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Metro Mad Jakarta: Balls
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SETTING THE BIG DURIAN TO RIGHTS. Friday, February 07, 2014. No fewer than three English Premier League clubs came to town as part of their pre-season warm ups last year. He's football crazy, he's football mad, football has gone and robbed him of the sense he ever had." So run the lyrics of a popular British song from the 1960s, which is perhaps an appropriate summation of a phenomenon that has now gone global and extended its muddy tentacles all the way over to. 8217;s grey and unpleasant land, which is...
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Metro Mad Jakarta: February 2014
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SETTING THE BIG DURIAN TO RIGHTS. Friday, February 07, 2014. The Miss World circus came to. Recently to a predictable storm of controversy. Last September 28, 137 comely young ladies flew over to. In order to participate in the legendary Miss World beauty pageant. While on the. Indeed, the most recent Miss World competition was originally supposed to have been held at the. Which is located just outside of the city of. And so, following threats and various furious proclamations from such organisations as.
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Metro Mad Jakarta: December 2010
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SETTING THE BIG DURIAN TO RIGHTS. Friday, December 31, 2010. And noisy (this complaint is certainly a case of, "Physician heal thyself."). This leaves, most chillingly of all, plan D, which has been offered to the much persecuted Islamic Ahmadiyah sect over in Lombok. The local governor there can't understand why the Ahmadiyah community hasn't embraced with open arms an offer to relocate them all to a nearby island. Apartheid? It's depressing isn't it folks? Links to this post. Sunday, December 19, 2010.
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Metro Mad Jakarta: March 2014
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SETTING THE BIG DURIAN TO RIGHTS. Monday, March 10, 2014. What a Tangled Web We Weave. Indonesia's Internet is increasingly becoming a free-speech battleground. Issues surrounding that old chestnut, freedom of speech, have started to make waves across the globe over the last few years. The reason that this time-honoured benchmark of democratic freedom is once again becoming a front-line political battleground is the all-conquering reach of the Internet and our new social media. Virtual alarm bells first ...
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Metro Mad Jakarta: October 2010
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SETTING THE BIG DURIAN TO RIGHTS. Tuesday, October 26, 2010. Indomie is an iconic, almost fetishized food here of course, and I have long despaired of ever understanding why it is that some of the country's worst foods, namely instant noodles and the grey balls of inorganic compounds and petrochemical pipeline tailings known as 'bakso' have the public hooked like junkies, when this is surely a land of fresh fruit, vegetables and general nutritional bounty. I find it particularly ironic that Taiwan has re...
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Metro Mad Jakarta: January 2011
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SETTING THE BIG DURIAN TO RIGHTS. Thursday, January 27, 2011. It's Like a Jungle Sometimes. Writing his memoirs perhaps, and tending to his begonias. I headed inside and quickly became lost in the labyrinthine passages filled with bra shops and T-shirt vendors. Prices are amazingly cheap in the new market and I came away with a genuine leather belt which, remarkably enough, genuinely seemed to be made from leather. Links to this post. Tuesday, January 18, 2011. Get off Your Milk and Drink Your Horse.
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Metro Mad Jakarta: August 2010
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SETTING THE BIG DURIAN TO RIGHTS. Tuesday, August 31, 2010. Last week, I was privileged enough to attend a PR fast breaking event, media slut that I am. And seeing that nothing, not even a single garlic roasted peanut or a grain of kerosene and sand fried rice had passed my lips for a full five hours or so, I was eager to get stuck into the buffet. Perhaps though it would be enlightening if I divulged the whereabouts of this particular fast breaking gathering. For this pious little media soirée was i...
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Metro Mad Jakarta: What a Tangled Web We Weave
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SETTING THE BIG DURIAN TO RIGHTS. Monday, March 10, 2014. What a Tangled Web We Weave. Indonesia's Internet is increasingly becoming a free-speech battleground. Issues surrounding that old chestnut, freedom of speech, have started to make waves across the globe over the last few years. The reason that this time-honoured benchmark of democratic freedom is once again becoming a front-line political battleground is the all-conquering reach of the Internet and our new social media. Virtual alarm bells first ...
