The former president Soeharto, and the cruel faces of his top confidants in his Cabinet, jeered at me on Friday while I watched a live broadcast of President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono at a press conference. At the conference, he gave a perfect technical explanation about his view on the arrest of two KPK deputies, Bibit Samad Rianto and Chandra M. Hamzah.
Your comments:
My deepest condolences for the acts of our President. He's the President who always wants to be regarded as nice and acceptable by all. At the end he always tries to compromise with other parties, even when he arranges his Cabinet.
Now his comment during the conference press that questioning the legal basis for this case creates question marks, suggesting there is a huge scenario behind it.
Maybe at the end of the case it will end up pointing at himself or his family. Should we rally on street asking the House of Representatives for impeachment only after one month of his second presidential term?
Fuadi
Germany
President SBY, I think that this matter should have more of your attention because these two institutions have important tasks to do.
If you can accelerate this matter then these two institutions will soon be able to operate to do their job, which is a very important one.
Ananto Prabowo
Jakarta
It's not just the messy toilets! -- Oct. 31, p. 6
Like Transportation Minister Freddy Numberi, we all share the same concern about the messy condition of the Soekarno-Hatta International Airport, especially since there have been many complaints by visitors about the airport.
Your comments:
The problem is not the toilets. It's the people who use them! As with most public facilities in our country, people simply do not care how they are used, or rather, misused. Look at our beaches or parks after at a weekend. Would people dirty their own toilets and gardens at their homes? It is the seemingly total lack of civil pride, the "don't care" attitude that prevails in most of our actions: from road use, to public toilet use, to dumping trash at any convenient place but home.
How to instill this civic pride in our population: that is the question. We, as a nation, are simply lazy and mostly look for the easy way out. Education at home and at school has a lot to do with it.
Look at my home town Kupang; it must rate as the dirtiest city inhabited by the most undisciplined people in the whole of Indonesia. No civic pride, no leadership, no example to follow.
People simply don not know any better! And do not want to know any better! Mental laziness and total indifference has set in many, many years ago. This is aggravated by a mayor and town council who apparently have the very same corrupt mindset. Time for change! The question is: How?
Henry Manoe
Kupang, East Nusa Tenggara
