Lately conversations around the
#Uyghur
issue have been making rounds again on Indonesian twitter, so I wanted to repost some things I learnt from an Uyghur friend.
Scepticism is healthy, but when it comes to discrimination & persecution, ALWAYS listen to those affected too.
Showed this to my husband and he said if it happened here she could lose her job 🙃
It’s not about disagreeing & refusing to do abortions but the judgemental attitude & lack of empathy. Imagine her patient’s seeing her making this kind of content about them, I’d be traumatised!
Indonesian Muslims: “the correct spelling/transliteration should be *exactly* ‘In-Syaa’Allah’ and ‘Maa-Syaa’Allah’, forget a single letter & God will not be pleased with you”
Meanwhile my Arab friends while texting: “inshaliha” “alhumdolehah” 😅🤦🏻♀️😅
Gini ya rasanya di negara yg wakil rakyatnya sadar punya konstituen 😅 Kemarin dukung inisiatif aktivis Afghan-Australia kirim email ke MP (anggota parlemen) utk advokasi isu Afghanistan.
Dibalas dong sama 2 MP! Padahal bukan WN atau PR. Tapi segitu responsifnya ke konstituen 😳
Australia baru aja meloloskan regulasi yg memberikan pekerja hak utk tidak dikontak (“right to disconnect”) terkait urusan pekerjaan di luar jam kerja, dan melindungi pekerja dari sanksi kalau tidak merespon kontak dari atasan di luar jam kerja 👍
Kami menyadari betapa pentingnya keseimbangan antara kehidupan kerja dan pribadi. Setiap pekerja berhak atas waktu istirahat dan privasi di luar jam kerja, tanpa diganggu oleh urusan pekerjaan.
Dalam kasus di mana atasan membangunkan karyawan pada tengah malam untuk merevisi
Salut dg istri mas, hebat sekali! ☺️🙏
Tapi narasi seperti ini sebetulnya harmful buat kesejahteraan profesi2 tertentu (nakes, guru dsb). Bukan soal merasa diperbudak. Kerja keras, pengabdian, ikhlas = perlu! Tapi menuntut hidup layak itu jg hak & tidak mengurangi pengabdian. 😊
VOLUNTERISM. Istriku seorang dokter, dia Kepala Klinik PMI (Palang Merah Indonesia) di desa kaki Gunung Sindoro. Praktis tdk digaji; honor tak sampai Rp 2 juta; kadang kerja sampai malam. Dia tdk buka praktek pribadi. Dia senang bekerja sukarela. Kami tidak merasa diperbudak.
Baru tahu kalau
@aniesbaswedan
kirim surat ke Kemenkes mengusulkan vaksinasi utk pencari suaka & pengungsi di Jakarta. He’s not my fave but credit where credit is due — ini langkah yang patut diapresiasi. Terima kasih, Pak, semoga segera ditindak Menkes. 🙏
Just published in BBC Indonesia:
"When I showed them my [refugee ID] card, they rejected me and said that the vaccine was only for Indonesians, not foreigners," said one refugee.
Sejujurnya geng anti-childfree yg berisik *maupun* geng childfree yg sotoy/insensitif mengomentari parenting & keputusan orang2 yg memilih punya anak (apalagi sampe eugenik) itu sama-sama ngeselinnya sih. Saling menghormati pilihan beranak orang lain nggak susah kan yaaa 😊
Dengan banyaknya respon kebencian thdp serangan teror yg tragis di
#Christchurch
NZ, termasuk statement2 ngawur spt “dunia diam saja krn korban2nya Muslim”, ada baiknya juga kita melihat (dan belajar dari) besarnya dukungan & solidaritas utk saudara2 Muslim kita di seluruh dunia.
How come ITB graduates have such a romanticised view of Bandung, as is also the case of UGM grads with Jogja, and I just don’t feel the same way about Depok??????
Sori ya saya ngga ngomongin orang2 Aceh yg kebanyakan sudah sangat murah hati selama ini, saya lagi bahas netijen yg rasis dan ngga bisa melihat kesamaan antara org Palestina & Rohingya (anda?). Kalo saya memang sudah hampir 10 tahun volunteer di isu pengungsi mas 🙏
@firagayatri
Heran terus. Yuk ke Sabang yuk, jadi Volunteer dulu jg bole, atau mau ditampung di rumahmu? 6-10 orang deh. Mau?
Jangan lupa masakin yg enak.
My
#Uyghur
friend had to seek asylum when she was doing her Master’s abroad. She hasn’t been able to speak to her family for YEARS. I asked her what she wants to tell Indonesians about Uyghurs and she said: the persecution of Uyghurs is a human rights issue, NOT a religious one.
‼️
Paling heran sama WNI yg kenceng bela orang-orang Palestina tapi lalu menolak dan rasis luar biasa ke kelompok Rohingya. Padahal mereka sama2 lagi dibantai dan mengalami genosida krn identitas bangsa mereka, bingung banget gini aja kok nggak paham?
Rohingya itu salah satu kelompok pengungsi yang paling tidak diinginkan di dunia. Mereka kebanyakan tidak berpendidikan karena lahir tanpa status kewarganegaraan.
Sedih melihat Indonesia kini juga ikutan menolak dan mengolok mereka,
So you’re telling me when she “accidentally” loses her hijab her hair is all dry-blown and pretty underneath?? No inner cap, no bandana, no messy bun — not even tied??? 🙄🙄🙄
Brief explanation on who the
#Uyghurs
are, and the issues of separatism & terrorism that are often used by the Chinese government to justify their so-called “re-education camps”
*bahasa indo 👇
The persecution of
#Uyghurs
in Xinjiang is an ethnic genocide — the Islamic practice is only one expression of the Uyghur culture which is repressed and controlled by the Chinese government.
(These posts were written in Sept — apologies for any lack of updates)
Justru sebagai orang yg percaya kerja sosial kerelawanan dg pengalaman kerja sukarela 10+ tahun (sampai sekarang) plus seumur kerja profesional di dunia non-profit, makanya saya ikut mempermasalahkan komitmen “kerja” setahun berlabel kesukarelawanan ini… but I digress 🙂
Perdebatan soal ekspedisi ini rumit krn ada 2 dunia yg berbeda. Yg satu percaya instrumen gaji. Yg 1 percaya kerja sosial-kerelawanan. Yg sejak muda tahunya kerja itu digaji pasti susah mengerti. Krn bukan pengalaman sosialnya. Tp yg terbiasa kerja jd relawan, ya mudah mengerti.
Ada lagi yg bandingin sama PPDS yg 5 tahun kerja nggak dibayar… sorry but that’s a terrible example bc in an ideal world that SHOULD be changed 😭😭😭 just bcs it’s normalised in our country doesn’t mean it’s right (bc it’s not & I so feel for my PPDS friends but what do i know)
Tadi saya dan teman-teman hadir di aksi dukung pengesahan
#RUUPKS
, dan emosi lihat massa tandingan yg menggunakan alasan agama utk menolak RUU P-KS. Kami semua di foto ini Muslimah dan kami semua mendukung
#SahkanRUUPKS
! ✊✊✊
Don’t forget & erase the fact that Palestinian Christians have also been suffering from the Israeli occupation and are very much part of the struggle.
#Nakba73
Today Israel bombed a Sisters School in Palestine. Palestinian Christians, like the family of my grandmother, have suffered immeasurably during the Nakba. They made up a significant part of the Palestinian population until Israel started decimating their numbers.
Yg membalas ini MP dari partai Greens & Partai Buruh, dua2nya oposisi (apakabar kita yg hampir ga ada oposisi 😅)
Aktivis2 di UK & US juga sama, sering strategi advokasinya menyurati & menelpon MP.
Anggota DPR boro2 kasih email & no HP, profil di website resmi aja ga lengkap 🙃
Talking about Palestine to an Indonesian audience made me realise how the insufficiency of language forces us to fall back on outdated/general terms and concepts for the sake of comprehensibility. Like how do you even translate “settler colony”
Any other indonesians abroad finding difficulty focusing on work/study/daily life because you keep worrying about the situation back home? 🥺
(Padahal di sini juga udah mulai deg2an udah ada sejumlah kasus delta 🥲)
Official votes will be counted on the same day as in Indonesia, but here’s the results of the exit poll in Melbourne, an hour before polling booths close. Glad to see newcomer Labour Party doing surprisingly well at
#4
& 02 is behind (high-key judging PSI voters🙃)
#asalbukan02
Post sepanjang ini dan nggak satu kali pun menyebutkan prinsip non-refoulement yg berlaku utk SEMUA negara (termasuk negara2 non-pihak Konvensi PBB 1951 ttg Pengungsi) dan justru mengakhiri dg gagasan “pengembalian” ke Myanmar seakan2 itu masuk akal??? Unsubscribing
@catchmeupid
Kenapa Rohingya rame banget datang ke Indonesia?
Kenapa Indonesia dulu nerima kedatangan mereka?
Kenapa sekarang justru ditolak, sampai akhirnya mau dikirim pulang ke negaranya?
All your ‘Why’ akan dijawab dalam satu posting-an ini. Go!
Reading people’s complaints about their live-in domestic workers for being.. well, human, after 5+ hours of doing laundry & ironing yet is making my blood boil 🙃 some ppl really think they get to control their workers’ lives when they’re probably paying half the minimum wage 🙂
How are some people just so full of confidence talking about stuff they don’t actually know that well, or in some cases are even completely wrong about, when I’m not even confident in talking about the stuff I actually do know 😳
Sewaktu kunjungan ke Korsel dulu terkesan pemerintahnya mendukung masyarakat sipil mengabadikan peristiwa2 pahit dlm sejarah yg memakan korban. Ada banyak memorial, pencarian fakta, rekonsiliasi. Langsung refleksi, kita ga punya apapun ttg 1998. Disuruh amnesia kolektif kali. 🙃
Siapa yang bertanggung jawab atas peristiwa ini?
Hingga 23 tahun kemudian, belum ada jawabannya. Kami dipaksa lupa, ‘move on’, ikhlas, sebagai tumbal reformasi.
#RefuseToForget
#MerawatIngatan
#MenolakLupa
“Many assumed lockdown itself was killing the economy, rather than realizing that a society without a functioning public health response to a lethal virus could not have a functioning economy.”
WOW just the other day the Indonesian government released a statement condemning Israeli violence & aggression against civilians in Palestine but today they couldn’t even bring themselves to vote yes? Shame!
(Also very telling that they know exactly what they’re doing in Papua)
*NOT* about volunteering, but one of the main reasons I’m so adamant about the importance of labour unions for all professions & better conditions in non-profits is literally because I’ve experienced myself much better working conditions in the non-profit sector—thanks to unions!
Heartbroken to hear that Pak
@Sutopo_PN
, one of Indonesia’s most beloved & dedicated figures, has passed this morning. Innalillahi wainnailaihi rajiun... rest in power Pak Topo, keeping you & your family in my prayers. 💔
#ripsutopo
This
@4corners
short documentary tells the story of
@SMusapir
, an Australian
#Uyghur
, who has not met his wife and baby for 2 years because they weren’t allowed to leave Xinjiang. Why? Just because they’re Uyghurs.
Indonesia fully supports South Africa’s initiative in filing a case against Israel for the crimes of genocide at
@CIJ_ICJ
(11/1), as well as its request for provisional measures ordering Israel to immediately suspend its military operations in and against Gaza.
What is more stupid & dangerous than a political buzzer visiting Palestine/Israel *with Israeli money* and pushing the narrative that news of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict are “hoax” — effectively being Israel’s PR — just because it serves their political group’s interest???
Pakai baju terbuka dihujat, pakai hijab plintir-plintir dihujat, pakai burqa & niqab juga dihujat...
Enak ya jadi laki-laki yang bisanya cuman komentar soal pilihan pakaian perempuan. 😊
Di Australia malah serikat pekerja perawat & bidan adl serikat terbesar dg anggota terbanyak (per tahun 2018).
Sekedar menggambarkan aja, ngga dosa kok berjuang & berupaya utk hidup lebih sejahtera, krn ngga semua orang punya privilege bisa kerja & volunteer tanpa mikir duit. 😊
Utas bagus lain dari mba
@MahameruLee
yang menjelaskan relevansi & hubungan antara isu
#Uyghur
DAN larangan ibadah Natal di Dharmasraya, Sumbar dan mengapa penting bagi kita, terutama Muslim Indonesia, untuk peduli PADA KEDUANYA. *capslock jebol*
Ada 2 kasus pelanggaran HAM umat beragama yg jadi sorotan di Indonesia akhir2 ini, 1, kasus kamp konsentrasi pemerintah Cina yg menawan & menyiksa Muslim di Xinjiang, 2, kasus pelarangan perayaan Natal di Dharmasraya o/ penduduk mayoritas Muslim disana. Apa hubungan keduanya? 1/
The recent spike in
#Uyghur
discussions on Twitter is thanks to
@JonathanEmont
’s important piece on China’s PR campaign aimed at Indonesian Muslim leaders and social media influencers. Please read👇
China launched a public-relations campaign to convince religious leaders in Indonesia that its re-education camps in Xinjiang are a well-intentioned effort to provide Uighurs, who are mostly Muslim, with job training and to combat extremism
Aeshnina Azzahra Kilani, Greta Thunberg-nya Indonesia, kirim surat protes terkait impor sampah kepada Kanselir Jerman Angela Merkel melalui Dubes Jerman untuk Indonesia, Peter Schoof
@GermanAmbJaka
. Kasus penyelundupan sampah plastik mendorongnya untuk menulis surat protes itu.
Akhirnya dia klarifikasi, tapi bukan minta maaf melainkan menegaskan bahwa konten sebelumnya bertujuan mengedukasi.
Ha? Mengedukasi apaan cuma bersenandung "Nanananana" pakai lagu Slim Shady - Eminem tanpa penjelasan? Itu lagu Rated, Dok. I wonder if you knew. 😌
Indonesian Coordinating Minister for Politics, Law, and Security
@mohmahfudmd
repeats PRC talking points without qualification while recounting his meeting with Chinese Amb. Xiao Qian: . These talking points are demonstrably false.
Patah hati sepatah hatinya. I didn’t have much hope in the two other candidates, but I guess I had harboured great hope in my people that they’d make better choices.
Ok mostly I understand where conservatives (incl. religious) are coming from & how we differ, but it’s “anti-SJW” types w no clear set of values that bewilder me most tbh. What do they stand for & why are they so offended by ppl earnestly fighting for fairer conditions for all?
I don’t know who needs to hear this but please don’t let the pressures of capitalist society dictate you in defining what a “successful” or “mediocre” life means to you.
Punya mimpi & tujuan hidup penting tp definisi “kesuksesan” harus kita sendiri yg tentukan. Bukan orang lain.
Bertepatan dengan Tahun Baru Islam hari ini, saya menulis utk
@islamidotco
tentang “hijrah” dan perlindungan para pencari suaka & pengungsi dari perspektif Islam.
Bagi yang lupa, Nabi Muhammad SAW dan kaum Muhajirin dulu juga merupakan pencari suaka!
Today on
#InternationalWomensDay
we marched for women’s rights, labour rights (especially for women workers), queer rights... basically a fairer, more just world for all.
Here are my messages for today’s
@womensmarchjkt
! ✊
In disbelief that the first time I’ve copped actual abuse online is from a a friend 🙃 I re-posted
@maxwalden_
’s article re Uyghurs on my insta which triggered a Chinese friend, with a PhD from the UK, to send this completely deranged response. Blind patriotism is a disease
Nurul Akmal in women’s
#Weightlifting
. Belum berhasil dapat medali tapi “10/10 for effort” kata komentatornya. Terima kasih sudah berjuang untuk
#INA
! 💪💪💪
#Tokyo2020
Funny how in the UK I was turned away so many times at the mosque because they didn’t have prayer space for women — mind boggling for me, as an Indonesian — while in Australia it’s quite common for women to join Friday prayers at the mosque (usually men only). AUS 1 - UK 0 🙃
One of my refugee friends said, “We’ve been in Indonesia for 7 years, Indonesia is like our own country. We must help the Indonesians affected by the Jakarta
#floods
because Indonesians have been so kind to us.” Terharu :”)
Photo credits: Nazir & Abdullah
Struggling with finding a job during COVID as a new migrant has definitely been challenging to say the least, but happy & excited to finally be joining the amazing team at Migrant Workers Centre
@mwcvic
— and joining a union for the first time! Call me comrade from now on ✊💥
@FachSetiawan
@andikamalreza
Gini yaaa.. contoh ikhlas yg dimaksud tu misalnya guru ikhlas setinggi2nya gaji guru tu ngga akan pernah setinggi gaji kerja pegawai swasta kantoran jakarta. Tapi bukan berarti harus ikhlas dizholimi dg dibayar kurang dr UMR tanpa tunjangan krn itu melanggar haknya. Jelas ya :)
Komunitas Yahudi di New York, AS, mendatangi Islamic Center NYU utk menyampaikan solidaritas dan dukungan mereka kepada para saudara Muslim yg menunaikan shalat Jumat.
Hundreds have turned out in Melbourne for a candlelight vigil to remember victims of the
#Christchurch
attacks yesterday. Note the empty prayer mats representing the fallen. Inna lillahi wa inna ilayhi raji'un
Hi tweeps, for my bday I’m fundraising for HELP for Refugees, a learning centre for refugees & asylum seekers in Jakarta.
HELP provides education to >150 refugees from 10 countries like Afghanistan, Eritrea, and Sudan.
Please support us to support them!
Just saw some Indonesian workers in Oz calling themselves “internationals”… is this a new thing because I’m triggered… guys “migrant” is not a bad word 😭😭😭
Seeing all the Jokowi apologists trying to explain/discredit/undermine the ongoing demonstrations right now just makes me cringe... this is what happens when you’re loyal to an individual (esp. a politician) instead of principles and values.
"Yesterday was a really bad day for him and this is what he did" -- a law enforcement official explains Robert Aaron Long's decision to kill 8 people in a strange manner
Sharing this because Fatih Seferagic is hugely popular in Indonesia as “the handsome hafiz” but as we have come to learn, again & again, men often use their religious reputation to entrap & abuse women. Sisters, please be careful 😭😭
Sama.
Selalu pro Palestina, krn krn isu ini di Indo dipolitisasi & sentimen anti-semit, dg naif menganggap isu ini “hanya” konflik berdarah antar kelompok identitas & agama dg solusi peacebuilding antara kedua pihak. Bodohnya. I-P akar masalahnya jelas: penjajahan.
Dulu pas di kampus gabung perkumpulan mahasiswa Surabaya namanya ASUI, sekarang di Australia gabung di serikat pekerja namanya ASU 🐶😂🙈🙈 ada lagi serikat pekerja yg namanya UWU lol gemash!
Heran kenapa jadi bawa-bawa feminisme deh? Emang mana feminis yg mendukung ini? Violence is not okay, baik ke perempuan atau laki2. Feminis jg sering bersuara menentang kekerasan domestik yg dilakukan istri ke suami, atau pelecehan seksual & perkosaan pada laki2.
Jangan ngaco.
The IDF is beating unarmed elderly men, women, and kids on Passover Friday, during the holy month of Ramadan, in one of our most holy sites, and yet the western world is calling to stop violence “on both sides”??? The violence is literally perpetrated by one side! 🤬
Terharu lihat foto-foto kerja bakti teman-teman refugees yg kemarin ikut membantu warga & membersihkan lingkungan yg terdampak
#banjir
Jakarta, meskipun mereka sendiri nggak terdampak.
Photo credits:
@suakaid
& Cheryl Mohede
Our former president once again showing her true colours: elitist, racist, and delusional (also extremely unintelligible for a politician of her calibre)
"Indonesians - Unity in Diversity - we have to combine. Physically and emotionally, also via genetic engineering. Papuans are Black. Many are ‘milk coffee’ now, blended, becoming very Indonesian [Jokowi claps]. Many migrants in coastal Papua. They’ve mixed. That's what I want."
@Mythicalforest
@agusswitanto
Iya cape bgt, literally ga ada kok yg minta org aceh atau klean2 nampung mereka di rumah 🤦🏻♀️💆🏻♀️
Mas Agus kalo emang beneran concern silakan cek Perpres yg di-ttd Jokowi ttg peran pemerintah kalo ada pengungsi yg masuk ind. Ini emg tugas & ttg jawab negara.
Very proud of my clever husband
@maxwalden_
who today passed his PhD completion seminar at
@MelbLawSchool
! (this is the penultimate milestone before he completes his PhD. Almost there!) 🥳
Rada geli melihat segitu bangga2innya kolaborasi dg Karen’s Diner. Di Melbourne restorannya itu bermasalah lho krn kondisi kerja tdk aman bagi pekerja (rentan pelecehan seksual, pelecehan verbal, dsb) dan sekarang sedang diinvestigasi lembaga pemerintah WorkSafe Victoria… 🙃
Sepanjang balas-balasan sama
@warpopski
beberapa minggu ini, cuma liat kelakuan:
1. Annoying
2. Disrespectful.
Udahlah ga tau batasan orang, ga sopan, tweet-nya ngerendahin. ("Karen's Diner (yg lebih gedhe dari lo aja) mau saya aja collabs kok lo enggak?") 🤣
Habis itu,...
Can’t get over how weird it is to go to an Indonesian restaurant abroad and the (Indonesian) staff insists on talking to you in English instead of Indonesian, all the while knowing that both of you are Indonesians. 😅
Para “expert” & banyak pejabat seneng banget menyarankan supaya pengungsi luar negeri di Indonesia ditampung di “pulau tersendiri” bahkan “pulau terluar” meniru Pulau Galang dulu. Maaf maaf aja nih tapi itu solusi yg ketinggalan jaman, nggak realistis, belum lagi xenophobic.
Barely a week into the Taliban’s takeover of Kabul and we have Indonesians calling for Afghan refugees to be put on a securitised island. So much for Muslim solidarity
Even as a feminist who supports political affirmative action, I disagree. Women have the right to run for any political office and we should all support that right, but in the end, we should also vote for whomever we believe in based on their track records, values, etc.
Apparently Hui Muslims have also been subjected to Xi Jinping administration’s effort to “Sinicise” religion, despite nowhere close to their treatment of
#Uyghurs
.
Indigenous and Muslim groups spent the day together in Dubbo, one day after the New Zealand terror attack claimed 49 lives ❤️ they joined together for Muslim prayer, Indigenous dance and a bbq and game of footy
#islam
#indigenous
#love
#peace
#NewZealandTerroristAttack
It’s so bizarre that the binary terms are pro-life and pro-choice bc I’m both, i.e. I’m pro babies being born from parents who actually want and choose to have & raise them. Nothing “pro-life” about forcing women to give birth to unwanted babies who didn’t even ask to be born