HARIS IBRAHIM : TABEK TUAN!

I am a blogger and we bloggers are loath to acknowledge that there are bloggers better than us, bloggers who can write better than us, blogger who are more committed than us and bloggers who, more than us, are more deserving of accolades and respect from the people because of the things they do and the the way they do it. Haris Ibrahim is a blogger of that genre. He not only blogs but he does what ever else that is needed to be done for ABU and for the common good of other Malaysian. Sometimes I do think that this guy simply cannot maintain the pace he has set himself to do the things he does and always he astounds me with his capacity to surpass his past deeds. Brother I salute you! Tabek Tuan!         

Selepas Tsunami (After the Tsunami) from Pusat KOMAS on Vimeo.


Selepas Tsunami (After the Tsunami) from Pusat KOMAS on Vimeo.

Selepas Tsunami (After the Tsunami)

from Pusat KOMAS 2 years ago NOT YET RATED

The 12th General Election did not only result in the change of government in four states or the lost of Barisan Nasional two-thirds majority in Parliament. It brought along many practices never seen before in the governmant system. In Selangor, a body under the state assembly was formed to monitor the use of public funds.

In the federal Parliament the increasing presence of opposition representatives has resulted in more serious debates. Today, UMNO and Barisan Nasional has started speaking the language of change. However, the real reform process is not as easy as voting on polling day.

This documentary discusses the meaning behind those promised changes. Info on KOMAS - komas.org

A Big Pictures production for Pusat KOMAS.
36 mins.
Director: Anna Har
Producer: Brenda Danker
Executive Producer: Jerald Joseph
Editor: Chi Too

Pilihan Raya umum ke-12 bukan setakat melibatkan perubahan empat kerajaan negeri atau kehilangan kuasa dua pertiga Barisan Nasional di Parlimen. Ia membawa kepada pelbagai amalan yang tidak wujud dan namkapasing sebelum inin dapat dirasakan oleh rakyat buat julung kalinya. Di negeri Selangor satu badan di bawah Dewan Negeri ditubuhkan untuk memantau perbelanjaan dana awam.

Di peringkat Persekutuan , Parlimen kini nampak lebih serius dengan kehadiran wakil pembangkang. Hari ini, Barisan Nasional yang keras kepala sebelum 8 Mac lalu, juga sudah mula bertutur dalam bahasa prubahan. Bagaimanapun, perubahan yang sebenar bukanlah semudah membuang undi pada pilihan raya.

Selepas Tsunami is also available in Mandarin, Tamil, and Iban language.
Please contact Pusat KOMAS +603-7968 5415 to purchase the DVDs. Email: info@komas.org.

NAJIB RAZAK : "KITA TERIMA INI UNDANG UNDANG TUHAN TERTAPI....."

Ya 4 hari lagi ... ini kali lah!

Anonymous has left a new comment on your post "INI KALI LAH? What if UMNO cheats?":

Hanya 4 hari lagi kita akan bersama-sama menitiskan air mata kemenangan dan melaungkan jeritan MERDEKA setelah kita dibebaskan dari cengkaman KUKU BESI berlapis MADU dari pemerintahan UMNO

Kita akan bersama-sama mengecapi kejayaan setelah begitu lama berhadapan musuh yang menjadikan RAKYAT nya sendiri sebagai korban ...

Hanya 4 hari lagi kita akan dapat menyaksikan kemuraman dan perasaaan duka nestapa pemimpin UMNO yang sudah sekian lama menipu RAKYAT ... ramai pemimpin UMNO akan jatuh bangkrap setelah begitu banyak BANK yang DIPEGANG UMNO mengejar mereka menunutut HUTANG LAPOK yang tidak pernah berbayar - tapi pertama kita kena mintak PAKATAN menganti kesemua Lembaga Pengarah kroni UMNO dan menukar Pegwai Eksekutif berdarah UMNO di MAYBANK, CIMB, BANK SIMPANAN NASIONAL, AFFIN BANK,.... dan setelah itu memberikan perintah mengutip semua hutang dari PEMIMPIN UMNO yang sudah sekian lama menjadikan BANK-BANK ini sebagai LUBOK MEMAS buat mereka ....

Begitu juga di TABUNG HAJI, di PNB, di KWSP supaya rakyat kemabli dapat menikmati pulangan pelabiran yang wajar dari begitu banyak wang rakyat yang sudah di SONGLAP UMNO ....

Kita akan dapatkan balik PINJAMAN KERAJAAN kepada Sharizat and FAMILY setelah mengSONGLAP duit RAKYAT untuk bela LEMBU di KONDO ....

Kita akan dapat balik wang PKFZ dari Ling Liong SIK ....dan segala kekayaan RAKYAT yang telah lama diSONGLAP UMNO ....

Kita harus penjarakan semua pemimpin UMNO / BN Sabah dan SARAWAK yang jelas mencuri wang rakyat disiang hari ...

Dan kita akan memberikan kemenangan kepada WARGA FELDA dari kejahatan dan tangan-tangan RAKUS Isa Samad ...

4 Hari lagi kita akan dapatkankembali wang KITA yang sudah sekian lama dihamburkan oleh ROSMAH MANSOR dan KELUARGA NAJIB ....

Mudah-mudahan dalam 4 hari lagi ... MAHATHIR akan mengembalikan kesemua kekekayaan yang diHAK MILIKAN UMNO buat kelaurga nya ....

Ya 4 hari lagi ...

INI KALI LAH? What if UMNO cheats?

With thanks to

CT Ali

 | April 30, 2013

Yes we all know it's time for a change, but will this 13th general election be the time?

COMMENT

It’s time! All around us the signs are unmistakable. You leave your house for work and your neighbour gives you the “thumbs up” and you smile and give him that upbeat nod with your head that says “ini kali lah” and a solid thumbs up in return.

Ini kali lah? But what if Umno cheats?

What if Umno contingency plans include a May 13-type putsch by radical element within Umno that would plunge our nation into chaos, mayhem and racial conflict?

If it comes to that, then they have not factored the fact that the Malaysia of today is not the Malaysia of 1969. Today the Chinese know that PAS will deploy its rank and file to protect its Chinese brothers without being asked.

Today the sight of any Malay running through the streets of Kuala Lumppur brandishing parang to look for non-Malays and non-Muslims to maim or kill would raise the ire of not only Malaysians but more comforting, of Malays too.

A May 13 scenario would not be the way to go for any radical element from any political persuasion bent upon creating a situation where advantage can be taken to take the government in the name of “national security”.

What dastardly deeds and “rancangan” have Umno cooked up with the Election Commission? They may well try what they have done successfully before: to tilt the election their way but mark my words, should the tide starts to turn against Umno, EC will jump through the hoops to ensure an “honest” election.

They are all civil servants and they know where their bread is buttered. The civil service takes its cue from its political masters – whoever that may be.

And if Pakatan Rakyat wins, the civil servants will stand at attention, feet together and salute Pakatan with a resounding “Tabek Tuan” and happily take orders from their new political masters.

Is the Malay-dominated army prepared to do what radical Malays and Umno hope they will do to keep Umno in power, or will they, as they have done in the past, largely stay out of politics?

I think we have faith in our generals and our soldiers to do what is right for them and for our country. They are our army personnel, not Umno’s.

The police force will do the bidding of who they perceive shall be their political masters but this is moot. We will have to wait and see.

For now the police force and Umno are entwined in a fatal embrace that discredit both parties in the eyes of the people. Let us hope that there are enough responsible leaders within the police force to do the right thing by our nation.

Dubious voters at play

Will the “pendatangs” (immigrants) be able to cast their vote for Umno? If given the necessary protection by the police, they will try. Without such protection, they will melt back into the black hole that they have come from.

But we must not forget that we were all “pendatangs” once. The situation these “pendatangs” now find themselves in is intolerable for them and for us. They are beholden to Umno for their right to stay in Malaysia but their ties with Umno hold no permanency.

This is where Umno’s thinking is flawed. BRIM is a done deal. And so is giving the right of abode to the “pendatangs”. Now tell me, having got what they want, why would the recipients of BRIM and the “pendatangs” vote Umno now? “Mereka selalunya pun mudah lupa!”

Will the Malays give their votes to Umno this time around? The question should really be: will there be enough Malays who want change?

Malay youths too want change: this is obvious from the rumblings coming from the universities and places of higher learning. The young will want change.

Will the Indians and Hindraf make a difference? The Indians must have their usual song-and-dance act but in the end I believe they will err on the side of right – as their heart dictates – as they did in the 12th general election.

Hindraf will go the way Samy Vellu went – he tried to go back to Sungai Siput and was told that Sungai Siput did not want him anymore.

Read more at FMT 

Scorpene Submarines sighted again!

Further to our posting "Scorpene Submarine seen off the coast of Sabah dated April 28 

2013 we have receive today, 30th April 2013 at 1030 hours, the above image of what  

is claimed to be one of the Scorpene submarines. We have still to verify that the said image submitted is in fact that of the said Scorpene submarines - though we think it is bloody unlikely as we have been reliably informed by TLDM that all their Submarines are either on the sea off the coast of Sabah, or in the sea off the coast of Sabah but certainly not out of the sea on the coast of Sabah!      

We take this opportunity to inform the public that we will not be party to any mischevious attempts by Pakatan Rakayat to make political capital of our efforts to assist the Malaysian Government in tracking the whereabouts of these submarines because  the UMNO led BN government are themselves unable to pin point the exact locations of these submarines!  

We regret the attempts made by certain parties to alter, airbrush, retouched and photoshop images to confuse the public as to the whereabouts of these submarines. Let us remind you that such acts may fall under The Security Offences (Special Measures) Act 2012 (Malay: Akta Kesalahan Keselamatan (Langkah-Langkah Khas) 2012) which is designed "to provide for special measures relating to security offences for the purpose of maintaining public order and security and for connected matters"....same as ISA ma!

In the interest of educating the public to distinguish between what are genuine images and what images have been retouched or are 'photoshop' images  we publish herewith some before and after images. 

 

WHY I WILL VOTE FOR PAKATAN RAKYAT by CHI

With thanks to Goh Chee Leong

GE 13

Why I’m voting for Pakatan Rakyat in 2013

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By Chi

The author is an academic who has been lecturing at a private university in Kuala Lumpur for over 10 years, holds a PhD, works with various government agencies and NGOs to ensure the rights of all communities are protected.

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5 Reasons why I’m Voting for Pakatan Rakyat in 2013.

1. Because it’s time that BN learns to FEAR the citizens

For 56 years BN has never once FEARED losing power.

This lack of fear has bred a culture of complacency within its ranks, an expectation that no matter what they do, no matter how many billions and trillions of ringgit they drain from the country through corruption, no matter how many human rights violations, no matter how many government projects failed because some VIP decided to use them as a way to make their relatives rich, no matter how much injustice has been heaped upon people of every race, gender and religion, no matter how much wastage of the people’s money…… they feel they can still get away with it because they will never be voted out.

People don’t change unless they have to.

For those of you who say that there are still some good leaders within BN, then listen to this: we’ll be doing BN a favor by voting them out in these elections. They will have no choice but to reform itself, and the reformist leaders will be become more influential within their parties.

2. Because 12 chances is more than enough

Some say that we should BN another chance. These people forget that for the past 56 years we have given BN a chance to lead this country.

In the past 12 elections BN has sung the same tune: “We’ll change. Be patient. This time will be different.” It reminds me of the wife-beating husband who after each episode of abuse, begs the wife to stay, because he promises that he will change this time, only for the same abuse to repeat itself again and again.

For those of you in the corporate sector: which company in the world would give the same leader 12 chances in a row when s/he repeatedly commits fraud, steals the company money and is incompetent at their work?

3. Because Malaysia can be far greater than it is today

For the past 25 years, starting with the Mahathir govt, BN’s election message has been very simple: “be grateful that Malaysia is not like Indonesia, Thailand, Laos, Cambodia, The Philippines. We are much richer than them so you should be grateful to BN”.

To me this is a nonsensical argument. It shows a lack of understanding of economics and history. We should not be comparing ourselves to Laos and Vietnam, we should be comparing ourselves to Singapore, Korea, Taiwan.

When we gained independence in the 1950’s we were a country blesses with advantages none of our neighbors were blessed with:

= we were rich in natural resources (tin, rubber) with an infrastructure already in place to export them

= we had a relatively small population

= a solid education system in place which included English

= relatively good infrastructure

= we were not exposed to large scale natural disasters like earthquakes or typhoons

= we were blessed with everything needed to be the top tourist destination in Asia with a multicultural population, beautiful town and villages with a rich history, beautiful beaches, forests and mountains

Yet all of these advantages have been squandered.

The success and progress that has been made these last 50 years were due more to the hard-work and enterprise of the Malaysian people rather than the wisdom of the government leadership.

We’ve done okay. But we can do so much better. We can be a truly great nation that all of us can be proud of.

4. Because BN’s culture of patronage is making this country mediocre

A culture of patronage means that to succeed, it’s not what you know, but WHO you know.

We see this culture of patronage in all spheres of Malaysian society. In public service, in awarding contracts, in business practice, in large and small organizations, in NGOs, in education, in sports……

They say that culture reflects leadership. I believe that this culture of patronage has been allowed to blossom, it has been allowed to become the norm because for 57 years under the BN leadership: they have led by example in this regard.

When young people read every day about how family members and friends of high placed government officials are awarded contracts, they learn that this is acceptable practice.

If we want to achieve excellence in any field; we need to put to death this culture of patronage and replace it with a culture of meritocracy and accountability. People need to earn their way in this world.

5. Because Pakatan Rakyat has shown it is serious about fighting corruption.

WE all know that corruption is widespread and systemic in this country. Like a cancer it is not easy to extract it from all levels of government.

I think many people had unrealistic expectations after the last elections: they were expecting that the day after Pakatan took over Selangor, Perak, Penang, that all corrupt practices would be eliminated instantly.

The reality is that corruption is carried out daily by thousands of officials and workers at all levels.

However, Pakatan has done many things in the last 4 years that BN have never seriously considered over the 50 years they were in power: for example, Pakatan started open tender processes, they had state reps declare their assets, they introduced more transparent decision making processes across the board.

Is their work complete? Of course not. But Pakatan has made more progress in 4 years than BN has made in 50 years.

Just compare the leaders of the two parties and ask yourself: who is less likely to be corrupted.

On one hand we have a Pakatan Chief Minister flying economy class, and on the other hand we have a BN chief minister being caught with a few million dollars while flying first class to Australia.

Honestly speaking: for all the noises BN politicians have made about reformation, do we really believe that BN leaders are clean?

In conclusion, it’s time for us to bring about CHANGE in Malaysia. A two party system can only be a reality when both parties have been given a chance to govern. BN has struck out 12 times. It’s time to give Pakatan Rakyat a chance.

UNDI

With thanks to ALLAN ANG or the following reminder :

PLEASE TAKE NOTE - VERY IMPORTANT

Subject: Casting Your Vote 
To:

Dear residents of Permai, I have just completed my training to be a Polling Agent/Counting Agent/Barung Agent for this 13th GE to be held this coming 5th May 2013. I hope to be assigned to the Kota Kemuning voting centre but due to needs and other factors, I may be moved somewhere else. Personally, I am voting at Khee Beng school in Jln Bkt Kemuning and I suspect most of us who registered using our Permai address will be voting there. This can be checked on line at http://daftarj.spr.gov.my/semakpru13.aspx  I am writing this email becos of the many things you must be aware of before you go to the polling center.  I 'll try my best to list them down here. 1. Be at the polling center real early, as I m suspecting that there may be a long queue due to the new polling process. Many will be sick of waiting and waste their vote.  Don't be a fool to do that. Polling center opens at 8am till 5pm. If queue is long, hang in there, do not leave even after 5pm once you entered. Polling center gate closes at 5:00pm sharp RTM time. Polling continues till all in queue is done, regardless of time.  2. Check on-line first (http://daftarj.spr.gov.my/semakpru13.aspx) and print out your details before going to the voting center. You may be able to by-pass the Barung counter since you have a printout and know where to go and thus short cut your time.  3. Bring your IC, if you lost your IC, then use the temp IC. If you also lost your temp IC, then you can use your passport. Avoid using passport as we the counting agents will insist you fill up a Borang 11 which will take time, and affects the queue. This time EC allows even Gov't employee tag... hmmm... polling agent will seek verification if sees anyone using that.  4. Make sure your left hand index finger is clean, any makings or stains will caused you to be disallowed to vote. If you got band aid plaster on that finger, they will require you to use the right hand index instead. The default is left hand index finger. No stains allow on either fingers. The polling kerani will mark your left index finger with an ink.  5. Important! The ink will take about 30 second to dry. Bring along a tissue to dry off your finger before holding your ballot papers. Any smudge or stain on the ballot paper will render it spoiled vote. So be extremely careful. Now you understand why you need to be there early.  6. Your ballot paper will have a serial number, but must be clean of any extra marking or words or stains, smudge, pencil/pen marking or dots or TEAR on all the surface of the ballot papers. YOU CAN REJECT THE PIECE OF BALLOT PAPER AND INSIST ON A NEW ONE IF YOU SEE ANY OF THOSE. Do not be intimidated by anyone there as this is your ABSOLUTE RIGHT. 7. Ensure that the kerani that handed you the ballot paper, do not write the serial No. of your ballot papers next to your name on the list. He or she is suppose to just neatly cross out your name on the list. If you see that she wrote something, please raise hell. Make sure she crosses out your name on her list and we will do the same on ours.  8. If in some strange (may happen) event you were told that you have already voted, eventho you have not, and your fingers have no markings, you MUST raise hell. We the polling agents will raise hell too. It means that somebody has voted on your behalf. You will be required to fill forms and etc. Remember, your constitutional right to vote.  9. Do not wear any t-shirt or buttons or hat that is aligned to any of the political parties. You will be ask to remove or disallowed to enter the polling center.  10. When casting your vote, be careful not to make any other marks on the ballot paper. You will be using a pen instead of the usual pencil. So if you make a mistake and it is accidental, please request for a new ballot paper. They have 10% extra papers to cater for this sort of things.  11. Fold the ballot paper neatly in half checking to see that all is in order before proceeding to the ballot boxes. Here, we will have 2 ballot boxes for Parliament and State. 12. At the ballot boxes, SHOW and put the ballot paper into their corresponding box. Stand there to ensure that the kerani push your vote into the box. Please do not have any tissue or other paper in your hands as you may be stopped for search by the Polling agent. We are trained to look out for people who brings  out their blank voting papers to sell. Don't do that, you 'll go to jail. 13. This time, we have 4 candidates for Parliament and 3 candidates for State. Please vote wisely and your vote is your right and it is nobody's bizzness on who you vote for it is PnC. 14. I am not aware of any special lane for the disabled or elderly.  15. Please send the words out to all your foreign friends or employees to avoid being seen near or around all polling centers. They may put themselves in harms way. This is actually a warning to all of them that I got in the internet. Especially those who somehow got blue IC. Please do read again what I have written and feel free to forward to all your friends, make sure that everyone goes to vote. Every vote counts. This election is most crucial and super dirty. Thank you.  Best regards, Allan Ang +6012-3351348

cakap cakap...a picture is worth a thousand words. UBAH!

When Government try to be more Islamic

steadyaku47 comment - a good read. There are parallels to what UMNO has done in Malaysia. The difference would be a matter of degree than of intent.

When governments try to look more Islamic

Ariel Heryanto, Victoria, Australia | Opinion | Fri, June 06 2008, 1:15 AM

The use and abuse of Islamic politics by the Soeharto government (1966-1998) and his immediate successor in transition, BJ Habibie (1998-1999), have had more damaging consequences than generally noted. In 2004, when completing my book, State Terrorism and Political Identity in Indonesia (Routledge, 2006), I raised the issue but did not give enough emphasis. The book focuses on the impacts of the 1966 massacres and subsequent anti-communist witch hunt upon public life in the 1990s.

The book mentions in passing the impact of that murky past has also been partly responsible for other inter-ethnic conflicts across the nation in the 2000s with no reference to 1965 or anti-communism. Since then it has become increasingly clear that further study is needed to examine how and the extent to which the same past has been responsible for the politics of religion since the 2000s.

After more than a decade of repressing political Islam, Soeharto found himself in a radically changing political climate. He was increasingly alienated from the military as an institution, and Islam was on the rise at home and globally.

He was cognizant that further repression would only backfire, if not be suicidal. In a spectacular political U-turn, in 1990 he hurriedly Islamized himself and his government apparatus in a wide range of policies and actions.

To build his Islamic credentials from scratch, that year he went to Mecca for the first time for the pilgrimage, and returned as a haj. In the same year he sponsored the founding of the Association of Indonesian Muslim Intellectuals (ICMI), embracing a wide range of important figures among Islam-oriented social organizations, professionals, academics and political activists who may not necessarily have agreed with each other on a number of issues.

Far from feeling manipulated by the government, as some critics argued back then, these Muslim intellectuals saw the invitation to collaborate with the regime as the first opportunity in many decades to gain due recognition. It appeared to be a golden opportunity to compensate for what had been denied or repressed, namely Islam as an important moral, intellectual and political power to be reckoned with.

Only months before the founding of the ICMI, Islamic political prisoners were released en masse well before their jail terms were up. In direct contradiction to its own policy of not issuing any new permits for print media companies, the government supported the publication of the overtly Islamic daily Republika. The ban of the wearing of the jilbab was also lifted. Immediately after, Soeharto's eldest daughter began appearing in public wearing a headscarf. The number of new mosques soared, and the parliament house was described by locals as remarkably "green-ized".

Until then it had been difficult for pious Muslims to express their identity and religious piety, due to the vigorous stigmatization of Islamic politics as "extreme right". From 1990 the situation was completely reversed: one had to be careful not to be seen as anti-Islam. Indonesian courts were busy prosecuting individuals who made public statements deemed disrespectful of Islam.

The banning of the country's first and commercially most successful tabloid,Monitor, and subsequently the prosecution of its editor, Arswendo Atmowiloto, were among the first and most eventful in a long series of similar cases involving a crackdown on media outlets seen as having been disrespectful of Islam.

Violent attacks against houses of worship belonging to religious minorities became regular events, despite criticism and attempts among moderate Muslims to stop such actions.

More consequential than all of this was Soeharto's decision to make a dangerous liaison with the more violent-inclined segments within the diverse Muslim communities. His short-term intention was probably to mobilize the latter to counter the pro-democracy movement that was putting increasingly greater pressure on him to resign.

But perhaps more than he could anticipate, care or control, the effects of this move were immense and refractory. None of the above saved Soeharto from losing his grip on state power. Reluctantly, he transferred his presidency to vice president Habibie, who soon become the next target of attacks from the pro-reform movement.

Seriously lacking legitimacy in public, Habibie and the few surviving generals continued what Soeharto had initiated, only this time on a larger scale and more aggressive fashion. New state-sponsored militias were officially trained and deployed to confront physically the agitated pro-reform activists.

These militias did not only act in defense of the new president and surviving generals, but also in the name of Islam. Being anti-Habibie was declared to be the same as anti-Islam, according to their slogans and banners. As in Soeharto's case, these militias did not help rescue Habibie's presidential seat. Worse still, they inadvertently aggravated the politicization of religious faith to a level unprecedented in the history of this country.

But unlike its predecessors, which had no hesitation from the outset to adopt violent means to achieve similar ends, the current government has as yet restricted its project of building a pro-Islamic image in cultural and technological spheres.

But before breathing a sigh of relief, one needs to see how long this government has condoned the illegal act of violence by various militia groups in the name of religion. How much longer will it continue? Not only has this government and its law enforcers give impunity to fairly small but militant groups to go on the rampage, more worrying is that the government, under pressure from other social groups, is seriously considering a ban on Islamic group Ahmadiyah.

More than could be imagined in 1998, by now reformasi has led to the marked Islamization, as much as democratization, of Indonesia. Although they can be compatible and have overlap, the two are not necessarily one and the same thing, as there can be more than two streams of Islam, multiple forms of Islamization and heterogeneous communities of Muslim. The state is expected to play a critical role in striking a good balance and maintaining the wealth of this nation's plurality.

A weak state would allow fear to reign in the public space, especially among the minority, because it also suffers from the very same fear of the risk of acting independently according to the rule of law. In a small way, such rule by fear is well illustrated by the fate of my own April opinion column about the above in Indonesian.

The essay was submitted to a major Indonesian media outlet by invitation for a specific space already allocated in the paper. Hours before the paper went to press, I received a letter from the editor advising me that the column could not be published, as it was deemed "risky".

Interestingly, while the column never saw the light of day in print, it appeared online on the same paper's website. The Indonesian Constitution stipulates freedom of expression, but to date such freedom can only take refuge on the Internet.

Today, the Internet is the only public space where hundreds of thousands of Indonesians can and have actually declared themselves to be religiously "liberal", "atheist" or "agnostic" in their profiles on cyber social networking sites such as Facebook.

The writer is a senior lecturer in the Indonesian Program, the University of Melbourne, Australia. He can be reached at arielh@unimelb.edu.au.