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2005-03-04 Southeast Asia

Indonesia urges respect on Bashir court decision

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Posted by Dan Darling 2005-03-04 12:16:20 AM|| || Front Page|| [2 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 He beat the rap. W should tell the Indonesians this is tantamount to abetting terrorism. Or perhaps John Howard should divert some forces north.

Posted by Mrs. Davis 2005-03-04 8:21:21 AM|| 2005-03-04 8:21:21 AM|| Front Page Top

#2 My father-in-law once went to Jakarta for a six-month job building a petrochemical plant. He didn't manage to get out of there until building a port and six years.
He was asian but told me over and over that Indionesia was the only country in the world that should be somebody's colony.

The place was totally frustrating. He had a matrix on a wall of last name and government position. Process the matrix and get the ideal bribe for the man to do his mandated job.

He couldn't get people to stay on the job and was escalting his wages way up. They just disappeared faster. So he hired private eyes to watch the workers and see how they lived and what they spent money on. Many just slept on the side of the road, picked mangos and other fruits from roadside trees to eat and only spent money on recreation games. (In those days: Pinball, table-tennis, pool and such) So he halted all work on his factories and built a huge recreational center. Then he cut wages by a factor of 10 and gave a token to the rec center for each hour worked. There were no other like recreational facilities available to the workers that their money could buy so suddenly he had people working 60 and 70 hour weeks just so they could play....

He hated the place but loved Bali.

Posted by 3dc 2005-03-04 9:43:54 AM|| 2005-03-04 9:43:54 AM|| Front Page Top

#3 Weird story 3dc. There was a time I would've worked for beer and game tokens.

Posted by Shipman 2005-03-04 10:30:35 AM|| 2005-03-04 10:30:35 AM|| Front Page Top

#4 Australian SAS are said to be good.

Posted by gromgorru 2005-03-04 10:31:04 AM|| 2005-03-04 10:31:04 AM|| Front Page Top

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