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    State of the Indonesian economy.

    Evidently the Indonesian rupiah has reached an historically all time low against the US dollar. Prabowo's response in May to the decline of the IDR is looking very thin. "No matter how many thousands the dollar reaches, people in villages don't use dollars. The ones worried are those who...
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    Bali - the end is nigh.

    Amazing how many governments cannot see past the end of their noses. The ever increasing traffic chaos- untrammeled buildings popping up everywhere in Bali leads local government to measures such as building a ring road, an underpass a new airport and more infrastructure. While this is being...
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    Car cameras.

    I have been driving in Bali for 9 years. Full insurance and Indonesian driver's licence. I am aware of the theoretical procedures in the event of an accident but also aware that where a bule is involved the bule is usually blamed and compensation demanded. I wonder about the value of...
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    How to manage public concerns over environmenal issues.

    While South Australia is still dealing with the impact of an algal bloom, now nearly a year on, government and the public service have been at work to fix things. Early in the piece the state Premier had declared that the bloom was not of concern regarding health and declared it non toxic. In...
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    Indonesia to go Nuclear?

    So Indonesia is looking to go nuclear with 29 possible power plant sites under consideration. News from ABC this morning. https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-12-27/earthquake-prone-indonesia-plans-for-nuclear-power/104758008 And this story is accompanied by an update about Chernobyl...
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    Expectations re the Middle East.

    It seems unlikely that this war will end soon as suggested by President Trump. We are already seeing serious disruptions around the world with fuel supplies and inflationary impact on prices of even domestically grown food stuffs and other goods let alone imports. While we may be a long way away...
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    McNamara's Mea culpa.

    In 1995 the former US Secretary of Defence, Robert McNamara wrote a book,"In Retrospect: The Tragedy and Lessons of Vietnam". In summary he said, “We were wrong, terribly wrong.” He concluded with a list of 11 lessons which America ought consider before entering into conflict. Since the Vietnam...
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    Somethng else to worry about.

    No doubt about it... living is a health hazard. A news report this morning says a deadly virus, the Nipah, virus, has surged in India and Bangladesh. The virus has a mortality rate of 40 to 75%. Singapore, Hong Kong, Thailand and Malaysia are doing temperature checks at airports for passengers...
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    Electric motor scooters

    If Indonesia moved to electric motor scooters and did away with petrol motor scooters then the difference in air quality would be huge. However, just watching latest reports on flooding in Jakarta I did a check and it seems electric scooters have less capability handling flooding on the roads...
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    U.S. Imperialism

    It seems we have gone back to the 60s when the USA game was to enable US corporations to plunder the resources of Cenrtal and South America with scant regard for the enormous poverty of millions of people. The CIA worked hard to help put in place right wing leaders like Pinochet to destroy any...
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    New laws- Government control

    Just watching news regarding a whole gamut of new control laws. Gaol for a range of offences such as demonstrating without a permit, insulting the president or insulting the nation. And gaol for spreading Marxist Leninism. Not sure how that works if you are an academic teaching history or the...
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    HAPPY NEW YEAR

    A HAPPY NEW YEAR TO ALL AND A THANK YOU TO THE FORUM MODERATORS FOR YOU'RE KEEPING THE FACILITY ALIVE. TERIMA KASIH.
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    The drab hand of religions.

    It seems religious zealotry functions on the assumption that anything that makes a woman look attractive becomes a threat to men who evidently are so easily whipped into a sexual frenzy that men have to be protected. In Somalia in the 80s one of the really delightful things about travelling in...
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    Suharto - National hero?

    Stone the crows! Suharto national hero? Next step "Saint Suharto."
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    Gaza

    Just reading about the Trump peace plan for Gaza. Even if this were put into place The well is so deeply poisoned I cannot see an end to Islamic extremists still wreaking havoc with terrorist attacks and Zionist settlers creating increasing tensions with incremental taking over of West Bank...
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    Imigrasi on line?

    We created an Imigrasi account for my wife WNA sponsor as were told to do by Imigrasi at Benoa office. They said to use evisa.imigrasi.go.id/ The account was then verified. The website above seems to be limited to visa applications. I need to register a new Australian passport and then apply...
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    Hiroshima and Nagasaki

    Thousands of Japanese are gathering to commemorate the dropping of atomic bombs on Nagasaki and Hiroshima 80 years ago. This is an important moment and should never be forgotten. However it is unfortunate that it seems many young Japanese are being educated with some Japanese schools omitting or...
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    Passport renewal.

    Just returned from the Australian Consulate in Denpasar Bali. I had tried a passport renewal on line and the account got blocked. So made an appointment for the Consulate this morning. When trying on line there were quite a number of documents required as well as passport to establish identity...
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    Status of women.

    Slowly but certainly not surely the worldwide position of women in society inches forward. For the first time in history the conservative Liberal Party in Australia, which got thumped at the just held Federal elections, has elected a woman as leader of the party. On the other hand, just...
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    Free useful tool to improve your Indonesian.

    This morning an ABC report has a journalist writing about how she experimented with ChatGPT.com and using it as a counselling therapist. She was quite astonished by the results. I had been using Gemini and found it rather limiting as a tool to help with Indonesian translations. This morning I...

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