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Letter: Who will control the government?
In the article *Join the ride of opposition pluralist parties' (the Post Oct
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n the article *Join the ride of opposition pluralist parties' (the Post Oct. 29), Ahmad Junaidi gives vent to his fear and disappointment about the risk of creeping Islamization even running faster in SBY's second term and that there are no real opposition parties to curb this tendency.
He then comes up with the idea that *besides parliament an opposition role could be played by institutions such as civil society organizations including religious groups, such as Nahdlatul Ulama and Muhammadiyah, and the mass media'. Together they can do the checks and balances.
Well, we know a politician represents a political party with a political program. We also know civil society organizations work for a definite cause and the same goes for religious groups such as NU and Muhammadiyah.
But Who are the mass media? In a parliamentary democracy, it is most definitely not the task of the (mass) media to aspire to a political role.
Frans Huneker
Tegallantang, Ubud, Bal
