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By : Anjani Natula
Stramed, Tomorrow, all of people Indonesia will celebrate 74 th Indonesia’s independence day. But, we have critical question, does Indonesia is an independence nation? We must answer it truly and honestly.
Legally, Indonesia had been declared their independence day since year 1945, when our freedom fighters had been defeated Nederland and Japan as colonializer.
But, if we remind and think related to current nation condition, we must do inner introspection and evaluation because being admit or not, honestly we are not independence nation.
Do you shock to read and hear it? There are many prove or an evidence that it shows our country does not an independence nation. Firstly, economically, our national economic are standing on threat siege because many of import goods are influxing domestic market. We can not reject foreign countries such as China and the US are meddling on our national economic wheels and our national economic has been depending to China and the US because of that we must ready if trade war between the US vs China will go into currency war through Yuan or Remimbi’s devaluation or Dollar’s devaluation.
Meanwhile, several foreign investor mainly from Japan has been taken the majority of national bank stocks. According to OJK’s data, foreign bank have been taking the biggest gain from Indonesia’s economic situation.
Meanwhile, bicycle, chicken, textile and even an illegal coffee are coming from China and Brazil have been rebuking our domestic market. Their product have taken and persisted domestic product so that people prosperity has been downing.
Monetary, our current deficit account and our devisa reserves have gone to the worst track. Our foreign debt has been reaching the limit of edge from 3 percent of GDB/gross domestic brutto.
Social and culture aspects, we must realize that many of Indonesian people are living on limited conditions especially in remote area or disadvantage areas around Indonesia. Indonesia also undersiege LBGT, massive corruption and morale degradation.
On political aspects, we are going to plutarchy government and legislative power. Plutarchy is a condition when political situation and political high rank positions are controlled by the have society because of that the supremacy of law and politic are not controlled by public. Besides that, we are pursuing and threatening by radicalism and mass angry.
On security aspects, we are not success to handle separatist problem in Papua and terrorist threat in Central Sulawesi eventhough their numbers are not equal by our army and police capability. Until now, Benny Wenda is free and intensive promoting Papua’s independence issue in Europe especially in British and South Pasific areas, and unfornutely Foreign Ministry, BIN and other national stakeholders are fail to overcome it. Happy birthday, my lovely country.
*) The writer is Indonesia’s problem observer
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