HypocriticalFatBastard

If you live in Indonesia, and watch the news. You must’ve known that recently, The Minister of People’s Welfare -Aburizal Bakrie- has spurred some controversy regarding his comment on flood disaster in Jakarta.
On one interview he said :

I think we do need to handle the problem (victims of flood disaster .ed). But it doesn’t need to be blown up. If we see.. the victims are still laughing and all. So don’t put it like the world is going to end like your station (SCTV) said..

Well i’m not a good translator, here is the original quote in Bahasa Indonesia:

Saya kira masalahnya perlu kita tangani, tetapi tidak perlu dibesar-besarkan. Kalau kita lihat, para korban itu masih ketawa dan sebagainya.Jadi jangan sampai dikondisikan seolah-olah dunia mau kiamat seperti yang televisi anda katakan

First time i heard it on television, I was shocked!.. How on earth he dared saying such thing?
The victims are still laughing ?
So the government will act accordingly if the victims can’t laugh anymore? So the victims, who’s had hard time watching their home flooded, don’t have any right to laugh? So they suppose to cry and whine all the time?
That’s just nut!
As far as i know, this year flood is the worst that ever happen in Jakarta. No wonder the news on the event seems overexposed. Because it needs to be overexposed!.
Jakarta is the capital city of Indonesia, and somehow there’s always big flood every five years. There is some saying, it goes like this "Di Jakarta, banjir tidak pernah ingkar janji", which literally means "In Jakarta, flood never breaks it promise". So when it said the flood will come in 5 years.. it wil definitely come in 5 years.
And what strikes me is, the officials, especially the high-ranked ones. Always seems to blame the nature on every disaster.
Maybe it’s our nature as mere mortals, that we never take the blame lightly.
And maybe that’s why  Aburizal Bakrie  said such awful thing. He was just being honest.. and telling what’s on his mind. Aburizal Bakrie was just being himself. He is not a politician capable of bull-shiitaking his way out of trouble. He is just an outright honest man, with a twisted sense of social awareness.
Somehow, in a bizarre way, i feel happy about that.. because honesty is always good isn’t it?.  Especially in hypocrite-infested country like Indonesia.

goodbye, goodnight.. don’t let those hypocritical bed bugs bite .

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