Many Indonesians mourned at the passing of ‘effeminate’ TV personality Olga Syahputra, who succumbed to meningitis in Singapore on Friday evening. Not lawyer/attention whore Farhat Abbas, though; Olga’s death was Farhat’s opportunity to shine (in the worst possible way imaginable).
Farhat Abbas, through his Twitter account @farhatabbaslaw, has posted countless tweets about his elation at Olga’s death and his critique of Olga’s legacy in Indonesia’s entertainment industry:
After so many lies, he’s finally dead.
His gender wasn’t clear, he didn’t have a wife and kids, and his friends were just like him
He was the inspiration for other effeminate men to appear [on TV] in Indonesia
Good people who die on Friday go to heaven, bad people go to hell whatever day they die.
Farhat’s tweets about Olga’s death are shockingly harsh. In case anyone’s wondering, Farhat’s hatred towards Olga originates from a particular incident, as explained in one of Farhat’s tweet:
He said to my wife during a TV show on ANTV, “can I get your Blackberry Messenger pin, I wanna sell it to government officials.” He laughed like Datuk Maringgih.
Sure, Olga was just a run-of-the-mill ‘artis’ like the majority of Indonesian celebrities, but he has a legion of fans that were not the least bit impressed by Farhat’s tweets.
Perhaps just as harshly, those fans took to Twitter to say that Farhat should’ve died instead of Olga (via memes, of course):
Picture: Why Olga? Why not Farhat Abbas?
Picture: Goodbye Farhat, we the people of Indonesia are overjoyed by your departure. Go, and don’t come back.
Yesterday, #RIPFarhatAbbas became a worldwide trending topic on Twitter (and it’s still the top trending topic in Jakarta today), further cementing the theory that it’s a lot easier for stupid people to become famous in Indonesia.
