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Chatterpillar - November 2006

SBS's rare NZ inclusion rewarded: Insiders Scoops NZ TV Awards

November 29th 2006 01:24
Who else was fortunate enough to catch SBS's July and August Friday night episodes of the Kiwi-made The Insiders Guide to Love? It's not often that SBS shows a New Zealand series, preferring sources further overseas like France.

The Insiders Guide to Love scooped the drama prizes at the 2006 Qantas Television Awards in the award ceremony in Auckland last week, taking the prize for Best Actor, Best Actress, Best Drama, Best Camera, Best Director for a drama, and Best Script.

The seven-part series was about seven people's lives shaped after each one went through a sudden, unexpected bizarre incident.

Chatterpillar reviewed two of the episodes:

Who Taught You To Love?

It's Halloween and Nicole wants to do something wild, so she makes a steal and admires a wedding dress. But soon the loot is lost and a chase is on. Who does Zoe see on the other side? Maxine catches Marty with another woman, rids herself of all of traces of Marty in her life and chases her singing dream with Tom.

SBS Friday “Insiders Guide to Love” Part 5 - Big Cat's review for Cool-kid


Can You Accept Love?

Rachel takes a special delivery to an old teacher, who teaches Rachel more than she ever expected. Rachel offers all of herself to Luc and eventually Luc lets Rachel meet his twin. Nicole loses Batman and James looks for a flatmate. Meanwhile Marty is invited to speak publicly about his fictional travels.

SBS Friday “Insiders Guide to Love” Part 6 - Big Cat's morning after


Other NZ awards

In other awards, Best Comedy went to Pulp Sport, Best Documentary to Million Dollar Tumor, and Best Reality Format to Sensing Murder.

In the news sections, Television New Zealand's News won best news programme, TV3's John Campbell Best News or Current Affairs Presenter and TV3's Mike McRoberts took TV Journalist of the Year.
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Hope for Iraq's democratization: Indonesia's success came despite bitter religious rivalries too

November 21st 2006 03:17

An Indonesia-Iraq comparison about democratization is being made coinciding with US President George W. Bush's visit to Indonesia this week.

The comparison is in an article published today in Jakarta Post newspaper, which asserts that Indonesia demonstrates a democracy is possible in a Muslim majority country. The author is Ohio State University's political science professor R. William Liddle.

Liddle's main message: "Local actors must drive the democratization process, among the mutually antagonistic leaders with mass followings - who have the power to cut the constitutional and policy deals that will make the system work and give them a stake in it.

"Iraqi politicians have not been in a position to apply this lesson since the US invasion."

Similar to Iraq's groupings antagonistic along religious grounds, Indonesia has traditionalist and modernist Muslims with many historic grievances against each other. The traditionalists adhere to the classical Syafii school of interpretation in Sunni Islam. The modernists reject these schools in favour of direct understanding of traditions of the Prophet Muhammad drawn from the Koran and Hadith.

Indonesia's 1945 constitution emerged from a hammering out of the differences among the antagonistic parties, with four amendments between 1999 and 2003 which established a hard-won basis for today's presidential democracy. Secularists and non-Muslims feared the imposition of an Islamic state and all pious Muslims feared Soeharto-style discrimination and repression.

The US played a role in Indonesia's democratization process when the current World Bank's head Paul Wolfowitz was US Ambassador to Indonesia. During 1986 to 1989 he encouraged pro-democratic forces like Abdurrahman Wahid's Democratic Forum.

The Clinton Administration continued the process via the US Agency for International Development, giving "carefully calibrated support" according to Liddle who was in the team, "beginning with financial assistance to legal and human rights organizations".

"The democratization of Indonesia does give hope to Muslims elsewhere, but only in circumstances where outside intervention is minimal," he wrote.

"In Iraq, it may be another generation before that lesson can be applied."


Jakarta Post source 21 Nov 06
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Indonesia: BRR to act on rebuilding colonial era Medan to Banda Aceh railway (pic)

November 7th 2006 02:44
Tsunami survivor: Banda Aceh's railway station converted to a university building

BRR, Indonesia's Bureau of Reconstruction and Rehabilitation for Aceh and Nias, has listed the restoration of a Dutch colonial railway among its planned major projects, saying trains will be commissioned for carrying the large, ongoing freight in reconstruction materials.

The ball is now in the court of the government in Jakarta, which sees the rail link as a way of strengthening ties between the formerly restive province and the rest of the Indonesian archipelago.

The 600km route of a Dutch colonial era railway between Medan and Banda Aceh dis-used since the 1970s is under examination. Built in 1876, it's very narrow 0.7m gauge could be replaced with 1.435m, for trains running 50pc faster than the 80kph original design speed. At its peak before World War II, the railway carried 9,000 people and 500 tons freight daily.

Making these recommendations is French railway operator SNCF, which Indonesia's Government commissioned in 1994 to conduct a pre-feasibility study on restoring the line. Following the 2004 Boxing Day tsunami that devastated Aceh province, SNCF made the study free of charge.

"We deeply hope that this project becomes a reality," said SNCF International's chairperson Jean-Pierre Loubinoux.

Experts started looking at the condition of the track and its many old steel bridges along the west coast route from Banda Aceh, through Sigli, Bireuen and Lhokseumawe and onto Medan across the border south into North Sumatra province.

Among their observations for a replacement railway:

. Special measures will need to be taken in highly populated areas, where the train driver once used to simply honk a horn to warn of the train's approach.

. Technicians and engineers have been found who were involved with the trains in the 1970s.

. Converted railways stations are among numerous houses build along the route and sections of the old track are smothered with asphalt for use as narrow roads.

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