and people can raid senayan to examine the parliament members for corruption, political (and sexual) abuses too . . .

padt - there you go.....we still have Boediono and Sri Mulyani who risked their bums being scewed for making those decisions.

The idiots are still trying very hard to find the right orifice whilst screwing around like blue arse flies.

That room in Senayan for the last two months are filled with wannabes and demigods. Target -2014.

Some years ago I worked briefly in a very mediocre business that was going no where fast, where everything was decided at meetings by people bringing up 'good ideas'. There would be a problem and someone would say, "I've a good idea! Why don't we do this...." And people would sit around the table and say, "Yes, that's a good idea. Why don't we try that." And they would....and in a few months we were back to stage one with the same problem or worse. It was always a case of one step forward and two steps back. If, as I usually did, you questioned the 'good idea' or disagreed with it outright, the pressure on you to conform was noticeable. You were singled out as excessively critical, not a caring person and not a team worker. In short, bullied into submission.

The trouble was that no one was prepared in the first place to look at the problem, acknowledge it for what it was, find out why we had it in the first place and then think about the best way to solve it. So instead of engaging in the situation, everyone reacted to it. Hence, every decison was usually a knee-jerk reaction. Not thought through beyond the next square.

I suspect the initial decision to get out on the street and look up little (and not so little) kid's bums was a knee-jerk reaction and I am pleased to hear that, because of sober, wise and informed pressure, it has been scrapped. A good decision, indicating that wiser people have pointed out consequences that the original decision makers had not considered.

Nevertheless, it raises the question why people make these kind of knee-jerk decisions in the first place.

As far as I could work out in the place I worked in - it was because the people running the show weren't very intelligent. And as a result, their main concern was to safe guard their jobs, titles, influence and position. They were afraid that somehow if they thought too much (even if they were capable of doing so) about the situation, it might show that they were in fact partially responsible for the problem. So they used diversionary tactics to avoid any responsibility or idea that somehow they might be part of, if not the cause of the problem and ran the show on 'good ideas'.

Good Ideas? Quid pro bono? Good for whom?

You don't run an institution, or a country on good ideas. You get things done and get things changed by facing the facts in the cold, hard light of daytime.

You have homeless kids on the street and people sexually abusing them and killing them because you have an unjust structures within a society which has its core values shoved up its bum. It's the national bum you need to look up. Not these kids' bums.

The right move.

Why on earth do the police always jump in with knee jerk ideas and reactions and always end up looking so bloody stupid? It is just another in the long line of examples that lead pretty much everybody, apart from the powers that be, to the inevitable conclusion that the police need a thorough overhaul.