A day at Plaza Semanggi

This is the situation: You are an Indonesian, made and born in this beautiful Indonesia. One day you went to this shopping mall in Indonesia and after eating some Indonesian food, you needed to go to the restroom in that particular Indonesian shopping mall.

You needed to go there. To use something in the restroom. You needed to go there badly. And after stepping in to the small room here’s what you saw:



Everything seemed fine for you, at first. But in a second you realized that there was no TOILET PAPER. No WATER TAP and no NOZZLE located next to the toilet, also. They all just disappeared.

You opened the lid and hoped to see a SMALL METAL NOZZLE in there designed to squirt water. But no, you DIDN’T see the bloody bidet.

You began to ask yourself: So how am I exactly gonna do it here? It’s like going to a war without bringing any weapon.

Maybe they were trying to save the trees by not providing toilet paper any longer, you wondered. Maybe this was some kind of environmentally friendly toilet where they stopped giving users access to water, you pondered. Maybe for the sake of fighting global warming the flush wouldn’t even work, now you began to panic.

So you closed the lid really slowly. You grabbed your cellphone and took a picture of the goddamn toilet with it.

Instead of joining the “Save the environment, save the world” movement, you decided to simply blog about it. For you, the whole idea is just STUPID.