Tag: Indonesia

[Jakarta] Blue Bird Taxi Driver Disciplined After Scolding Foreign Motorist Using Indonesian And Broken English

Blue Bird taxi company has disciplined one of its drivers after a video recording him scolding a foreigner went viral on Monday.

The driver’s anger was apparently triggered by an accident involving the taxi and the foreigner’s car, which caused damage to the taxi’s front fender.

The details of the accident remain unknown. The foreigner vehicle’s plate indicated that it was a diplomatic car.

In the video, the taxi driver cursed the foreigner using Indonesian and broken English.

“Do you think I am afraid with you? This is Indonesia you know, think, think, think,” the driver shouted.

The driver also asked the foreigner to do something about the damage to his car.

“You must compensate it, the bumper is broken, you must replace it, this one, Indonesia,” he said.

Meanwhile, the foreigner looked busy on his cell phone. “No England, no USA, you know. I am no crazy, you crazy. I am not afraid with the police,” he added.

Blue Bird spokesperson Teguh Wijayanto said the incident occurred on Saturday in the Senayan area, South Jakarta.

“We have tried to resolve the problem,”Teguh said Monday, as quoted by kompas.com.

The taxi driver, Teguh added, had been disciplined but he declined to give further details about the matter.

“If we look at the damage, it might have been caused by grazing because the [foreigner’s] car is higher. The damage is on the right side. Compensation will be handled internally. We regret this incident but it can be resolved with care,” Teguh said.

Source: http://www.asiaone.com

August 30, 2017
Indonesian Man Arrested At Causeway Pipelines For Trying To Enter Singapore Illegally

A man was arrested at the Causeway for trying to enter Singapore illegally on Saturday (Aug 26).

The man was seen walking between the water pipelines along the Causeway towards Singapore by the Police Coast Guard, who alerted the Immigration & Checkpoints Authority (ICA) at Woodlands Checkpoint at about 7.30pm.

Coast Guard and ICA officers found him hiding under the pipelines, with a “cylindrical flotation device”. The 47-year-old Indonesian was immediately arrested, ICA said in a statement on Monday.

Investigations are ongoing, authorities said.

The penalties for overstaying or illegal entry are up to six months’ jail and at least three strokes of the cane, while the penalties for abetting a person to leave Singapore illegally is a jail term of six months to two years. The abettor can also be fined up to S$6,000.

“Our borders are our first line of defence in safeguarding Singapore’s security,” said ICA. “The security checks are critical to our nation’s security.

“We will continue to conduct security checks on passengers and vehicles at the checkpoints and our maritime border to prevent attempts to smuggle in undesirable persons, drugs, weapons, explosives and other contrabands.”

Source: http://www.channelnewsasia.com

August 28, 2017
SEA Games: Indonesian Netizens’ Retaliation Towards Malaysia’s Error With The Indonesian Flag

It looks like some Indonesian netizens have chosen to express their anger in the same form as what was did onto them. If only Malaysia had hastily devised some form of remedy to appease the nation’s uproar for their uncalled for mistake, maybe things wouldn’t have gone out of hand.

However their best work was none other than this! They showed their prowess by clinching the top of the table in the Seagames hosted by Malaysia themselves. Indonesia is currently at the number 1 spot with 182 Gold medals.

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August 21, 2017
Indonesia: Giant Statue Of Chinese God Covered Up With Sheet In Indonesia After Upsetting Local Muslims

A colossal statue of a Chinese god has been unceremoniously covered up by a giant white sheet in Indonesia after upsetting the local Muslim population

The giant god-turned-ghost is Guan Yu, a heroic Three Kingdoms era general who was later immortalized as a folk deity in China. The 30.4-meter-tall statue reportedly cost 2.5 billion Indonesian rupiahs ($187,000) to build and was funded by private donations to the Kwan Sing Bio Temple in Tuban, East Java.

It was publicly unveiled last month at a ceremony held inside the temple that was attended by prominent local politicians. Billed as the largest statue of Guan Yu in Southeast Asia, it was hoped that the colossus might help to attract more tourists to the city.

Instead, so far, the giant statue has attracted only outrage from the locals of Tuban, who are predominately Muslim. Online, many argued that the statue was an affront to Islam and the local people of Indonesia, claiming that it showed how the Chinese were in fact in control of Indonesia’s government. Others claimed that the statue was built on public land and without the proper building permits — despite the fact that the statue was entirely built on land owned by the temple.

The decision to cover up the statue was made last weekend by the temple’s management following consultation with a governmental organization, the Forum of Religious Harmony, which is tasked with ensuring peace between different religious groups in the country, as a way of calming down the situation.

However, local Muslims have said that merely covering up Guan Yu is not good enough, vowing that if the government does not take action to tear down the statue, then they will do it themselves, holding rallies outside governmental buildings this week to urge local authorities to demolish the ancient warrior god.

Didik Muadi, the leader of the protests, told the local news site Tempo that the statue of the Chinese god should be torn down and replaced with one honoring Indonesia’s national heroes who helped fight for independence, though he is apparently fine with the temple erecting a statue to their god… just so long as it isn’t so big.

“Actually we can allow them to build the statue, just not as high as it was and it should be in the temple, not outside,” he said, adding that “We are tolerant.”

Sounds like Didik should really avoid ever paying a vist to the waterfront of Hubei’s Jingzhou city.

Source: shanghaiist.com/

August 14, 2017
Agensi Pelancongan Indonesia Tipu Wang 35,000 Bakal Jemaah Umrah

Sekitar 35,000 pelanggan Islam bagi sebuah agensi pelancongan Indonesia, First Travel, mendakwa wang mereka untuk menunaikan ibadah umrah, dilarikan. “Secara keseluruhannya, seramai 70,000 bakal jemaah yang sudah membayar. Tetapi hanya 35,000 saja yang sudah berangkat untuk menunaikan umrah, manakala yang lain diberikan pelbagai alasan yang menghalang mereka daripada berangkat sehingga kini,” dedah ketua pengarah jenayah Badan Reserse Kriminal (Bareskim) Herry Rudolf Nahak pada Khamis (10 Ogos).

Pengarah presiden First Travel Andika Surachman dan isterinya Anniesa Desvitasari Hasibuan, sudahpun ditangkap dan akan ditahan selama 20 hari sementara siasatan itu dijalankan, tambah Herry. Pasangan itu diberkas di pejabat Kementerian Ehwal Agama semasa mereka cuba meyakinkan para pegawai untuk tidak menarik balik permit mereka.

Encik Herry berkata First Travel menawarkan tiga pakej berbeza bagi umrah yang merangkumi promosi pakej umrah yang bernilai 14.3 juta rupiah (S$1,460), pakej biasa bernilai 25 juta rupiah (S$2,550) dan pakej VIP yang bernilai Rp 54 juta (S$5,510). “Setelah menghitung, pelanggan-pelanggan itu… kehilangan jumlah sekurang-kurangnya 550 bilion rupiah (S$5.6 juta),” jelas Encik Herry.

Salah seorang pelanggan, Emil, memberitahu Merdeka bahawa beliau sudah membayar 34.6 juta rupiah (S$3,530) sejak 2016 dan ketika itu dijanji bahawa beliau dapat berangkat ke umrah pada Mac 2017. Beliau sudah membayar jumlah itu kerana beliau mahu melalui pengalaman menunaikan ibadah umrah semasa bulan Ramadan. Menurut Encik Herry, siasatan itu dimulakan selepas 13 kakitangan First Tavel membuat aduan polis, menyusuli aduan oleh beberapa pelanggan bahawa wang yang sudah dibayar ke agensi itu tidak digunakan untuk umrah mereka. Permit First Travel ditarik balik oleh Kementerian Ehwal Agama pada 1 Ogos.

Source: Berita Mediacorp

August 11, 2017