Rough Justice
May 18th, 2007, in News, by PatungBeating and shaming young lovers.
In a village in Cianjur, West Java, on 13th May two young lovers, Midah (18) and Asep (23) were discovered in a rice field, up to no good it seems. Villagers had known about the relationship of the two for some time and had gathered together on the night of the 13th and gone looking for them.
After they were found Midah and Asep were each given a beating by local people and then handed over to the village head for further punishment. Daday, the village head, said the young couple had each been fined, with the money going towards the building of a new road.
Udin, 33, said people in the village couldn’t stand to see the young lovers violating the norms of religion and ruining the good name of the village anymore. republika
Meanwhile in the Karimun district of Riau on 15th May, three young people, “S” and “R”, both 25 years old, and a female, “H”, 22 years old, were seized by locals in a rented house because they were thought to be using the place for sexual purposes. One villager explained:
They never left the house. So we raided it.
It appears that “H”‘s father, Idris, had first raised the issue, saying the behaviour of his daughter couldn’t be tolerated anymore. He had warned her many times but she had ignored him.
After the three were caught they were paraded around the village in order to shame them. However the girl, “H”, did not seem to care and smiled all the while. antara
36 Comments on “Rough Justice”
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Tomaculum says:
Finally, Pak Tomalcum, let’s not continually refer to skin-color, or even color of the kolor, ok Friend?
Agree with you, Achmad. So you should stop always writing about “bule“. OK?!
Back to the topic: I just have one comment: primitive action!
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Achmad Sudarsono says:
Tom and Bpk/Ibu Niamh: oke friend. 🙂
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Aluang Anak Bayang says:
Achmad Sudarsono Says:
May 21st, 2007 at 5:17 pm
Naga,It sounds like YOU have been hanging around unemployed English teachers for too long, buying into all these conspiracy theories. The only pretending going on is people paying attention to you, Friend”¦Once again, I’m sorry if I speak English too well for you, meesterrrr, meesterrr.
You may write well, but it doesn’t mean that you can speak well. Singaporeans can write perfect English but wait till they open their mouth. haha.
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Aluang Anak Buayang, yeth that ith true, I have a lithp.
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Lou Cyfer says:
What the … are you people talking about? I dare all of you to come forth and show your faces. Let me ask you this, how long have you so called Indonesians have been a friend to the English language? I’m willing to bet probably since primary or secondary school. Just because you know your English doesn’t make any of you experts. I am a Muslim born overseas and for the next 30 consecutive years I lived in English-speaking countries and yet after 10 years of setting up camp in Indonesia, I’m surprised to discover that a there are people whom I’d like to label as “a lame and sorry excuse for being an Indonesian” lecturing “a pathetic and embarrasing example for being an Indonesian” on his English just because he couldn’t get his grammar right. You dingbats are nothing a but a bunch of …ed up, screwed up intellect wannabes. My God, you great pretenders are worse than the Jews of yesterday, today and tomorrow.
Hear me out, English was my first language and I have never made any heroic attempts in parading it just to prove a point that I’m actually good at it. And all of you, still newbies compared to our better English-speaking ASEAN neighbors already think that English is your native tounge. If you claim to be good at it then champion your cause by confronting a real and true native speaker of the language. Defeating your own brown brother is moot but besting a pale-faced hombre is admirable.
Tit fot tat. I like Indonesia for the fact that it has become a home for the bules. I like the bules because they have their own personal charity project which is to marry our women. By women, I mean those who are not saleable to the locals because of their undesirable physical characteristics. In the local lingo, we call them the “muka pembokat”.
I rest my case.
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One only has to lurk for a while on the Dave’s ESL Cafe Indonesia forum to see that not many of those English ‘teachers’ can write English anywhere near as good as our friend Achmad.