The President's bad aura & the curse of betrayal
More and more people down there believe on what the soothsayers said the president's bad aura when commenting the country's continuous misseries & disasters. Some say it's a curse of the leaders tendency to get their power with betrayals. Most of us would not believe, or may say it's bullshit, but some believe in that and we can't simply discount as part of the political game. What?
"Most of my friends believe the curse of the leaders' betrayals. We've never experienced that before," a hair dresser said.
"The president is a nice guy. But somehow, my colleagues believe on his bad aura behind all of the disasters," my taxi driver said this morning.
I remember last Saturday when I had foot therapy, the massaseur told me of how his friends started to believe the soothsayer's views.
I wonder whether some politicians have taken benefit out it. Most well educated people would not buy. "But you have to remember, when it comes to politics, it's not about how many educated people voted for you. It's about how many people, educated or uneducated, voted for you," a friend said.
I tried to ask three executives about the curse, bad aura, and disasters. All of them are well educated. "I don't believe. But people down there believe, and politicans might take that opportunity. Off course I would not vote somebody based on the aura thing. But you can't ask people not to consider that mysticism'" one of them said.
Sri, a nurse at one of clinic in Jakarta, told me that "I voted for SBY. But I'm afraid if I vote for him again," she said and frankly admitted how she share the mysticism.
She just didn't care when I tried to explain how the mother nature sometimes angry and that's nothing to do with someone's aura.
It's like talking about how superstitious things have kept Soeharto in power for more than three decades. Or those conglomerates who go to Gunung Kawi and give offerings as thanksgiving, things that considered odd for those who claim themselves 'rational human being'.
We just can't discount such perception in parts of our society. And it's a political communication challenge for the president's inner circles.
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"Most of my friends believe the curse of the leaders' betrayals. We've never experienced that before," a hair dresser said.
"The president is a nice guy. But somehow, my colleagues believe on his bad aura behind all of the disasters," my taxi driver said this morning.
I remember last Saturday when I had foot therapy, the massaseur told me of how his friends started to believe the soothsayer's views.
I wonder whether some politicians have taken benefit out it. Most well educated people would not buy. "But you have to remember, when it comes to politics, it's not about how many educated people voted for you. It's about how many people, educated or uneducated, voted for you," a friend said.
I tried to ask three executives about the curse, bad aura, and disasters. All of them are well educated. "I don't believe. But people down there believe, and politicans might take that opportunity. Off course I would not vote somebody based on the aura thing. But you can't ask people not to consider that mysticism'" one of them said.
Sri, a nurse at one of clinic in Jakarta, told me that "I voted for SBY. But I'm afraid if I vote for him again," she said and frankly admitted how she share the mysticism.
She just didn't care when I tried to explain how the mother nature sometimes angry and that's nothing to do with someone's aura.
It's like talking about how superstitious things have kept Soeharto in power for more than three decades. Or those conglomerates who go to Gunung Kawi and give offerings as thanksgiving, things that considered odd for those who claim themselves 'rational human being'.
We just can't discount such perception in parts of our society. And it's a political communication challenge for the president's inner circles.
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posted by yosef at 8:58 AM
7 Comments:
Sorry Pak Yosef, but what an utter bullshit this post is. It is not until serious journalists like yourself stop focusing on nonsense items like these and start reporting on matters that really matter, that the uneducated masses, who still rely on these kind of explanations for the disasters that struck Indonesia over the past few years, will see the big picture, that is that natural disasters have been happening in this region for ages, and that the human disasters are merely a result of decades of mismanagement, something impossible to repair in the short time-frame that SBY has been sailing the ship.. With all respect to your Blog, which is usually well informed and informative, I would be surprised if regular readers of your site would be waiting for these kind of stories..
I don't think it's a bull shit report. It is a reality report, what's happening in Indonesia currently.
I myself don't trust such superstitious thing, but as Yosef mentioned, there are people there who still believe it. And if you're playing in the politic, you must also consider it, on order to get their votes.
It's dilemma, isn't it? But it's the reality.
man i guess its true that most of the voters are uneducated people....!! but seriously this is just plain dumb...i can't believe people still think this way!!! but hey its the fact...deal with it, and we should educate them!!!
Pak Yosef
I don't think your post is b******t at all. You talk about things that directly influence thoughts and behaviours. And not only in Indonesia ...
As Hamlet (almost) said "There are more things under Heaven and Earth than are dreamt of in your philosophy Tiyang Walandi"
In Indonesia, politics = mystics. You cannot win an election without considering people's superstition. This is so real, and Pak Yosef just telling how politics works in this country. I think superstition is a not product of poor education. Believe it or not, well educated people often are true believer of such things.
I tried to ask some people what Yosef said betrayal, in SBY's case...funny that one of them said SBY betrayed Megawati when he resigned from the cabinet and then fight against Megawati...I think it's not like that, but I can't blame the guy for his belief.
There is no such thing nowadays as a popular leader - the position of any 'leader' is unpopular from the start. This is because voters all over world now are very selfish - they only think about themselves - not many think about the greater good of society.
And remember, you don't have to be educated or rich, to be selfish.
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