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Renewing Indonesian-Tunisian bilateral ties
As a quick reminder, on the level of political reforms and democratization, Tunisian people are far from content. Democracy is a long and strenuous process.
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People demonstrate outside the Tunisian parliament, in Tunis, on Dec. 24, 2016. About 200 people have protested in the Tunisian capital against the return of Tunisian jihadis who have fought abroad.The gathering was prompted by the deadly truck attack in a Berlin Christmas market by Tunisian Anis Amri, who had pledged allegiance to the Islamic State group and was killed Friday in a police shootout. Amri, 24, was slated to be deported home from Germany. (AP/-)
T
he 61st independence day of Tunisia, which fell on March 20, is a great moment for the nation to assess what has been so far achieved and, most importantly, to chart the course of action that lies ahead in terms of economic and social development.
One can ask candidly: what about the political progress and democratization that Tunisia is supposed to accomplish or at least finish up? Such questioning is legitimate and well founded.
As a quick reminder, on the level of political reforms and democratization, Tunisian people are far from content. Democracy is a long and strenuous process.
No doubt, Tunisia has set forth a pluralistic political system, written a new and liberal Constitution, organized parliamentary and presidential free elections and are proud of having anchored freedom of speech and conscience in the Tunisian society.
However, the nation is still in the process of building and debating, in a highly open atmosphere the creation of new democratic institutions.
The Constitutional Court and the Judiciary Higher Council are among the latest instruments we recently put forth to make our democratic system a functional and reliable one. This said, Tunisia has to tackle in the coming months a more daunting task, by addressing the most pending and pressing economic and social issues, without which our success in the ambitious undertaking we set for our nation will be incomplete, if not shaky.
Hence, the international conference on investment convened last November 2016 in Tunis, which attracted lots of world financial and economic decisionmakers, the number of reforms in relation to the banking and financial institutions we introduced and the efforts undertaken by the government to reduce the unemployment rate particularly among university graduated Tunisian youth.
