“I Divorce You, I Divorce You, I Divorce You,” He Said – Unless You Vote In Indonesia!
It can be very dangerous reporting for the NER, especially when one has just been sent out to Charn to open a new overseas bureau. The Empress has permitted this opening on one condition – that no human ever sets foot in the City, which is why I have been picked for the job. That said, however, news from all the other worlds still lands upon my Stone Table and I still execute my fell purpose!
Sometimes the stories that cross my table just make me laugh, as this one over at Indonesiamatters did so to when I first read it – later I realised just how serious it was.
Too many elections might be pushing up the divorce rate, with women leading the way.
The Director General of the Islam section of the Department of Religion, Nasarudin Umar, held a press conference on 15th July to discuss the problem of divorce in Indonesia, which he said was getting much worse.
Got that, ladies. Vote early, vote often and be sure to file for divorce whilst you’re at it.
Women took the lead these days, he said, because they felt they had the same rights as men, and because of the effects of globalization. He said the Muslim community needed to have a think about whether women were going over the top in this area, or not.
Ah, now we get to the nitty-gritty. You ladies feel that you have the same rights as men but, of course, Islam teaches that you don’t. So, stop voting and stop insisting that you are equal and the ‘problem’ will go away – then you’ll be happy little love slaves, won’t you? Go on, you know you want to!
Although only 157 [in around 80.000] cases were put down to “political differences” Umar worried at some length that with all the provincial elections going on now, and in the run up to the 2009 national election, differences in political views threatened to tear apart many more families.
The problem lies with Islam, as it always does. Yawn.
[.. ] he said [...] state and society cannot be ordered properly unless families are stable and happy.
The sub-text there should be obvious. Stable and happy families are those in which Islamic male-supremacist ideas derived from the Koran, the Haditha and the Sura operate. No other ideas, certainly not ideas derived from experiences elsewhere on the globe, need to be entertained.
Perhaps I should not have laughed!
What use is all this to us who needs help?
or am I in the wrong site…
I need help, and am trying to find a site on how to get a divorce in Jakarta, what are the steps to take,
what are the women’s rights..
what are her obligations…
where to go… what to do..
you are darn right Pravita, it takes courage for a woman to ask for a divorce..
it took me 25 years of , thinking and rethinking, forgiving and reforgiving,
25 years of living a lie..
before making the decision..
maybe I have finaly become smarter.
and yes, by me staying on.. dragging on for this long… has its consequenses, my children have silently suffered …
what for?
dogma’s?
security?
status?
finance?
it is so not worth it if you loose yourself..
now..
can anybody point me to a Jakarta divorce page please.
a usefull and helpful one this time.
I hope, Farah, that you found the help that you needed!
That, my friends, is what Islam does to women. Read it and weep.
