Notices by clacke (clacke@libranet.de)

Leila K channel playlist:
"Leila K - music videos" (9 videos)

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30 years on, still a banger.

#LeilaK #Electric #ElectricSong

Me: Hmm, why is this music playing in my head?

* 2 hours earlier *

Me: What's the type of my current Pokemon Buddy again? Ah yes, electric.

Brain: HEY LISTEN UP NOW EASE IT UP NOW LEILA K LOVES YOU

If you're a Swede in HK, or know one, note that we can vote at the Swedish General Consulate up to and including Monday next week, 2026-09-07.

Notera öppettider:

Onsdag 2 sep kl. 15-19
Torsdag 3 sep kl. 13-16
Fredag 4 sep kl. 9-13
Lördag 5 sep kl. 10-14
Måndag 7 sep kl. 9-13

Notera också att Generalkonsulatet fortfarande är i Wan Chai, BEA Harbour View Centre. Det är bara Handelskammaren som har flyttat därifrån till Sheung Wan.

#val2026 #sweden #hongkong
#SwedishElection2026

And people dunked on Frank Herbert for imagining the supposedly unimaginable Zensunni and Zensufi branches of Buddislam twenty millennia from now.

enwp.org/wiki/Islam_Nusantara
Islam Nusantara - Wikipedia

For a brief period, the world had a communist monarchy, with the British Queen as official head of state

And it worked! The Crown reluctanly accepted the communist rule, but when a military junta took over, the Queen's representative orchestrated a US invasion, and constitutional monarchy was restored.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monarchy…

I often think of these things, and when I think of how a society could be built, I often end up telling myself "now you're just trying to build Hong Kong again", or Singapore, or Sweden, or the US, and now I can see that Indonesia tried many different ideas as well, some of which I have tried myself in my head. It's always harder out there, with real people.

Self-determination, justice and nation-building were difficult 300 years ago, they were difficult 100 years ago, and they're difficult today. So many ideas have been tried, partially worked, partially failed, and there is still no magic formula. Humanity needs to keep trying, each community in their own circumstances.

@bandarbaru_1

Then there is of course the matter of how the principles are interpreted and applied, and that's always the tricky part, isn't it. It's interesting to me how Sukarno, Suharto and the movements in the modern era all draw on the same text for legitimacy, while their concrete direction for the nation may be very different.

Again, it's not entirely unlike how both the PRC and the ROC refer to Dr. Sun as their founding father.

Indonesian Guided Democracy and Chinese Political Tutelage sound like echoes of each other as well.

@bandarbaru_1 Thank you, much appreciated. I'm learning a lot from your comments.

I read the Pancasila article. It's a really interesting topic and a thorough article too.

The principles are beautiful, and I really appreciate that Indonesia has something like that in its founding document. It has some parallels to Dr. Sun's philosophy for the Chinese nation a few decades earlier.

It's difficult to find this kind of demographical matrix of ethnicity and religion, and Indonesia itself doesn't track ethnicity in its census.

The Wikipedia page on Chinese Indonesians says:

Minority:
Taoism, Islam, Hinduism, and others

... you list your religion on your identity card. 🤯

There's the confirmation of the anecdote.

If your local official follows the rules, you don't have to display one of six approved religions on your ID card.

Is there a structural disadvantage to going blank? Would you miss out on some benefits or quotas? Would your community frown upon it?

@bandarbaru_1 Thank you, I am so interested in learning more about Indonesia, directly from people who live there.

Could there also be difficulty with the administration if a marriage is between two people of different registered religion? Does the religion have legal scope in terms of how the marriage works and what rights and responsibilities it creates?

I spoke to a guy the other week who casually mentioned that sure, most Indonesians are Muslim, but he's Chinese Indonesian, so his family is Catholic.

I would have loved to go further down this conversation branch, but that's not where we went.

According to him there are Buddhist Chinese Indonesians too, but at least in the Jakarta area, the Catholics seem more common.