THE DOLLAR BURNS - Indonesia Urges Citizens to Abandon Western Payment Systems

The Dollar Burns

• U.S. sanctions on Russia is the straw that broke the camels back. Biden drove Russia fully into the arms of China 
• Meanwhile many other nations are fleeing the dollar and western banking systems.

The leader of Indonesia says the country must reduce its dependence on foreign payment systems, to negate potentially disastrous economic consequences should the country ever find itself in the crosshairs of Western sanctions.

Addressing a business forum in Jakarta this week, President Joko Widodo argued that Indonesia must shield itself from geopolitical disruptions, citing the sanctions attack on Russia’s financial sector by the US, EU, and their allies over the conflict in Ukraine.

“Be very careful. We must remember the sanctions imposed by the US on Russia. Visa and Mastercard could be a problem,” Widodo said on Wednesday at a gathering that promoted the use of Indonesian-made products and services.

Last year, Indonesia rolled out a Domestic Government Credit Card (KKP) program to facilitate transactions between the central and regional governments. The president urged the public sector to adopt domestic systems, stressing that eventually “everyone should be able to use” locally-issued bank cards so that “we can be independent.”

“If we use our own platforms, and everybody is using them, from ministries and local administrations to municipal governments, then we can be more secure,” Widodo said, according to the Jakarta Post.

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And the message is . . .  

Get out from under the control of the U.S and abandon the dollar as fast as possible.

Communist Chinese Navy pushes into Indonesia

(RFA)  -  Indonesia is boosting patrols in its maritime territory in the South China Sea after incursions by Chinese coast guard and fishing boats in recent days.

The head of Indonesia’s Maritime Security Agency (Bakamla) said the country would defend its waters off the Natuna Islands – an archipelago at the southern reaches of the contested sea – after more than 60 Chinese ships trespassed in its Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ) in late December.

“We will be present there and we will stake our claim,” ​​Vice Admiral Achmad Taufiqoerrohman, the chief of Bakamla, told reporters after meeting with cabinet ministers in Jakarta on Friday.

“The Indonesian National Armed Forces (TNI) will also exert their strength,” Achmad said.

He did not indicate how many additional personnel or ships would be deployed, saying those details were confidential.

TNI said it had deployed three ships, one maritime reconnaissance aircraft and an Indonesian Air Force plane to patrol Natuna waters. Another ship was on its way to the region from Jakarta, the military said in a statement.

After Jakarta lodged a diplomatic protest over the December incursion, Beijing’s foreign ministry defended the presence of Chinese boats around the Indonesian islands, saying that “China has rights and interests over the relevant waters.”

Chinese boats including three coast guard vessels were again spotted in Natuna waters on Friday, according to Indonesian media outlet Tempo.

“When we conduct air patrol this morning, we find 30 boats there. I have deployed more security personnel,” it quoted the Bakamla chief as saying.

Gas fields near the islands are believed to hold up to 226 trillion cubic feet of gas, according to data from the Ministry of Energy and Mineral Resources.

Following a series of encounters with Chinese ships in Indonesian waters in 2016, including one in which the Indonesian Navy fired warning shots at Chinese-flagged vessels, Indonesia further irritated Beijing by renaming the area the North Natuna Sea.

Jakarta then launched an ambitious five-point plan for developing the Natunas that involved military facilities, fisheries, tourism, oil and gas, and preserving the environment.

“It is our right to develop the Natuna waters,” Indonesian Foreign Minister Retno Marsudi told reporters on Friday. “We would also like to emphasize again that there have been violations by Chinese vessels in Indonesia’s EEZ.”

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Obama warns against patriotism on July 4th

Obama Attacks U.S. Nationalism

in Muslim Indonesia

(Infowars)  -  While most Americans are gathering with family and community this weekend to celebrate the most exceptional country in the history of the world, Mr. Hope and Change is halfway around the world talking doom and gloom — and criticizing his successor.

Barack Obama visited Indonesia this weekend, and in a series of appearances, attacked love of country and the policies of Donald Trump.

The Guardian reports:

The former US president said some countries had adopted “an aggressive kind of nationalism” and “increased resentment of minority groups”, in a speech in Indonesia on Saturday that could be seen as a commentary on the US as well as Indonesia.

“It’s been clear for a while that the world is at a crossroads. At an inflection point,” Obama said, telling a Jakarta crowd stories of how much the capital had improved since he lived there as a child.

But he said that increased prosperity had been accompanied by new global problems, adding that as the world confronts issues ranging from inequality to terrorism, some countries – both developed and less developed – had adopted a more aggressive and isolationist stance.

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Muslims arrest 141 Gay men

Officers escort men arrested in a raid on a gay sauna at
North Jakarta police headquarters Tatan Syuflana/AP

Strangely Liberals Are Silent Yet Again 

(Independent)  -  Authorities say 141 men detained for violating pornography laws as country's LGBT community again targeted despite same-sex relations being legal.

Indonesian police detained dozens of men including several foreigners in a weekend raid on a gay sauna in the capital, another sign of growing hostility to homosexuality in the world's most populous Muslim nation. 

Police spokesman Argo Yuwono said 141 men were detained for questioning in the raid Sunday evening on the gym and sauna in north Jakarta. Police say the sauna was the venue for a sex party promoted as “The Wild One.” 

Homosexuality is not illegal in Indonesia, but police said the country's pornography laws had been violated. Ten people will be charged, police said, including the sauna's owner, several staff including strippers, a gym trainer, receptionist and security guard, and two visitors to the club who allegedly performed oral sex. If found guilty, they face penalties of up to 10 years in prison and fines. 

As media waited for a police news conference on Monday afternoon, some of the arrested men were put on display, their faces covered by black ski masks. Last month, police in Surabaya, Indonesia's second-largest city, arrested 14 men at what they alleged was a sex party and forced them to have HIV tests. 

A coalition of legal aid and criminal justice reform groups condemned the raid and “arbitrary” arrests. It said police further violated the rights of those arrested by photographing them naked and facilitating the spread of those images on social media.

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Muslims Jail Christian Governor

Islamo-Fascism

Muslims engage in political terrorism to 

frighten religious minorities into silence.

(Reuters)  -  Hundreds of supporters of Jakarta's Christian governor sang patriotic songs outside the Indonesian capital's City Hall on Wednesday to protest his imprisonment for blasphemy after a trial that drew concerns over rising religious intolerance.

Governor Basuki Tjahaja Purnama is appealing his harsher-than-expected two-year jail sentence after being found guilty of insulting the Koran in the Muslim-majority country.

Purnama, the first ethnic Chinese and Christian leader to be elected as Jakarta's governor, was immediately detained, on the judge's orders, at the end of the trial on Tuesday.

A Muslim protester displays a banner depicting Christian Jakarta
Governor Basuki Tjahaja Purnama behind bars.

While he was held in a police detention facility on Jakarta's outskirts, Purnama's supporters dressed in the national colours of red and white to gather at his office in a show of solidarity at the Dutch colonial-style City Hall.

The emotions unleashed by the case have sent shudders through Indonesia - a secular state that has religious freedom and diversity enshrined in the constitution, though 85 percent of its people are Muslim.

A Hindu spiritual leader from the holiday island of Bali, I Gusti Ngurah Harta, said Purnama's guilty verdict meant minorities could be disadvantaged before the law in the future.

"It means that before the law, minorities will be increasingly oppressed because judges can't do much in the face of the pressures they face," he said.

Purnama, who is an ally of President Joko Widodo, was put on trial late last year over allegations that he had insulted the Koran when he said political rivals were deceiving people by using a verse in from the Islamic holy book to say Muslims should not be led by a non-Muslim.

Islamist groups drew hundreds of thousands of protesters onto the street, calling for him to be sacked and jailed, scuppering his chances at re-election.

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Muslims to beat men for Gay sex

Western Gays and Leftists 

are strangely silent

(Newsweek)  -  Two Indonesians are to go on trial in an Islamic court for having gay sex and could receive 100 strokes of the cane if found guilty, officials in the conservative province of Aceh said, sparking calls from a rights group for their release.

Aceh is the only province in Muslim-majority Indonesia that criminalizes same-sex relations and that uses sharia as its legal code in addition to the national criminal code.

"The case has been sent to the sharia court of Aceh... It involves sodomy which can be punished by 100 lashes," Marzuki, head of investigations with Aceh's religious police, said on Monday.

Human Rights Watch (HRW) called on Indonesia to release the men who were detained last month after vigilantes reported them to religious police for allegedly engaging in gay sex.

"These men had their privacy invaded in a frightening and humiliating manner and now face public torture for the 'crime' of their alleged sexual orientation," HRW's Phelim Kine said in a statement.

"Indonesian authorities should immediately and unconditionally release the two men."

In 2014, Aceh enacted a law that punishes anybody caught engaging in consensual gay sex with 100 lashes, 100 months in jail or a fine of 1,000 grams of gold.

It also sets out punishment for sex crimes, unmarried people engaging in displays of affection, adulterous relationships and underage sex.

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Sharia Law has woman beaten with a cane

Not all cultures are created equal

(London Daily Mail)  -  A video has emerged of a woman being lashed in public with a cane in footage showing Indonesia's brutal Sharia law punishment. 

The woman can be heard screaming in pain in front of a cheering crowd as she takes her cruel beating before collapsing.

Dozens of civilians can be seen gathering around an elevated stage and film the events on their smartphones.

A masked man, whose identity is kept completely hidden, plays to the crowd by wiggling the cane provocatively near the woman's back. 

He then draws it back and unleashes it across her shoulder blades for an unknown alleged crime.

The woman, wearing a white shirt and a salmon-coloured headscarf, winces in pain with every blow.

Between each savage lashing, she reaches back with her hand to try and relieve the agony.

When the man delivers the fifth blow, she collapses in a heap on the stage, to the sound of applause.

Three people, who appear to be paramedics dressed in green and one in white, rush to the woman.

With the help of two women, they carry her off the stage. 

It appears she is unconscious when she is being carried from the arena, as photographers and civilians rush to take a picture of her. 

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Dozens of civilians gather around the stage to film
the woman being lashed on their phones.

Pork Festival renamed after protests by Muslims

Islamo Fascism

Your right to live free and be happy offends Muslims

SEMARANG, INDONESIA (JAKARTA POST/ASIA NEWS NETWORK) - Organisers of a culinary event named the Pork Festival in the Central Java city of Semarang have been forced to rename it following protests from Islamic groups.

The event will now be known as Imlek Culinary Festival. Imlek is the local name for Chinese New Year, which falls on Jan 28 this year.

The Islamic groups met the festival’s committee at the Semarang Police station to discuss the event, which will be held at the Sri Ratu Supermarket in Semarang on Jan 23 to 29.

“The Pork Festival bothers us Muslims in Semarang. That’s why we want the committee to cancel the festival and focus on the Imlek celebration. The event will still have pork stalls but they have to be closed off from the public eye,” Danang Ansoru, spokesman of the Semarang Islam Congregation Forum (FUIS), said Friday evening.

Danang said the groups had also asked the committee to stand guard at the stalls to prevent Muslims from entering, but the request was turned down.

A FUIS statement issued on Jan 20 on the event was signed by several organisations, including Hizbut Tahrir Indonesia, Muhammadiyah Youth, Indonesian Muslim Students Action (KAMMI), Indonesian Muslim Lecturers and Muhammadiyah.

FUIS demanded the police not issue permits for events that may spark public “concern”.  

The committee head of the festival, Firdaus Adinegoro, confirmed the name change. 

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Santa hats banned by Muslim fatwa

Behead Whales Who Insult Islam

(Jakarta Coconuts)  -  ‘Tis the season for fatwas about Christmas again.

The Indonesian Ulema Council (MUI), the nation’s independent clerical body, today issued a fatwa forbidding Muslims from wearing Christmas clothing or accessories to celebrate the Christian holiday.

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The fatwa, which was published in its entirety in Detik here, called on Muslims to preserve friendship with people of other faiths by wishing them well in their religious holidays, but drew the line at Muslims themselves partaking in the festivities, particularly with the wearing of attributes symbolic to other religions.

Essentially, that means the fatwa boils down to forbidding Muslims from wearing Santa hats.

In addition, MUI’s fatwa also forbids businesses from forcing their Muslim employees to wear Christmas accessories at work. This is a follow up from last year, when MUI issued the same advice.

For their final point of the fatwa, MUI decreed that, “the government must prevent, monitor, and punish” those who force Muslims to wear Christmas accessories.

While it’s fair that people of other faiths might have misgivings about celebrating Christmas against their will, it should also be noted that the MUI’s fatwa is not law in Indonesia and the government does not in fact have any legal obligation to follow it.

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The Sharia Police will be all over
this group of free thinkers.

Muslims try Christian Governor for "Blasphemy"

Jakarta's Governor sits on the defendant's chair at the start of his
trial hearing at North Jakarta District Court

The Islamo-Fascist Police State

(UK Telegraph)  -  Jakarta’s Christian governor, Basuki Tjahaja Purnama, wept in court on Tuesday, during a blasphemy trial that is being seen as a test of religious tolerance in the world’s most populous Muslim country, Indonesia.

Purnama, known by his nickname Ahok, stands accused of insulting Islam on the campaign trail in September after he told voters they should not believe religious leaders who used a specific verse in the Koran to claim that Muslims should not be led by non-Muslims.

He has since repeatedly apologised for his statements, which provoked public anger. In his opening statement in court, he insisted his comments were aimed at politicians “incorrectly” using the verse and denied any intention to offend.

“As a person who grew up in Islamic circles, it is not possible for me to insult Islam,” he said, stressing his great respect for the Muslim religion.

“I did not intend to misinterpret Surah Al Maidah 51 [the verse], nor commit blasphemy,” he told the judges, breaking down in tears. “In my statement, I referred to certain politicians who had misused Surah Al Maidah 51 to avoid fair competition prior to upcoming regional elections,” said Purnama.

The governor, a Christian and member of the country’s ethnic Chinese minority, is an anomaly as the first non-Muslim leader of Indonesia’s sprawling capital, Jakarta, in over 50 years.

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Michelle Obama Goes Muslim

First lady Michelle Obama wears a hijab while President Obama visits Istiqlal
Mosque in Jakarta in 2010 (Photo: Screenshot/CNN Turk)

Kissing the Ass of Islamic Oppression

(World Net Daily)  -  Just hours before a Muslim jihadist stabbed Ohio State University students with a butcher knife and plowed into them with his car, a CNN host suggested Americans should wear Islamic head coverings to show “solidarity” with Muslims who fear for their safety in the U.S.

“Maybe there will be a movement where people wear the head scarf in solidarity. You know, even if you’re not Muslim,” suggested CNN anchor Alisyn Camerota on CNN’s “New Day.”

“Maybe it’s the way people shave their heads, you know, sometimes in solidarity with somebody who is going through something,” she said.

Camerota made her comments following a news segment on Muslims who say they fear they will be attacked for wearing a religious head covering, or hijab, in public. 

The report, headlined “The Trump transition: Fearful Muslim women take steps to be safe,” claimed President-elect Donald Trump’s election is somehow tied to alleged “attacks” on Muslims.

However, as WND has reported, some claims are suspect. In one case, a female Muslim student at University of Louisiana accused a Trump-supporting man of attacking her and ripping off her hijab, but she later admitted she made up the story.

In the CNN package, a Muslim woman named Marwa Abdelghani told the network: “I hope I can wear it one day again. I hope I can feel safe enough to do so.”

In the CNN report, host Chris Cuomo suggested Muslim women take measures to defend themselves.

“I think self-defense training is good for everybody,” he said. “Prepare yourself for whatever can come.”

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Muslims flog woman for close proximity with a man

The Beatings Will Continue

Until Allah is Happy

(AFP) - An Indonesian woman screamed in agony Monday as she was caned in Aceh, the latest in a growing number of women to be publicly flogged for breaking the province's strict Islamic laws.

Aceh is the only province in the world's most populous Muslim-majority country that imposes sharia law. People can face floggings for a range of offences -- from gambling, to drinking alcohol, to gay sex.

In the latest caning, five people -- two women and three men -- were flogged in front of a cheering crowd at a mosque in the provincial capital Banda Aceh.

The 34-year-old woman who yelled in pain had been found guilty of spending time in close proximity with a man who was not her husband in contravention of Aceh's Islamic regulations.

She was lashed seven times with a rattan cane by a man wearing long robes and a hood, with just slits for the eyes.

"It hurts so bad," the woman said, raising her arms into the air, as she was beaten.

The 32-year-old man with whom she was caught was also flogged seven times.

Two university students, both 19, received 100 lashes of the cane after they confessed to sex outside marriage. They stared at the ground as they were flogged, showing little emotion.

A man found guilty of sex outside marriage was flogged 22 times although his partner, who is two-months pregnant, is still waiting to learn her fate after facing trial at an Islamic court.

However Aceh authorities typically spare pregnant women from canings.

Aceh, on Sumatra island, began implementing sharia law after being granted special autonomy in 2001, an attempt by the central government in Jakarta to quell a long-running separatist insurgency.

Islamic laws have been strengthened since the province struck a peace deal with Jakarta in 2005, and there has been a particular increase in the number of women being caned in recent times.

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The Religion of Peace™
Lady Gaga canceled her sold-out show in Indonesia over security concerns after Muslim hard-liners threatened violence if the pop diva went ahead with her “Born This Way Ball”.
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The Islamic Defenders Front said Lady Gaga’s sexy clothes and provocative dance moves would corrupt youth in the world’s most populous Muslim country.
(Associated Press)

Meanwhile back in the sane world

Let the Muslims have their moronic Sharia Law.  The rest of us will continue to enjoy the many pleasures of the female body.

Jesus H. Christ
I thank God I am a Christian

150,000 violent Muslims riot against Christian Governor

A protester with a rolled up poster. Photo: Roni Bintang

Obey Allah or Die

Indonesia's "moderate" Islam is on display.

(Sydney Morning Herald)  -  The streets of Jakarta erupted into violence on Friday night leaving one dead and multiple people injured as police clashed with demonstrators following a rally of about 150,000 people demanding the arrest of the city's Chinese Christian governor.

Jakarta police spokesman Awi Setiyono said one person had died from asthma and at least 12 police officers and four protesters were injured in the protests.

The protest was largely peaceful during the day however the mood soured after clashes between police and demonstrators on Friday night culminated in police using tear gas to disperse the remaining crowd outside the presidential palace.

Demonstrators threw stones and vehicles belonging to the police paramilitary force BRIMOB were set on fire.

Aerial view of Muslim groups protest against Jakarta's governor
Basuki Tjahaja Purnama. Photo: Reuters/Beawiharta

The head of the Islamic Students' Association (HMI), Mulyadi P Tamsir, denied the group started the fight with police, saying they had been planning to leave at 6pm but were hemmed in.

"There were around 1000 HMI members," he told Fairfax Media. "We were sitting about 30 to 100 metres from the broken barricade, we backed away immediately after the tear gas shooting. My eyes hurt, my face was hot, we scrambled for water to wash our faces. We backed away immediately. I don't have any reports yet if any of our members were hurt. It was a peace action, we stuck to that."Mr Mulyadi said the fight had been initiated by a group next to them. "There was a small incident in the afternoon, some garbage, not tires, were burned, but it was put out immediately. It was a peace action."

The rally, spearheaded by the militant Islamic Defenders Front, came about because Muslim hardliners want Jakarta governor Basuki Tjahaja Purnama, widely known as Ahok, to be jailed for allegedly insulting the Koran.

About 20,000 police and military personnel secured the route of the demonstration in Central Jakarta amid fears it would be hijacked by extremists keen to foment violence.

Simultaneous protests took place in other Indonesian cities including Medan and Bengkulu.

"Arrest and try Ahok and his cronies dead or alive," read a sign suspended from Istiqlal mosque, the largest mosque in South East Asia.

Several embassies, including those from Australia and the US, had warned their citizens to stay away from the protests, and some schools in the capital closed.

Ahok is being investigated by police for alleged blasphemy after he appeared to suggest in an edited video transcript that voters were being deceived by a verse in the Koran.

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Muslim protesters chant slogans near burning police
trucks during the clashes. Photo: AP