"Wobble" is the term Bali BS has given to the shallow and mostly amateur attempts at “spin” including intentional nasty lies by the Indonesian authorities and tourism falsehood purveyors (e.g. John Millard Daniels of Bali Discovery Tours).

Wobble is where a seemingly half-educated (in terms of and in comparison with professional PR spin) Indonesian official or tourist industry hack attempts a carefully worded statement to try and make one thing seem like something else; for example, where wobblers promote the new (2006) tsunami warning buoys just off Bali’s beaches as being there to defend Bali. Of course any tsunami triggering those buoys would only be 10 minutes from hitting Bali’s beaches and therefore useless as far as people on Bali’s breaches are concerned (see report: Bali Tsunami & Earthquake Risks). The real purpose of these buoys being of course to alert countries across the ocean of a tsunami which has just been generated locally by a subterranean Indonesian earthquake; Bali naturally would be very aware of the impending tsunami generated off its own coast from the massive earthquake which would have destroyed most if not all buildings a few minutes earlier.

More examples of wobble come from Indonesia’s president and government in some of the outlandish claims they make clearly because they believe that is what the world wants to hear. When the president of Indonesia says his country wants to play a prominent role in International human rights compliance by other countries while his own nasty nation has currently one of the worse human rights abuse records (Aceh, West Papua, East Timor, Munir Said Thalib, etc., etc.), his words clearly equate to outlandishly amateurish wobble which we doubt any educated person believes and have little doubt are intentional lies.

How do you know when an Indonesian official is wobbling lying? When they write or say anything?!