Yesterday was the 76th of Indonesian Independence day. Such an old country we have been, there has been a lot going after we had our independence day. Being one of the respected nations in South East Asia during our early independence. Also seen some glory at the beginning of the President Suharto dictatorship, and fell in bad times at the end of his regime. Now even after more than 30 years of the Reformation, things aren't looking too great. Why It is because we are the people and the politician we voted for is just crap.
Why the people? Most of the time I think we are easily deceivable, sometimes ignorant, tend to blame others, and do a lot of other bad stuff. Yesterday was a catastrophic event that happens in South Sulawesi. 2 hikers lost their lives in an attempt to celebrate Independence Day on top of Gunung (mount) Bawakaraeng, a 2845 meter peak.
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Both lost their life because of hipotermia, which is means they lack of equipment and experience to hike a mountain.
What is even surprising is that there are about 800 hikers attempted to do the same thing to celebrate the Independence on that mountain. We are still in the pandemic, why would you put your nationalism and patriotism that way?
Next is the politician in Indonesia is just way over the cloud. They are just lack everything, humanity, empathy, all that matter seems is just having the power to control people and has a way to get easy money. Things are heated when the President decided to repaint the State aircraft. While the governor in West Sumatra bought a new official car for almost 2 Billion Rupiah in the middle of the pandemic.
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What is even sadder is that the Governor is coming from a Religious-oriented Party that actually opposing hard the decision of the president to repaint the state aircraft. If you want to see a high level of hypocrisy it is the perfect example. The reason for the new car is because the old car which is only around 5 years old car, having some minor problem like loose brake which is still easily repaired.
So when will we find a good way to move forward and be a developed nation is when we take good responsibilities, be literate so that we can elect a good politician which really has a reputation and has empathy not just easily deceivable because they are coming from Religious-oriented party.
