Congratulation You Moron!

Yesterday, when flipping the tv's channel, I overheard a comment that freeze my finger. It's one of those gossip let's-try-to-butt-on-celebrities-life-cos-my-own-life-suck show, the ever so popular type of tv show in Indonesia. It was commenting on the new draft that our wonderful creative reps in parliament suggested on the 50K USD bond that every expat men have to deposit prior to marrying Indonesian woman. Just how someone can be so idiotically cruel to come out with the idea claiming it's to protect Indonesian women but do the exact opposite thing is beyond me.

Anyway, back to the gossip show. The reporter was commenting on the increasingly fashionable trend of celebrity women marrying expat men. And the rational reason behind it, according to that as's'tounding reporter, is so they can have ‘indo’ kids (kids from multiracial married), generally consider as good looking, so that they can have a good career in the acting/ music career by depending on their face/ body even with minimum talents.

Wow, such a mind-blowing conclusion. So congratulation to whoever makes the script on that SCTV’s gossip show. You have successfully given the word MORON a new meaning. Now go back to your pre-historical dickhead cave where you belong.

PS: I have tried to calm myself since yesterday. I know I shouldn't let myself becoming too emotional on crap like this. But whoever have the heart to make that kind of cruel comment definitely does not know the pain that most Indonesian women, celebrity or non-celebrity, face marrying to non-Indonesian men when it comes to kids. Knowing that no matter what, your own kid, the one that grew in Indonesian women womb, is not permitted, under any circumstances, tobecome Indonesian citizen. An outcast in your own country. It's not easy. It's definitely not glamorous. Our own government making life hell to everybody involve. And to have that kind of painful reality twisted into such a venomous-as-long-as-it-sell crap, hurts even more.