Numerous
reflexive smiles this morning across the island one can be sure reading the
chief Op-ed item in today's Straits Times
on the subject of Indonesia's "oligarchic democracy". Fie! Shame on
them!... Horrid to consider, especially during breakfast...Twelve or fifteen
hundred words. Perhaps seventeen or eighteen hundred. All without a single hint
of a glance to parts north-west less than two hours flying time. Writer a
former journalist at the same newspaper. Tremendous forbearance. Remarkable.
Oligarchic democracy? What oligarchic democracy? Where?...There was even
anticipation of a seat-warming, interim Presidential prospect between Yudhoyono
pere and fils. Outrageous. Those rude, manipulative Indon elites. With the
Malaysian election upcoming one could not help thinking of PM Najib and his dad
before him. Was it an insidious dig in that direction?
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