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MPR members to share the four pillars with college students
Vital knowledge: MPR Deputy Mahyuddin delivers a talk on the four pillars of the MPR at Jakarta State University on Tuesday
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Vital knowledge: MPR Deputy Mahyuddin delivers a talk on the four pillars of the MPR at Jakarta State University on Tuesday. (thejakartapost.com/Edna Tarigan) (thejakartapost.com/Edna Tarigan)
Vital knowledge: MPR Deputy Mahyuddin delivers a talk on the four pillars of the MPR at Jakarta State University on Tuesday. (MPR)
Members of the People's Consultative Assembly (MPR) are disseminating the institution's four guiding pillars to university and college students across Indonesia.
'We've been asked to run a basic course for students of universities and colleges. Each MPR member is expected to visit and speak with at least four universities and colleges in Indonesia,' MPR deputy speaker Mahyuddin said at the opening of MPR Four Pillars Dissemination at Jakarta State University (UNJ) in Rawa Mangun in East Jakarta on Tuesday.
The four pillars of the MPR are: the Pancasila (Indonesia's five-point ideology), the 1945 Constitution (UUD 1945), the Unitary State of the Republic of Indonesia (NKRI) and the state motto Bhineka Tunggal Ika (Unity in Diversity).
While sharing these ideas with students, the MPR faces challenges ['¦] due to a lack of role models in students' lives and a weakening understanding of religion. 'A good citizen will know his nation ideology, as every nation has its own ideology,' Mahyuddin added.
Meanwhile, according to UNJ vice rector for academic affairs Muchlis Rantoni Luddin, the Indonesian people believe in the Pancasila, UUD 1945, NKRI and Bhineka Tunggal Ika as national values, though most political elites today are displaying behavior incompatible with those values. (bbn)
