Letter: Mountain can’t tolerate two tigers

This is a comment on an article titled “Don’t be losers Yogya, the future is yours” (The Jakarta Post, Dec. 15. p. 7).

To preserve this quality, measures taken need to be realistically long-term.

There is no advantage in preserving the sultanate as a leadership position in Yogyakarta. On the other hand, it can potentially bring all kinds of complications to governmental operations.
For example everyone sometimes has different opinions regarding the simplest things and if there’s ever a

difference in opinion or perspective in government’s policies then a tussle of power is extremely possible between the sultan and the central government, and this brings extra problems.

The sultanate has its few beneficiaries and family members, and let’s say in the case that one of these decided to protect a political criminal because of their favor, then there would be more challenges brought to running the administration.

In China there is a saying that a mountain can’t tolerate two tigers.

In this context it means Yogyakartans must not recognize more than one leader, or risk more time and resources consuming complications in operations of this already troubled government.

Indra Ardiansyah
Jakarta