February 1, 2012
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When domestic elites miss a clarity of predicament Donny Syofyan
It is really intolerable to see a thespian cinema of students risking their lives to get to their school in Sanghiang Tanjung after 3 suspension bridges in Lebak regency, Banten province, collapsed due to flooding recently. It is not wrong to say which such kids have been some-more daring than Indiana Jones, a important Hollywood hero, judging by their numbers as well as ages. This story has been lonesome by assorted tellurian media outlets such as Reuters as well as several international newspapers.
Though supervision officials eventually closed a bridges for repairs, a cinema have been a contrariety to a country's recent domestic scene where elites such as lawmakers have been rapt with their own commercial operation as well as removing comfortable. The brand new House spending upon a renovation of a House Budget Committee's meeting room, pricey chairs from Germany, parking lot, toilet cubicles, or calendars featuring portraits of a House care simply indicate which Indonesian elites miss a clarity of predicament or even worse.
A tendency toward pro-elite politics contributes to a failing clarity of predicament in in in between a country's elites. The brand new House spending positively does not represent open interest, prioritising a elites' joy over a people's urgent necessities. The cinema of young kids crossing a collapsed bridge to reach school against a brand new House spending have been a startling contrariety in in in between poor open infrastructure as well as opulent facilities for domestic elites. It seems whic! h a stan dards of a elites have been all separate to those of a rank as well as file.
Rather than arising a open apology as well as cancelling a spending plan, lawmakers as well as a House's Household Affairs Committee (BURT) members disclaimed liability as well as blamed each other. Indeed, House of Representatives Speaker Marzuki Alie visited a Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) office with Nining Indra Saleh, a secretary general of a House, to contention reports upon a argumentative construction projects. Yet which is zero some-more than a smart as well as temporary defence as well as an shun mechanism. Though Nining as well as her staff have been obliged for a House spending chaos, it is a House care under predicament now.
The opening of a elites is identical to which of Sophocles' Athenian tragedy Oedipus a King whose sins led to disaster for others. Adopting a viewpoint of Sophocles' tragedy, it is to a serious extent which open crime as well as amicable disaster in this country have been inseparably firm to elite injustice, not necessarily moral wickedness. The elite's clarity of predicament vanishes in their amnesia about widespread misery as well as starvation.
Recent Indonesian elites should learn from Mohammad Hatta, a country's initial vice president as well as one of a founding fathers, upon how to appreciate modesty. Hatta had a mental condition of purchasing a span of Bally shoes. He deposited money in a gradual demeanour though failed to purchase them. His assets were often outlayed upon helping relatives as well as people who indispensable to make a vital (Detiknews, Nov. 15, 2011). Learning from Hatta, lawmakers as well as supervision officials contingency equivocate domestic blunders by setting in reserve their vested interests as well as giving in to a people they have been representing.
The elites' clarity of priorities could lead to horizontal crises. Public tension in in in between a pros as well as! cons of sold policies as well as issues in a House, for instance, has broken amicable congruity in multitude in a form of apply oneself for diversity, mutual assistance as well as friendliness. Lawmakers' hedonistic poise in their spending skeleton has sparked a burgeoning survival mode in in in between citizens but receiving propriety as well as prudence in to account. "The ends justify a means" approach will be many commonly used to uncover open insurgency to despotism, miss of justice as well as imbalances in democracy.
Elite total could get down to earth to uncover their clarity of predicament if they set about annulling biased legislation. For example, they should perfect a Law upon a National Police to put an end to hurtful recruitment procedures. Otherwise, there is not starting to be a shift in a hurtful police force any time soon. Other conflict-prone law is about bridging a yawning opening in in in between employers as well as employees. The 2003 Labour Law is subject to reforms given it creates Indonesian companies uncompetitive, which is not good for a economy as well as workers. The hurtful police force or family in in in between employers as well as employees, to discuss only two, have been sources of conflict as well as predicament inside of a society.
Indonesia is never reduced of leaders as well as politicians behaving in an model manner. Popular Surakarta Mayor Joko Widodo, most praised for his pro-people approach as well as practical attitude, or State-Owned Enterprises Minister Dahlan Iskan, who is important for his endless breakthroughs, have been sources of impulse for millions of people inspired for exemplariness as well as guardianship.
People often have found purpose models outside a domestic power circle, such as Aa Gym, Syafii Maarif, a late Munir, Nurcholish Madjid, as well as many others. Now, purpose models have been as well as have been entrance from a inner circle of domestic power as well as bureaucracy. Those domestic purpose m! odels wi ll be instrumental in returning power back to its place as well as function, namely to serve a people to a fullest degree.
Amid a dispatch as well as discord of short-termism, people long for pick as well as far-sighted total which think as well as act out of a box to heal deep-seated domestic illnesses in this country. Do not let feign politicians divide those statesmen or reformers in a making. Political statesmen as well as reformers have been urgently required to discharge domestic crises as well as raise open optimism to encounter a plea of a country's destiny demands. The Jakarta Post
* The writer, a graduate of a University of Canberra, Australia, teaches in a Faculty of Cultural Sciences of Andalas University, Padang.
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