The former general, current candidate for the
Indonesian Presidency, Mr. Prabowo, was said by his enemies it may have been to
be, like Hitler, light-on for balls. (Was it a testicle lacking, or in fact the
organ itself, shot away by the East Timorese rebels? An old hand from those
parts who should have known the facts reported the tidbit recently.) In this
light, perhaps some of the murderous rage against the Timorese, led by General
Prabowo and frankly admitted by the man, could be understandable. This morning’s
newspaper carried a report of the candidate’s recent attendance at a gallery
opening in Central Java where an enterprising Dutch photographer had featured
Prabowo’s cat, Bobby. Blow-up coloured pics of whiskers, gleaming eyes and cute
nose…. The current run-off between Prabowo and the incumbent Jokowi is a repeat
of the same event of five years before, when the Napoleonic hero had tortured a
white steed at his rallies. The present soft PR exercise has likely been
borrowed from the Man of Steal’s campaign in Malaysia. In that constitutional
monarchy the former PM’s pics of his favourite mog were drawing impressive numbers
of likes, followers, hearts & whatnot. Smile, keep up the BS, deny and
mystify, and perchance you have some hope of claiming the highest office in the
land; in the case of the Malaysian Thief, avoidance of jail and perhaps even long-shot
return to office.
NB. The Indonesian election is tomorrow, 17 April.
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