Forum: Indonesian Boxing

Tue, 06/17/2008 10:04 AM  |  Reader's Forum

Recently, I stayed up late to watch a live boxing match on TV. The match was between an Indonesian and a Filipino.

While it was a non-title bout, it lasted the whole 10 rounds and one does not need to be a boxing expert to know the match was so close it could have gone either way. No clear-cut winner!

In fact, I was expecting the worst, because the Filipino boxer was so classy and lively he made the Indonesian boxer look like a joke.

To my surprise, when the scores were read, it was a unanimous decision in favor of the Indonesian boxer. Wow! How did that happen?

This exemplifies the state of Indonesian boxing as a whole. How can we compete at more prestigious boxing levels and events when even on a late night boxing circus, we cheat our way to victory?
BADRI W.
Jakarta

The death of reason -- June 7, p. 6

I could not agree more with Al Malkin. Let me allude to history in order to remind this beloved nation not to destroy ourselves.

The bamboo stick ambush by the FPI on a peaceful rally by the National Alliance for the Freedom of Faith and Religion at Monas resembles the Kristallnacht in Munich in November 1935. The hooligan thugs were the Brown Shirts who smashed crystal chandeliers and broke the windows of synagogues and Jewish homes.

Kristallnacht marked the rise of Nazi Germany and the beginning of the Holocaust. Clean Indonesia from the likes of the FPI or else we travel the same path as Nazi Germany.
RAHARDJO MUSTADJAB
Jakarta

Restricting foreign ads -- June 9, p. 1

I personally think this is a smart move made by the government. Foreign companies have often reaped Indonesia of many opportunities. So yes to the above, it is definitely fair.
CHARLES MARANTYN
Jakarta

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Karina Soemarwoto (not verified) — Fri, 06/20/2008 - 9:54pm

My apologies! The sub-headings that tells which issues or articles the comments above belong to were not visible when my last comment was submitted.

Karina Soemarwoto (not verified) — Tue, 06/17/2008 - 3:16pm

Can we really relate the outcome of a non-title match to the regression of a nation in terms of domestic politics? Suspicious results are fairly common in the world of boxing all across the globe in smaller matches, not between nations, but between boxers of different nationalities. Unless we're speaking of highly professional and official matches such as, K-1 World GP, results may on occasions not seem too credible. I seriously doubt that the government has set up the results to a non-title match or that we can base any judgment on the nation on one undeserved outcome of a regular boxing match and relate it to a nation's regression, Nazi uprising, or government's revenge on companies that have reaped us of opportunities.

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