First Post : Whatta “Fuss” is Soeharto?

Assalamualaikum my fellow countrymen (and women)! So here i go…my first serious post. Aha this is what i start to hate about blogging…once yout have it,it’ll feel a bit intimidating of having a blog without being productive in posting some writing…so here it is. Pardon me if it is uninteresting and dull..after all this blog is just a week-old…

Suharto…nice name eh?-why the heck i would write about this dieing (is is spelled dying as in hair dying?ups sorry) human-being, i honestly dont know. There must be something about him that makes everyone in this country a bit itchy of their hands to write some words or their mouth to say something. Maybe it is his name…”SUHARTO” that encourages people…you know…this is “THE” name that once was a guarantee of every pain and gain Indonesia had for almost 32 years. SUHARTO should have been picked by JK Rowling as Harry’s lifetime rival…instead of “Lord Voldermort” (for this one,why the hell Rowling pick such a lame name for an antagonist?). It would be waaay cool to see some Indonesian name mentioned in such a famous book, especially when Rowling put it “him who shouldnt be mentioned” or “him who masters the world of darkness”. But anyway…i dont think it is his name that amused people to talk about him so much recently…afterall it was not that great of a name…take “Patrya” for instance,means more than the old Suharto (Patrya=countryman). Move on…

Then maybe it is his health that moves people to make a lot of fuss about him. Especially after all media talk about that cute little thing in his chest, is it ventilator or something? i’m not sure. They say that that gadget has kept that man alive for quite some time. Well…this kinda makes me think that Indonesia should have adopted “euthanasia” law…so that such an expensive facilities wouldnt bother a lot of people. So if the “ventilator” is the case,then the government should have it sold for everybody…even put it in a ATM machine (you know…like the ATM Condom,imagine “ventilator ATM”,that would make guiness record!). But naaah… i dont think it’s his health. A lot of people suffer much much more than him, and a lot more people use a much expensive and sophisticated facilities to keep them alive. If it is about health…then AIDS, malaria, or TB should have been given some upperhand than his “health system failure with ventilator” (whatta hell kind of desease is that? soo not cool).

Ok…let’s see…and then i think…maybe it was his history that makes people talk about him so much. This is a strong case cuz the man was president of this country for, umm ever (no,i exagerate it…only 3 decades and about 3 generations and several millions of Indonesians and several billions of dollars were at stake, no big deal eh?). Geez…President Putin would have wanted his position now!). He managed to work his way to presidency, ousted Sukarno and probably had killed him slowly but surely (maybe he thought the Bhotto model of killing is way to messy, so just put him in a house arrest…Gosh my cat hates it!). He wasnt that bad though…food sufficiency,done! political stability,done! international role, done! but what cought my attention was the way he’d done population control…i found out that there are at least 2 ways…one is by the family planning program and the other is (which he likes the most) through extermination. Well…some of them went missing and several years later found in some random river with his finger missing or if he’s tired enough…the soldier did it for him. These 2 method of population control program has some advantage…it controlled the growing population of Indonesians and it controlled the “mind, ideas,and movement” of its people. Soeharto apparenly is not very keen on some disagreement. He would like them to be,umm…united. (what if now SBY doesnt like ventilator?imagine! all men with ventilator should give it all up,and there he died!j/k). And then somehow Indonesian realized that they had to end his leadership and he resigned afterall…His wealth is even put under law which enforce his countrymen to check all corruption he’d done ( this kinda makes me think what if my highschool principal put in TAP MPR as one man whose wealth should be investigated,hell i’ll support that!). Well…this reason (his deeds before,as president)…has held on for a while that makes me think that it may be the cause for all fuss about him. But again…doubts crossed my mind. It cant be that! You know…his corruption charges have been there forever and he’s not that powerfull anymore. Afterall…what can a man with ventilator do? he cant even dress  himself! The so-called-democracy is there now and there is no way he can be president again (imagine..a “ventilated-president”? too complicated,sorry).

Then,i’ve come up to the ultimate reason for all the fuss! It found out that his rats, cronys, ass-lickers are all holding position in the government! Oh my god…you have no idea how they love him soo much (i dont know if it was his name,weath,deeds..not his wife definetely,not that pretty). SBY, JK, Wiranto, and hundreds others are by name. Now I understand why JK Rowling enabled Lord Voldermort alive, it was his servants! Imagine if those servants arent there…Lord Voldermort wont make it to Rowling’s books, and Harry Potter’s series wouldnt be bestsellers. And just to complicate the stories…the people, his own countrymen, many of whom have been falsified by the so-called- economic-political stability HAVENT learnt! They still think that Soeharto is their Santa. Rowling couldnt even think about this…i mean most hogwarts hate Voldermort,right? Even Megawati wants to forgive Soeharto, man!!! this is like HarryPotter himself would forgive Voldermort! (well…pardon for the terrible example). Wasnt it her that was unfairly ousted as PDI-chairman by Suharto? wasnt it her whose daddy treated terribly by the man? well…maybe she’s too busy cuz “the bulls” makes the rider easy to forget.

Ouw well…after all…Harry Potter series wouldnt be as exciting if everything is “on track”. There should be some surprises and shit that makes people say “damn it, they shoulda…or crap,he cant do…” But my hope is that Indonesia would make it as “best seller” in the future, and we should all learn. Or would you rather be one of those un-enlightened servants?

Feel free to create some more “Fuss”. I am no Suharto afterall, not with the ventilator at least,hehe.