House Speaker Announces Email Address: Marzuki_alie@yahoo.co.id
Jakarta Globe | May 05, 2011
'Email incident' occurs in a discussion between the House of Representatives Commission VII with the Indonesian students in Canberra, Australia has earned the commission critics. (Photo Source: Youtube)
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439290Can't imagine, how Indonesia are going to become in the future?
soooo.... how did their constituents reach these esteemed representative of the people in order to channel their aspirations? could it be that after all these years all the people's aspiration their voicing is made up by underpaid staffs and interns in the back office? *shock*
What a bunch of fools. They are an embarrassment to Indonesia.
Edhy Prabowo has confirmed the image of our lawmakers.....as stated by Gus Dur...just like kindergarten kids.
Just observe the stupidity in his remarks
While I am not a fan of more spendings by the DPR I would still approve to buy some copies "Internet for Dummies" and hand it out there...
Anyone wishing to share their thoughts and opinions with the House of Representatives Speaker Marzuki Alie can send him an email to his private account.
“My email is Marzuki_alie@yahoo.co.id,” Marzuki told news portal Detik.com.
He suggested lawmakers use their private emails to connect with the people and “to listen to people’s aspiration.”
The Internet savviness of lawmakers has attracted public attention after an email gaffe of the House Commission VIII overseeing religious and social affairs in Canberra, Australia, on Saturday. Video of the incident was uploaded on video-sharing site Youtube.
The “incident,” took place during a meeting between the lawmakers and the Indonesian students and showed the lawmakers’ seemingly unpreparedness when one of the students asked them the commission’s email address.
A lawmaker identified in the video as Astriana Sinaga from PKS said the email address was komisi8@yahoo.com.
Jakarta Globe sent an email to the said address and received an automatic reply of an error in delivery, stating the account did not exist.
The head of Commission VIII, Abdul Kadir Karding, said the commission’s official email was set_komisi8@dpr.go.id.
An email sent to the address was replied with this confirmation: “The email address of Commission 8, set_komisi8@dpr.go.id.”
Meanwhile, Gerindra party lawmaker Edhy Prabowo defended his colleagues, saying that lawmakers were not obligated to understand technology and the Internet even though it was necessary.
He said there should be an internal mechanism at the House to teach lawmakers about technology, rather than making fun of them.
“We disagree that the video was uploaded in Youtube. We don’t like it, whatever it is, we must not humiliate one another. They are students. If there are lawmakers who don’t understand email, don’t blame them,” Edhy was quoted as saying by Kompas.com.
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