The haze is often blamed on oil palm plantations, but the reality is more complicated: fire, peatland, economics, land ownership, enforcement and responsibility all intersect long before the smoke crosses a border.
Little walk down the memory lane… Some of you old farts might remember this place. bongkersz.com. The Flaccid Mind. A stupid name for a blog where I spent an equally stupid amount of time writing equally stupid things. I started blogging sometime around 2005. Back then there was no Instagram, TikTok, Threads or whatever shit […]
How do I start? I was on Twitter and I saw @abe_ame replied to the tweet by the @theTAPIR on this “Ralph Breaks the Internet movie” review saying “when I grow up, I want to be able to write as well as this dude.” I saw @theTAPIR’s tweet this afternoon and I even replied him […]
1. What are the top three issues facing Sarawak at the moment? 2. What key issue will most impact on your vote on in the forthcoming state election? 3. Will the issues at Federal level have any impact here on the Sarawak election? 4. What would you like the political parties to do about these […]
I am going to be 33 in another week. 30th of November. Time sure flies. My 3rd birthday in the jungle of Kalimantan, Indonesia. Just another day for me, maybe a spike of wall messages on my Facebook and mentions on Twitter. Calls and text messages? Nah people don’t do that anymore. So 33 is […]
Bersih is not about rhetoric. What Bersih wants? You know. I know. A lot of people know. So it is very clear what Bersih wants. Yes, Bersih wants a clean government. Bersih wants free and fair elections. Now, Bersih also wants to “save the economy.” Why Bersih wants these? For the lack of vocabulary, #BetterNation […]