A classic dilemma of a currupted country

I am working on a "high tech" controlling system for transportation system in Indonesia, yet the government doesn't seem like interested to invest as much as the research required. The main reason is extra cost on maintenance and/or operation. To increase the ticket fare is not solution in this case, seeing that most of people who uses the public transportation is common people with little food and home. So here we go, facing a dilemma. On one side, implementing the system guarantees the safety on traveling, but on the other side, who cares about safety when stomach cries for food?

One way to rise the economy of a country is to use more technologies, but to do that, they need a healthy community. It's not too difficult to get a family healthy, but the question is how to get hunderd of thousand of families healthy. Thus each of family tries with their own "power" to get a better life by do rights and (some/most of them) wrongs. If only the ticket fare was paid each time a passenger uses the service, and if only half of the money of the paid ticket didn't serve private needs of individual, i think it would already solve more than half of the problem.

Will Indonesia be able to take the step?

Indonesian Blog

For my 3-month internship in Jakarta, we have created an extra blog called hari-ini. Hari-ini means today in Indonesian. In that blog you can also find some pictures about all around us. Maybe i can give back the good impression on Indonesian after all bad news that you hear outside the country.

Playboy slaps Indonesian's government on face

Following my previous entry on friendster.com about pornography in Indonesia how Indonesian's government tries to rule nudity by preventing womanfolk from wearing a certain outfit and would actually punish them by put them in jail or put charge of an imposible amount of money, i would like to introduce Playboy Indonesia.

Good news is, i don't think the rules are going to be implemented extreemly like they wanted to. Not sure how far they would go, but this issue is still under consideration. I argued strongly in my high school mailing list and as a result, those who in favour of this bullshit were the "boys" (boys will be boys). They say the rule is for women sake, but to me it's more like to protect men from getting excited by women.

The original idea came from a "playboy" religious singer, who by accident sitting in the parliament. Yes, he's a religious singger with alot of stories him cheating his wife. Roma Irama saw this Inul girl dancing hotly on a stage and got excited. The next day, Inul got exposed and phornography regulation launched.

Well here's another thing. Playboy magazine just opened up in Indonesia. What a perfect timing? I personaly 100% approve it, for the sake of rebel against pornography as Criminal Code. 2 Indonesian's models posing for Playboy have been arrested und the magazine is facing trial. This is what happen when government tries to educate morality, when they them self isn't educated. The following article: Legislators & Police Back Playboy Indonesia’s Asinine Critics is a good reading material. Written in a non-bias way. Not like mine.