As Indonesian elections are approaching, here is a Twitter thread on Southeast Asian names. I have been thinking to do it for a while since many foreign media apply their own default standard of using "family names" (or what they wrongly think is family name) on second mention.
A viral video of a woman doing aerobics class to the tune of Indonesian hit song “Ampun Bang Jago” in Myanmar, apparently without realizing a military convoy arriving at parliament behind her and a military coup happening.
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@Vinncent
University students take to the streets in Jakarta to protest the newly revised
@KPK_RI
law that people say would weaken the anti-graft agency. The sign in front of the parliamentary building says: “This building is seized by students.”
#SaveKPK
This is heart-breaking. The teenage boy was once gifted a bicycle from President
@jokowi
. He was a smart student. But before that in 2012, his dad brutally killed his mom, and it made him known as “son of murderer”. He killed himself this week.
#DV
It is reported there are no Covid-19 death cases yesterday.
I don’t know what the cut-off time was, but my father died last night after battling Covid-19 for two weeks.
Taiwan health officials said they alerted the WHO at the end of December about the risk of human-to-human transmission of the new virus but said its concerns were not passed on to other countries.
#COVID19
This is so heart-breaking:
Dr Ike Sri Redjeki, a lecturer at Padjajaran University and a creator of portable ventilator for Covid-19 patients, has died after tested positive for Covid-19.
A private hospital in South Sumatra has been keeping a premature baby for 3 months because his parents cannot pay the bills.
If they cannot pay by Jan 17, the hospital will find someone to adopt the baby.
IS THIS LEGAL?? 😱
A 13-year-old girl in Bali was raped by her cousin and got pregnant. Nobody reported to police because the cousin was "responsible" enough to marry her.
Yes, the child married her rapist.
She was raped by her father-in-law after she gave birth.
#SahkanRUUPKS
Heart-breaking:
@NajwaShihab
interviews with Syam, an ambulance driver, who can barely hold his tears as he tells how he and his team buries tens of bodies of COVID-19 patients everyday in Jakarta.
"Jakarta masih macet. Saya ingin naik tronton, teriak kepada masyarakat: tolong kalian diam di rumah! Kalau kalian tahu berapa banyak jenazah yang kami makamkan tiap hari, pasti kalian sedih," kata Pak Syam.
#MataNajwaSetopStigmaCorona
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To appease his devoted kitties, a shop owner in Taipei installed some see-through tiles on the ceiling of his store, so his cats can keep an eye on him while he works. And the results were beyond adorable. 😻😻
This is heart-breaking. An Indonesian frontline nurse died because of coronavirus, but local residents refused to let her burial at their neighborhoods. The Indonesian Nurses Association calls for punishment for those who rejected the burial.
These two photos show a massive rally at Chater Garden in 1989 -- 30 years ago -- for Tiananmen Square students.
This evening, Hong Kongers rally at the same spot demanding for their own democracy and freedom...
In an interview with
@hariankompas
, one of the two women who are confirmed to have
#COVID19
said her daughter didn't know the Japanese tourist, but she hosted the dance event in Kemang, Jakarta. The mother & daughter got sick & treated at a Depok hospital.
Vidler & Co, which represents Ms X, has released a statement on behalf of their client following Hong Kong police chief Chris Tang’s statement in front of Central & Western district councilors
Indonesian tweeps, please don’t believe in this conspiracy theory laid out here. It’s spreading misinformation & disinformation. The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) loyalists are trying to smear Hong Kong protesters that the
#AntiELAB
rallies were the movement of foreign forces.
Another TIL on
#HUTRI75
: Chinese-Indonesian female independence fighter The Sin Nio.
Disguised as man on the battlefield, she adopted the name Mochamad Moeksin. She fought with machetes, spears & sharpened bamboo –until she snatched a Dutch solder's rifle
When do people, especially experts, realise that Bahasa does not mean Indonesian language?? It just means language.
✅ Indonesian, Indonesian language or Bahasa Indonesia
❌Bahasa or Bahasa Indonesian
8 of Jokowi’s cabinet members are said to have been infected with Covid-19, but only 3 ministers announced it to public. It’s said Health Minister Terawan had been infected but never announced it. The Health Ministry’s spokesperson did not answer Tempo’s question about it
Indonesian Children's Protection Commission (KPAI) commissioner Sitty Hikmawaty stirs controversy with her junk-science claim that women can get pregnant if they swim in the same pool with men.
She also says in the US, women with PMS killed people & they didn't go to jail 🤨🤔
Pernyataan salah satu komisioner
@KPAI_official
ttg kehamilan tanpa penetrasi secara lengkap dan jelas
Coba disimak menit terakhir sy koq malah lbh tertarik dgn pernyataan wanita di Amerika menjelang mens bisa membunuh dan bebas 🤔🙈
Wah.... bahaya ini 😡
#PecatSittiHikmawatty
Last month, Li Qiang from China Labor Watch told VOA News that PT GNI framed the labor strike as an anti-China movement and gave the Chinese workers steel sticks and other tools to guard the facility. He said GNI also held the Chinese workers' paychecks as a means of control.
Video ini menunjukkan awal mula bentrokkan di PT GNI Morowali Utara. Yang jadi pertanyaan, kenapa para TKA menenteng pipa besi?
Lalu, kenapa pekerja lokal yang disalahkan atas hal ini? Apa yang sebenernya terjadi? Tonton selengkapnya di | Buka Mata
Indonesian activists have received email from Twitter informing them that they received complaints from the Minister of Communication claiming that their tweets "violated Indonesian law".
This is a public transport activist:
October 2022 began & ended with 2 fatal crush disasters in Asia: Indonesia’s Kanjuruhan stadium on Oct 1 & South Korea’s Itaewon district on Oct 29.
Both were man-made, preventable disasters & much criticisms directed at police.
But their reactions couldn’t be more different
As the costs of the Jakarta-Bandung high-speed railway construction balloons, Indonesian senior minister Luhut reveals China insists Indonesia's national budget as debt collateral.
He also says China is willing to lower interest from 4% to 3.4%, while Indonesia asks for 2%.
The American teen who recorded the video of the killing of George Floyd was awarded a Pulitzer Prize.
Indonesian netizens: If this happened in Indonesia, the person would be prosecuted under UU ITE
1. A pro-government social influencer posted screenshots of WhatsApp groups alleging proof that vocational high school students were promised money to join
#ReformasiDikorupsi
protest. Netizens found that the numbers in the WA group belong to police officers...
Ratusan video sudah cukup utk "pertarungan uji informasi" soal kekerasan aparat vs kekerasan demonstran. Konteks tiap video akan terbuka lewat partisipasi kesaksian tiap orang.
Fabrikasi informasi bikin arena jd cemar. Kesaksian otentik warga, yg pro or kontra, dg sadar digilas
2 doses of Sinovac vaccines cannot fend off the highly contagious Delta variant, which is becoming dominant in Thailand and many other parts of the world, a Thai study says.
Hengky Kurniawan, deputy regent of West Java, is under fire for planning to launch a “school for mothers” in 2019 in attempt to stem the high number of divorces in the regency. Why put the blame on women only, esp with many divorces caused by DV, polygamy, financial neglect...
Still remember the anti-LGBTQ tweet, posted by an Indonesian doctor?
It turns out the misleading claim is also shared widely by social media users around the world.
We just published a debunk, interviewing several experts.
In English:
In Indonesian:
Postingan anti-LGBTQ bagikan klaim sesat bahwa hanya dengan tulang panggul arkeolog tentukan seseorang itu lelaki atau perempuan.
Tapi kata pakar, tulang panggul semata tak bisa tentukan jenis kelamin, dan perkiraan jenis kelamin tak selalu biner.
As flood inundated the Jatimakmur residential complex in Bekasi, part of the Greater Jakarta, fish escape from a pond, swim around the house while the cat is sleeping on a chair. 😂
Two female astronomers Premana Premadi & Karlina Supelli have criticized how Indonesian education doesn't push students to have critical thinking, writes
@sarasdewi
Thread: White men refusing to wear a mask in Jakarta.
This one had an argument with officers before boarding the commuter train, put on the mask and took it off once he was inside the train. 🙄
Bule goblok kayak gini emang. Dia pikir hasil tes negatif artinya dia bebas ga pake masker. Padahal kan masker buat melindungi dia juga. Bule asal mana sih ini?
At least 63 patients died during treatment for COVID-19 in the hospital since Saturday — 33 of them during the period when the central liquid oxygen supply ran out — even though the hospital switched to using oxygen cylinders during the outage, a hospital official said.
At least 33 patients with severe coronavirus infections have died after a state-run hospital on Indonesia’s main island of Java ran out of liquid oxygen, a public health official said.
I went to a Christian school in Jakarta where most students were ethnic Chinese. Teachers told us we shouldn't celebrate Chinese New Year because it was un-Christian (not all students were Christians). If we skipped school on CNY, we'd get F grade for Christian subject class...
Gue ga pernah ngerayain sincia pas gue kecil. Alasan bonyok gue krn “Kita Kristen”. Sampe gue ke Sg, ke underground church di Tiongkok en kaget ngeliat pada ngerayain Sincia. Baru gue ngeh knp kita kagak ngerayain sincia. Utas utk gen yg lahir di mid-90.
Indonesian journalists demand full investigation to the shooting of Veby Mega Indah, an Indonesian journalist shot by Hong Kong police, and Muath Amarneh, Palestinian journalist shot by Israeli forces.
#MuathEye
#EyeForHK
#EyeOfTruth
Not good day for gender equality in Indonesia:
The “nationality test” for anti-graft employees asks sexist questions such as “Why are you not married?”, “Are you willing to be taken as a second wife?” or “How do you spend time with your boyfriend?”
Indonesian e-commerce platform Tokopedia shuts down thousands of online shops that exploit the COVID-10 epidemic, such as selling face masks and hand sanitizer at very high prices
Tokopedia menutup permanen ribuan toko online yang terbukti memberi harga selangit atau mengeksploitasi dampak wabah virus corona COVID-19.
#kumparanTECH
A must-read reportage from
@JonathanEmont
:
China funded visits by Indonesian religious leaders, journalists & social media influencers to show how its re-education centers are a well-intended effort at providing Uighurs with job training
Taiwan’s Digital Minister has made videos in different languages on “revitalising masks”: Chinese, English, Japanese, Indonesian and German. Videos posted on Twitter and her Instagram account (a)digitalminister
As a lawyer friend pointed out, on Wednesday, after the clash, the protesters retreated to the nearby Pacific Place, a luxury mall. Not a single shop was looted or damaged. “If they were rioters, they were not very good at it,” he said. Photo: Paul Yeung/Bloomberg
Sangihe regency deputy head Helmud Hontong, who opposed gold mine in the area, died on a plane after reportedly coughing violently and spewing blood from his nose and mouth
Curiga euy. Apakah ada kaitannya sama sikap almarhum yang kekeuh nolak pertambangan emas di Sangihe? Penasaran kan sama penyebab kematiannya? Scroll terusss
Maimon Herawati, the university lecturer who initiated an online petition campaign to ban the Blackpink ad, has started another online petition urging the Parliament to reject the sexual violence bill, saying it condones "zina"
Masih berantem copras capres kelen?
Nih ada kelompok orang yang menolak rancangan UU yang melindungi korban kekerasan seksual.
Berenti dulu deh berantemnya, bantuin korban kekerasan seksual!
#sahkanRUUPKS
The Indonesian House Speaker called a female journalist asking questions “honey”. 🤦🏻♀️ Not surprising, this is the parliament that passed the problematic criminal code bill that is bound to further restrain women’s rights
BBC journalist Bushra Sheikh said as she was covering the students’ protest in South Delhi, a male cop pulled her hair, hurled abuses and hit her with a baton.
The beloved former spokesman of Covid-19 mitigation Ahmad Yurianto passed away at 6.58pm today after battling colon cancer. He was initially treated in Jakarta but was transferred yesterday to Malang to be close to his family. RIP Pak Yuri
@mightymerry
@yennikwok
@waltonkate
@SCMPNews
This is something we’ve been working on—a style guide for different Southeast Asian names that takes into account what’s more familiar and appropriate for each culture. This is what we have so far:
I also just learned Taiwan Vice President Chen Chien-jen is an epidemiologist by training. He was health minister when Taiwan was battling SARS in 2003.
#COVID19
A swift Covid-19 lockdown in China has reportedly led to a woman getting stuck at the house of a man she met on a blind date. She told local media she had been stuck for 4 days at his house.
Indonesia's traditional daily calendar shows dates according to
- Gregorian calendar,
- Chinese calendar,
- Javanese calendar
- Hijri (Islamic) calendar
#ChineseNewYear2023
#LunarNewYear2023
(📷 from a friend)
Grand imam of Al Azhar calls polygamy “an injustice to women and children”.
Sheikh Ahmed al-Tayeb says polygamy is the result of a “lack of understanding of the Koran”.
Indonesian coach team forces a gymnastics athlete to return home from SEA Games after she is accused of not being a virgin.
-- What does virginity have anything to do with sports achievement??
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@tunggalp
Narasi TV used thousands of open source & crowdsourced videos to piece together the chronology of the Indonesian stadium disaster on 1 Oct 2022.
They found ~80 tear gas projectiles fired within 7 mins, deliberately toward stadium stands. Full video:
Lebih dari 80 proyektil gas air mata ditembakkan polisi dalam 7 menit. Kanjuruhan berubah jadi neraka.
Kacaunya, sebagian juga diarahkan ke pintu keluar saat ribuan manusia berdesakan menyelamatkan diri.
#MomenBrutalKanjuruhan
selengkapnya 👉 | Buka Mata
Thus, according to the interview with the
#COVID19
patient in Indonesia, they had the initiative to request a coronavirus test after they got sick and heard someone they crossed path with was diagnosed with the virus.
Under the new Indonesian joint ministerial decree from the education minister, religious affairs minister and home affairs, public schools are not allowed to ban or require students to wear religious clothing as part of school uniform.
Police use the Internet law, known as UU ITE, to arrest filmmaker & human rights activist
@Dandhy_Laksono
for allegedly spreading sectarian hate. He has been outspoken about human rights violations including in West Papua
Dandhy Dwi Laksono aktivis HAM dan pendiri WatchdoC Documentary ditangkap polisi Kamis (26/9/2019). Dia dituding melakukan tindak pidana menyebarkan informasi yang menimbulkan rasa kebencian dan permusuhan berdasarkan suku, agama, rasa dan antargolongan.
Indonesia badly needs the sexual violence elimination bill that has languished in parliament for years.
A parliamentary commission now wants to withdraw the bill from the priority bills because "discussing it is difficult".
#SahkanRUUPKS
Luhut mengatakan kesalahan ketika memasukkan data menimbulkan distorsi dalam penilaian. Sehingga dalam evaluasi, diputuskan meniadakan angka kematian dari indikator penanganan COVID-19.
#kumparanNEWS
Street vendors at Malioboro Street in Yogyakarta raised white flags as a sign they have surrendered to economic difficulties and hope to get financial assistance from government
Disinformation & misinformation about the Uighurs and Xinjiang are getting prominent in Indonesian's social media, as the issue continues to be polarizing.
We have debunked several since last week:
46 medical professionals at Dr Kariadi Hospital in the Indonesian city of Semarang are suspected to be infected with coronavirus after a patient was dishonest about his/her travel history
Asked how police can determine a netizen has spread a hoax about the Omnibus Law because the official final version has not been seen & there are at least 2 drafts exist, the police officer said: “I cannot answer here because I don’t have the draft.” 🧐🤔
Indonesian Islamist party PKS repeatedly opposes anti-sexual violation regulations, first the anti-sexual violence bill and now the Education Ministry's anti-sexual violence regulation. It says both promotes premarital & extramarital sex.
Indonesian police hold a press conference to dismiss hoax that claim Mobile Brigade (Brimob) police officers are Chinese citizens. All said they are Indonesian citizens
Indonesian social media slam "milennial" actor Raffi Ahmad who was seen hanging out with friends without a mask and social distancing after receiving Covid-19 vaccine yesterday
President Jokowi: 2 Indonesians are confirmed to have contracted
#COVID19
. He says the 2 – a 64-year-old woman and her daughter, 31 – had contact with the Japanese tourist infected with the virus, but he refused to say which part of Indonesia they are.
Mount Merapi erupted earlier today, spewing volcanic ashes.
Residents cannot wear face masks, which have become a rare commodity due to the COVID-19 outbreak, so it is said they had to wear wet towels.