{"id":86,"date":"2009-03-13T21:14:50","date_gmt":"2009-03-14T05:14:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.aboutindonesia.com\/?p=86"},"modified":"2009-03-13T21:14:50","modified_gmt":"2009-03-14T05:14:50","slug":"the-week-that-was","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.aboutindonesia.com\/the-week-that-was\/","title":{"rendered":"The week that was"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I haven&#8217;t felt well this week after coming back from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aboutindonesia.com\/orangutans-in-bukit-lawang\/\">Bukit Lawang<\/a>, so I didn&#8217;t do as much as I would have liked on the blog.<\/p>\n<p>It is getting closer to the elections here and every channel on television has non-stop reporting and debating &#8211; pity I can&#8217;t understand anything.  <\/p>\n<p>Here are some stories that I wanted to write about but didn&#8217;t get the chance.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.christianitytoday.com\/ct\/2009\/april\/4.13.html?start=1\">Christianity Today<\/a> who obviously have their own agenda, but I thought they had a good article on the spread of Shari&#8217;ah law in Indonesia, something which worries me about the country.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Legislation in Padang requires both Muslim and non-Muslim women to wear headscarves, while a law in Tangerang allows women found &#8220;loitering&#8221; on the street after 10 p.m. to be arrested for prostitution.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Five Indonesians made it onto the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thejakartapost.com\/news\/2009\/03\/13\/five-indonesians-shine-%E2%80%98forbes%E2%80%99-billionaire-list.html\">Forbes rich list<\/a>.  Brothers Michael Hartono and Budi Hartono are owners of the country\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s second-largest cigarette company &#8211; Djarum.  Just as most developed countries are banning cigarette smoking from all public places, it is still fine in Indonesia to chain smoke clove cigarettes on public buses.<\/p>\n<p>Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono fell ill with a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/hostednews\/afp\/article\/ALeqM5iOiixMsvG1JwomH0htMNpyZ8iJrg\">stomach upset<\/a>.  And presumably after he got better, he had a call from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/hostednews\/ap\/article\/ALeqM5jJSBE77mqVm6S2DyMrUdgZwAQ4UQD96TC5PG1\">President Obama<\/a> where they discussed education, health care, climate change, counterterrorism -and bird flu.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I haven&#8217;t felt well this week after coming back from Bukit Lawang, so I didn&#8217;t do as much as I would have liked on the blog. It is getting closer to the elections here and every channel on television has non-stop reporting and debating &#8211; pity I can&#8217;t understand anything. Here are some stories that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7,11],"tags":[44,43],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aboutindonesia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aboutindonesia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aboutindonesia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aboutindonesia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/20"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aboutindonesia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=86"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.aboutindonesia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aboutindonesia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aboutindonesia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aboutindonesia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}