LET'S TELL OUR STORY BETTER

 

THE ABC OF TELLING TALES

ABC chair Kim Williams reckons the Corporation should focus more on hard news than lifestyle fillers. While purging the pap he might also look at how some stories get told, particularly to  international audiences.

This is a competitive market, with the US, Brits, French, Russians, Chinese, Qatar, South Korea, Japanese and others telecasting in perfect English and jostling to tell the world how the world should see them.

Much is propaganda, but usually watchable.

Seldom seen Down Under is our flag-waver  ABC Australia.  Stories on this site haven’t always shown  the best available, as outlined on this website earlier this year.

The latest is the coverage of Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina fleeing the nation she's ruled for 20 years as mobs raided her palace.

Presumably using the weird theory that an Asian story should be given an Asian treatment, the report based on wire services was delivered by the Indonesian correspondent Bill Birtles from a street in Jakarta.

The capital is 3,780 km from Dhaka and Indonesia had no involvement in the regime change. The clip could have been shot on a roadway anywhere in Oz.

On 14 August another Jakarta skyline was used when Thailand's Constitutional Court sacked Prime Minister Srettha Thavisin. Bangkok is 2,325 km from the Indonesian capital which had zilch relevance to Thai politics.  

Bangladesh is tough to penetrate (I’ve been trying), but Bangkok has scores of competent English-speaking reporters with insights and authority through being at the spot where it was all happening.  An academic appeared later to explain the situation, though not from Thailand.

On the ABC’s Just-In news site available anywhere, a story about nuclear waste disposal described the Sandy Ridge location as ‘outback WA’.  No further ID.  It’s 240 km northwest of Kalgoorlie and the company involved makes no secret of its geography - only the ABC.

Sloppy reporting or indifference to viewers and listeners with no influence?  Take your pick.

This one’s tragic, so all the more reason for care. It was about Megan Jayne Somerville   who allegedly stabbed her kids alongside a motorway in 2022; a court was told drugs were a major factor in her alleged offending.

The court had heard that  she was suffering psychosis when she assaulted her two sons, then aged three and eight. She has pleaded not guilty and the case will continue to be heard in October.

What we also wanted to know was the fate of the little boys.  The story didn’t say.  A search on other sites reveals they survived.

The woman came from Modbury Heights.  It’s  a well-known suburb to those who live there though not to this reader or the millions of others unfamiliar with South Australia.  Would the line '16 km northeast of Adelaide' have been too hard to add?

A big yarn here about the Australian navy firing a missile, something which is happening hourly in the Middle East and Eastern Europe, but fortunately rare for the Oz armed forces in our neck of the oceans.

Yet the test was launched near the US state of  Hawaii, too far away to defend our nation should the need ever arise, may the deity forbid.

The story didn't come from a journalist's diligent sleuthing but a Navy hand-me-down, aka media release. Australian taxpayers might have been interested in the cost, how far the weapon went, what was the target and whether it hit.

The military didn’t say, the ABC apparently didn’t ask, or even say it tried to ask.  That’s its job.

US singer Katy Perry got herself on ABC news “for possible environmental damage of protected dunes following her latest Ibiza-set music video”.  

This tabloid sniff included a "supplied" photo of the barely-clad lady and her video to help us ponder the despoliation and whether this might warrant extradition, jail time or worse.

It was left to  The Guardian to reveal the crime was not the ruthless trashing of the landscape to look like the Gaza strip, but filming on an uninhabited island without authorisation. By then the harm to the beach and the ABC’s credibility had been done.

Selection could have been deliberate, a clever ploy to get the indifferent young to watch a snippet and maybe hang around for some real news.  It probably drew more clicks than an Albanese and Dutton presser combined whatever the topic.

To this cynic, it should have been flagged as a free promo stunt and left to commercial media which has little reputation left for impartiality. Ms P's previous video release apparently hadn’t done well, so her career needed a boost.

Come in, sucker.

This website has previously alerted Australian viewers that news for overseas audiences gets shoved aside three nights a week to make way for hours of AFL. League is not played in any Southeast Asian state that gets ABC Australia.

It would be good to report that these flawed samples are rare.  They’re not.

Saucepans calling kettles sooty is to invite a dash to the files to reveal the critic’s  hypocrisy. Don’t bother; this writer has made enough errors in the ABC and elsewhere to power a studio with his blushing. But he’s survived thanks to alert colleagues who have edited with care and managements that supervised  seriously.

Mr Williams might want to read and watch his Corporation’s exported products with the same scrutiny. In manufacturing it’s called quality control and essential to keep shoppers returning.

Then he could let offenders know of his disquiet, as Jo and Joe Public’s complaints won’t make a frame of difference.

Viewers near and far concerned about the way the world is heading need the ABC as a trusted, balanced, honest news provider.  It would be good to believe the ABC respects  us.  On its present performance it doesn’t.

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First published in Pearls and Irritations, 21 August 2024: https://johnmenadue.com/the-abc-of-telling-tales-x2-links-b/

TREATY, YES? TREATY NO!

NEITHER TREATY NOR PACT, JUST TROUBLING FACTS

Deal makers - or just chatting ?  Marles and Prabowo in his ego nest

ABC  foreign affairs reporter Stephen Dziedzic’s ’exclusive’ claim that "Australia and Indonesia are on the brink of sealing an upgraded defence pact" hasn’t been refuted by Defence so is probably right.

This is a distressing idea practically and morally for a nation that claims to respect the rules of warfare and human rights. That’s us.

The first stumble is the dates: August in Indonesia rivals late December in Australia when  key people leave their phones wrapped with the beach towels.

Across the archipelago it's not just preparations for the Proklamasi national day on the 17^th that's preoccupying all from kerb-painters to strutting generals.  

The following week will also see back-to-back Karnival celebrating the  shedding  of colonial rule 79 years ago - though the Dutch hung on for another four years of fighting.

Unless he’s a fan of fireworks and flags it’s not the best time for Defence Minister Richard Marles to be in Jakarta expecting full attention to what he wants.  

Arguing that the signing is too important to miss just because it's one nation's birthday wouldn’t resonate with the incoming right-wing ministry  suspicious of its pro-Washington southern neighbour.

Jakarta is also hard set against defence deals with any country - a strategy poured  in policy concrete mid-last century.

The language needs to be handled with care.  Australian bureaucrats toss around cliches like "milestone" deal, and "streamlined cooperation".

However, the ABC report  claims that whatever gets agreed won't be "a formal military alliance or a mutual defence treaty of any kind and neither country is expected to offer security guarantees to the other."

So what's the point? The intent is to get in first and disarm disquiet.  Although Northern Australia is loaded with US weapons and bristling with  marines we're really harmless peace-lovers.  Our missiles will head over - not into - the Republic.

The other aim is to soothe incoming President Prabowo Subianto’s fears of foreign interference in the West Papua conflict. He needs to know that we don't care a damn what his soldiers are doing next door, whatever awful things a few loose peaceniks are saying on social media.

A side benefit is the polite rubbishing of Prabowo's crazy claims (based on the US sci-fi novel Ghost Fleet) that Australia (population 25 million)  plans to seize the mineral riches of the Republic (population 275 million) by 2030.

In that time we couldn’t even launch a nuclear-powered submarine.

Apart from August being a lousy month to talk business, the idea of a "defence pact" between equals is ridiculous when one side is secretly  crushing dissidents - and the other is a democracy where counter-views and peaceful activism are still tolerated.

 There have been five agreements signed between the neighbours since 1995.  One was ripped apart in 1999 by Jakarta when Australia backed the East Timor referendum with citizens voting 8-2 to escape Indonesian control.

The other deals passed quietly - except for the misnamed ‘Lombok Treaty’, negotiated on the island next to Bali.

The ABC report says the update is being touted by the Australian government "as the most strategically significant bilateral agreement" since the original was signed in 2006 by the then Foreign Minister Alexander Downer.

Properly known as the Agreement (not treaty) Between Australia and the Republic of Indonesia on the Framework for Security Cooperation it’s worth dissecting Article 2.

This bans support, participation or encouragement in activities “including separatism”.

There's no mention of West Papua but this is what the words are all about - undermining our claim to be an independent fearless nation speaking out on human rights abuses.

The fitter guy is the civilian Ozzie

Instead, it's allowing a plaster to be slapped on our values so there’s no official damning of the atrocities allegedly going on next door.

It’s left to NGOs like the Adelaide-based Australia West Papua Association and progressive Western churches to shout alarms for our conscience failures.

Defence wants to ensure the new pro-military administration led by  General Prabowo (cashiered in 1998 but his title reinstated this year) gets a clear message:  A few Okker activists sympathetic to the guerrillas’ cause don't speak for the government.

According to four Australian academic researchers including a former AFP investigator, “hundreds of thousands” have died  since 1965 when Indonesia took over the territory

This month West Papua independence-fighters allegedly killed Kiwi chopper pilot Glen Conning; he was flying for an Indonesian company ferrying local health workers into a remote region.  The six passengers were reportedly unharmed.

Another NZ pilot Phillip Mehrtens was seized early last year by the  West Papua National Liberation Army.  He's reportedly alive and being held hostage.  The group denies murdering Conning and has hinted at military involvement.

We hardly have a gnat's idea of what's happening in the jungles as Western journalists are banned. Rarely verifiable reports from church and community leaders tell of torture and atrocities allegedly committed by ill-disciplined Indonesian forces in the four largely Christian provinces of Papua.

 Marles wants to assure Jakarta that whatever its feral gunmen do we'll hear nothing and look elsewhere, a position also embraced by the Opposition.

Earlier this year Marles embellished his tough-guy credentials in a Jakarta media conference:  At the joint event, Prabowo said straight after the Australian's opening comments: "I don't think there's any need for questions."

Not all journos were intimidated, giving Marles the chance to roll up his sleeves:

 “There’s no support for any independence movements … we support the territorial sovereignty of Indonesia and that includes those provinces being part of Indonesia, no ifs, no buts, and I want to be clear about that.”

So no succour from Down Under. Indonesia is too frighteningly large to upset.

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 First published in Pearls & Irritations, 13 August 2024:  https://johnmenadue.com/neither-treaty-nor-pact-just-troubling-facts/

SOS - SAVE OUR SCRIBES

 

THE MEDIA HAS CHANGED; THE HABITS HAVEN’T

As a cadet journalist, I rode a train to work. In those days a commuter without a newspaper was like a modern teen minus a smartphone.

I watched travellers for a reaction when they encountered my splendid stories.  That rarely happened.   Instead, most readers followed a routine.

They'd glance at the headlines, maybe linger lightly if the story affected their suburb, and then turn to the sports news.  There they'd stay for much of the 30-minute ride to the city.

The other draw was the comic strips, film reviews  and the editorial page cartoon with readers' letters. Maybe they'd browse the serious stuff later when they got to the office, though I wasn't that confident because of another regular observation.

The paper had separate weekend sections selling cars and houses and advertising jobs. Next day’s paper could be bought at the gate where bundles of  the early edition were trucked to  the airport or country towns.

After the pubs closed on Friday nights the boozer-buyers at the loading dock  pulled out the ad sections and tossed the news and feature pages into waste bins kept just for the discards.

And there laid the deathless prose of Duncan Graham and his few hundred  colleagues who thought their words were wanted.  For many it seemed they weren’t.

In the old system journos got employed by  a publisher  that sold  space for ads.  The income was used to run the show and pay the workers.

The ‘rivers of gold’ funding model that irrigated the newsroom has run dry because advertisers prefer social media to reach consumers with more precision.

Had the bosses of the past been more ruthless they’d have kicked out the journos decades ago and just published broadsheets of ads.

That didn’t happen till much later because a few company board members tended to be part of the establishment, starting their days with a dab of do-gooder after the shower.

They also saw themselves as influencers, nudging society in the direction that suited their interests.

This is not a paean to capitalism though some devotees could be altruistic:  The 19^th century Australian press barons were sometimes linked to universities and philanthropic projects.

Though numbers were few, enough believed that as long as their investments returned big profits they earned merit points by keeping the community informed  - or at least telling of the happenings that they thought the unwashed should know about.

Ponder this:  Although the Internet, smartphones and social media have destroyed the world just described, needs haven’t changed -  only the means of assembly and discovery.

Online stores  outrank news sites.  So are the alleged funnies, no longer monochrome comic strips but full-colour videos.  Sport and entertainment pull the clicks.

The difference between now and then is the delivery system - an intimate screen as opposed to a spread of newsprint.

Although serious journalism rode a machine powered by profit, the driver won  prestige for helping reveal some lower-level wrongdoers and so maintain the status quo.

That puffed-up notion has largely vanished along with hot type. However a few columns of writers remain who think that the public has a right to know and we have a duty to tell.

We’re addicted - and poor. Idealists have the skills but not the money so rely on supporters to pay  the small independents’ bills - which usually don't include wages for the writers.

The  solution is to use the income from the ads, just as before the Internet.  Google, Meta, X and other platform / publishers may not have vision beyond the Nasdaq Composite but moralists reckon they have responsibilities that come with trading in a democracy.  

That means using their ad incomes to fund an independent agency with the job of supporting  professional journalists determined to keep the  ideals of a free and open society alive.

Possible?  Of course, easy peasy, it’s been done before. The ABC started in 1932.

The problem is that the new media moguls are big fellas strutting past state borders.  So it  needs the power of politicians to make them do the right thing.

The state funds three of democracy’s pillars, the Legislature, Executive and Judiciary. The fourth is the Media; the government can and must ensure it stays upright.

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The author blogs at: https://indonesianow.blogspot.com/

First published in Independent Australia, 8 August 2024:  https://independentaustralia.net/business/business-display/news-media-has-changed-but-our-needs-stay-the-same,18853

 

IGNORE JOURNOS - THEY GET IN THE WAY OF GOVERNMENT MESSAGES

 HOW TO GET GOOD PUBLICITY?  BAN JOURNOS

A tip for politicians worried about bothersome journos upsetting talking points with  probing questions: Don't invite peskies to your pressies.

Instead, gather a bevy of narcissists who call themselves social media 'influencers' and take them to anything they want to admire while being admired.

Lovelies telling their fans of a wonderful government makes for easier viewing than seeing knockabout wordsmiths stuffing mikes up newsmakers’ nostrils for a denial of the obvious.

It's a more subtle system than the Australian tactic of only inviting on-side journos to junkets, but the policy of outgoing Indonesian President Joko 'Jokowi' Widodo goes further.

He's using it to sell the benefits of his new   cash-hungry separate city project   Ibu Kota - (capital city)  Nusantara on East Kalimantan, a province on Borneo Island.

Objective journalists, economists and academics in Indonesia and overseas -mainly Australia - have been  dissecting the $45 billion (so far) vanity cash splash in a nation with great needs, like helping almost 26 million poor get decent housing rather than the Prez getting a third palace.  

 The pragmatists reckon IKN will drown the Republic in further debt and isn’t the right raft for the sinking, overcrowded and polluted capital Jakarta.

 The problem is serious and a new city one solution - preferably in Java, the political, administrative and cultural centre of the Republic.

Malaysia's answer to an over-stressed Kuala Lumpur was to build Putrajaya 35 km down the rail line and make it the admin centre.  The Parliament and many ministries remain in nearby KL so the shift has been half-hearted.

IKN is 1,200 km northwest of Jakarta, so public servants will need to abandon their families to keep their jobs.  Few are enthusiastic.

Jokowi has stomped around China and the Arab world seeking monster loans to keep the concrete pouring but there’s been much reluctance since the Japanese SoftBank knocked back the chance to be a lead investor.

This was despite tax breaks and other sweeteners, though no guarantees of handsome returns; the new city's business will be manufacturing undesired bureaucracies rather than wanted consumer goods.

Australian super funds haven’t been persuaded by ‘influencers’ to risk members’ monies in the Jokowi dream. Jakarta’s record for corruption (ranked 115th among 180 countries surveyed by Transparency International) would have frightened decision makers.  

Indonesian  Press Council Chairperson Dr Ninik Rahayu wasn’t happy with the new policy of by-passing the media: "I was surprised why the president came yesterday to the IKN and invited YouTubers and influencers. ”

Her awkward discovery is that superficial presenters pull millions when old media lurking behind paywalls only draws a few lakh. Ninik’s reasoning is right for the public good - though not the pollies’ interests:

“(Jokowi) should have invited the press (to) … see all the comprehensive policies of the IKN so the public knows all about the new capital city”, she said, claiming reporters use “journalistic principles, work democratically and professionally and present high-quality news.”

The IPC was set up by the authoritarian Soeharto government last century to keep scribes in check.  Media  conference attendees got snacks and uang lelah, a practice your correspondent has experienced. (The cash was returned to the organisers' astonishment.  The food was eaten.)  

This century the Council became an independent authority. One academic wrote that it has ‘outstanding powers to draft and ratify regulations about media accountability, to arbitrate complaints against journalists, to cultivate media professionalism, and to safeguard press freedom.’

All good - but it can’t stop newsmakers talking to ‘influencers’ rather than the media.

The international agency  Reporters Without Borders press freedom index ranks the world's fourth largest nation at 111 from 180 countries.

Last month Tempo weekly published an analysis of Jokowi's rule titled A Decade of Declining Democracy, claiming he’d “transformed Indonesia into a country characterized by autocratic legalism.”

A day later Jokowi publicly apologised for his shortcomings - the Jakarta Post reported he 'tearfully' accepted he’d made mistakes.

 The daily listed these as “the regression of democratic values and governance with intimidation against government critics and political opponents as well as shrinking public participation in legislation.”

 The Jakarta Post list should have included murder. In late June TV journalist  Rico Sempurna Pasaribu, died alongside his wife, son and grandchild when his home was firebombed.

He’s been investigating a gambling syndicate allegedly involving the military in North Sumatra. Three months earlier in the same region another journo who’d been checking the drug trade also had his house torched.

Last year the Alliance of Independent Journalists recorded ”89 cases of attacks and obstruction involving 83 individuals, five groups  and 15 media outlets’.

 Anita Wahid, a daughter of the late  Abdurrahman Wahid (Gus Dur), Indonesia’s reformist fourth president (1999 - 2001), is now a PhD student at ANU.

She’s written   that the targets “were mainly reporting on “public accountability, corruption, social and criminal issues, and environmental issues.

“The attacks included verbal and physical threats (including torture, confinement and kidnappings), gender-based sexual harassment and assaults, terror and intimidation.”

The 1999 Indonesia  Press Law is supposed to guarantee media protection and citizens' right to information.  It doesn't.

Jokowi's fauxpology is a typical Javanese gesture that will make no difference.  His successor taking over in October is the disgraced former general Prabowo Subianto, a man unfamiliar with the word 'sorry'.  

The word on the street is that Prabowo will continue crushing critics. Whether this means more ‘influencers’ and fewer reporters will become apparent as Prabowo settles into the Jakarta Palace.

Anita Wahid again: ”Journalists are needed now more than ever to monitor a government that has adopted increasingly authoritarian practices, in addition to rising corruption and human rights violations.”

Who'd want a journo’s job in Indonesia when the threats are real and fearful?  Better start a shopping website and get the VIPs keen to chat about their smart doings without the scrutiny needed to keep the bastards honest.

First published in Pearls & Irritations, 8 August 2024: https://johnmenadue.com/how-to-get-good-publicity-ban-journos/

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JUMAT BERKAH, MALANG, EAST JAVA

Becak drivers

STREET CHARITY  - THANK ALLAH  IT’S FRIDAY          

 Duncan Graham

Following the 7 October Hamas outrage Australia has been suffering an outburst of race and religious hate.  Lawyer Jillian Segal has been made a “special envoy” to counter antisemitism. A similar appointment is expected to confront Islamophobia and challenge the alleged linkage of Muslims with extremism and terror.

 Indonesia has more citizens following Islam than any other nation. Its numbers surpass the belief's birthplace in Saudi Arabia eight-fold.

Our neighbour is awash with faith. And hope, for bankers are claiming the Republic is racing towards being an economic world power. That doesn’t mean equality.

Just under ten per cent of the 275 million population live below the poverty level of  around three Oz dollars a day. They get by rarely with government aid, regularly through the religious community.

Seldom heard in the West’s media rants against Islam is its well-embedded principle of charity - particularly the Friday food routine.

There's no fanfare.  The givers give and the takers take.   Flaunting goodness is not good in Islam.

Unless there's an election campaign where look-at--me candidates get coverage by handing out oversized cheques, donor virtues pass unnoticed.

Seen through a camera lens one food rush in Malang (the second largest city in East Java) looks like a TV news clip from the Gaza Strip when an aid convoy arrives.

Pull back to a wider view and the shot is wrong: The surging crowd is small, only 80 people.  They're hungry but not famished. A few are disabled.

The surroundings aren't shattered.  The noise isn't from bomb bursts but badly-muffled motorbikes - one stickered PALESTINE. It belongs to Tommy Sasmito who calls himself a "public figure" because he's a reporter for a tease-and-sleaze tabloid.

No one protests his advocacy.  The nearest supporter of Israel is in Perth, 2,700 km to the south.  Here in Indonesia Judaism is banned, so few hear any other side.  No-one mentions Gaza - they just keep eating.

The break-fasters carry sheets of vinyl to spread on the pavement where they dine.  Their boxed meal includes vegies, a slice of tempe (fried soybean cake) and a dollop of boiled rice.

At this giveaway site - one of many - the donors are uniformed students on a three-week field study programme from an Islamic University in Yogyakarta, 360 km to the west.  They use the courtyard of the Government Treasury to organise their care sessions and get some money to buy the essentials.

The free-feed ritual is a mix of the Javanese culture of gotong royong (community self-help) and the duties of Islam. On Sundays, some churches  run food banks, though usually only for congregants’ families.

The system is praised by politicians because it relieves Jakarta from providing welfare programmes and pensions except for the desperate.

Kamaruddin Amin at the Ministry of Religion  reportedy said "there should be no poor people in Indonesia, if we all pay zakat.”  

This philanthropy  is supposed to be compulsory under Islamic law. Kamaruddin said  $37 billion  was needed nationally but less than eight per cent has been given.  So the locals fill in.

Traditionally caring for the frail and old has fallen to their offspring or the wider family if someone is childless. Villagers feed the elderly who care for littlies and do menial tasks while waiting for a call from Allah.

So the state dumps the needs of the poor on those who practise their religion  Fortunately for the disadvantaged, that’s a lot.

A few streets away Tety, who’s been on the Hajj pilgrimage to Mecca, is supervising 150 handouts at the gate of her family’s kost.  It's an elite boarding house exclusively for 25 young women studying medicine at nearby Brawijaya University.

Why feed the poor?

“Today is Jumat Berkah (blessed Friday),” she said.  “It’s special and holy.  We don’t care about the person’s faith or their economic circumstances.   Our responsibility is to help humanity through the blessing of food.  There are no  demands on the hungry to reciprocate.  No questions.”

She appears to be right. Occasionally a terima kasih can be heard from the eaters, though no preaching from the servers or even a religious greeting.

In another part of the hilltown there's a line of mainly middle-aged men who claim they're jobless, and elderly women who identify as widows or divorcees.

They queue outside a dilapidated warung alongside a welding workshop. The word means a roadside stall though this one has rough tables and benches.

 From sunup till 10 am all eats and coffee are on the house courtesy of owner Anik Sumartini. It’s a loaves and fishes scene.

 Behind the counter feeding the hundreds is a cheerful clutch of women in Muslim headscarves, but Lisa Salhuteru is bareheaded.  

She's a Protestant driven by the same motives as her kitchen colleagues filling pots and washing pans following her holy book’s statement that silver-tongues minus charity are “tinkling cymbals”.

A couple of kilometres to the east the split road from the train station to the gateway to the city is a prestige thoroughfare well-gardened.

On a grass verge corner gather drivers of becak, the three-wheel cycles used to transport weary pedestrians.  The group starts with a dozen blokes who sleep in their trikes, but grows with empty-cupboard housewives. Eventually a car pulls up with a boot-load of food boxes.

 Rusnan, 66, says he was once in the film business, even going overseas with crews.  Now he’s having a bad spell but won’t elaborate other than a shoulder shrug and “inshallah” (it’s the will of Allah).  Fatalism is widespread.

The guys say on other days they scrounge waste bins for anything saleable, wave motorists into parking spots for 25 cents a car and direct traffic hoping for a tip.   The women often beg door-to-door.

They've heard the Australian government cares for its citizens and want details.

Caution calls; bragging about Oz pensions and access to welfare would bemuse if  added that some camp rough and use  food banks to get by.

Without the context of  taxation and the cost of living the questioners wonder why we whinge when we live in what they think is a paradise.  Maybe they’re right.

Disclosure:  The author believes he’s irreligious.

(Pictures of Jumat Berkah  here; //https://indonesianow.blogspot.com/)

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Tety

Faith is not an issue on Jumat Berkah

Anik Sumartini

Tommy Sasmito

The rush at the Treasury

Breakfast at Anik's Warung

First published 31 July 2024 in Pearls & Irritations: https://johnmenadue.com/street-charity-thank-allah-its-friday/