While in Singapore I had the pleasure of making a trip to the Indonesian embassy to apply for a new visa. The visit was filled with many snags and unexpected surprises (at one point I had to run for a cab to go buy a plane ticket and then return with confirmation in less than 25 minutes) as well as opportunities to use my Indonesian (I had to talk the lady working in the canteen beneath the embassy to let me use her phone), that it was difficult to feel like I had ever left.
However, the most quintessentially Indonesian element of it all was the embassy’s LCD marquee. Already prominently mounted and plugged in, poised to supply useful information to all of the embassy’s visitors, someone had neglected to program the display. So, instead of important consular information, the marquee looped the pre-set message: ‘This is an LCD display. It can…’ At this point it went on to cycle through all of the machine’s features, which included: left, right, run, flash, scroll, doff, push up, push down, etc, etc.
It is really just too fitting and, most importantly, reassuring to know that even when posted abroad, Indonesia carries on.
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you missed "--->it can write data to memory--->." particularly frightening that the indonesian government is using 1980s technology to program the minds of its populace abroad.
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