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The amber glow of dusk stretches across the western horizon, signaling the day’s end. While urban centers remain alive with activity, a quiet stillness descends upon this small village. The cheerful voices of schoolchildren returning home stand in stark contrast to the unease of unemployed youth, uncertain how to fill the long afternoon hours. Joblessness […]
Category Archives: Opinion
09
Nov
Nov
“History is a valuable teacher,” goes the familiar adage about what it means to study the past. Consider the hundreds of years our nation spent under foreign colonization: ideally, that experience should have made us acutely aware of at least one persistent affliction within our national character. Centuries of colonization ought to have taught us […]
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Oct
Oct
Any state that has enshrined its constitution as supreme, treating legal norms as the very foundation of national life, inevitably carries the label of a rule of law state. Philosopher Franz Magnis Suseno identifies at least four moral political reasons societies demand governance grounded in law: legal certainty, equal treatment, democratic legitimacy, and the demands […]
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Sep
Sep
The Chairman of the General Elections Commission (Komisi Pemilihan Umum/KPU) of the Republic of Indonesia, Arief Budiman, has stated that the Regional Elections (Pilkada) scheduled for 9 December 2020 will proceed with direct in-person voting. This is despite the KPU having also considered alternative voting options through online systems. In line with the experiences observed […]
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Sep
Sep
Can we still call ourselves a society rooted in community and popular welfare when we’re more preoccupied with ourselves, our parties, our cronies, or narrow exclusive interests, even as children across the country remain trapped in pockets of ignorance, illiteracy chief among them? Do we still deserve to be labeled a Pancasila-based society when millions […]
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Sep
Sep
Tittle Khofifah Indar Parawansa; Leaders of Change Author M. Mas’ud Said Publisher Airlangga University Press Year 2020 Total page 129 pages By reading the title of the book, we can already tell that it’s a biography. However, it’s not like most biographies. This book doesn’t recount the heartwarming stories of a famous figure’s childhood. Written […]