Indonesian Quotes

Indonesian writers are so far behind in terms of global exposure compared with the Philippines and Japanese writers. (Andrea Hirata)
Shortly after the 2004 Indonesian earthquake, I read that the earthquake had affected the rotation of the earth, shortening the length of our 24-hour day. Even though the change was extremely slight - only a few microseconds - I found the idea incredibly haunting. View quote
Karen Thompson Walker
We must not lose. If we lose, this country could go extinct. Because the Indonesian elites are always disappointing, always failing to carry out the mandate given by the Indonesian people. If the same system is continued, Indonesia will become weak. Indonesia will become even poorer, even more helpless and could even go extinct. View quote
Prabowo Subianto
No religion has one single language. Muslims are spread all over the world and all Muslims do not speak one language. For instance the Turk Muslims speak Turkish, the Iranian Muslims speak Persian, the Indonesian Muslims speak Bhasha Indonesia; the Punjabi Muslims speak Punjabi, the Maharashtrian Muslim speaks Marathi, and like wise. He was against imposing any language on any people and he spoke a language which is known as Hindustani. View quote
Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed
All of the boats in question were in the Indonesian search and rescue zone and I want the fullest possible cooperation between Indonesia and Australia in places where Indonesia has, if you like, the legal responsibility under the law of the sea, but Australia has more practical capacity to help. View quote
Tony Abbott
Most of our British Muslim population is Pakistani. If that population was Indonesian or Tunisian the situation would not be the same. Pakistan has to export a lot of uneducated people, many of whom have become infected with the most barbaric reactionary ideas. View quote
Christopher Hitchens
We have to acknowledge that those past human right abuses existed and so we can't go forward without looking back, and understanding that was enormous problem, not just for America but also problem for the Indonesian people... View quote
Barack Obama
Even today, as regards East Timor, where our brutal Indonesian satellite (authors of the 1965-1966 butcheries) have very possibly killed as many people as did the Khmer Rouge, there is a virtually complete blackout of information in the Free Press. This is a bloodbath carried out by a friendly power and is thus of little interest to our readers. It is a "benign bloodbath” in our terminology. View quote
Noam Chomsky
When you have a foreign invasion - in this case by the Indonesian army - writers, intellectuals, newspapers and magazines are the first targets of repression. View quote
Antonio Tabucchi
I think the IMF helped to detonate the Indonesian crisis. View quote
Jeffrey D. Sachs
Let us see whether it is the New Order or me who will be the loser before Indonesian history. I have won. The New Order has fallen and my writings have been translated into 40 languages. (Pramoedya Ananta Toer)
Catholic schools in Indonesia routinely accept non-Catholic students, but exempt them from studying religion. Obama's school documents, though, wrongly list him as being Indonesian. View quote
Aaron Klein
My father is Indonesian Timorese, my mother Aboriginal Australian. View quote
Jessica Mauboy
I am still an Indonesian citizen. View quote
Sri Mulyani Indrawati
In Europe, they travel a lot lighter. I always joke that my Indonesian passengers bring their house and their neighbors house. View quote
Tony Fernandes
Rejuvenation of younger players should be the job of the Indonesian Badminton Association. But local competitions will help identify new talent. View quote
Taufik Hidayat
The PBSI (Indonesian Badminton Association) have to work harder to widen the pool and find quality players. The present indifferent culture has to change. View quote
Taufik Hidayat
As a working Sinologist, each time I look up a word in my Webster's or Kenkyusha's I experience a sharp pang of deprivation. Having slaved over Chinese dictionaries arranged in every imaginable order(by K'ang-hsi radical, left-top radical, bottom-right radical, left-right split, total stroke count, shape of successive stroke, four-corner, three corner, two-corner, Kuei-hsieh, ts'ang-chieh, telegraphic code, rhyme tables, phonetic keys, and so on ad nauseam), I have become deeply envious of specialists in those languages, such as Japanese, Indonesian, Hindi, Persian, Russian, Turkish, Korean, Vietnamese, and so forth, which possess alphabetically arranged dictionaries. View quote
Victor H. Mair
Barack Hussein Obama, Jr. is an Indonesian Muslim turned welfare thug and a racist in chief. View quote
Mark Williams (radio host)