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Marzuki Wrongly Classifies UNDP as Foreign NGO
April 16, 2011

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adityoari
1:16pm Apr 18, 2011

a looney only belongs to a group of looney people. And if that one looney is ever positioned as a "representative", it must be no less a looney to have vote for him (or his looney group)...

gregorfence
5:17am Apr 18, 2011

Someone should fix his Gyro and GPS.I messed up my cephalograph reading this article.

Valkyrie
7:56pm Apr 17, 2011

enakajah:

And so...do we send in the clowns now or are they all, already there?

enakajah
10:21pm Apr 16, 2011

Actually to be honest he is a fair representative "Speaker of the House". Lets face week after week there is some other politician that gets up and says something equally ridiculous.He just does it more often. Seems to be he represents the quality of people in the house completely.

They all seem incapable of saying anything that can be taken seriously. Three ring circus and he is the ring master.


KneecZar
9:59pm Apr 16, 2011

To borrow from Churchill, "Never before in the history of a nation's existence, has so much hypocrisy, idiocy and mind boggling hubris displayed to so many by so few."

From needless trip junkets, sex and porn scandals, colossal delusions of self importance, and now this. What we have at present in Indonesia, the government is a joke, the Ministers are all standup comics with less than humorous routines, not to mention the mediocre ranking civil servants under them, but an honorable member of DPR RI, the Speaker no less, has no idea about UNDP? The UNDP office has been present at the DPR building since 2000, conducting its business at the behest of the Indonesian government.

I don't actually know the UN organizational structure or all of it's bodies, but UNDP still sticks in my mind when I recall my social studies class almost 30 years ago (and reading about it or mentioned on TV from time to time). Is it because the attention span brevity of of our elected members are such that only when it involves money, expensive gratuities, benefits and personal gain can they eloquently recite and quote literally a phone book to convince us on its' importance? The late Gus Dur was correct in equating them to Kindergarten children, they are intellectually and mentally on par with spoiled toddlers, and at the very nation's expense.

Indonesia’s gaffe-prone speaker of the House of Representatives has done it again, this time suggesting that the United Nations Development Programme should vacate their offices in the legislature because it is a “foreign nongovernmental organization."

Speaking on Friday, Marzuki Alie, speaker of the House, also known as the DPR, said he would “seek an explanation” from the House secretary general about the UNDP’s presence in the House compound.

“No NGOs are allowed inside the compound and the UNDP is a foreign NGO,” Marzuki claimed.

UNDP assistant country director Irman G Lanti said Marzuki was wrong in his classification of the global development network.

“We are a UN agency and Indonesia is a member of the UN,” Irman explained.

He said, however, that if Marzuki continued to object to the agency’s presence, it would vacate the DPR.

On its Web site, UNDP Indonesia says it is working in four priority areas, namely democratic governance, poverty reduction, crisis prevention and recovery, and the environment and energy. The agency was “also committed to the fight against HIV/AIDS and the promotion of gender equality,” it says.

Michele Zaccheo, director of the United Nations Information Center, said UN agencies generally had their own premises but sometimes they were housed in government offices.

He said for “practical reasons,” some UN staff able to provide technical capacity support to governments were housed in government offices.

“These arrangements are common the world over, and they are entirely at the discretion of the host country,” Michele said.

“Indonesia is a member of the United Nations, and the UN agency presence in Indonesia is at the request of the government. It is part of a joint partnership agreement with the government to support its programs for the benefit of the Indonesian people, particularly the poorest and most vulnerable.”

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