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View all search resultsIf we could settle the issue of who our fellow Indonesians are, racism and religion would no longer divide us during elections, discrimination would not be a threat anymore because we would use our citizenship as our common ground. Thus, the law about citizenship needs to be changed.
Indonesian engineer Robert Arianto Tjandra was sentenced to serve 86 weeks behind bars after a court in Singapore found him responsible for the collapse of a Pan-Island Expressway viaduct in the city-state.
Previously, there was one main controversy regarding the mandatory use of Indonesian for every agreement involving Indonesian parties. Alas, with the stipulation of the recent language regulation, at least two major problems remain, of which the most current will be discussed more thoroughly.
The research, made more popular by the exhibition, of course, confirms that our prejudices, and worse racism, against those who look “different”, is downright stupid, toxic and even fatal as reflected by too many assaults on minorities. No one is pribumi (native) as we are all clearly migrants to a greater or lesser extent.
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