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eople’s Consultative Assembly (MPR) member Ahmad Basarah has warned teachers on the dangers of liberalism, saying that it has drugged the nation.

“The nation has been under the spell of liberalism and capitalism, our minds are filled with the doctrine of consumerism,” Ahmad said while addressing members from the Indonesian Teachers Association (PGRI) during an expose of the MPR’s four guiding pillars in Lampung on Monday, as quoted by Antara news agency.

Ahmad, a politician with the Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle (PDI-P), said several aspects of community life in Indonesia had been compromised by liberalism, without people realizing it.

He cited examples of water, mobile phones and toothpaste, which are commonly used by society, as having been colonized by foreign nations.

“Therefore, I remind you that Pancasila is the basis and the state ideology. Pancasila values in society will usher in the purpose of the state,” Ahmad said.