There's no such thing as a free lunch...Or is there?

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It's official. The next president of Indonesia is former army general Prabowo Subianto. Quite how the next five years will pan out is anyone's guess but hopefully the foreign pundits who always bring up his dodgy human rights record will be proven wrong. Nonetheless, on policy making, Prabowo's popularist move to literally offer the poor 'a free lunch' every day of the week does not augur well for the future. Such a policy - if it ever came to fruition - would cost a phenomenal amount of money and likely lead to huge inefficiencies (food waste) and poor incentives (make people lazy). Another concern is Prabowo's strong nationalist bent. Thus, in the possible event that he finds himself with his back against the proverbial wall in the face of stern economic challenges, there is a big chance that he will simply scapegoat foreigners. But he will have to be careful. Construction of the new capital city, Nusantara, for example, is highly dependent on foreign in

The F Word

Indonesian censors don’t like the F word. That is why on some Hollywood films shown on Indonesian TV there are noticeable silences in the dialogue. And for films like The Godfather and Snatch there are so many gaps in the speech that it gets irritating.

But what’s funny is that while the censors do a pretty good job at silencing the dialogue at the beginning of the film, after an hour or so the dialogue is pretty much left alone. It’s as if the censors had said F___ it! and simply given up on the task at hand.

But, anyway, it ain’t as if the F word is that bad is it? After all, it has been used by many notable people throughout history:

"What the f__ was that?"
The Mayor of Hiroshima

“Go to hell with your f__ing aid”
Sukarto

"Who's gonna f__ing find out?"
Richard Nixon

"Heads are going to f__ing roll."
Anne Boleyn

“No I didn’t siphon off any f__ing money. Honest.”
Sue-hart-ono

"Scattered f__ing showers my ass."
Noah

“And why shouldn’t a woman be f__ing President?”
Mega

"What f__ing map?"
Mark Thatcher

"I need this parade like I need a f__ing hole in the head."
John F. Kennedy

“The mudflow has f__ing nothing to do with me.”
You know who

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