Fashion. I work in a very big company that has branches everywhere in the world including Indonesia (Jakarta). Being curious and definitely proud of my home town, I looked around for information I can find related to the Jakarta office.

So I noticed, they have a Jakarta Security Bulletin that is sent from the security control room for Asia Pacific. I subscribed to it and now I receive this bulletin almost daily. There's only 2 parts of the bulleting, one in indonesian language the other in english. Tells the same thing basically, with the heading:
IT IS INDICATED THAT THE FOLLOWING PROTESTS MAY TAKE PLACE IN JAKARTA TODAY.

Three things came into my mind:
1. How do these guys know about them? Do they hire spies, informants??
2. So security threats in Jakarta means protests. It may have been a few years ago, but it's getting more and more pointless
Which leads me to
3. Is it in fashion to have a protests?? I can imagine a sly underground protests-makes-us-healthy committee president giving a speech:

"Fellow protesters, for the benefit of the millions of people in traffic jam let us continue our effort to provide free entertainment by wearing obnoxious colored flags and sing our very bests poetry into the megaphone. It does not matter if there's only 10, 20 people of us. Our commitment is to provide the public a voice and a touch of entertainment, every week, 5 days a week. And on certain days, with rotation!! So off you go, today's fellow protesters, this is your flag. Pardon the quality, we had to redo the materials from yesterday's event. But we have customized all we can from Ban FHM to Ban imported rice!. Good day, good luck and don't forget to enjoy yourselves"  ¶ 6:42 PM 2 Comments