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Bali, Indonesia
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masih ngga sih kita melabeli catcalling ngga setara di dua kutub pelaku cakep atau ngga?
pelakunya ya, bukan alleged korban.
kamu tidak melihat bukan berarti tidak terjadi
Hampir 2 tahun tinggal di Bali, saya jarang sekali melihat warga Bali turun ke jalan utk berdemonstrasi. Sungguh "tenang" dan "damai".
Satu-satunya protes yg saya ingat terjadi beberapa bulan lalu, saat Pemprov menutup TPA Suwung. Bentuknya pun simbolik: ratusan truk sampah berjejer memadati ruas jalan depan Kantor Gubernur. Tanpa bakar ban, orasi menggelegar, apalagi tembakan gas air mata dari petugas pengamanan.
Banyak warga Bali bilang, ketenangan ini perlu dijaga karena ekonomi Bali sangat bergantung pada pariwisata. Situasi harus tetap kondusif & damai. Suka atau gak, Bali memang faktanya adalah gateway through which the world sees Indonesia.
Lalu terjadilah krisis BBM beberapa hari terakhir ini. Lagi-lagi, ga ada demonstrasi besar2an atau kemarahan yg tumpah ke jalan.
Saya paham pentingnya menjaga ketenangan. Tapi semoga ketenangan ini bukan berarti menerima semua kebijakan begitu saja tanpa check & balance.
Dalam negara demokrasi, every citizen has the right & responsibility to help shape policymaking. Mengkritik pemerintah bukan berarti merusak kedamaian. Justru itu bagian dari menjaga demokrasi tetap hidup.
Maybe something to reflect on.
Salam damai ya teman2ku warga Bali.
sebenernya paling melelahkan itu kalau nonton orang akting jadi orang bali.
i was like, even jeleme paling desa je sing care keto ngomongne.
mereka itu melakukan hal yang orang jakarta kira orang bali seperti itu. 🥲
didi you watch the frikkin movie????
The Battle of Wakanda might be the worst military strategy in superhero cinema.
You have an energy barrier that’s vaporizing the enemy, and your solution is to OPEN IT so your soldiers can run outside and fight aliens in hand to hand combat. Wakanda is supposed to be the most technologically advanced nation on Earth, yet they defended an alien invasion like medieval peasants
ga bisa maen bola, maen berita pun jadi.
🚨🇵🇹 OFFICIAL! CRISTIANO RONALDO STATEMENT: “This is the truth on what has happened with Jorge Jesus”.
As I promised, I decided to recount, in the first person and directly, the circumstances surrounding the last training camp of the National Team.
After the 2026 World Cup I prepared a letter to the Portuguese people, which I still keep, with the words I want to address to them when I leave our team for good.
At the end of the competition, already on the flight back from the United States, the President of the Federation asked and insisted that I reconsider the decision to leave, because the FPF wanted me to continue.
Right afterwards he asked me for my opinion on the name of the current head coach, which he was considering alongside other names he did not reveal to me.
I told the President of the Federation that, in my opinion, it would be the right choice.
That is why, on the day the current head coach was presented, I was genuinely happy with the choice. It was the right option, as the results are confirming.
A few days later I received a first contact from the new national team coach saying he would like to meet me in person. I said yes and we scheduled it for the end of my holidays.
We met at the Cidade do Futebol, where my club was holding its pre-season training camp.
That day the coach told me he was counting on me and that my presence was fundamental to his project. He presented me, right there, with a plan for my participation. He told me I would play the first match and the last one, and that for reasons of physical management he would always make three to four changes per match.
At that point he raised the possibility of me not travelling with the national team to Norway and Denmark. He proposed that I play the first match and stay in Portugal, then rejoin before the match at the Dragão.
I refused this proposal immediately. It seemed obvious to me that I could not accept it. It was not because I would not play the matches abroad that I would stop captaining our team. That privilege of staying in Portugal would not be a good example.
The coach ended up agreeing with my analysis.
This conversation was attended by Simão Coutinho, sporting director of Al Nassr, the person to whom the current coach reported throughout last season and one of those responsible for his signing by the club in 2025.
On the eve of the start of the camp the coach came to my house in Lisbon, at his request, for another conversation with me. The conversation was calm and all the principles agreed in August were maintained.
I played the match at Alvalade and, although substituted, I made no problem of it. I put the armband on Bruno Fernandes myself, far from imagining that I might be taking my last steps as a player and captain of the National Team. What mattered to me that day was our victory. Winning is always good; in Portugal and for my country, even better.
At lunchtime on the day of the match in Norway, an assistant to the coach came to the table where the group was having lunch and informed me that the coach wanted to speak to me.
To my absolute surprise, the coach asked me if I was fit to play 30 minutes. I was fully focused on my physical recovery, integrated with my teammates as always, and thinking that I would not play that day. Without any problem.
This request was something outside my physical recovery and training plan — because I was only going to play on the 4th at the Dragão — but of course I said yes. He replied that I should then be ready because I would play 30 minutes.
The rest everyone knows. I warmed up from half-time, watched the minutes go by, and was not called.
The coach had broken his word to me.
