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Comments on other issues: The calm before the silence
March 18, p6A lecturer remarked to me recently, while reading a student event proposal, âThe KPK [Corruption Eradication Commission] is limping and a faculty member is facing possible prosecution
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strong>March 18, p6
A lecturer remarked to me recently, while reading a student event proposal, 'The KPK [Corruption Eradication Commission] is limping and a faculty member is facing possible prosecution. Why aren't you guys protesting?' (By Ibrahim Hanif, Yogyakarta)
Your comments:
The writer seems to be saying activism needs guidance and encouragement from the authorities it seeks to protest against, which is nothing less than absurd.
You don't have to talk to many people to understand that a spirit of support for the KPK is there, so the fact that it is not channeled into popular anger can only be attributed to laziness, cowardice, a low sense of national responsibility and general apathy.
One only has to go to a restaurant and see young people sitting together yet ignoring each other's company as they focus instead on phones and tablets to realize that this generation of young Indonesians is amongst the world's most frivolous.
And certainly, the increasingly conservative agenda of Indonesia's premier religion has not helped the matter.
That Valentine's Day and Miss World pageants are met with fury but the desecration of the KPK is only meekly objected to online shows a massive weakness in Indonesia's ability to manage priorities and, quite frankly, a massive absence of morality and intelligence. Something is desperately wrong with the system, but you obviously lack the will to fix it.
That's nobody else's fault but your own.
Loro Blonyo
