Indonesia’s both improving and at the same time, decreasing.

For improvements, you could see it from the macro economic side. The Jakarta Composite Index has been increasing, reaching all-time high records. The USD-IDR exchange rate now is better, touching the 8000s.

However, things goes worst for freedom and corruption. Take a look at a plan to censor ALL the porn sites on the net by our newest, seems-to-be-an-extreme-Arab-trying-to-ignore-that-Indonesia-is-not-an-Arabic-country-by-tweeting-Arabics-constantly-like-crazy technology minister. The plan is controversial among all netizens of Indonesia. The war has begun, and there are also some people who were shouting AGAINST the plan. The implementation sucks, even several ISPs don’t know what to do when the implementation was going to be started at the beginning of Ramadan. And when it was executed, some NEWS websites are blocked. This is getting quite insane and ridiculous.

Next thing: Some extremist group who’s been describing themselves as a pressure group, terrorizes people and their freedom of religion. Let’s just the name bluntly, it’s FPI (Front Pembela Islam, translated as Islamic Defender Front). Their violent act has begun since 1998, the year of which it was created. If you’re reading Indonesian, this not-so-full list could make you pray and said thanks for not living in fear in Indonesia. This is a nasty picture, so beware:

I've warned you. This is FPI's victim.

And having 12 years of anarchy, our beautifully-arranged governments simply sit and do nothing. They should at least put the dear-leader of this damned group, Habib Rizieq behind the bars. And FPI simply said, “it’s not us, it’s just another person doing things in the name of FPI.” AND HOW COULD YOU EXPLAIN THAT FREAKING LONG LIST OF YOUR DOINGS??

Enough said about FPI. Let’s take a look at the good things now. 4 corrupt ex-Deputy-Governor of Bank of Indonesia has been released from their sentences. They was sentenced in 2008, and sentenced either 4 years or 4 and a half years in prison. And today, they were released. One of them is Aulia Pohan, our rhetorical President, Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono’s relatives. They’re getting remissions and remissions. Good enough news to celebrate Indonesia’s 65th year.

However, if you wanted A LOT of REAL, good news from Indonesia, then I suggest this website for you. However, their layout quite sucks, as there are some html codes flying all over their website. But their site will really gave you a different perspective of Indonesia.

Alright, let’s continue all those good news from here.

Our rhetorical President, while failed to impress the public on the state of the union speech on August 16th, has impressed the whole Indonesia by trying to sell his album. Yes, you’ve seen it correctly. Our President got an album, which is claimed to be sold successfully, according to the President’s spokesperson. Anyone could sold their album, however the President is selling his album on his own personal official government website, which caused a stir here. Almost all of the netizens (especially twitter users) have opposed this.

The next thing: Despite the empty rooms and meeting halls, our parliament’s attendance list was almost full. That’s great. And even if they came to their office, several of those respectable parliament member were caught sleeping, or blackberry-ing their fellas, or anything else. And those same guys were the one who almost ripped the government’s cash of Rp50,000,000,000 (equal to 6 million dollars, approximately) with their so-called aspiration fund. While in reality, the productivity of those parliament members is very low. If they could have a manager above them, all of them will surely be fired from their office.

Well, that’s the great news today. See ya later.