People on the EN #Wikipedia keep editing the ill-fated communist leader Musso's name to be "Munawar Musso" or "Musso Munawar". (It's currently the latter.)

In any old newspapers from the 1920s-50s he was only ever Musso. The oldest appearance I can find online of "Munawar Musso" is from the World Marxist Review in English in the 1970s. In recent English and Indonesian books (2010s-2020s) he seems to be now referred to regularly as Munawar Musso.🤔
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Musso

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A Stanford University study in 2017 said Indonesians walk so much less than the world average.

When suburban roads typically look like this and only 610km of Jakarta’s more than 7,000km of roads have sidewalks, nobody should be surprised that nobody wants to walk in the city.

The strong lobby from motor vehicle companies also means that the city is home to 19 million motorcycles and 4 million cars. That’s almost 2 bikes per person in the city.

The city has 44 thousand buses, 4.5 thousand of which are full sized buses for TransJakarta network, and the bulk of the rest are likely the mini 8-10 person capacity buses (angkots) that have no schedule.

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Desperately looking for a way to DIY our own Indomie seasoning from scratch because ‘export version Indomie’ (the ones sold outside Indonesia) are not as good as the original.

They’re just.. nowhere as spicy, or umami?! (The export version that says hot and spicy is closer than the normal one, but also has the same problem)

This recipe looks promising. I’m gonna try it

youtu.be/hQV50DsLTv4

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If you like Indomie Noodles you must try this recipe! 🔥

Indomie noodles recipe | Indomie recipe | Indomie noodles | Ramen recipe | Instant noodles | Instant ramenToss aside your instant ramen seasoning packet and ...

^YouTube

CNA discusses why Indonesian politicians switch parties easily and frequently.

Short answer: most political parties have no strong ideological differences. There’s no such thing as left vs right, progressive vs conservative.

Almost all are nationalist conservative and try to carry the religious votes, so in most cases it doesn’t matter which party politicians are affiliated with. What matters is to which party leader do their loyalties lie. It’s hero worship and group identity, not political ideologies, that define the majority of Indonesian political parties.

channelnewsasia.com/asia/indon…

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Why political party-hopping is rampant in Indonesia and can anything be done about it

Internal conflicts, schisms, and opaque mechanisms in nominating legislative and executive candidates are some of the reasons why politicians switch political parties to contest elections.

^{Nivell Rayda (CNA)}

When I was growing up I was a devout student of southeast Asian colonial and post-colonial history but my studies largely focused on the British empire. I am now spending my free time reading about the Dutch.

HOLY SHIT.

tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

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Today in Labor History October 8, 1965: The Indonesian military, led by future dictator Suharto, began torturing and massacring thousands of "suspected" Communists, leading ultimately to the overthrow of leftist President Sukarno. Other targets of the murders were members of the Gerwani women’s movement, trade unionists, ethnic Javanese Abangan, ethnic Chinese, atheists, teachers, students, and alleged leftists in general. The U.S. embassy provided the death squads with the names of suspected “communists.” Intelligence agencies from the U.S., U.K., and Australia provided anti-communist propaganda, as well as military and logistical aid. Overall, the genocide (1965-1966) led to 500,000 to 1.2 million civilian deaths and 1.5 million imprisoned. A top-secret CIA report from 1968 called the massacres "one of the worst mass murders of the 20th century, along with the Soviet purges of the 1930s, the Nazi mass murders, and the Maoist bloodbath of the early 1950s." Nevertheless, Western media either downplayed the events, or celebrated them. Suharto remained in power until 1998, continuing to imprison, torture and slaughter workers and civilians. He also presided over the East Timor Genocide of up to 300,000 people in the 1970’s.

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Call for voice actors for a short story, preferably a middle-aged Indonesian native speaker with feminine voice.

Edit: the call is from @KhoreoMag

Details: docs.google.com/document/d/1MI…

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