifics, indicated things were about to change as a result of his being “frustrated by Indonesia and its bureaucratic and yes often corrupt system”, hmmmm. Could this perhaps tie in with the recent changes by the Indonesian Government regarding PMA formations to stop them being used as foreign tax dodges (implemented back-to-back with offshore companies in places like the British Virgin Islands)? That PMA’s for villas can no longer apparently be “obtained”?

We believe the PMA route, if that was the one used by PT Hanno Bali as it seems, is just as legally flawed as the other methods by which foreigners attempt to “own” or otherwise control villas in Bali; especially villas offered for rental to tourists as C151 villas clearly are. Trying to see through the seeming smokescreen of misinformation and pick out the threads from the yarn from what Hanno told us, it seems clear PT Hanno Bali operates by both “institutional” financing which allows them to operate “resorts”, and by selling villas to the rich and famous by way of a PMA in their, or their customer’s nominated offshore company’s name; the villas managed then, as specified on C151’s web site, by C151 Management Services. If we are right, under the rules of a PMA, the sales by PMA part of all this would be totally unlawful in that potential PMA holders have to present proposals for their business venture, not simply take over an existing or someone else’s commenced business plan. Of course regulations in Indonesia can be overlooked if you have the right generous bank balance and / or know the right people.

Hanno Soth certainly appears to know the right people. To get the development rights to 11 islands near Singapore in what is ear marked to be a free trade zone must have taken some handshaking; we wonder whose! PT Hanno Bali scooped an award from the Indonesian Ministry of Justice in 2007 no less, the Citra Insani award for people’s innovation. Quite why the Ministry of Justice is handing out awards for innovation we can not fathom, but there it is. Yes, that is the same Indonesian Ministry of Justice which in 2007 got caught laundering / acting as middleman for a transfer of money for Tommy Suharto. Kind of ironic therefore that Hanno Soth told us “I think you will see this announced in the coming weeks as we also publish our own complaints about the government”. Is that the same Indonesian Government which often seems at loggerheads with various governmental departments or factions loyal to the Suharto family? Is this anything to do with a crack down on PMA run villa operations which are back-to-backed with offshore tax exempt companies predominantly in the British Virgin Islands? Isn’t the British Virgin Islands the Suharto family’s favored offshore location also?

So is PT Hanno Bali actually doing well and adequately financed, or is this a case of “Flim-Flam”? Soth commented to us that PT Hanno Bali had to buy back quote “most” of their villas from clients after the last Bali bombs (August 31st, 2005). His company is marketed as being well funded as it now appears to be embarking on super luxury and anti-aging resorts for the rich and famous on exotic millionaire only islands next to Singapore, or is it!. It looks like his C151 projects in Bali have been in progress for quite some time and that he signed up for rights to the 11 Bintan islands in 2003, but nothing has happened past conceptual drawings and marketing text!

We wonder who PT Hanno Bali’s institutional financiers are; whether they could be the Suharto family who are presumably finding it harder to move money around these days. After all, with the straps on foreign cash for such high risk, high ticket tourism projects because of rampant corruption and terrorism fears for Indonesia, who on earth would be willing to be put up large amounts of cash for an offshore private investment company whose director perhaps has a very questionable past; probably not any of the more mainstream investors! The Suharto’s certainly seem to like invest their ill-gotten gains in Indonesian tourism, just look at the number of family owned luxury hotels in Bali they have (see: Suharto’s Bali Hotels), plus ex-con Tommy was meant to be interested in sinking millions into a marina at Kuta. But the talk seems to have evaporated somewhat with the world banks watching out for Suharto’s stolen billions. Or maybe PT Hanno Bali has no finance at all; maybe it is bust in all but name.

Ultimately to us it all looks like just another shady company run by an even shadier individual in Indonesia, who tried to put the friend that supported him for 18 months when he first arrived in Bali and under a financial cloud in jail. To which we can only say, “Hanno Soth, you surely must be one of if not the lowest of the expatriate low in Bali, and that is a long way down. It is a shame the death of Carmen Corrine Herbert could not have been investigated as it seems would have happened had her cremation not been so soon after her death. If it were not for the questions over Hawaii, the nasty police complaint you made in Bali, the multiple contradictions that show you are a liar and a fraud, the seemingly ludicrous terms and conditions on your web site that we believe show your aggressive and untenable legal and other mind set, we would actually greatly admire what you have allegedly built up for yourself. But in light of what we have discovered about you, your villas and your business, we can not understand why anyone would want to stay in one of your highly priced accommodation cubicles, nor can we understand why anyone without money to burn would invest a single cent in anything you did less you were a bakso vender during a famine. For us you appear to epitomize everything that is bad and unfortunately typical in Indonesia, and represent yet another very clear reason for people to avoid the country.”

Indonesia; Give us (me) more; it’s not enough; wah, wah.

2009-05-03T21:33:00.001+12:00

Indonesia; Give us (me) more; it’s not enough; wah, wah.
By Gordon Brown
Oct 11, 2007, 06:00

On top of tsunami relief fund news which confirms foreign aid and grants to Indonesia get stolen wholesale from the top down, haven't we all had enough of the illegitimate murderous yobs in Jakarta giving a cursory “OK, yeh, thanks!” to the last hand out and then seconds later screaming they want more? Actually, it seems Jakarta gets donated western dollars for one thing or another and then bawls out it needs money for the very same thing again; no surprises why!

Indonesian State Flag (honest version - look close)

Indonesia after China and the USA (of course) are regularly the world's third biggest emitter of greenhouse gases because of vast forest fires used to unlawfully clear the land for commercial purposes. That is on top of the damage done to the environment and natural habitat of Indonesia by wholesale illegal logging. All of this is a by-product of corruption where the authorities are either involved or paid off to look the other way, where many of the companies that unlawfully clear or even torch woodland are owned by senior Indonesian political figures. But of course, this is somehow the west’s problem and they need to pay Indonesia, again and again for the same thing, to prevent it from happening, when really the grants and aid pays for smoke, as the culprits will continue to rape the land and destroy the environment anyway.

The poor old Australian tax payer, with the World’s most aggressive and efficient domestic tax service, pays the majority of this money for old smoke. And isn’t it amazing at how precise the Australian tax man is at making sure every Australian resident pays every penny they owe while the Australian Government dishes it out to Jakarta knowing the money they pay will get whittled away to virtually nothing by the time it gets to where it is meant to be going! Truly the Australian people should be given free holidays in Bali as they have already each paid enough to the smirking Javanese and Sumatran rulers for around two weeks a year in a 5 star Nusa Dua hotel at industry rates (see: John Howard, Indonesian Citizen). No wonder the Balinese hoteliers, often owned by the very same people who bleed money out of foreign aid, smile so much at western tourists; Ah welcome Mr. Smith, we are glad you have decided to stay once and pay twice!

In early September we first heard that Australian Prime Minister John Howard and Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono signed an agreement giving $A30,000,000 to Jakarta, the next thing we hear is Indonesia's Environment Minister, Rachmat Witoelar, whining what they get is not enough and he would like Australia to contribute more; then we hear the agreement has somehow become worth $A100,000,0000. We wonder if they call John Howard “Kitty” or more likely “Kitty Kitty” in Jakarta! But the Aussie premier and his government buddies have not finished rolling over and purring just yet, oh no.

Professor Emil Salim who advises President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono is now telling Australia to stop talking about $A200,000,000 as it is not enough. Wait a minute, we thought John Howard had first pledged $A30 million, then we hear it is A$100 million, but now it is A$200 million according to Jakarta, but even that is not sufficient! OK Australian tax payers you thought that was bad enough? So here comes the really bad news; the $A200 million Jakarta has divulged the Australian Government is paying out in its Initiative on Forests and Climate is apparently in addition to the $A100 million Howard signed away separately to Yudhoyono. OK, ok, we lied; the really bad news has not yet come. This is still not enough! Indonesia now say they want approximately $A2,000,000,000 to stop the unlawful and illegal forest logging and land clearance.

Don’t forget, Jakarta is talking about western tax payers paying to stop their own unlawful acts. In our last Bali BS Update we reported on how the Jakarta thugs were grabbing vast swathes of land from the Dayak people in Kalimantan on the basis the Dayaks do not have a land registry / documentation system and therefore have no bureaucratic evidence to support their claims to land title! Of course the Dayaks have used a word of mouth honesty system that worked perfectly well for years until the rapists from Jakarta came along. So western and especially Australian tax payers are to pay the Indonesian environmental terrorists not to destroy land that does not even belong to them?

OK, Australia makes a lot of money out of Indonesia, mostly thanks to the nepotistic and corrupt system that favours certain country’s corporations, but that money ends up primarily in the bank accounts of the major shareholders. Isn’t it a fact that the average Australian gets robbed in this process and that if Indonesia’s natural resources were managed and licensed / contracted out legally and transparently, Australia being so close in proximity would get massive economic benefit anyway? Maybe even that the extra competitiveness, aside from benefiting the everyday Indonesians who get raped a lot more than western tax payers, would actually generate more jobs and wealth in Australia, just less corporate profit?

When it comes to voting time at home, will you see and vote according to the greater honest picture, or will you be bought with the same old rhetoric about immigration? Australians especially; OK if you are happy with all of this and paying to holiday in Bali on top, more for you. If you are fed up with seeing your tax dollars go in foreign aid, where so much is whittled away in corruption but yet nothing is done (for the benefit of major western corporation shareholders), then vote with your brain and your holiday dollars; stay away from Bali until the nonsense stops. First Indonesia has to live up to its legal responsibilities over land ownership (to stop stealing land and giving it to businessmen for a bung), then it has to apply the rule of law over illegal deforestation, then it has to ensure and guarantee that all foreign aid will end up where it is intended, then and only then can the west meaningfully donate aid to Jakarta. In the meantime, it is nothing but a sick joke. Do not go to Indonesia; do not pay for your holidays twice.

The Indonesian Human Rights “Joke” (Komnas HAM), sick but now quantified

2009-05-03T21:31:00.001+12:00

The Indonesian Human Rights “Joke” (Komnas HAM), sick but now quantified
By Dipa Nusantara Aidit
Oct 11, 2007, 05:29

HAM ASS, the nasty Indonesian human rights joke

The thing about the inherently corrupt is they are exposed to the truth about what they should be doing, then try to convince themselves and others are they are doing just that by spouting volumes of meaningless bureaucratic dribble into which the occasional clanger is dropped. After years of the world pointing at Jakarta and telling them they are one of the most human rights abusing hate state in the world, after years of Jakarta “style” political spin continually denying it in apparent confusion between what they should be yet actually are doing. At last come some statistics and facts within the Javanese garbage that quantifies just how inhuman the Indonesian state really is.

Indonesia’s National Commission on Human Rights (Komnas HAM) spokesman Hesti Armiwulan has in the last few days said the new members of the commission appointed recently will “continue to prioritize investigations of major human rights cases” and “will follow up and monitor the work on those cases done by the previous commission members”. Ah, so the previous commission members somehow didn’t manage to put state mass murders into one pile, low volume state murders into another, state rapes in another, state child abuse in another, and so on; let alone bring any cases to trial! Well we knew that already, didn’t we? That Indonesia has done nothing except pay lip service and therefore is in breach of its international obligations under the human rights conventions it signed up to years ago, with not a single complaint being investigated or adjudicated properly. So the new commission will continue to do the good work of the previous commission huh? We think it more than appropriate in several respects to hereon refer to the commission as HAMASS (HAM ASS), as they are clearly a dumb a whitewashing instrument of terror.

Hesti Armiwulan then shone light on how bogged down human rights “investigations” get in Indonesia when he announced that 15 investigators will visit Talang Sari in South Sumatra where the Indonesian military murdered around 200 villagers in 1989. We are not sure if that means HAMASS failed to visit the crime scene before or if this is a good time to send another investigative party, emphasis on “party”. Of course the 1960’s mass murder of thousands of Indonesians’ has an expired human rights sell by date, so HAMASS can not investigate those thank goodness. Plus instances of mass human rights violations (genocide) by Indonesia forced out into the International domain, such as with East Timor, are out of HAMASS' hands. Although the fact that the East Timorese mass state murders were first swept under the carpet by Jakarta refusing to prosecute anyone and which now are being absolved in the UN boycotted stand up comic special “Peace and Reconciliation Commission”, shows exactly what Jakarta requires HAMASS to do with cases under its mandate; nothing except cover them up.

Hesti of HAMASS went on to drop his hate nation further in it when he divulged that they currently receive an average 3 to 4 new cases per day, had a backlog of around 19,000 cases, of which HAMASS (as opposed to the previous recipient, the totally inappropriately named Ministry of Justice and Human Rights) received the last 583. This is a basic admission that Indonesia, as has been stated by human rights organizations around the world, has never, ever completed an investigation of human rights abuse in Indonesia, let alone brought any state criminals to trial. Nor will they of course while their so called investigators are going on parties to events they have no authority to investigate, as the TNI do not acknowledge their jurisdiction over its members. The 19,000 cases of human rights abuse registered with the Indonesian authorities naturally does not include every human rights abuse case in Indonesia as many people can not register complaints when they are dead or even under threat of death if they do so.

Recent human rights abuses that have taken place in West Papua for example include the abduction and assault by TNI members of the 17 year old daughter of a Papuan pro-independence leader. While Human Rights Watch state the police in that province, which Made Pastika the former Balinese police chief and wannabe Bali Governor once headed, routinely use rape and murder as a weapon against the civilian population there. Many human rights abuses (state murders) in Indonesia are written off by Jakarta as tribal clashes, but the problem with that is Jakarta arms and supports certain pro-Indonesian tribes to kill those who would be free of the stench of Java. In addition to the fact the 19,000 or so file 13’d human rights cases are just a fraction of the real number due to the inability of victims to register their complaint, a vast swathe of people have not bothered filing theirs yet.

You see, under the International Conventions on Human Rights, once you have filed, that is it; you can not file again at a later date even if your original complaint was ignored. Indonesia has not signed up to every or even many human rights conventions as yet but where it has it often limited its liabilities under them by adding conditions (“reservations”), plus Indonesia presently makes sure only Jakarta can adjudicate whether a human rights violation has occurred or not by refusing to sign up to the optional first protocols which allow international courts to receive and rule on cases (see: Indonesian Human Rights List). Many human rights victims are holding on for if and when Jakarta puts the matter beyond their own broom, as the Indonesian Government have said they will do clearly under pressure from the International community. But Jakarta will not sign up to the “full Monty” on human rights until it knows that the TNI and police can be trusted not to commit any more such crimes against humanity.

However, signing up unreservedly to the conventions and also the critical first protocols is always done on the basis of no retrospective liability. So, if and when it happens, Indonesia will basically just have to stop their human rights abuse against these victims or face the dire consequences. The signing of the relevant full conventions and protocols will just guarantee victims that the abuse will then stop, not that they can get justice for what happened before. Of course this should not stop Jakarta from properly investigating the cases already filed with them, pursuing the culprits and putting them into jail, but in all cynicism it will. The International community as they always do for selfish cause will champion the fact one day Jakarta has signed up in full to human rights and no longer has any ability to wholesale renege on their obligations. While the 19,000 or whatever it then is cases already filed with HAMASS will undoubtedly be continually investigated in the depths of file 13.

We only have to look at the farce regarding the state murder of human rights activist Munir Said Thalib and where it has come thus far under sole Indonesian investigation and jurisdiction, even with the massive amount of pressure from the International community. After Munir’s murderer Polycarpus Priyanto was convicted and then let off under extremely pathetic legal grounds (no witness had seen him plot the murder); after he had confidently predicted in a sea of carefully worded statements in which he did not deny he administered the lethal dose of arsenic to Munir, just that he was not guilty of murder. How Priyanto was clearly linked to the Indonesian Intelligence Service and the fact that recorded phone conversations showed the judge had been briefed and agreed to act for Priyanto in the state’s best interests. How ultimately under burgeoning worldwide pressure, the Indonesian president was forced to agree to get to the bottom of the murder committed by Indonesians in international airspace. How various agencies and law enforcement officers [sic] in Indonesia all tried to avoid being called upon to do the investigation. Where has this all come? Why, Indonesia is about to prosecute one of the airline’s executives in his role in the murder, which appears to have been arranging the documentation for the murderer Priyanto to be on the same flight as Munir. No retrial of Priyanto, no trial of the judge involved, and no trial of the Indonesian Intelligence Service members involved in his murder.

So we predict Indonesia is still a long way off being able to sign up to a set of international obligations on human rights which they can be held accountable to. The ongoing TNI fueled murders show no sign of abating and with the TNI insisting they rule over Indonesia and the Indonesian Government, there is no sign that Jakarta will be able to fulfill their objectives of full accession to and implementation of the real meat of the human rights conventions in the foreseeable future. This year the Indonesian House of Representatives said they had all party agreement to implement the Treaty of Rome on human rights which will allow complaints to be heard outside Indonesia, in a real justice system. We say “BS”. We say the Indonesian House of Representatives know by saying they hope to do this buys them more murderous time with the International community. We say Jakarta knows it has thousands more state murders to commit yet.

We say, do not believe the BS from Jakarta, vote with your holiday and investment dollars and boycott the evil nation until they respect human life.

The Phuket Air Disaster says more and less about Indonesia

2009-05-03T21:29:00.002+12:00

The Phuket Air Disaster says more and less about Indonesia
By Tadakuma Iwai
Oct 11, 2007, 04:31

One-Two-Gone Budget Aircraft

It seems only just after the flames of ill fated 1-2 Go Airlines flight number OG269 from Bangkok to Phuket had been extinguished, that the blame and muck throwing started. Reports about the weather conditions spurred the airline involved to saying wind shear or even a down draft was likely responsible. Then came news from various aviation groups the airline had really old planes of questionable maintenance pedigree and had fired many or all of its western pilots in favour of lower cost Indonesian pilots. The airline responded that its planes were still considered safe and that Indonesian pilots had been chosen because of their experience with the aircraft. Not to be besmirched, the Indonesians started making accusations about the air control systems on the ground at Phuket claiming that half the wind shear detectors were not operating.

Actually after 4 days of bad weather and two other aircraft landing safely at Phuket International Airport just ahead of him reporting strong wind sheer, 1-2 Go Airlines OG269 pilot Arif Mulyadi must have heard and been prepared for this. Subsequently the ill fated aircraft attempted to make the landing but the pilot appears to have tried to abort and pull up beyond the point of commitment / no return. The testimonial evidence is the aircraft started to climb but at too low an altitude, too close to the ground; so as the airplane nose went up the tail section came down and hit the runway. It would seem that the aircraft was not fitted with automatic landing systems and the pilot might not have trusted his instruments or ability; maybe he was unable to see the runway in the driving rain under a sky of dense black clouds.

As it happens it would appear the wind shear detectors were operational but being solar powered and having been subjected to 4 days of black clouds, half of them no longer had sufficient charge to function and / or report their data. Experts point to the previous two aircraft reporting severe wind shear and the recent historical weather conditions as making anything the detectors had to report mute anyway, as everyone flying aircraft in and out of Phuket were well aware of the fact that severe side winds existed. Indonesia’s unwanted and uncalled for although typical blame others culture comments were clearly Freudian given the wholesale areas of system failure within their own ATC systems, as highlighted by last years Adam Air flight disappearance which brought reluctant Indonesian confirmation their radar tracking systems in that airspace had not worked for over 12 months. When it was pointed out that Thailand’s ATC was a modern, well equipped and strictly regulated operation Jakarta, sensing a shot to their own foot was imminent, let that one go.

Because Jakarta’s inferior complex would not go away leaving them feeling slighted and when their equally childish knee jerk need to blame someone else kicked in again, Indonesian sources then started berating the air traffic controllers in Phuket, saying the pilot had requested permission to abort and had been given it. But whether anyone can say the ATC members hold greater or rather more accurate aircraft to ground data than the approaching aircraft and / or hold sway over the pilot as to whether to abort or not, clearly puts that argument or rather buck passing in considerable doubt. The final line of defense as they see they needed it in Jakarta by way of conjecture over the possibility of aircraft failure, given the plane had an unknown service history some say, seems to have abated in favour of human error.

It appears likely a combination of a lesser equipped aircraft (a 23 year old MD 82 aircraft) and ultimately pilot error were to blame, but can anyone really point a finger solely the pilot? Well, it seems they are, but only time and hopefully honesty will tell the truth about the ill fated flight in which 90 people including the pilot died. Arif Mulyadi we understand did not die immediately, but in hospital and therefore we are sure in a great deal of pain. Apparently the airline through their parent operating arm Orient Thai airlines along with other budget carriers in Asia have received warnings about their safety procedures in recent months, so the lack of cabin service is not the only thing cut price travelers need to take into account when they book their cheap seats. Of course, this event on top of Indonesia’s own airline safety circus with Indonesian carriers apparently going up and down in the nation’s safety league having less to do with fact and more with fiction, or should we say “friction”, does nothing to commend any form of air travel connected with Indonesia. When Indonesian air safety officials went to the EU to submit data to avert an impending European Union ban in their airspace (of Indonesian aircraft), the Indonesians reportedly could not even specify the number of aircraft each carrier had, so little credibility could be given to the claims that each aircraft had been inspected.

AV-10 Bronco as used by the TNI to murder East Timorese civilians

What most people missed about the whole nasty Phuket accident though is historical data on the Phuket air crash pilot, and it is perhaps detail we should all remember when considering flying on Indonesian aircraft and / or with Indonesian pilots. They say never to speak ill of the dead, but Arif Mulyadi was an ex-TNI (Indonesian military) pilot who had almost certainly murdered a large number of civilians in East Timor. You see after graduating college in 1974, Lieutenant Colonel Mulyadi was stationed in the former Portuguese colony in 1977 and flew AV-10 Bronco jets specifically supplied by the USA for the purpose of bombing vast amounts of bush and cropland to quell the insurgency that remained for 2 years after the cowardly subversive Indonesian invasion, in which TNI soldiers even stooped so low as to dress as East Timorese Fretlin soldiers; on that point, we hope honest news of the inquiry into the Balibo murders will come soon. Of course as the world knows the TNI murdered innocent civilians en mass as well, so Arif Mulyadi in his nice shiny new AV-10 Bronco must have known what he was doing when he dropped his payloads of hate. We wonder if his cowardly acts over East Timor indelibly painted his spine yellow and was the fundamental reason for the Phuket air crash he presided over; lack of character and conviction (backbone).

In all telling and typical form, it was also revealed by the family of the dead pilot that he had only retired from the murderous TNI Air Force two years ago but that he had been a commercial pilot long before he retired, working for Star Air, Sempati and others. Typical form in that the Indonesian TNI get involved in other businesses to make money, because only 30% of their budget comes from Jakarta; the rest they have to earn. So Arif Mulyadi it seems went from one airline to another and finally ended up with One Two Go. Does a person wish Arif rest in peace or rot in hell? The answer is up to the individual and of course the notion of doing wrong in East Timor was surely muted by the fact the USA for their own nasty selfish gain was so closely supporting Jakarta in their murderous efforts. Perhaps we should not therefore consider boycotting Indonesian airlines or rather flights with Indonesian pilots at the helm alone, but also American aircraft as well. However with Britain and Australia also ultimately complicit in supporting the murderous regime in Jakarta, where does it all end?

Our suggestion is for foreigners with conscience to support East Timor, not Indonesia when it comes to holidays, goods and investments. Yes, we are aware that East Timor is not a calm paradise right now, but would point out the reason for this; Indonesia’s clear bloody interference with certain armed militias to this very day. Remember this when you consider spending money with or in Indonesia; that Jakarta still murders in East Timor despite acknowledging their independence internationally. Please remember the thousands, perhaps millions of people across Indonesia who have been murdered or have suffered enormously at the hands of the hate state based in Jakarta and vote with your dollars. Remember, when you fly Indonesian, stay in a hotel in Indonesia, buy Indonesian, you are probably buying from a murderer.

This article ends with the conclusion that the Phuket air crash only sullied further the already gutter reputation of Indonesia’s air industry and rightly so. Of course the Indonesians now are doing what is suggested to them in order to get European routes and their certification pride back, but understand a few months of training and the inevitable resulting triumphant PR will not change the facts; Indonesia has one of the most dangerous aviation industries and airspaces in the world. If you are at all nervous about flying or have any form of conscience, Indonesia is one country you should avoid for a very long time.

You'd have to be on drugs to go to Bali, the Indonesian Animal Farm!

2009-05-03T21:28:00.003+12:00

You'd have to be on drugs to go to Bali, the Indonesian Animal Farm!
By Eric Arthur Blair
Aug 17, 2007, 06:13

Bali Judge Martin Bidara, Indonesian pig

Where do we begin? OK, first a well documented fact list about narcotics in Bali and Indonesia. The Indonesian police work with and make money from the narcotics rings operated by the Golkar party youth wing called "Laskar Bali" (the main drugs operation on the island). An EU consul in Bali recently warned foreigners that Balinese police were planting drugs on westerners in order to be able to extort money from them. The cheapest place to buy narcotics in Bali is in jail, where cell bosses actually demand you take and become addicted to drugs; a recent example of this was Michelle Leslie’s first blood sample proved negative for narcotics, her second test just days after being jailed proved positive, so it was either spiked or she took drugs while in jail. Muslims receive lighter jail sentences than non-Muslims in Indonesia; a documented fact and probably why Michelle Leslie wore Muslim robes and claimed to have converted to Islam.

When the Balinese mafia police are ordered by Jakarta to crack down on narcotics they either target drug rings / customers outside Laskar or get one of their street dealers to nail a customer; the dealer indicates to waiting police when a westerner has bought drugs from them and walks away with the police always claiming the dealer could not be caught as he ran or sped away on a motorbike. The Indonesians generally only close down narcotics manufacturers and smugglers when the Australian Federal Police tip them off; vis a vis the Bali 9.

Yet more Indonesian narcotics disgraces come from the fact a foreigner caught with personal use quantities of drugs in Bali will typically get two years in jail, unless they can convince the judge they are addicts in which case they typically will get 3 months. Hence the plethora of charged westerners all claiming to be in rehab; narcotics rehab in Indonesia?! So a western tourist who goes to Bali and decides to smoke a joint based on the fact there are so many street dealers around it must be tolerated, gets a longer sentence than a foreigner who goes to Bali with the intention of taking drugs while they are there. Forget the fact the large number of street dealers makes you feel it is OK which, as they are there with the consent and protection of the police constitutes entrapment, it is mighty odd to say the least that a premeditated crime carries a lesser sentence than an un-meditated crime for the same act. Also of course comes the fact that criminal investigations which should fail because the evidence is compromised, as with Schapelle Corby, go on to prosecution in Bali. Plus the police can detain you for up to 60 days (90 days with extension), during which time you will probably be required to take narcotics by the cell boss. Plus the fact Human Rights Watch states the Indonesian police use rape against their victims. Plus the fact the legal basis of innocence until proven guilty is often ignored by Indonesian judges. Then you can see it is very easy to be falsely accused and then convicted or extorted for alleged narcotics offences in Bali. So now onto recent narcotics cases in Bali which makes this even worse, when you though that is not possible.

Italian Andrea Baldini, Belgium chef Jean Francois Brouck and English / Australian DJ Nicholas Bernard Taylor are all being charged with narcotics possession in Bali after a police raid in June. What makes this case interesting, apart from the fact this year’s preferred legal hack (Balinese lawyer) Erwin Siregar, accused by many to be as bent as they come, is the defending lawyer yet again after last year’s favorites, the Lubis sisters (see: Bali lawyers) fell out of favour with the police and judiciary over comments they made which showed large sums of money were needed for corruption in the Schapelle Corby case; the irony being they were working on the case with Erwin Siregar of course. Anyway, what makes the above trio’s case interesting is that they clearly never had the chance to buy their way out of trouble, as most people do when they are accused of such things on the “paradise” island. You see, the police are not that clever and blurted out the fact they had been following Andrea Baldini for two weeks before making the bust. They also proudly stated that Baldini had offered them lots of money to make the problem go away, as it normally would in Bali. The fact the police made a point of trumpeting they would not accept a bribe plus the fact Baldini was followed for 14 days likely means just one thing; the police had been paid by the Italian’s enemies to put him in jail. Unlucky for the chef and DJ who were both it seems working unlawfully in Bali, without permits, but deportation is the least of their worries right now!

Speaking of money, Bali’s narcotics police, chefs and Erwin Siregar, let us now ponder the plight of poor Ronald Ramsay, brother of immensely wealthy Gordon Ramsay, the world’s favorite TV chef and cookery book writer. Poor Ronald got busted for narcotics possession in February this year and is now being charged for drugs possession. Hmmmmm, Ramsay was arrested in February while Baldini (above) was arrested in June but they both come to trial at the same time; seems Baldini was put on the fast-track! Anyway this is a story about how obviously corrupt Erwin Siregar and the police are in Bali, because of what Siregar recently said. You see Siregar is defending Ronald Ramsay, of course, and is on record as publicly pleading through the media for brother Gordon Ramsay to come to Bali as his brother, arrested Ronald, “needed him”. Such compassion you might think, but then ask yourself what the hell Ronald’s lawyer is doing making such a request. Surely, if Ronald was in a poor state and Ramsey was being urged to come to Bali to see him, the British Foreign Office would have made that request in private right? So why then was Erwin Siregar pleading for Ramsey to come to Bali? We are sure the same reason Ronald is not now getting off lightly, because the plea was for Ramsey’s wallet to come to his brother’s aid, not the famous chef himself. And now because Ramsey’s wallet did not come, Ronald is now going to jail for longer then he might.

Erwin Siregar, police station bound, with some “publicity” and “lobbying” budget?

Shame for Erwin of course as well as some “publicity” and “lobbying” budget (memories of unaccounted for thousands in the Michelle Leslie case and the reasons given by the Lister cronies for wanting hundreds of thousands dollars from the Australian Government in the Schapelle Corby case) would have made him an even wealthier man. Before the advent of western media interest requiring “lawyer” involvement pushing narcotics bribe prices up, Erwin was just a humble lawyer in a humble office in a not so nice area of Denpasar. Now Siregar can take expensive holidays abroad to Japan (big $ and please note, not Australia) and afford many other luxuries in life. But wealthy Gordon Ramsay’s refusal to come and “bail” his brother out in Bali with some significant lawyer’s expenses must have burst Erwin’s recent hopes! Although Erwin we are told is onto a good earner with some dodgy dealings with the German consul for Bali; if anyone has information on this, we would love to do a story on the unsavory foreign consuls that operate in Bali one day soon.

Now onto the disgusting and all telling recent events connected with Erwin Siregar’s other famous clients, some of the so called “Bali Nine” who are on death row. You may recall the Australian authorities are taking some deserved criticism over this case because they disclosed the details of the drugs operation to the Indonesians, who “knew nothing” about it previously of course, rather than arrest the Bali 9 when they arrived in Australia. Why is that so bad? Because Indonesia has the death penalty for narcotics smuggling, Australia does not, but by doing it this way the Australian authorities have basically broken their own and the International agreements on human rights. Anyway, six members of the Bali Nine are on death row and three of them are Siregar’s clients, although our story now is about the other three ring members on death row who have a different lawyer, Farhat Abbas; Australians Matthew Norman, Si Yi Chen and Tan Duc Thanh Nguyen. You see, Farhat Abbas had made an appeal to the Supreme Court in Jakarta via the Denpasar District Court in Bali for the death penalty to be commuted on constitutional grounds; that their execution would be unconstitutional because there is no proof anyone would have died as a result of the drugs the Bali Nine were carrying and therefore executing them would be unlawful.

This week a Denpasar court official let it slip to the media that the three judges in Bali have denied the appeal, although it now is the decision of the Jakarta Supreme Court to decide if these three men get murdered by the state or not. Were the Balinese judges and Indonesian authorities sorry about the immense premature grief and suffering this leak means to the condemned and their friend and families? Why no, they are very, very angry that the news got out! Chief judge in this case in Bali Martin Bidara, who clearly by token of his own name is not Balinese, is furious. But why is Judge Bidara so angry? The answer has nothing to do about security or the emotional effect on Matthew Norman, Si Yi Chen and Tan Duc Thanh Nguyen, it because it shows the three Bali judges, with Martin Bidara at the helm considers the Indonesian constitution and protections thereof do not apply to foreigners; Indonesians are more equal than foreigners in Bali. That’s right, Bali’s senior most judiciary have been caught committing discrimination, racism; that is why they are so angry.

Normally the matter (the 3 Bali judge’s decision) would just stay in a sealed envelope for Jakarta to ultimately review and decide, without implicating the judges in Bali in their ultimate decision. However, this leak now shows all foreigners that the highest court in Bali considers them to have less human rights then Indonesians, official. We suspect the pressure being put on Indonesian president “SBY” that death sentences would be bad for business, will or rather has already been relayed to the Supreme Court, but it is too late for the courts in Bali, this is absolute proof that they discriminate racially against westerners. Bali is a modern day Animal Farm and the Indonesians are, well, pigs.

So, if you are an occasional drug user, become an addict before you go to Bali. If you do not take drugs and therefore can think a little bit more clearly, ask yourself why in hell you would want to go to an island where you are beneath the Indonesian pigs. Please, these events prove foreigners are nothing but wallet carriers to be abused out of jealousy whenever circumstances permit; please, do not go to Bali / Indonesia, do not invest in Bali / Indonesia and do not buy Indonesian goods until the 3 Bali judges are themselves in jail for racism.

Bali BS are terrorists according to the Balinese police’s chief murderer

2009-05-03T19:34:00.007+12:00

Bali BS are terrorists according to the Balinese police’s chief murderer
By A C Doyle
Aug 14, 2007, 09:59

I Nyoman Gde Suweta, chief of Bali's detectives, second in command of the Balinese police, a totally deranged and murderous jackass

Just when you thought Bali’s police couldn’t get any more obscenely stupid or nasty, second in command of the Bali Polda, I Nyoman Gde Suweta goes and opens his uneducated, murderous mouth and proves us all wrong. The Bali police’s number two wants Bali BS listed as a terrorist organization and the EU Aviation Safety Commission as enemies of the state of Indonesia! Why? Well because the Balinese police are like that, very nasty, trying to get extreme interpretations of the “law” in Bali, no doubt dreamt up whilst whiling away the time in one of the brothels they operate in Sanur. According to dimwit I Nyoman Gde Suweta, what Bali BS and the EU Aviation Safety Commission say makes people terrified! No really, that is it! The fact what we and for that matter the safety experts say overseas in English does not terrorize Indonesian speakers in Indonesia is somehow lost to the dumb cop, or should we say avoided! You see, we are sure his words in particular are meant to be a precursor for trying to get a certain British citizen’s name back onto a regional Interpol watch list and to justify his name being placed on it previously. So then our latest story, “Groan, groan, not that guy again!” of Mark Austin. But wait; there is attempted murder and identity theft now!

Mark Austin recently has been the subject of reported Bali pedophile Bert Vierstra and alleged drugs dealer Roy Thompson’s multiple derogatory Internet postings attempting to defame the Englishman and also “prove” he owns Bali BS. Despite the fact Mark quite appropriately points out “Why wouldn’t I admit to owning Bali BS if I did? I own Nasty Bali and state that out loud enough! What are the Balinese police going to do, shoot me dead twice?” But this story is not about the twitterings of two very sad expatriates in Bali (are there any other kind?); it is about what Bert and Roy got a hold of that connects their self-defeating efforts with Bali’s murderous mafia police. You see, Roy Thompson got a scanned image copy of Mark Austin’s passport from John M. Daniels of Bali Discovery Tours who in turn got it from the deputy chief of Bali’s police. Below is a copy of an email from Roy Thompson to someone we agreed anonymity to; we have also seen an email from Thompson to Bert Vierstra containing the same passport image.

Mark Austin's passport and text to show who is responsible and what was planned - Majaphit Bali is the well known alias for Roy Thompson

Why is that so important, such a big deal? Well, first it is totally illegal; the police are not meant to divulge details of or provide contents from their so called investigation files to third parties of course; so the existence of Mark Austin’s passport being circulated by a very nasty little expatriate in Bali is proof enough at least one police officer should immediately go to jail, but do not hold your breath! Second, the fact Roy Thompson of Ubud divulged the source of the file, our old “friend” Jack Daniels of PT Bali Discovery Tours, when he forwarded the illicitly obtained passport image on to other people including Bert Vierstra pretty much goes to prove Mark Austin’s allegations that Jack Daniels not only obtained confidential information from the police files, but that Daniels received information on his whereabouts and paid to have him murdered. You see, it also a documented fact confirmed by law firm Purba and Partners of Jakarta, that the Balinese police placed an unlawful Interpol watch order against Mark Austin when he lived in Thailand and that details of his home address and movements were reported back to the Balinese police. Mark Austin says this information was then given to Jack Daniels of Bali Discovery Tours, who tried to have him killed.

Are we sure this was an unlawful Interpol watch order? Yes, there are strict guidelines given to police forces by Interpol governing the conditions under which a watch order can be made; the only official investigation against Mr. Austin at the time was for alleged libel against Jack Daniels, which certainly did not meet Interpol’s conditions! Are we sure there was a murder attempt against Mark Austin which coincided with this unlawful watch order? Mark Austin did get documented evidence from a lawyer and the police in Thailand yes, but he only allowed us to view this on strict condition we did not reveal the exact nature or content; because Mark quite rightly one day will need to use this as evidence in a human rights court of law, once Indonesia accedes to the all important first protocol on human rights which it has thus far eluded to do. But yes, there is enough evidence we feel to state he was the victim of an attempted murder in Thailand; the problem for us before in reporting it was connecting it to Jack Daniels of Bali Discovery Tours as Mark claims is responsible.

Bali Police - Anjing! Ternyata Polisi - This is how the people of Bali see them according to one popular outlawed song.

The passport information does just that; it shows Daniels was unlawfully given the contents of the Bali police’s nasty and unlawful investigation file against Mark Austin, which no doubt would have included the contents of the Interpol watch order file, and with it Mark Austin’s home address at the time in Phuket, Thailand. We have also seen the WIPO web site domain dispute submission which Jack Daniels filed against Mark Austin that shows he knew Mark Austin’s address at the right time to coincide with the Interpol watch order and murder attempt. We have also seen written statements from expert sources attesting to the fact Jack Daniels could not have got the information he submitted in his WIPO filing legally. It therefore is clear where Bali Discovery Tours’ CEO got Austin’s home address from, making Jack Daniels the prime suspect in the murder attempt and with him in this is the Balinese police.

Bali's intelligence "plod" police (bribe negotiators)

How can we be absolutely sure the above passport scan came from the Balinese police, forgetting the pretty obvious as to where else would Jack Daniels get it? First, Mark Austin said he had a new passport when he went to Bali and was, along with his passport, unlawfully detained by the police in November 2002; the issue date of the passport image confirms this as it is the 20th August, just a few weeks before. Secondly Mark Austin’s passport, the one issued 20th August seen above, was accidentally destroyed in his washing machine and was itself replaced not long after he got back from his visit to Bali. The only people who took a scan of it were the Balinese police's inaccurately named "Intelkam" (intelligence) division, and unlawfully so as the British Embassy stated at the time. The badly dressed Intelkam are reported to be very unhappy they could not extort any money out of Austin.

Suweta's better rewarded and dressed "detectives" - these guys drive Mercedes it is claimed.

We started this story with the fact Bali’s second most senior police officer I Nyoman Gde Suweta wants to have Mark Austin classified as a terrorist. We believe this is because the heat over the Interpol abuse issue from Mark Austin's legal efforts is beginning to build up and Suweta wants to be able to retrospectively claim that the Balinese police had due cause to file an Interpol watch order against Mark Austin because Bali’s law makers consider him to be a terrorist. Of course such extreme after-the-fact perversion of the law and interpretation of the term itself, not to mention the comical notion that somehow westerners read something published by Mark Austin at home, then flew to Bali, then remembered what they had read and were terrorized by it just goes to show how ridiculous Bali’s police really are. Unfortunately they are also the law and their "Reskrim" detectives clearly earn more then their basic salaries from such perversions of justice.

Bali narcotics police - the ones that work with street dealers against foreigners - a former EU consul says they even plant drugs on westerners!

Deputy police chief I Nyoman Gde Suweta went on to prove his ludicrous interpretation of the law when he also insisted the EU's Aviation Safety Commission's motivation in banning Indonesian airlines from European skies was commercially orientated, no doubt based on how the Indonesian authorities operate and failing to comprehend the EU are not crooks like Indonesia. The EU commission actually banned Indonesia's airlines because when the Indonesian delegation presented their case, they could not even state how many aircraft each airline, such as Garuda Indonesia had; this showed their own domestic safety appraisal was in fact a fraudulent joke. But Keystone Kop Suweta wants them cited for terrorism and acts against the Indonesian state as well; no, we are not joking. Isn't it incredible that the man in charge of criminal investigations for the police in Bali is so clearly demented and nasty? If Suweta feels the EU Aviation Safety Commissioners should be arrested if they ever come to Bali, what hope does Mark Austin have?

Because Mark Austin is this week's fall guy for every negative web site about Indonesia on the world wide web, including those clearly registered to individuals in the USA and Australia, he is also accredited by the police as being owner of Bali BS; the official web terrorism site! However, even if the Bali legislator deemed Mark Austin’s perceived or actual (Nasty Bali) web site(s) constitute(s) (an) act(s) of terrorism, they would have a great deal of effort convincing Interpol and others of their claims to the point they would likely be deservedly ridiculed. But the Balinese police are not used to having to answer to balanced law enforcement agencies or justification questions being asked outside their own jurisdiction. The fact is, Bali police chief of detectives I Nyoman Gde Suweta is the terrorist within the true meaning of that term, as he is the one threatening bodily harm, and therefore he should be the one before a firing squad.

Chief Purwoko with "Shorty Suweta"

We trust any decent and even well balanced individual will agree that this nasty charade justifies the immediate arrest of I Nyoman Gde Suweta, John M AKA Jack Daniels and Roy Thompson for aiding and abetting attempted murder and more. Of course this will never happen as the only person able to arrest Suweta is his boss, Bali’s police chief Inspector General Paulus Purwoko, who is also clearly deluded and involved in the same plot to unlawfully act against so called, falsely described anti-Indonesian cyber criminals (see: Bali Cyber Crime). At the very least we hope people will now accept the police in Bali have acted unlawfully to the point of being terrorists themselves and will think twice about going to or investing money there. After all, it may be your turn next; it may be your confidential details being given out by the police in order to exact unlawful revenge upon you, or indeed and more likely being sold by them in order to make another dishonest buck.

Identity theft warning for foreigners
The whole issue of the police giving copies of Mark Austin's passport to other people opens yet another old can of worms; credit card fraud and identity theft. It is a fact Indonesia has one of the worst records for credit card abuse in the world, where people in the tourism industry there get a foreigners credit card information and abuse it. It is also a fact that Indonesia is a center for identity document counterfeiting; recently counterfeit Australian NSW drivers’ licenses complete with "waratah" holograms which were manufactured in Indonesia have been used to steal money from Australian bank accounts. It is also a fact that the Indonesian police are actively involved in criminal activities themselves, such as operating brothels and narcotics rings. If it is not safe to have the Balinese police inspect your passport or get the details thereof as they do in Bali when you register at your hotel, what does that say about the risk to you? Your hotel gets your passport details, your credit card details and your home address, which they have to pass some or all of to the Balinese mafia police; fact. So when money is taken from your account or a terrorist has a counterfeit passport made with your name on it to illegally enter your home country, will you know where this all started from? It happens!

Please, until the fraud plus rampant civil and human rights crimes committed by the police in Bali are stopped, please do not go to Bali as this only condones their unlawful acts of hate and puts your financial health at it risk; it may even be the "vehicle" used to get a bomber into your home town. Stay away from Bali.

Special thanks to the webmaster of the Bali Polda's new website for not putting copyright notices up and thus allowing us to copy and use their photos! That's how smart they aren't folks!

Bali is out of booze and we tell you the truth why!

2009-05-03T19:33:00.001+12:00

Bali is out of booze and we tell you the truth why!
By Brabant King Gambrinus
Aug 14, 2007, 05:09

The alcohol business in Bali is run by the murderous TNI

Oh dear, western tourists are arriving in Bali only to be told “Maaf, we have only local beer, rice wine, fruit lassies and soft drinks to serve you with!” Not very good news for Bali’s struggling tourism business and it begs the question “Why?” After all, the drinks business is a very important and highly profitable business for Bali; how could anyone mess up like this? Well no-one has messed up, despite that being the official line; the real truth is about as palatable as a warm glass of Hatten Rose!

The official reasons given involve a series of almost comical lies; “The state-owned importer forgot to order anything”, “The customs department is re-organizing”, “This is all connected with a smuggling ring where the smugglers are using counterfeit duty seals”. You have to smile because this almost childish reasoning or rather attempt at deception or perhaps deflection is repeated time and time again in Indonesia when something is going wrong. But if you look at snippets between the lines you will find the real reason for all of this. The fact is, the murderous Indonesian military (TNI) control the alcohol business in Bali; yes, really, they do. It is a fact that the TNI operate mostly clandestine businesses in Indonesia, such as alcohol, protection rackets for the major foreign corporations and land theft sale, where they steal land from the people to sell to domestic and foreign corporations. You see, they have to make a dollar or rather many millions, as the Indonesian government only provide the TNI with one third of their operational budget; fact!

Now, recently, the International community have been encouraging the civilian administration AKA the Indonesian Government (The TNI state ultimately they are in control of Indonesia) to get their armed forces out of politics and business. Part of this process was to have the TNI declare their business operations, affirmed to be at least 1,500 official companies or operations in the archipelago; the TNI recently submitted their report stating they had only 6 such businesses! What the TNI did, in part, was to set some rules on what constituted a TNI business; it had to be wholly owned by them with assets over US$50,000. Now the problem with that is a) Most of their commercial operations are part owned with the civilian administration / government and wealthy military families such as the Suharto’s, and b) The TNI do not keep any money in the businesses they operate of course and use or rather abuse state assets to keep them running. In fact both the Indonesian military and police split Indonesia up into what they call “wet” and “dry” areas; the former being more lucrative and where officers want to be posted. It is also a fact that the TNI and Indonesian police often are involved in gun battle disputes with each other over rights to certain markets; at least sometimes TNI bullets are put to good use!

So here now comes a weak initiative from the civilian administration headed by President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono to try and separate the TNI from their revenue sources, without making up the shortfall from the state coffers; a recipe for disaster? Absolutely and here in the alcoholic jewel in the crown are the first signs of a battle which may turn very bloody indeed. You only have to ask yourselves who has the balls and ability to “smuggle” in alcohol in quantity with illicit duty seals on the bottles and the only answer is, the TNI! Add to this the apparent inability for a clerk at the so called state import company to renew orders and an alleged reorganization of Bali’s customs department, and there is your real answer; a dispute between the TNI and local agencies about who gets what from this very, very lucrative market.

Of course the Indonesian government and Balinese tourism market do not want to tell you the truth, putting it all down to a series of bureaucratic blunders instead, because the truth about the TNI running the alcohol show in Bali hurts in other ways too. It is a fact the TNI are such a murderous, human rights abusing outfit, trained not to defend Indonesian borders but to suppress their population and particularly those who seek their international legal right to self-determination, independence. The fact the liquor business in Bali is currently controlled by TNI businesses is something they want to keep quiet; not least because for every beer, glass of wine and / or shot of spirit a tourist drinks in Bali, they are buying bullets for the TNI to put into the heads of innocent civilians. Just one drink normally has enough profit in it to be able to buy a magazine round for some murderous TNI officer.

Whether Bali gets its drinks feud sorted out or not, the fact is when you buy an alcoholic drink in Bali you are contributing to the civil and human rights abuse of others, period. So if you have a conscience and like a tipple, Bali is not the place for you in any respect. Please, stop going to Bali and putting money into the pockets of the TNI. Visit Human Rights Watch and Tapol on the Internet to see what your holiday dollars are ultimately doing. Understand that the TNI get two thirds of their budget plus a lot more in profit of course, from businesses within the lucrative tourism sector of Bali. Hotels, tour companies, food supply companies, local beer and soft drink bottling plants, alcohol imports, all have their share of TNI financial interest and benefit. If you consider yourself a human being, spend your money somewhere it is not abused to torture and murder civilians, thank you.

Bali has H5N1 bird flu, official (they could lie no more)

2009-05-03T19:32:00.001+12:00

Bali has H5N1 bird flu, official (they could lie no more)
By Galina Frango
Aug 13, 2007, 09:25

Siti Fadilah Supari, Indonesian Health Minister, Liar

For months we have been receiving reports of mystery illnesses in Bali where the patients were never diagnosed and simply disappeared. For a long time Indonesian health authorities have covered up serious disease cases, such as when they lied and lied and lied that Indonesia had no H5N1, until one official whistleblower left them no choice. In the same nasty, corrupt manner, the Balinese health authority have refused to talk about these missing patients for months, but now a case of H5N1 has been reported which they could not deny, but tried to until it was too late; after the leak was made to the western press. On top of this the Aussie media have confirmed that the Australian Department of Health and Ageing found many chickens infected with H5N1 in Bali last year; so much for the Indonesia authorities’ lies that it did not exist in Bali. The Aussies say that no human cases were found but they wouldn’t, would they? Those poor soles got carted off only to “disappear”.

So now it is official; Bali has H5N1 bird flu, people have died and are dying from it there, and the disease is spreading. Several other cases have now also been reported. For heavens sake, do not put your own life on the line, the problem is more serious than the authorities will ever say; stay away from Bali!

Ni Luh Putu Sri Windani and her five-year-old daughter have both succumbed to the disease. What is worrying is the admission that not only did poor Putu have to wait 6 days before the health authorities took her into care, but also that the chickens they are believed to have been infected by were put back into the food chain (fed to other animals such as pigs, maybe even people) in true Indonesian fashion. It is a fact that feeding infected chicken meat to pigs is exactly the kind of help the virus needs to jump from one species to another in order to become a true human-to-human virus. What is worse, even when Putu was hospitalized, it took the medical staff numerous days to transfer her to an isolation ward in Denpasar. What happened to all the promises and preparedness the Indonesian health ministry said was in place? Oh yes, just more lies from a nation that knows nothing else.

Ironically and true to fashion, the Indonesian health minister Siti Fadilah Supari, after stopping urgently needed H5N1 flu samples to the WHO on the basis Indonesia had intellectual rights to the virus and wanted to make some money from it (yes, it is true, see: Indonesian Health Minister Siti Fadilah Supari), then agreeing to resuming the samples again in order that a vaccine might be found, has changed her mind, reneged on her and Indonesia’s word again. The news is out that Siti Fadilah Supari has finally admitted she did not allow H5N1 samples to the WHO to resume and will not unless Indonesia is guaranteed a cheap vaccine in return.

What she is actually demanding is impossible, but you know how hard it is to get the demented to admit they have a problem! You see, H5N1 flu samples sent to the WHO are distributed to laboratories around the world struggling to find a vaccine for the killer virus before it becomes a pandemic. Someone has to pay for this; the labs are very expensive to run and the scientists are paid well or they go somewhere else, period. Also, vaccine research it one of the least profitable areas of medical research there is; pharmaceutical companies basically doing it for social responsibility. OK, they make some money from vaccines, but not a lot and that is the problem, Siti Fadilah Supari thinks this is all a gold pot that Indonesia should not have to contribute to; so she tries to blackmail the world into giving Indonesia the vaccine before anyone else and at below cost!

There is no telling the Indonesian health minister she agreed to resume samples. There is no telling her that what she asked can not be done. There is no telling her the quicker a vaccine can be found, the quicker the cost of producing that vaccine will come down. Siti Fadilah Supari basically is saying “If we can’t get the vaccine first and on our terms, we will make the world suffer!” It really is as plain and simple as that. And let us not forget, the Indonesian health ministry is not to be trusted as it lied about H5N1 in Indonesia, it lied about H5N1 in Bali, and its’ real motivation is to make money from other people’s suffering. You see, the Indonesians have struck a deal with an American pharmaceutical company that they will get a large share of the profits of any vaccine it produces, and they have allowed H5N1 samples to them of course.

Remember, remember these nasty Indonesian death merchants; theirs lies and breach of agreement. Do not visit Indonesia, do not invest in Indonesia, do not buy anything Indonesian until the greed, corruption and human rights abuse stops.

Bali / Indonesia – The world’s worst health and safety risk?

2009-05-03T19:29:00.003+12:00

Bali / Indonesia – The world’s worst health and safety risk?
By Keith Cooper
Aug 8, 2007, 05:15

Do you hate your own life and family that much?!

Bali is becoming a very, very unsafe place to travel to stay even when you discount, which you should not do, the ever present terrorism risk. The biggest news maker on this front is the massive Indonesian problem with H5N1 bird flu; not just the number of cases, but how the Indonesian authorities lie about and even try to make a profit from it! The prospect of actually flying into and out of Bali is also a risky one, not least if you fly with an Indonesian airline like Garuda International; the airline credited with murdering one of its passengers and losing many more to accidents (see: Bali Airport). Even if you could get decent medical treatment in Bali / Indonesia, which you almost certainly can not (see: Bali International Hospital), there are several other news stories not quite making the front page elsewhere right now that show just how unsafe it is to stay in Bali, Indonesia. One is about disease, the other about food contagions (deadly contaminates).

What dengue fever does to you (as well as kill you)

First comes news of an epidemic of Dengue fever in Indonesia; a really nasty mosquito born disease that has killed thousands this year already. The dengue problem comes from increased rainfall during the monsoon season, thanks almost certainly to Indonesian Home Grown Global Warming, plus the way the Indonesian authorities deal with or rather do not deal with mosquitoes. You see, in the 80’s and 90’s the Indonesians got on top of mosquito born diseases such as malaria, dengue fever and Japanese encephalitis by the widespread use of DDT, a particularly virulent chemical which unfortunately ends up in the food chain and poisons humans. So the Indonesians stopped using DDT and replaced it with what? Nothing! The Indonesians did nothing to introduce new controls and education, such as not discarding refuse everywhere, as the Indonesians and Balinese are so prone to do. Not only did the Balinese ignore the problem, they made it worse by tolerating illegal effluence dumping around the island including very close to the tourist areas of Nusa Dua, Tanjung Benoa and Sanur.

Unfortunately malaria, which the Balinese authorities still lie about to this day by claiming that there is no malaria in Bali when there are hundreds of reported cases, dengue and other mosquito born diseases went on the increase, in dengue’s case dramatically so. So what master-plan did the Indonesian scientists come up with? The reintroduction of DDT use; brilliant! Aside from the fact it is too little too late, the too little may well increase mortality in Indonesia, not decrease it. Already multiple cases of “mysterious” food poisoning have been reported by the Indonesian health ministry around the archipelago; the term “mysterious” is used by them when they do not want to say what the problem actually is. So Dengue is on the rapid increase, malaria is increasing, Japanese encephalitis is increasing and food poisoning by DDT is now coming back with a vengeance.

In Bali the synonym "belly" attests to the fact there has always been a food hygiene and contamination problem on the island, but if only the tourists knew just how bad it is! First of all Balinese rice is some of the most pesticide contaminated rice in the world with the massive use of cheap chemicals in agriculture, likely with even DDT being used again in Bali now. The rice paddy water plays its part in the entire Balinese eco-system, so other vegetables and fruits, plus the animals that eat them end up being contaminated. Also, Indonesians including the Balinese have a very nasty habit of selling infected livestock for human consumption, fact; after all, they eat it themselves so why not sell it for others to eat? This is why so many large hotels in Bali buy ghastly, flavourless, pre-packaged food from Australia and elsewhere and tart it up with large amounts of MSG which affects and most often afflicts your central nervous system. If you go to Bali you really are better off taking your own food and water parcels with you, especially now with official news that Bali’s seafood is not fit to eat.

"Seafood, seafood?!" Today's fresh Bali catch.

For years tourists have complained about how they saw fish restaurants on Jimbaran Beach sell fish with lead weights inside them to unwitting foreign customers because they charge according to the weight of the fish ordered. Then came reports the local fisherman were ignoring regulations not to fish the inshore waters because of the untreated effluence problem that afflicts the sea and beaches around Bali. What compounded matters regarding seafood in Bali is that so many westerners feel they have to eat lobster on holiday, but no lobster is caught in Bali; it all comes from Java in pretty unsanitary conditions. For those travellers who have visited fishing areas such as Lovina Bali and seen "fresh" fish being sold along the side of the road without any form of refrigeration, you can pretty accurately guess what the Indonesian fish trucks that serve Jimbaran Bay and elsewhere are like!

Now Biosecurity Australia, a division of the Aussie department of health, has banned all prawn imports from Indonesia because of pathogen infestations. But it gets worse; China has now banned all seafood from Indonesia, despite the fact they need cheap fish for their poorly paid populace, also because of the health risks of Indonesian seafood; still fancy a nice bit of fish on the beach?

Bali really is not a safe place to travel to, stay at or eat in because of the lax standards and non-existent enforcement by a wholesale corrupt government departments; particularly the mafia police of Bali. Do you really want to take your family to the H5N1, Dengue, infected meat, poisonous seafood capital of the world? For your own sakes and also for those of the Balinese who need to take control of the rot on their island, boycott Bali, boycott Indonesia and boycott anything Indonesian until their nation [sic] puts public service and safety over making a buck and committing human rights abuse.

Kalimantan, the latest proof it is business as usual in Indonesia

2009-05-03T19:26:00.000+12:00

Kalimantan, the latest proof it is business as usual in Indonesia
By Dayak Benuaq
Aug 5, 2007, 06:46

Dayak people - lucky ones, they live in Malaysia

Kalimantan is the Indonesian part of Borneo inhabited by mainly Non-Muslim Dayaks; the province accounts for 2/3 of the large island. In the 50’s and 60’s as part of Indonesia’s bloody conquest of its own non-Muslim people, Muslim Madurese from miles and miles away in Java were relocated in Kalimantan to ensure local “elections” were and still are Jakarta friendly. “Resettlement” as it is and was called has been used throughout Indonesia including where Javanese and pro-Jakarta Timorese have been encouraged to turn up in Bali and claim Balinese people’s land by simply clearing an area and threatening anyone who opposed them with violence. Dyaks and Madurese are now sworn enemies and in 2001 the Dayaks rose against Madurese occupation killing hundreds and chasing thousands more off their island. But now the risk to the Dayaks comes from corporate Jakarta; the greed machine owned by politicians and senior officers of the TNI (Indonesian military).

Smog from Kalimantan and Sumatra hangs over the region X = Bali

Recently much figurative and little literal light has been made about the massive smog clouds that hang over Indonesia, Singapore, Malaysia and elsewhere in South East Asia, courtesy of the illegal logging and rain forest clearance which goes on wholesale with impunity in Indonesia. Basically wealthy Jakarta based families who own the large Indonesian companies stand accused of illegally felling trees for wood and burning everything else in the wake to clear the area for palm trees, yes palm trees; palm oil is big business now with Indonesia just about to overtake Malaysia as the world’s largest supplier. Palm oil is the hub of the west’s superficial green biofuel initiatives yet is being produced at the significant expense of the environment by greedy, illegal businessmen and women with western collusion. First the removal of the carbon absorbing rain forest increases global carbon levels; then the burning of what is left adds salt to the environmental wound. Sometimes the smog is so thick over Indonesia that air traffic control, stretched at best on a good day, can not cope and western airlines end up having to bypass the area for safety reasons, which adds yet more carbon to the atmosphere.

Bali and Australia suffer: Due in great part to the smog emanating from burning rainforest in Sumatra and Kalimantan, both Bali and Australia have been suffering environmentally. Bali's air quality is now so bad the Sanglah Public Hospital said 1,271 people were admitted to hospital because of respiratory diseases in the first half of this year. The province’s largest hospital has recorded three deaths from respiratory diseases in the last three months. “A polluted environment is of course to blame for such diseases,” the official said. While Australians need no reminder of the drought-flood condition of their own environment these days.

Retreating rainforest, smog from illegal clearing, palm oil trees just planted

Now Kalimantan is the latest and greatest target of around 10 incredibly wealthy Indonesian palm oil manufacturers, all basking in the light of the west’s support and praise, robbing people of their land, destroying the environment and making masses of yet more money. You see, in Kalimantan land is owned by historical knowledge and verbal agreement; a system of honour in a country that has none. So the palm oil companies can grab land from the Dayaks and pay them peanuts for compensation without their consent. Dayak communities wake up to the sound of heavy machinery felling their precious environment, protected of course by the heavy machine guns of the Indonesian military renowned for oppression, not national security. They try to fight but are heavily outnumbered. Jakarta says because the Dayaks do not have documentation to show the land is theirs, they can not fully claim it; of course the fact that the Dayaks have used their honour system for hundreds of years with no problem should be enough for any decent government, but there is nothing decent about Jakarta.

While environmental and human rights groups around the world protest as much as they can, Jakarta just carries on; fueled by greed and western political BS yet again. Of course Jakarta plays the same old “We are a responsible and caring government” game, signing treaties without real guarantees here and international accords there. But like everything Indonesia signs, look at the exclusions and what penalties they face if they break their word; none. It is the same game as they play with their human rights agreements, which they have never adjudicated a single complaint on; everything is “pending”. The destruction of Kalimantan is now in overdrive, just look around. Human Rights and Conservation Groups are currently petitioning the UN's Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination to intervene on behalf of the Dayak people regarding a proposed 1.8 million hectares (4.4 million acres) land grab for the palm oil companies of Indonesia which will see the people we do not want to support get incredibly wealthy, the people who need our support become homeless.

Slowly but surely and to the tune of Washington’s biofuel fiddle, Kalimantan is being deforested, the non-Muslim Dayaks are being burnt out of existence, the local environment is being wiped out and the lungs of the world destroyed. There is no reasoning with Jakarta, they respond only to action. They do not have the foresight to understand that they are destroying their own heritage and the future of all our children, so we all need to send Bush’s “green” initiative and Indonesia’s greed a message by boycotting Indonesia, including Bali, and especially by boycotting Indonesian palm oil products. Please do not condone Jakarta’s illegal human rights abusing environment destroying acts, please boycott the hate state of Indonesia until they have a real government.

Bert Vierstra, Lovina Bali Villas Fraudster & Pedophile?

2009-05-03T19:22:00.000+12:00

Bert Vierstra, Lovina Bali Villas Fraudster & Pedophile?
By Peter Whitmore
Aug 3, 2007, 08:06

Old photos of Bert Vierstra; we are told he looks decidedly ill / old now..

Recently a spat of allegations and counter-allegations have been flooding the Internet involving a circle of Bali’s notoriously low expatriate community with Dutchman Bert Vierstra, charged by some as being a pedophile, in the middle. Mr. Vierstra runs, albeit through a third party, a villa sales company in Bali which offers freehold properties to foreigners when of course regular everyday foreigners can not even lease buildings, let alone buy them, let alone own the land they sit on. Although Bert Vierstra’s site does discuss the various laws in some ambiguity even deceitfulness on a separate page, the fact each villa's own details page displays “Freehold” in English, Mandarin, Russian, Spanish, French, Japanese, etc. without qualification or adjoining link to an explanation that the freehold is for Indonesians only, makes his web site fraudulent of course.

Not that Bert Vierstra is alone in committing fraud with impunity, courtesy of Bali’s highly corrupt and inept police, by selling villas to foreigners they can never own; there are plenty of other lying foreign fraudsters doing exactly the same thing in Bali, like conman on the run Lawrence Bellefontaine. However, it is Bert Vierstra’s apparent private life that really makes the "man" even more nauseating.

First we received a couple of emails from two separate people alleging Bert Vierstra is a practicing pedophile in Bali; one from a man claiming to know and have been involved in a pedophile circle with Mr. Vierstra and one Michel Heller, a Frenchman who was arrested in Bali for pedophile acts after the French Police issued an extradition request to the Indonesian authorities for pedophile crimes allegedly committed in France. “Search around and you will find Vierstra and Heller were involved together” came the advise of our stoolpigeon Mr. X, who contacted us under condition of anonymity as he claims he never actually committed Pedophilia himself but as he lives in Indonesia, can not afford to have his name disclosed. So we searched and did not have to look too hard to find that indeed Mr. Vierstra and Mr. Heller seemingly knew each other very well as they both apparently belonged to the Kayu Putih Residents Association in the hills above Lovina. We find this so typical of the untenably pious and expressly idiotic expatriates of Bali; a number of pedophiles forming a housing association in one of Bali's poorest villages! "More tea vicar? Oh yes and please pass me another local, this one has split!" We joke about it, but the reality is no laughing matter for the Balinese.

It seems Vierstra moved to Kayu Putih, where the Damai Hotel Lovina is located, when he came to Bali 6 or so years ago from his native Netherlands. If you have ever been to Damai you may well ask yourself why anyone would want to move to such a poor, remote area of Bali after enjoying Amsterdam’s coffee houses with their vast selection of some of the world’s greatest coffees and also the strong Dutch dope Bert states he loved, although says he has kicked the habit of since in Bali. If you know anything about Amsterdam’s very liberal and boisterous social scene, you will know anything pretty much goes and public socializing in the busy entertainment, restaurant, bar and café area is the number one priority of its inhabitants. So why move to a very, very poor backwater in a third world country where there are street vendors if you are “lucky”, not cafes and the local coffee looks a bit like low tide in a swamp? OK, getting away from the rat race to start a new better life in paradise you say? But why Kayu Putih, not somewhere with a few more creature comforts? Also, what about the association with Michel Heller? You see, Kayu Putih is North Bali’s organized pedophile black spot; the creature comforts here really are for creatures.

What are organized pedophiles? These are the guys that blend into respectable society, where they can given the challenges of finding such a society in Bali of course! They work covertly with local officials and dignitaries. They generally work in deprived areas where they can pay a little money to gain sexual favors with minors and with their parents’ consent. Often they will marry a local woman to both gain residency rights and sometimes even access to that woman’s children. Locals in deprived areas actually provide children from their village on the basis it is good as it brings money to the village and the children often smile afterwards with the gifts they are given. A father of one of Heller's victims said "It's nice with Michel, even when he doesn't have any work for me he will give me money, he always gave me money for my son. If he returns, it would be OK." These simple people simply do not know what is wrong and why, while the pedophiles take advantage of this.

These predators make a profession out of it, sharing data with other pedophiles to mutual depraved advantage, generally filming their acts and swapping their disgusting pictures secretly over the Internet. These are not the pedophile tourists who come to Lovina’s hotels and shout to street kids on the beach “Go on, take your pants down and show me your ass. Come to my room and I will give you ten dollars!” brigade. Or the “Can you find me a young girl for the night Mr. Hotel Manager?” crowd that Lovina has become so famous for; oh no! Organized pedophiles are men that feign respectability while committing and sharing the most perverted acts against children imaginable.

So what else says Bert Vierstra is almost certainly a pedophile? Well, first he was married in 2002 shortly after he arrived in Bali to a local girl we understand to be from a very poor family in Kayu Putih; his wife Dewi now goes to law school along with several police officers (hmmm), so she has apparently gained a lot from the marriage economically. However, when you look at Bert Vierstra’s profile on several forum / chat sites, mostly his own, you find his own comments regarding his marital status such as “Let’s not talk about it” and “No Answer”; hardly the devoted, happily married man it seems! But then if you pick up on his nickname on Yahoo “Bule Belanda”, the Internet searches start becoming a bit more interesting. They take you to a page for Bule Belanda on FaceParty.com, the notorious Internet playground for pedophiles according to a series of documentaries conducted by Independent Television News in Britain this very month, where pedophiles lure young children they meet under false pretences (pretending to be children also) on the Internet to closed video enabled chat areas to see if their nasty films can secure them yet another victim. On Face Party there is one bulebelanda, a Dutchman from Amsterdam and living in Indonesia which surely can only be Vierstra. Although the apparently deliberately hazed profile pictures may not be of him; we understand this is a common ploy by pedophiles to hide their true identity as you would expect. We are told the pictures are definately of Bert's beach house in Bali, you can actually see a Balinese Hindu statue in the background, and the picture may well be of one of Bert's friends, Tomas, from Amsterdam. The profile clearly seems 100% Bert though, including having a dislike for drugs as Vierstra now claims (as in the former smoker hating cigarettes complex); bulebelanda's profile on this notorious site states his sexual orientation is “Gay”.

Now being gay does not make you a criminal in Bali, yet; until the much maligned and falsely named “anti-pornography” law makes it through the legislator of course. However it sure makes being married to a woman a bit hard to explain, past that of it being a marriage of convenience! This would make Vierstra’s marriage a sham, a commercial arrangement, which is unlawful and which presumably means Bert Vierstra has been and still is living in Indonesia having used false declarations and fraud to obtain a residency permit. So at the very least we can all expect the Indonesian authorities to boot Bert out, maybe after a period of detention, for that right? Ah yes, of course, there is the issue of Bert Vierstra’s widely published friendship with the head of immigration in Singaraja and Mr. Vierstra’s photo shoot in his office displayed on the University of California Berkley web site; Bert’s love for photography also perhaps providing yet another small piece of this jigsaw’s greater picture. But unlike civilized countries, Indonesia allows its police officers to act as immigration officials when they want, just as they allow the military to act as police officers when it suits them too! So maybe the next TNI (Indonesian Armed Forces) member at Bert’s door won’t be greeted with “Hello Sailor!”, or maybe one of Bert’s wife’s classmates will be bringing his empty wallet around to Bert's house soon!

So if Bert Vierstra is a pedophile and other people know about it, how come the police there have done nothing? Quite simply, Bali’s police are only interested in making extortion money, which they may well do from Bert, but not in upholding the law. This is confirmed in a rare event of courage amongst Bali’s deservedly maligned expatriate community by Austrian Silvia Binder, who runs the Kubu Lalang Resort and Restaurant in Lovina. She says there are many pedophiles in the area who act with impunity; "This is a safe haven (for pedophiles). The police don't care, the local authorities don't care, they have a very good information network. Hardly anything is being done. The police are corrupt so you can't report it without getting into trouble yourself."

Silvia Binder went on to account about a time she recently saw a European man escorting three boys aged between eight and 12 into an adjacent hotel’s bungalow and called the police. She claims the police left saying there was no evidence while the boys remained in the room with the man, coming out some time later all clutching US 10 dollar notes. Further proof of the fact that the Balinese police do not uphold the law, just their wallets, came from ourselves a few weeks ago, when we reported the online underage prostitute web site baliescorts dot net; of course, it has not been closed down.

The fact that the Indonesian police have only arrested other pedophiles such as Heller, Smith, Brown and Hancock after action / requests by foreign police, while Lombok pedophile Don Storen was the victim of a clear extortion attempt, shows along with Silvia Binder’s statement that Bali’s police at best turn a blind eye to such events, probably in return for a few dollars themselves, at worst are an intrinsic part of the problem and perhaps are even involved in the paedophile rings themselves. After all, the Indonesian police are known to both run brothels and conscript underage sex workers with falsified ID’s into the business, so they have the pedigree [sic].

It seems that Bert Vierstra at the very least has some poignant questions to answer about his activities in Bali and there is probably enough evidence to detain him while the investigation is conducted. But conducted by whom? The Balinese mafia police? No, hardly not; they only investigate for profit and when told to by Jakarta. So what will happen to many of Bali’s children in what has been described as the regional pedophile center by the UNHCR? They will continue to be abused and the police will continue to make illicit financial gain for now. Children as young as 10 will be rented out to western predators for 10 dollars a night and think that is good business. But we think the evidence is so strong against Bert Vierstra that the interest of a certain Dutch police officer in what we have may yet see the end of one pedophile’s acts in Lovina. The chilling fact is though that one of the stoolpigeons who contacted us alleging Vierstra is a pedophile also alleges he is HIV+ and possibly recently developed AIDS.

Bert Vierstra was given the chance to comment on and / or deny any or all of the above but only choose to make false allegations as to who we were. Update: Since originally publishing this story we understand Mr. Vierstra has gone on the attack, against the wrong person yet again, plus denied he is a HIV+ pedophile, although he has not denied being gay or in a sham marriage. The trouble is we know that Vierstra will not be investigated past a cupped hand by the Indonesian authorities and the only way any pedophile in Bali will get their comeuppance will be if they committed any pedophile acts in their home country and the police there "alert" the Balinese police or even try to have that person extradited. This plus the fact sodomy and sex with minors is part of Indonesia’s proud heritage [sic] is why Bali is a magnet and safe haven for pedophiles. May we therefore ask all decent people to boycott the disgusting Republic of Indonesia, including pedophile heaven Bali, until the culture changes?

Indonesia / Bali’s tsunami warning system does not work, at all, and never will.

2009-05-03T19:21:00.000+12:00

Indonesia / Bali’s tsunami warning system does not work, at all, and never will.
By Phil Liu and Lori Dengler
Jun 26, 2007, 07:59

Surf's up! But this 10 meter wave is only a baby! The 2004 tsunami wave reached three times this height.

Are recent events the final death nail in the false nasty spin from the Indonesian Government and Balinese tourism industry, proving the “tsunami warning system” is totally ineffective as far as Bali and the rest of Indonesia is concerned? For months and months heartless Indonesian officials and Balinese travel agents have tried to lure foreign visitors back to Bali, which currently has red status for submarine earthquakes and resulting tsunamis according to the UN sponsored team of scientists looking at worldwide tectonics. One travel agent PT Bali Discovery Tours even being so callous as to offer a subscription tsunami warning text message to your mobile service from which they earn a commission. But now after months and months of warnings by Bali BS, at last comes physical and expert confirmation that Indonesia’s tsunami warning system is unlikely to ever save anyone in Indonesia itself.

First came news of bedraggled villagers in Aceh tearing down the beach warning sirens after false alarm after false alarm sent them screaming for their lives to higher ground, only to have to return again. Ironically the failed tsunami warning sirens cost lives through resulting panic stricken induced traffic accidents and heart attacks, yet never saved a single soul from drowning. The coastal villagers of Aceh decided they would rather risk drowning if a tsunami ever did come then face the anguish of yet more false alarms, so they pulled the sirens down. Next came tsunami warnings from the Indonesian meteorology office as a result of medium quakes along a lateral fault line near Sulawesi; both factors making even a ripple unlikely. Once it was obvious the waves did not exist by token of the fact they would have hit shore already, only then did the so called Indonesian experts lift the warnings.

Next came details of the stealth tsunami which took more than 600 lives last year in Aceh. Because of the vertical movement of the plates that lie off Java and Bali, these can cause tsunamis such as the massive one of Boxing Day 2004. The less deadly yet still lethal 2006 tsunami emitted from the same fault line and was as the result of a 7.8 magnitude under sea quake which very few people felt on land because it was slow moving. So unlike the Sulawesi false alarms, no warnings were given by the Indonesian meteorology office as no "experts" realised the enormity of the situation. The deadly 2006 stealth tsunami it seems resulted from a number of factors, including subterranean land slides where everything culminated together to produce a wave as high as 21 metres in places when it came ashore.

Then came more real tidal waves which the newly installed warning system failed to detect or worse, the Indonesian authorities took the chance of turning off in order to try and minimize adverse publicity in the hope the waves would amount to nothing. We are talking about the waves as large as 8 meters high that slammed into Java and Bali in May this year resulting from a combination of severe Indian Ocean storms and extremely high lunar tides. The deadly four storey high waves should have triggered the tsunami warning system but did not, why? The damage from these tidal waves was severe, with many Jimbaran Bay beach restaurants being swept away. It was perhaps fortunate that Bali's tourism business is so bad, otherwise foreign visitors may well have been killed.

Finally the end of the road for Indonesia’s and Bali’s lies about being able to warn people on the beach came from the tsunami expert who led the team to Java a week after the 2006 disaster, Hermann Fritz, a Georgia Institute of Technology professor. Fritz said it was always going to be difficult to provide early tsunami warnings for Indonesia because it was so close to an active earthquake zone. He said that in some locations, such as the Hawaiian Islands, warning systems were useful because tsunamis caused by continental earthquakes took hours to reach the islands. But that was not the case with Java and Bali where they would only take about 20 minutes.

OK, as the pundits will now focus on, you stand more chance of being killed in a traffic accident in your own country then you do of being harmed by a tsunami during a beach holiday in Bali, but that is not the point. First you reduce the total risk in your life in order to stand more chance of living to a ripe old age, so every extra risk point counts against your favour. Second it is the fact the Balinese tourism industry and Indonesian Government lie about the tsunami warning system in order to dishonestly allay potential foreign visitors’ fears. It is therefore not so much the risk of being killed by a tsunami, but the disregard Bali and Indonesia have for your lives that should tell you to steer clear and spend your valuable holiday dollars elsewhere.