Whether Paris Hilton is the ideal girl for Indonesian men.
Running an ordinary web search for “cewek idaman” (ideal girl/very desirable girl), exact match (with quotation marks), we get:
70,200 results for “cewek idaman”.
Now if we add (exactly this AND exactly that) a query for “Paris Hilton”:
19,700 results for “cewek idaman” “paris hilton”.
Which means of course that almost 30% of the pages where “cewek idaman” is being talked about include at least a mention of Paris Hilton.

Paris and her dopey looking sister standing amongst Jessica Nathalie, Janna Soekasah, Dian Sastro, Rifi Aprilia - you be the judge.
Now looking at Google Images search, the same search, “cewek idaman”, brings up 4 or 5 images of Paris or pages where Paris is being talked about, in the first 20 results. On the second page of results we get about 8 Paris pics/stories out of 20.
But it’s not all Paris in Google Images however, some of the results for “cewek idaman” suggest there are a few among Indonesian Adams still with some taste and sense:

Probably a model

Ordinary Girl

Ordinary Girl
Tags: Cewek, Dian Sastro, Google, Men, Ordinary Girl, Sandra Dewi
Paris Hilton? dream girl? sounds more like a nightmare to me…
Drunken, drug addled, herpes infected, rich slapper with a criminal record, the ideal woman for a couple of ojek drivers I know but not sure who else she would appeal to.
almost 30% of the pages where “cewek idaman” is being talked about include at least a mention of Paris Hilton
Is this just another blonde joke or what? (wink wink nudge nudge)
Paris is a very clever media construct.
I read somewhere her PR team included Tom Cruise Jewish former PR (the one that disguise him being drooling lunatic for so long- very famous- I think Pak Suharto could have been another Gandhi with her help) spent 12 months before her media launch to create a celebrity construct- who had no claim to fame aside from being famous.
How brilliant- and we’re the fools gossiping while they laugh all the way to the bank.
And now we see spin off- Lindsay Lohan, Kardashian, others.
Yes I know- I should stop reading my wife gossip magazine before I sleep.
How much of media-Paris is real-Paris- who can really tell- would be interesting to analyse personality (reaity vs created) constructs.
She does take mental medication-
Someone’s been prowling Friendster.com I think.
Sandra Dewi has ugly mata sipit. Elek.
The pembantu in kebaya has typical shocking posture
Why do the lower classes always slouch? Like an American- shocking.
In my day we were lucky not to have a bamboo strapped to our shoulders for bad posture. Dignified posture for dignified people.
I have a 70 year old feeble pembantu- she doesn’t work- she just lives with us to be taken care of and keen “grandma” to the idiot 20’s pembantu lusting over sms, sinetron, cinta (love) and cowok (boys)- who has ramrod straight back- never had any dairy in her life: “dalem sanes dhahar keju, Mas- nggak doyan”
Also- for thought (if debate is to become serious):
Do you think this was very cepresentative- considering
*most Indonesians are infrequent users of internet?
*personal computer ownership is concentrated in the top 10% or less?
*many Chinese and Indians generally more computer (literate, users, hobbiests etc)-oriented?
(from what I have seen my kids and friends use it basically for chat, gossip, concert info, and minimal time spent online?)
Would make intesrting discussion, perhaps.
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