I probably shouldn’t talk about
this and just avoid this topic in general but what can I say? I just can’t stay
in my lane. Everything in this post will be my personal opinion/take on the
whole thing that’s been going on for quite a while.
So, don’t take the post too
seriously. I am just another faceless blogger on the internet.
I might use a lot of blunt/literal
words because I am writing this at 1 AM while blasting BTS songs. Yeap. THIS IS
MY LIFE HAS BECOME PEOPLE. Anyway, it’s 1 am and I just feel like this is an
important issue to write about and what’s the point of having a blog if you can’t
write this sort of stufF?
Aherm. I am going to summarize the
whole thing that’s been going on for quite a while.
It is basically a political
shitstorm. Yeap. That’s it. That’s the shortest and simplest summary I can come
up with haha. So, Jokowi won the election for president and Ahok was chosen to be the
governor of DKI Jakarta. Everything pretty much went downhill from there. Just
in case you still lost, Ahok is Chinese. Yeap. DKI Jakarta has a Chinese
Indonesian as a governor. Gasp.
Ahok is… Well.. explosive. In
words. Yeap. He is very blunt. While other politicians wax lyrical about
things, he just said things at they are. Me, a Chinese Indonesian, has always
been scared for him. He is Chinese! He is Christian! He is a minority! WHY IS
HE SO BLUNT. WHY IS HE LIKE THIS.
Other Chinese Indonesian has been
rooting for him. Don’t get me wrong, I am rooting for him, I think he actually
has tidied up Jakarta a lot. My aunt used to say that her house would be
flooded whenever it rains too much and now, not so bad. The water didn’t even
reach her front porch.
Anyways.
I am rooting for him but at the
same time, holy fudge, I AM JUST SO SCARED FOR HIM.
Enough about how I feel.
So, few weeks ago, DKI Jakarta had
another round of election for the governor position. Ahok was running for
governor and during an event, someone had taken out something he said out of
context. So, basically, people have been screaming and crying, saying that he
had committed the highest crime of all.
Insulting the Quran.
The thing is, I don’t want to drag
religion related stuff into my blog because I know it will only get
complicated. Let me just say this; he didn’t. He didn’t insult Quran. Even
until now I am not sure what he said about that verse of Quran but eyewitnesses
had said that he didn’t insult anyone or anything.
It’s hard to find the original clip
of what he actually said because the clip that actually out and about in public
is the incriminating clip in which someone took his words way out of context
and blew it out of proportion. Yeap, you guess it, everything just went
downhill from there.
Anyways. He ran for the election,
he lost. I wasn’t surprised, by the way. I knew that he would lose because let’s
face the truth; he is Chinese Indonesian.
Yeap. I said it. Bam.
I will probably edit this post
around tomorrow or maybe later when it’s too late but whatever.
On May 9th, Ahok was
declared guilty of insulting Quran and he got sentenced 2 years of jail time. By this
point, after everything that happened, I wasn’t even fazed. I don’t know what
happened to me, maybe I was just too desensitized and maybe I have given up on
humanity in general, but I wasn’t even fazed.
It’s not like I was hoping that
this would actually happen BUT HONESTLY AFTER EVERYTHING THAT HAPPENED, THIS
KIND OF THING DOESN’T EVEN SURPRISED ME ANYMORE. Sigh. You can tell me that the
sky is literally falling down and I’ll just smile and say oh, just another day!.
My parents said I’m too cynical?
Wells.
Anyways, the whole thing about Ahok
is that he still stand tall and he doesn’t even waver in the face of racism,
death of justice, flapdoodle, whatever he is facing. He still stands for
what he believes in and I think that is awesome.
Haha. Who said that. Not me.
I guess I can’t really do anything
but pray for Ahok and the death of justice in my beloved country.
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