Hurriyah

Lecturer, researcher, and coffee lover. Affiliated with Puskapol UI (Center for Political Studies) and Department of Political Science, Universitas Indonesia.

[Hurriyah @hurriyaa]

My take on Machiavellianist politics in the 2024 election and its implication on Indonesian democracy.

Feel free to read, folks.

[Reset DOC @resetdoc]

In what may have been #Indonesia's worst elections since post-1998 democratization, #Prabowo’s current victory is the result of Machiavellian tactics and reflects the fundamental threat to the country's nascent #democracy. ✍️@hurriyaa

https://t.co/Ry1ScsTYHo

[Ahmad Arif @aik_arif]

Jadi ingat, tulisan sejarawan Arnout van der Meer dalam "Come to Java: Colonial Tourism and the Fragile Illusion of an Island Paradise”, yang menunjukkan bahwa pariwisata kolonial di Jawa di masa lalu dirancang agar orang Eropa dapat “mengamati Other yang primitif” sambil menikmati kenyamanan modern di hotel-hotel pegunungan. Rakyat jajahan menjadi bagian dari atraksi kolonial itu sendiri.

Bedanya, saat ini yg jadi objek "Other" itu adalah orang Papua, dan pelakunya "penguasa Indonesia" dengan para buzzernya.

[Jaringan GUSDURian @GUSDURians]

Dear, media.

Kurban itu perorangan. Jika Presiden menggunakan APBN untuk bagi-bagi sapi, maka itu bukan kurban. Itu program politik. Jadi jangan ditulis "kurban Prabowo" karena dananya dari pajak rakyat. Trims...

[Led By Donkeys @ByDonkeys]

“My name is Amos Goldberg. I am an Israeli Professor of Holocaust Studies. For nearly 30 years I have researched and taught the Holocaust, genocide and state violence.

And I want to tell whoever is willing to listen that what’s happening now in Gaza is a genocide.

A year ago when October 7th happened, like all Israelis I was in shock. It was a war crime and a crime against humanity. 1200 people - more than 800 of them civilians - were killed in one day. Children and the elderly were among those taken hostage. Communities were destroyed. It was outrageous, traumatizing, personal. Like most Israelis, I know people who were killed, who lost loved ones or whose loved ones were taken hostage.

But immediately afterwards came Israel’s response and within weeks thousands of civilians were killed in Gaza. It took me some time to digest what was unfolding before my eyes. It was agonizing to confront that reality. I was reluctant to call it a genocide.

But if you read Raphael Lemkin – the Jewish-Polish legal scholar who coined the term ‘genocide’ and was the major driving force behind the 1948 United Nations Genocide Convention – what is happening in Gaza now is exactly what he had in mind when he spoke about genocide.

It does not need to look like the Holocaust to be a genocide. Each genocide looks different and not all involve killing of millions or the entire group. The United Nations Genocide Convention explicitly asserts that genocide is the act of deliberately destroying a group in whole or in part. Those are the words.

But there does need to be a clear intent.

And indeed, there are clear indications of intent to destroy Gaza: Israel’s leaders - including the prime minister and the minister of defence - and many high-ranking military officers, media personalities, rabbis, as well as ordinary soldiers were very open about what they wanted to achieve. There were countless documented incitements to turn the whole of Gaza into rubble and claims that there are no innocent people living there.

A radical atmosphere of dehumanization of the Palestinians prevails in Israeli society to an extent that I can’t remember in my 58 years of living here.

Now that vision has been enacted. Tens of thousands of innocent children, women and men have been killed. Over a hundred thousand were wounded. There is a near total destruction of infrastructure, intentional starvation and blocking of humanitarian aid. There are mass graves and reliable testimony of summary executions. Children that were shot by snipers. All the universities and almost all hospitals are gone. Almost all the population is displaced. There have been numerous bombings of civilians in so-called ‘safe zones’. Gaza does not exist anymore. It is completely destroyed. Thus, the outcome fits perfectly with the stated intentions of Israel’s leadership.

Lemkin - that scholar who coined the term ‘genocide’ - described two phases of a genocide. The first is the destruction of the annihilated group and the second is what he called ‘imposition of the national pattern’ of the perpetrator. We are now witnessing the second phase as Israel prepares ethnically cleansed areas for Israeli settlements.

And therefore, I have come to the conclusion that this is exactly what a genocide looks like. We don’t teach about genocides in order to realize it retrospectively. We teach about it in order to prevent it and to stop it.

But like in every other case of genocide in history right now we have mass denial. Both here in Israel and around the world.

But reality cannot be denied.

So yes, it is a genocide.

And once you come to this conclusion you cannot remain silent.”

- Statement to Led By Donkeys, December 2024
- Photo: Parliament Square, London, 8.40am, 4th December 2024

[txt keluhan warga konoha @keluhkesahkonoh]

Mereka mengambil roti yang menjadi hakmu,
lalu menyisakan remahan untukmu,
dan mereka mengatakan
“kau seharusnya berterima kasih kepadaku.
Berkat aku, kau tidak mati kelaparan”

cc:threadalek.zidan

[saiful mujani @saiful_mujani]

@maspokrol yang membunuh demokrasi jerman adalah hitler, amerika trump, india modi, brazil bolonso …. indonesia jokowi dan dilanjutkan prabowo. analisis global menyimpulkan kemunduran demokrasi di dunia adalah kelakuan pimpinan negaranya. itu akar masalahnya.

[Andrew Feinstein @andrewfeinstein]

Not even apartheid South Africa codified executions for only one ‘race group’. Israel is now the most racist state the world has ever known.

Shame on every government, every company, every individual who offer it support.

[Arif Novianto @arifnovianto_id]

TAHUKAH kamu bahwa 9 dari 10 warga percaya bahwa program MBG cenderung menguntungkan elite, pejabat, dan pemilik dapur, serta rawan dikorupsi?

Kami dng Policy Research Center baru saja merilis hasil riset berjudul "Siapa yang Diuntungkan dari Program Makan Bergizi Gratis (MBG)?"

[khu khum @Arkom_manies]

@QudsNen @Kuturi_Sugata

[Chairman Rabbit @ChairmanRabbit]

This is, in fact, an important historical moment: you can see that the editor-in-chief of this very respected newspaper is virtually speechless in the face of such a significant reality. With her level of knowledge, and her leadership of a major news publication, it is impossible that she is unaware of what's going on, yet she appears almost at a loss for words when confronted with such a simple matter.

— She dares not call Gaza a Genocide and a humanitarian catastrophe.
— She chooses to begin by discussing Hamas’s attack on Israel (this is how Israel apologists start: you do not confront your own crime, but find excuse for why you do it.)
— She first states that Gaza is "a disaster for Israel". (Yes, history has shown that the Holocaust was also a disaster for the Nazis and Germany. Does that even need emphasizing?)
— She certainly lacks the courage to condemn Israel on both legal and moral grounds.

We all know that in serious historical research, one cannot avoid taking moral positions when it comes to serious matters of right and wrong. The same applies to journalism.

What unfolds before your eyes is the utter hypocrisy and moral bankruptcy of mainstream Western media. This also explains why people are abandoning these outlets. And in the midst of this collective moral collapse, Tucker Carlson has become the "conscience" of the media—simply because he possesses just a little more common sense, honesty, and humanity than these utterly hypocritical institutions.

[Drop Site @DropSiteNews]

Tucker Carlson challenges The Economist’s editor-in-chief to define Israel’s “right to exist”

[Stellar @StellarArtoisGB]

Did you know 😏

He rubbed lemon juice on his face. Robbed two banks. Smiled at the cameras. Got caught in an hour. And changed psychology forever.

In 1995, McArthur Wheeler walked into two banks in Pittsburgh and robbed them with no mask, no disguise, and lemon juice on his face. He believed that because lemon juice works as invisible ink on paper, it would make his face invisible to cameras. He smiled directly into the security cameras. Police aired the footage on the evening news and arrested him within an hour.

When shown the tape, Wheeler stared at the screen and said, "But I wore the juice." He had tested the theory with a Polaroid selfie and didn't appear in the photo — because lemon juice got in his eyes and he aimed the camera at the ceiling.

His case inspired Cornell psychologists David Dunning and Justin Kruger to publish their 1999 paper defining the Dunning-Kruger Effect — the cognitive bias where people with low ability drastically overestimate their own competence.

[Truth seeker @window_wor43053]

@jacksonhinkle

[Jason Hickel @jasonhickel]

Bombing Iran in the middle of negotiations, while starving Cuba, while genociding Palestinians, while threatening to invade Greenland… the US and Israel are the single greatest threat to humanity and it’s not even close. We are all forced to live in the nightmare they create.

[Nadira Ali🇵🇸 @Nadira_ali12]

Irish MP Thomas Gould: “I hope that Benjamin Netanyahu burns in hell.”

[Sony Thăng @nxt888]

Gaza was a mirror.

It showed you your leaders.

It showed you your media.

It showed you your neighbors.

It showed you yourself.

If you did not like what you saw,

That was the most honest thing about it.

[Rana Ayyub @RanaAyyub]

It was Gaza, not Greenland that truly exposed the absence of a rules-based international order. We’re just two years late.

[Lars Christensen @MaMoMVPY]

The problem isn't Trump. The problem is the US.

When the outside world observes Trump's insane behaviour and his threats against allies, and we at the same time observe that there is no real action from the US public, Congress, the US Supreme Court, or the US media about this insanity, we will all have to conclude that the US accepts this behaviour.

The public in the US think the US is entitled to a certain position in the world where there is no room for decent behaviour and where there are no norms and rules.

That means that we all have to conclude that the US — not only Trump — has betrayed the international order that the US, with its Western partners, were the main architects of after the Second World War.

This is the conclusion that Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney so clearly laid out in his speech at Davos yesterday. We simply cannot trust the US to play by the rules any more. Therefore, we also fundamentally have to ask ourselves — should we trust the financial and economic structure which is an integral part of the global rules-based order?

Americans live in the illusion that the US can do everything on its own, despite the fact that the US for nearly 20 years has lived beyond its means.

US private and government consumption has been funded by, among others, European central banks and pension funds. But we now have to ask ourselves — why would we trade in dollars? Why would we put our savings into US Treasury bonds?

If the US is not a rules-based society, we cannot trust the dollar to be a stable currency, and it would be insane to hold dollars. As domestic US institutions are eroded and governance structures destroyed, the US will be turned into an emerging market economy — or more accurately, a de-merging economy.

If the US threatens the territory of allies, then the US acts as an authoritarian bully nation. Nobody in their right mind would lend money to the US government. If the US doesn't live up to its international obligations and respect the sovereignty of other nations, why would we expect the US government to honour its debts?

If Trump can tariff nations that will not give up their territory, then there is certainly no reason to believe that the US will not introduce capital controls. And if that is a risk, why would you risk investing in the US?

It is not a question about Europe standing up to the US. It is a question about being prudent with our investments — about reducing risks.

Every day Trump remains in office, distrust of the US increases, and the cost for the US will go up day by day. And this is irreversible. It takes years to build trust, but you can destroy it by your actions in minutes.

Europe has now completely lost trust in the US. And so has Canada. It is up to the people of the US to demonstrate that Trump is an 'outlier', and it is up to the American people to stop him.

If you don't do that, we will have to assume that this is what the US is about — whether the name of the President is Trump or something else, whether the President is a Republican or a Democrat.

[Hurriyah @hurriyaa]

Puskapol UI: Nostalgia Otoritarian Jadi Ancaman Serius bagi Demokrasi Indonesia

https://t.co/Vjukn2kVIr via @tribunnews

[NAYSDAY @__BADjingan]

@NOTASLIMBOY Komedi diseriusin, yang serius dibecandain.

[Barry Malone @malonebarry]

What's happening in Gaza is now almost entirely absent from the top international headlines. But Israel is still killing Palestinians and their babies are freezing to death. We can't afford to stop talking about that.