M.O. revisited

The teacher who was promptly dismissed and the retained in a matter of three hours was hardly given due process. In fact, his plane ticket was purchased prior to any investigation into the facts of the matter. The alleged victim had told his father a rather bald faced lie about the events of the day. The father became enraged and called the school. The powers that be reacted by dimissing the teacher without asking questions of other students who were witness to the episode in question. Those questions came later and the evidence squared with the teacher's version of the story. Parents of other children were then asked to prevail upon the father of the boy who had exaggerated the source of his injury. The father calmed down, and the teacher was allowed to stay.

What is the "M.O."? As I indicated earlier, this town is run by a few powerful interests. Call it what you will, but it functions like a political machine, or, yes, mafia. This what was once called the "Third World" and this is not that unusual. The particular flavor of these particular syndicates is conditioned by the history of the Chinese community in this area. The school might be different in Jakarta, but these organizations would be there as well, a different flavour, however.

Power outages are common, and earlier, as I was blogging, we had another one. The school has a generator and so things were running again within minutes, but the internet is slow. That's happened before and it can be frustrating. I'm sure the earlier post was more interesting, but it's lost. That's how things are here, and you get used to it.