Burmese cartoon about the recent visit by Bu Retno

1: There are quite many people who wish to return to it. In fact, at this point, there are many who implicitly believe that Indonesia should be run like Singapore, or at least Millean ranked democracy, in order to even progress a bit just from how messy democracy really was.

  1. Populism, populism, populism. I know what the artist wants. Bludgeoning tool, statements being used as a bludgeoning tool, and probably US style interventions for ANOTHER political and historical bludgeoning tool.

  2. This type of diplomatic negotiations are far from populism "KILL EVERYONE WHO ARE ON THE OPPOSITE ENDS OF POLITICAL SPECTRUM, KILL ANYONE THAT MY IDEOLOGY CAN TWIST AS AN ENEMY, KILL ANYONE TOO ECONOMICALLY LITERATE TO NOT FALL FOR OUR MEME & SLOGAN BASED LYNCH MOB" types. It is pure technocracy, and while it is in Indonesia's interests to negotiate and call a summit to deal with it, it will not be "populist" enough for a bludgeoning tool and therefore boring.

I, for one, trusts and unironically can trust Indonesia's (comparatively hypercompetent) Kemenlu than some populist morons.

  1. ASEAN HAS NON-INTERVENTIONIST DECREE. No. interference on internal matters.

  2. Populism should be criminalized.

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