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		<title>UNDERSTANDING CURRENCY MOVEMENT</title>
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		<title>APBN-Indonesia</title>
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Neraca Keuangan Pemerintah Indonesia 2009
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Link to APBN 2008/2009:
APBN-Indonesia-2008-and-2009
Link to APBN 2006/2007:
APBN 2006-2007
Link to HUTANG Indonesia ke 18 negara anggota PARIS CLUB:
Hutang Indonesia ke 18 negara anggota PARIS CLUB
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<p><a href="http://parmadim.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/apbn-2010.pdf">APBN-2010</a></p>
<p><strong>Link to APBN 2009:</strong></p>
<p><a href="http://microsite.detik.com/depkeu/kas.html">Laporan Arus KAS Pemerintah Indonesia 2009</a></p>
<p><a href="http://microsite.detik.com/depkeu/neraca.html">Neraca Keuangan Pemerintah Indonesia 2009</a></p>
<p><a href="http://parmadim.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/apbn-p-2009.pdf">APBN-p-2009</a></p>
<p><strong>Link to APBN 2008/2009:</strong></p>
<p><a href="http://parmadim.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/apbn-indonesia-2008-and-2009.pdf">APBN-Indonesia-2008-and-2009</a></p>
<p>Link to APBN 2006/2007:</p>
<p><a href="http://parmadim.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/2007-budget_website.pdf">APBN 2006-2007</a></p>
<p>Link to HUTANG Indonesia ke 18 negara anggota PARIS CLUB:</p>
<p><a href="http://parmadim.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/debts-to-paris-club.pdf">Hutang Indonesia ke 18 negara anggota PARIS CLUB</a></p>
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		<title>SMI: Pahlawan Bangsa atau Pengkhianat Bangsa?</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Tulisan Kwik Kian Gie dibawah ini patut kita renungkan karena mengingatkan kita pada perjuangan bangsa terhadap bukan hanya penjajah asing tetapi juga terhadap bangsa kita sendiri: orang-orang pribumi yang berpihak kepada kepentingan asing. Orang Jawa bilang: &#8220;hati-hati karo wong londo sing blangkonan&#8221;. 

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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: #0000ff;">Tulisan </span><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: #ff0000;">Kwik Kian Gie</span><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: #0000ff;"> dibawah ini patut kita renungkan karena mengingatkan kita pada perjuangan bangsa terhadap bukan hanya penjajah asing tetapi juga terhadap bangsa kita sendiri: orang-orang pribumi yang berpihak kepada kepentingan asing. Orang Jawa bilang: </span><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: #ff6600;">&#8220;hati-hati karo wong londo sing blangkonan&#8221;. </span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:  justify;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: #0000ff;">Tulisan </span><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: #ff6600;">Kwik Kian Gie</span><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: #0000ff;"> memberi perspective siapa sebenarnya figure Sri Mulyani Indrawati? Pahlawan bangsa ataukah antek Neoliberalists, pengkhianat bangsa? Marilah kita perhatikan baik-baik fakta yang ada dan membuang jauh-jauh rasa prejudice kita terhadap SMI sebelum mengambil kesimpulan.<br />
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:  justify;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><strong><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: #ff00ff;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">SRI MULYANI INDRAWATI (SMI), </span></span></strong><strong><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: #ff00ff;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">BERKELEY</span></span><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><strong><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: #ff00ff;"> MAFIA, ORGANISASI TANPA BENTUK (OTB), IMF DAN WORLD  BANK (WB)</span></strong></span></strong></span></p>
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<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Mundurnya <span style="color: blue;">Sri Mulyani Indrawati </span>(SMI) sebagai Menteri </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Keuangan</span><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> menimbulkan kehebohan dan banyak pertanyaan tentang penyebab yang sebenarnya. </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;"></span></span><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">Ada</span></span><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"> yang mengatakan bahwa perpindahannya pada pekerjaan yang baru di World Bank (WB) adalah hal yang membanggakan. Tetapi ada yang berpendapat, bahkan berkeyakinan tidak wajar, terutama kalau dikaitkan dengan skandal Bank Century (Century).</span></span></span></p>
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<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Saya termasuk yang berpendapat, bahkan yakin sangat tidak wajar. Alasan-alasan saya sebegai berikut.</span></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">Beberapa ungkapan dan pernyataan dalam berbagai pidato perpisahannya mengandung teka-teki dan mengundang banyak pertanyaan, yaitu : “Jangan ada pemimpin yang mengorbankan anak buahnya.” “Saya tidak bisa didikte”. “Saya menang”. “Saya tidak minggat, saya akan kembali”. </span></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:  justify;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">Dalam pidato serah terimanya kepada Menkeu yang baru menangisnya tidak wajar, berkali-kali dan sangat-sangat sedih. Lucu, menyatakan menang kok menangis sampai seperti itu. Juga sangat tidak wajar adanya sikap yang demikian fanatiknya dari staf Departemen Keuangan dengan ungkapan belasungkawa, seolah-olah SMI sudah meninggal.</span></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">SMI sedang diperiksa oleh KPK sebagai tindak lanjut dari penyelidikan tentang skandal Century. Dalam proses yang sedang berjalan, Bank Dunia menawarkan jabatan dengan dimulainya efektif pada tanggal 1 Juni 2010. Bank Dunia yang selalu mengajarkan good governance dan supremasi hukum ternyata sama sekali tidak mempedulikan adanya proses hukum yang sedang berlangsung terhadap diri SMI.</span></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">Menurut Jakarta Post, yang memberitakan melalui siaran pers tentang pengangkatan SMI sebagai managing director di WB adalah WB sendiri. Setelah itu, melalui wawancara barulah SMI mengakui bahwa berita itu benar. Itu terjadi pada tanggal 4 Mei 2010.</span></span></span></p>
<p style="text-align:  justify;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><!-- /* Style Definitions */  table.MsoNormalTable  {mso-style-name:"Table Normal";  mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0;  mso-tstyle-colband-size:0;  mso-style-noshow:yes;  mso-style-parent:"";  mso-padding-alt:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt;  mso-para-margin:0in;  mso-para-margin-bottom:.0001pt;  mso-pagination:widow-orphan;  font-size:10.0pt;  font-family:"Times New Roman";} --><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">Juru bicara Presiden memberi pernyataan bahwa Presiden SBY akan memberi konperensi pers setelah memperoleh ketegasan dari Presiden WB Robert Zoelick. Namun sehari kemudian diberitakan bahwa SBY telah menerima </span></span><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">surat</span></span><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"> dari Presiden WB pada tanggal </span></span></span><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">25 April 2010</span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">. <strong>Mengapa SBY merasa perlu berpura-pura seperti ini ?</strong></span></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">Dalam konperensi persnya, SBY memuji SMI sebagai salah seorang menteri terbaiknya yang disertai dengan rincian prestasi dan capaian-capaiannya. Tetapi justru dengan bangga melepaskan SMI supaya tidak melanjutkan baktinya kepada bangsa </span></span><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">Indonesia</span></span><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">.</span></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">SMI diberi waktu 72 jam untuk memberikan jawabannya menerima atau menolak tawaran WB. Tetapi SMI tidak membutuhkan waktu itu, karena dalam 24 jam langsung saja memberikan jawaban bahwa dirinya menerima tawaran itu.</span></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">Dan antara penerimaan tawaran dan efektifnya dia berfungsi di WB hanya 25 hari. Seorang sopir saja membutuhkan waktu transisi yang lebih lama untuk majikannya perorangan. Tetapi SMI dan SBY merasa tidak apa-apa kalau jangka waktu tersebut hanyalah 25 hari.</span></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">Mustahil bahwa WB yang mempunyai kantor perwakilan di </span></span></span><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">Indonesia</span></span><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"> tidak mengetahui dan tidak mengikuti bekerjanya Pansus Century di DPR. Mustahil juga bahwa kantor perwakilan WB di Jakarta dan kantor pusatnya tidak mengetahui isi dari Laporan BPK. Dengan sendirinya juga mustahil bahwa WB tidak mengetahui bahwa sampai dibuktikan sebaliknya, SMI memang belum bersalah, tetapi jelas bermasalah yang masih dalam proses penyelesaian dan kejelasan oleh KPK.</span></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">Tetapi WB yang di seluruh dunia mengumandangkan dan mengajarkan Good Governance dan  jagoan dalam menegakkan supremasi hukum melakukan penginjak injakan proses hukum yang sedang berjalan di KPK.</span></span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Ketika itu, tindakan WB jelas melecehkan dan bahkan menganggap keseluruhan proses yang telah berjalan di Pansus Century DPR RI sebagai tidak ada atau hanya dagelan saja. Maka sangatlah menyedihkan bahwa sikap yang demikian oleh WB didukung oleh </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Presiden</span><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Indonesia</span></span></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:  justify;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Ketika berita itu meledak, banyak orang termasuk saya sendiri yang bertanya-tanya, apakah pengangkatannya ini tidak akan menimbulkan gejolak. Ternyata sama sekali tidak. Dalam waktu 10 hari sudah tidak ada lagi yang berbicara dengan nada kritis. Sebaliknya, banyak sekali yang berbicara dengan nada memuji.</span></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">Yang lebih mengejutkan lagi yalah praktis tidak ada elit politik </span></span></span><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">Indonesia</span></span><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"> yang marah kepada WB. Sebaliknya, dalam konperensi persnya Presiden RI SBY merasa berterima kasih kepada WB yang telah memberikan penghargaan kepada Indonesia, karena telah sudi memungut SMI menduduki jabatan yang terhormat di WB sebagai Managing Director.</span></span></span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">Ada</span></span><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"> suara dari DPR, terutama dari Faisal Akbar (Hanura) yang menyerukan agar SMI dicekal sebelum pemeriksaannya oleh KPK tuntas dengan kesimpulan bahwa SMI memang bersih dalam kebijakannya bailout Century. Namun pernyataan yang sangat logis ini tidak bergaung. Respons dari KPK justru mengatakan bahwa pemeriksaan dapat dilanjutkan </span></span></span><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">di Washington</span></span><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">, </span></span><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">. Langsung saja muncul reaksi yang mengatakan bahwa pemeriksaan semacam ini akan sangat mahal, karena jaraknya yang jauh, dan juga akan terkendala oleh tersedianya dokumen-dokumen yang dibutuhkan. Saya sendiri tidak dapat membayangkan bahwa WB akan mengizinkan adanya seorang managing directornya diperiksa oleh KPK di markas WB </span></span></span><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">DC</span></span></span><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">di Washington</span></span><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">, </span></span><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">.</span></span></span><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">DC</span></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">Tadinya saya berpikir bahwa kalau dilakukan, pemeriksaan seorang managing director oleh KPK </span></span></span><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">di Washington</span></span><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">, </span></span><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">pasti akan menarik perhatian pers internasional. Ternyata salah. Kenyataan adanya pengangkatan seorang MD WB yang bermasalah sama sekali tidak menarik perhatian pers internasional, terutama pers AS. Masih segar dalam ingatan kita betapa hebohnya reaksi pers internasional ketika Paul Wlfowitz terlibat skandal, sehingga memaksanya mengundurkan diri. Apa artinya ? Begitu hebatkah SMI, atau begitu remehnya bangsa </span></span></span><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">DC</span></span></span><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">Indonesia</span></span><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"> di mata pers internasional, sehingga peristiwa Century yang sedang berlangsung dianggap tidak ada ?</span></span></span></p>
<p style="text-align:  justify;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Episode paling akhir dari hijrahnya SMI ke WB adalah penampilan SMI dalam pertemuan-pertemuan perpisahan. Pidatonya yang mendapat tepuk tangan sambil berdiri (standing ovation) dari orang-orang seperti Gunawan Mohammad, Marsilam Simanjuntak, Wimar Witoelar mengundang renungan apa gerangan yang ada di belakang ucapannya yang hanya sepotong tanpa penjelasan lanjutannya itu ? Yaitu : “Saya menang”, “Jangan lagi ada pemimpin yang tidak melindungi atau mengorbankan anak buahnya.” “I will come back” yang sangat mirip dengan ucapan Mac Arthur : “ I shall return”. Akankah SMI membentuk semacam pemerintahan in exile yang akan kembali menjadi </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Presiden</span><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Presiden</span></span></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">Di satu pihak demikian gagah beraninya sikap yang ditunjukkan oleh SMI dalam beberapa pidatonya, tetapi beliau menangis berkali-kali dengan wajah yang sangat-sangat sedih ketika berpidato dalam acara serah terima jabatan kepada Menteri Keuangan yang baru. </span></span><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">Ada</span></span><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"> apa ? Sedihkah ? Menurut SMI sendiri tidak, dia menangis karena merasa “plong”, merasa lega. Bukankah orang menangis karena sedih atau karena terharu ? Kalau lega, apalagi “plong” biasanya bersorak sorai.</span></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">Apa pula yang menyebabkan Presiden SBY menghapus pengangkatan Anggito Abimanyu sebagai Wakil Menteri Keuangan tanpa yang bersangkutan diberitahu sebelumnya. Anggito mengetahuinya dari media </span></span></span><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">massa</span></span><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"> seperti kita semua. Maka demi harga diri profesional, dia mengundurkan diri, membuang semua karir cemerlang yang dijalaninya. Demikian kejam, manipulatif, raja tega, main diktator, ataukah ada kekuatan besar, ada big stream that Presdient SBY can not resist ?</span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: #0000ff;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">METAMORFOSA </span><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: #0000ff;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: #0000ff;">BERKELEY</span><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: #0000ff;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> MAFIA MENJADI ORGANISASI TANPA BENTUK (OTB)</span></span></span></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">Fenomena adanya sekelompok ekonom yang dikenal dengan sebutan Berkeley Mafia sudah kita ketahui. Aliran pikiran yang dihayati oleh kelompok ini juga sudah kita kenali. Komitmennya membela rakyat </span></span></span><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">Indonesia</span></span><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"> ataukah membela kepentingan-kepentingan yang diwakili oleh 3 lembaga keuangan internasional (Bank Dunia, Bank Pembangunan Asia dan IMF) juga sudah diketahui oleh masyarakat luas.</span></span></span></p>
<p style="text-align:  justify;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Pembentukan kelompok yang terkenal dengan nama Berkeley Mafia sudah dimulai sejak lama. Namanya menjadi terkenal dalam Konperensi Jenewa di bulan November 1967 yang akan diuraikan lebih lanjut pada bagian akhir tulisan ini. Awalnya kelompok ini adalah para ekonom dari FE UI yang disekolahkan di Universitas Berkeley untuk meraih gelar Ph.D. Tetapi lambat laun menjadi sebuah Organisasi Tanpa Bentuk (OTB) yang sangat kompak dan kokoh ideologinya. </span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:  justify;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Ideologinya mentabukan campur tangan pemerintah dalam kehidupan ekonomi. Afiliasinya dengan kekuatan asing yang diwakili oleh Bank Dunia, Bank Pembangunan Asia dan IMF, sehingga sangat sering memenangkan kehendak mereka yang merugikan bangsanya sendiri. Lambat laun para anggotanya meluas dari siapa saja yang sepaham. Banyak ekonom yang tidak pernah belajar di Universitas </span></span><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Berkeley</span></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">Anggotanya ditambah dengan para sarjana ilmu politik dari Ohio State University dengan Prof. Bill Liddle sebagai tokohnya, karena dia merasa dirinya “Indonesianist” dan diterima oleh murid-muridnya sebagai akhli tentang Indonesia. Paham dan ideologi yang dihayatinya sama.</span></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">Kemudian diperkuat dengan orang-orang yang merasa dirinya paling pandai di </span></span></span><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">Indonesia</span></span><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">, sedangkan rakyatnya masih bodoh. Sikapnya seperti para pemimpin dan kader Partai Sosialis Indonesia (PSI) dahulu, yang dipimpin oleh Sutan Sjahrir. Kecenderungannya memandang rendah dan sinis terhadap bangsanya sendiri, dengan sikap yang selalu tidak mau menjawab kritikan terhadap dirinya, melainkan disikapi dengan senyum yang khas, bagaikan dewa yang sedang tersenyum sinis. Sikap ini terkenal dengan sikap “senyum dewata”. Dengan senyum dewata banyak masalah sulit yang sedang menggantung memang menjadi lenyap.</span></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">Dengan demikian sebutan Berkeley Mafia sebaiknya diganti dengan Organisasi Tanpa Bentuk (OTB).</span></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">Ilustratif tentang adanya OTB ini adalah pidato Dorodjatun Kuntjorojakti yang pertama kali dalam forum CGI sebagai Menko Perekonomian dalam kabinet Megawati. Kepada sidang CGI diberikan gambaran tentang perekonomian </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: &quot;&quot;,Times New Roman,&quot;&quot;;">Indonesia</span><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: &quot;&quot;,Times New Roman,&quot;&quot;;">. Setelah itu dikatakan olehnya bahwa dia mengetahui kondisi perekonomian </span><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: &quot;&quot;,Times New Roman,&quot;&quot;;">Indonesia</span><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: &quot;&quot;,Times New Roman,&quot;&quot;;"> dengan cepat karena dia selalu asistennya Prof. Ali Wardhana dan dekat dengan Prof. Widjojo Nitisastro. Selanjutnya dikatakan bahwa “dirinya bukan anggota partai politik. Tetapi kalau toh harus menyebut organisasinya, sebut saja Partai UI Depok”. </span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:  justify;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Setengah bercanda, setengah bangga, secara tersirat Dorodjatun mengakui bahwa OTB memang ada, pandai, professional dan berkuasa.</span></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">KAITAN Sri Mulyani Idrawati (SMI), PERAN KELOMPOK “</span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: #0000ff;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">BERKELEY</span></span><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: #0000ff;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> MAFIA” DAN PENGANGKATANNYA SEBAGAI MANAGING DIRECTOR DI BANK DUNIA.</span></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">Jauh sebelum SMI menjadi “orang”, Berkeley Mafia sudah lahir dan sangat instrumental buat kekuatan asing. SMI adalah salah satu kader yang berkembang menjadi “Don”.</span></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">Marilah kita telusuri sejarahnya. Pencuatan Berkeley Mafia yang pertama kali dan fenomenal terjadi di Jenewa di bulan November 1967, ketika mereka mendukung atau lebih tepat “mengendalikan” pimpinan delegasi RI, yaitu Sri Sultan Hamengkubuwono IX dan Adam Malik. Tentang hal ini akan saya kemukakan pada bagian akhir tulisan ini dengan mengutip John Pilger, Jeffrey Winters dan Bradley Simpson yang akan diuraikan pada bagian akhir tulisan ini. Kita fokus terlebih dahulu pada jejak dan track record SMI.</span></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="color: #0000ff;">JEJAK SMI DAN TRACK RECORD-NYA SEBAGAI KADER OTB YANG SANGAT GIGIH DAN MILITAN SMI</span><span style="color: #ff6600;"> adalah orang yang sejak awal sudah disiapkan sebagai kader yang militan dari OTB. </span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:  justify;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Seperti yang lain-lainnya, karir dimulai dari FE-UI. Karirnya yang menonjol tidak sebagai dosen, tetapi sebagai Direktur Lembaga Penelitian Ekonomi dan Masyarakat UI (LPEM UI). Tidak berlebihan kalau dikatakan bahwa FE UI dan Departemen Keuangan adalah pusat pengkaderan OTB.</span></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">Ketika sudah terlihat jelas bahwa PDI-P akan menang dalam pemilu tahun 1999, dan Ketua Umumnya Megawati diperkirakan pasti akan menjadi Presiden, Kongres-nya di Bali menarik perhatian dari seluruh dunia. Saya terkejut melihat SMI, Dr. Sjahrir almarhum dan teknokrat Berkeley Mafia lainnya hadir dalam Kongres tersebut yang mendapat tempat khusus di stadion berlangsungnya pidato pembukaan oleh Megawati, yaitu duduk di kursi di bawah panggung. Tidak berdiri di depan panggung bersama-sama dengan </span></span></span><span style="font-size:  14pt;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">massa</span></span><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"> yang mendengarkan pidato Ketua Umum PDI-P. </span></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:  justify;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Buat saya sangat mengherankan karena Berkeley Mafia adalah arsitek pembangunan ekonomi di era Soeharto yang dengan sendirinya bersikap berseberangan dan sangat melecehkan serta memandang rendah PDI-P. Mengapa mereka sekarang hadir dalam Kongres PDI-P ? Ternyata mereka dibawa oleh orang yang ketika itu sangat dekat dengan Megawati. Mereka diperkenalkan kepada Megawati sebagai calon-calon menteri dalam Kabinet Mega nantinya.</span></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">Dari sini sangatlah jelas bahwa buat OTB, yang penting memegang kekuasaan ekonomi tanpa peduli siapa Presidennya dan tanpa peduli apa ideologi Presidennya. Mereka mempunyai organisasi sendiri yang saya sebut OTB tadi dengan kekuatan dan pengaruh yang sangat besar. Sepanjang 32 tahun rezim Soeharto, mereka selalu memegang tampuk kekuasaan ekonomi.</span></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">Ketika pak Harto mengundurkan diri dan digantikan oleh Habibie, walaupun sudah tidak 100% lagi, kekuasaan ekonomi ada di tangan para menteri OTB. Sejak pak Harto berkuasa sampai dengan Megawati, dua Don dari OTB, Widjojo Nitisastro dan Ali Wardhana selalu secara resmi penasihat Presiden atas dasar Keputusan Presiden.</span></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">Habibie digantikan oleh Gus Dur sebagai Presiden. Dalam kabinet Gus Dur tidak ada satupun menteri dari OTB. Menko EKUIN dipegang oleh Kwik Kian Gie (KKG), Menteri Keuangannya Bambang Sudibyo, Menteri Perdagangan dan Industri Jusuf Kalla. Tiga orang ini jelas tidak ada sangkut pautnya dengan OTB dan sama sekali tidak dapat dipengaruhi oleh OTB.</span></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">Dalam waktu singkat Gus Dur ditekan oleh kekuatan internasional dan kekuatan para pengusaha besar di dalam negeri untuk memecat KKG. Karena sudah lama bersahabat, Gus Dur menceriterakannya terus terang kepada KKG, sambil mengatakan bahwa beliau telah mencapai kompromi dibentuk Dewan Ekonomi Nasional (DEN) dengan Emil Salim sebagai Ketua dan SMI sebagai sekretarisnya. Di dalamnya ada beberapa anggota yang hanya berfungsi sebagai embel-embel. Mereka tidak pernah aktif kecuali SMI dan Emil Salim. DEN berhak menghadiri setiap rapat koordinasi oleh Menko EKUIN. Sebelum dan setelah KKG menjabat Menko EKUIN DEN tidak pernah ada. Jadi DEN memang khusus diciptakan untuk menjaga, mengawasi dan memata-matai KKG supaya jangan neko-neko terhadap OTB dan kepentingan World Bank, Bank Pembangunan Asia dan IMF.</span></span></span></p>
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<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: &quot;&quot;,Times New Roman,&quot;&quot;;">Dalam rapat koordinasi yang pertama KKG mengatakan kepada para menteri yang ada dalam koordinasinya bahwa kita sedang berhadapan dengan IMF yang mengawasi dengan ketat pelaksanaan Letter of Intent (LoI). Banyak dari butir-butir dalam LoI yang merugikan bangsa </span><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: &quot;&quot;,Times New Roman,&quot;&quot;;">Indonesia</span><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: &quot;&quot;,Times New Roman,&quot;&quot;;">, antara lain, bea masuk untuk impor beras dan gula harus nol persen, sedangkan ketika itu produksi dalam negeri melimpah. Maka KKG mengatakan supaya para menteri bersikap membela kepentingan bangsa </span><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: &quot;&quot;,Times New Roman,&quot;&quot;;">Indonesia</span><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: &quot;&quot;,Times New Roman,&quot;&quot;;">, kalau perlu menelikung, menghambat atau menyiasati LoI yang merugikan bangsa kita. Kalau mereka menghadapi persoalan KKG sebagai Menko EKUIN akan bertanggung jawab.</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">Beberapa hari kemudian Emil Salim mendatangi KKG menegur dengan keras bahwa KKG tidak boleh bersikap seperti itu. KKG harus taat melaksanakan semua butir yang ada di dalam LoI, karena KKG sendirilah sebagai Menko EKUIN yang menandatangani LoI.</span></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">Beberapa hari lagi setelah itu, Bambang Sudibyo (Menkeu), KKG dan Emil Salim dipanggil oleh Gus Dur. Gus Dur mempersilakan Emil Salim mengkuliahi KKG dan Bambang Sudibyo yang isinya tiada lain adalah butir-butir dari LoI.</span></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">Mungkin dirasakan tidak mempan, sidang kabinet diselenggarakan secara khusus yang agendanya tunggal, yaitu membahas LoI. Kepada setiap menteri diberikan selembar formulir yang isinya butir-butir LoI yang harus dilaksanakan oleh masing-masing menteri yang bersangkutan, dan kemudian harus ditandatangani. Menteri-menteri menggerutu diperlakukan seperti anak SD.</span></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="color: #0000ff;">Dalam sidang kabinet itu, Mensesneg Bondan Gunawan membacakan uraiannya tentang butir-butir LoI yang mutlak harus dilaksanakan oleh setiap menteri, lengkap dengan slides. SMI hadir dalam siding kabinet itu. Seusai membacakannya, Bondan sambil berkeringat menggerutu kepada KKG sambil mengatakan “diamput” bahwa dirinya tidak mengerti ekonomi kok disuruh memaparkan hal-hal seperti itu. Ketika KKG menanyakannya siapa yang membuatnya,</span> <span style="color: #ff0000;">dijawab singkat : SMI.</span></span></span></span></p>
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Sebagai Menko EKUIN KKG ex officio menjabat Ketua KKSK yang memimpin dan memutuskan tentang rekapitalisasi bank-bank seperti yang tercantum dalam LoI. Dalam rapat tentang rekap BNI sebesar Rp. 60 trilyun, LoI mengatakan bahwa rekap dilakukan dalam dua tahap. Tahap pertama sebesar Rp. 30 trilyun, seluruh Direksi diganti dan dipantau apakah bekerja dengan baik menurut ukuran IMF. Kalau ya, maka Rekap. kedua sebesar Rp. 30 trilyun dilakukan. </span></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:  justify;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Darmin Nasution yang ketika itu Direktur di Kementerian Keuangan hadir mewakili Depkeu. Dia mengusulkan supaya Rekap. dilakukan sekaligus saja sebesar Rp. 60 trilyun, agar pemerintah tidak perlu dua kali minta izin/melaporkan kepada DPR. <span style="color: #0000ff;">SMI yang hadir protes, mengatakan bahwa dalam LoI tercantum Rekap. </span>dalam dua tahap. KKG merasa usulan Darmin Nasution masuk akal. Maka diputuskan olehnya bahwa Rekap. dilakukan sekaligus. <span style="color: #0000ff;">Terlihat SMI sibuk dengan HP-nya.</span></span></span></span></p>
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Seusai rapat, begitu KKG tiba di ruang kerjanya dari ruang rapat, telpon berdering dari John Dordsworth, Kepala Perwakilan IMF di Jakarta yang marah-marah karena KKG memutuskan tentang Rekap. BNI yang bertentangan dengan ketentuan LoI. Begitu telpon diletakkan telpon berdering lagi dari Bambang Sudibyo yang menceriterakan bahwa dirinya baru dimarah-marahi oleh Mark Baird, Kepala Perwaklian Bank Dunia di </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Jakarta</span><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> tentang hal yang sama. <span style="color: #0000ff;">Sangat jelas tugas SMI ternyata melaporkan segala sesuatu yang dilakukan oleh Pemerintah dan dianggap menyimpang dari yang dikehendaki oleh IMF, </span><span style="color: #ff6600;">walaupun yang dikehendaki oleh IMF merugikan bangsa </span></span><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: #ff6600;">Indonesia</span><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: #ff6600;">.</span></span></span></p>
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Peristwa selanjutnya adalah ketika KKSK harus merekap Bank Danamon. Bank Danamon diwakili oleh Dirutnya, seorang Amerika bernama Milan Schuster dan Direkturnya puteranya Ali Wardhana, Mahendra Wardhana. Mereka mengemukakan bahwa Bank Danamon menderita kerugian setiap bulannya dan CAR-nya juga di bawah 8%. KKG bertitik tolak dari jumlah kerugian setiap bulannya. Untuk menutup kerugian ini, </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">surat</span><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> utang pemerintah yang bernama Obligasi Rekapitalisasi Perbankan (OR) yang harus diinjeksikan haruslah Rp. X yang harus memberikan pendapatan bunga sebesar kerugian Bank Danamon. Maka keluarlah angka Rp. 18 trilyun. </span></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:  justify;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Dengan pendapatan bunga sebesar 1% sebulan dari OR yang Rp. 18 trilyun, kerugian Bank Danamon akan tertutup, atau Bank Danamon tidak akan bleeding lagi. SMI langsung protes mengatakan bahwa menginjeksi OR sebesar Rp. 18 trilyun berarti menjadikan CAR-nya sebesar 36%, sedangkan LoI memerintahkan merekap bank-bank sampai CAR-nya menjadi 8% saja. KKG tidak peduli, karena yang hendak dicapai adalah supaya Bank berhenti merugi. Kalau rekap dilakukan dengan jumlah yang hanya cukup untuk menjadikan CAR 8% saja, pendapatan bunganya akan jauh lebih kecil daripada kerugiannya, sehingga rekapitalisasi tidak akan menghentikan kerugian-nya (masih tetap bleeding).</span></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:  justify;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: #0000ff;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Kebijakan KKG yang menyimpang dari LoI, tetapi jelas-jelas lebih logis ini ternyata </span><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: #ff0000;">dilaporkan kepada IMF oleh SMI. </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Saya mengetahui tentang hal ini, karena ketika melakukan kunjungan kehormatan pada Menteri Keuangan Larry Summers di kantornya </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">di Washington</span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">, </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">DC</span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">, saya diterima oleh Larry Summers sendiri sebagai Menteri Keuangan, didampingi oleh Timothy Geithner selalu Deputy-nya plus beberapa pejabat tinggi lainnya yang <span style="color: #0000ff;">memarahi KKG bahwa KKG selalu menelikung LoI-nya IMF. </span>Ketika saya tanyakan tentang apa konkretnya sebagai contoh, <span style="color: #ff0000;">dia menceriterakan persis seperti yang dikatakan oleh SMI dalam rapat KKSK.</span></span></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">Selaku Menko EKUIN KKG harus memimpin delegasi RI ke Paris Club untuk berunding tentang penjadwalan kembali pembayaran hutang yang sudah jatuh tempo, karena Pemerintah tidak mampu membayarnya. KKG diundang ke Departemen Keuangan guna menerima penjelasan-penjelasan tentang jalannya perundingan, dan juga diberikan arahan-arahan oleh 3 perusahaan konsultan asing yang terkenal dengan nama “Troika”. Saya lupa nama dari masing-masing perusahaan konsultan tersebut. Dikatakan juga bahwa KKG beserta delegasinya (Dono Iskandar dari BI dan Jusuf Anwar dari Depkeu) harus siap bahwa lamanya perundingan 24 jam non stop tanpa dapat tidur, yaitu dari jam 10.00 pagi sampai jam 10.00 pagi keesokan harinya.</span></span></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: &quot;&quot;,Times New Roman,&quot;&quot;;">KKG mengatakan bahwa dia tidak mau mengikuti skenario yang seperti itu. KKG minta kepada para petinggi Depkeu yang hadir agar mempersiapkan gambaran menyeluruh tentang posisi hutang luar negeri RI. KKG akan mengatakan bahwa jumlah hutang yang demikian besarnya adalah kesalahan negara-negara pemberi hutang juga, yang sejak tahun 1967 menggerojok hutang kepada </span><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: &quot;&quot;,Times New Roman,&quot;&quot;;">Indonesia</span><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: &quot;&quot;,Times New Roman,&quot;&quot;;"> melalui IGGI/CGI. Setelah mengucapkan pidato singkat ini KKG akan tidur, dan mempersilakan mereka berunding sesukanya. Apa yang merekaputuskan akan dipenuhi oleh KKG kalau dianggap reasonable dan fair, tetapi kalau  dianggap tidak fair akan ditolak dan KKG akan segera terbang kembali ke Indonesia sambil mengatakan akan berani menghadapi resiko apapun.</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">Beberapa hari kemudian Marsilam Simanjuntak (Mensesneg) menelpon KKG memberitahukan bahwa Presiden Gus Dur telah menerbitkan Keputusan Presiden yang membentuk Tim Asistensi pada Menko EKUIN yang harus mengawal (baca mengawasi dan mengendalikan) Menko EKUIN selama perundingan Paris Club. Ketuanya Widjojo Nitisastro dan Sekretarisnya SMI. Memang selama perundingan Widjojo N. dan SMI mengapit KKG dan Bambang Sudibyo selama 24 jam, supaya mereka menjaga bahwa KKG benar-benar menanggapi pasal demi pasal dari para anggota Paris Club.</span></span></p>
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<span style="color: #0000ff;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">Ketika Megawati menjabat Presiden, diberitakan di Kompas bahwa SMI akan menjabat sebagai anggota Board of Directors IMF di Washington mewakili </span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: #0000ff;">Indonesia</span><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: #0000ff;">. </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">KKG menanyakan hal itu kepada Mega. Beliau terkejut sambil mengatakan : “kok enak saja, </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">kan</span><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> harus dengan persetujuan saya ?”, sambil mengatakan juga bahwa beliau tidak pernah mengetahuinya dan tidak pernah menandatangani Keppres untuk itu. Beberapa hari kemudian diberitakan lagi di Kompas bahwa SMI sudah akan efektif menjabat per tanggal tertentu. KKG menanyakan hal itu lagi kepada Megawati, dan dijawab bahwa Keppresnya memang sudah ditandatangani dengan alasan “…daripada, daripada ….”</span></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">Konon kabarnya, sebelum susunan Kabinet Indonesia Bersatu (KIB) I terbentuk, SBY didatangi oleh Dubes AS Ralph Boyce dan Kepala Perwakilan Bank Dunia di Jakarta Andrew Steer. Mereka mengatakan bahwa kendali ekonomi hendaknya diberikan kepada SMI, Boediono dan Mari Pangestu. Boediono menolak yang bisa dipahami. Seusai siding kabinet Megawati terakhir Boediono berpamitan dengan rekan-rekan menterinya. Dia mengatakan bahwa salah satu dari kita bisa saja diminta lagi oleh SBY untuk duduk dalam kabinetnya. Tetapi dia (Boediono) tidak akan mau duduk dalam pemerintahan. Dia sudah fed up dan akan kembali ke kampus saja. Saya termasuk yang diberitahu tentang hal ini. Maka saya tidak heran mendengar bahwa Boediono menolak tawaran SBY untuk duduk dalam KIB-nya. </span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:  justify;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Namun ketika SBY tidak tahan tekanan publik, beliau mengumumkan akan melakukan reshuffle kabinet. Saya mendengar bahwa Boediono sedang “digarap” habis-habisan untuk mau menjadi Menko Perekonomian, dan terjadilah itu. Ini saya gambarkan betapa mutlak pengaruh kekuatan internasional dalam mengendalikan kebijakan ekonomi </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Indonesia</span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">. Lebih hebat lagi, Jakarta Post tanggal 25 Mei 2009 memberitakan bahwa ketika Boediono ditanya, faktor apa yang mendorongnya mau menerima pencalonan dirinya sebagai Wakil Presiden dijawab olehnya : “because of a big stream that I can not resist”, yang berarti karena arus (kekuatan) besar yang tidak dapat ditahannya. <span style="color: #0000ff;">Saya merasa perlu menceriterakan ini karena hubungannya antara SMI dan Boediono yang sama-sama anggota senior OTB dan sama-sama disodorkan kepada SBY agar mereka dan Mari Pangestu memegang kekuasaan ekonomi di </span></span><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: #0000ff;">Indonesia</span><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: #0000ff;">. </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Kenyataan-kenyataan ini jelas relevan dalam menjelaskan mengapa pengangkatan SMI sebagai managing director WB yang sangat tidak wajar dan menghina bangsa Indonesia itu berjalan demikian mulusnya.</span></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">Di tengah-tengah menjalankan tugas sebagai Menkeu yang dalam proses pemeriksaan oleh KPK sebagai tindak lanjut dari hasil kerja Pansus DPR tentang Bank Century, SMI mengumumkan pengunduran dirinya untuk menjabat sebagai managing director di WB mulai tanggal 1 Juni 2010, seperti yang kita ketahui bersama.</span></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">Saya mempunyai pengalaman yang menyangkut SMI dan Kejaksaan Tinggi DKI Jakarta. Ceriteranya sebagai berikut : hibah dari Uni Eropa kepada </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Indonesia</span><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> menurut investigasi WB dikorup. Karena pelaksananya Bappenas, maka saya “diperiksa” oleh Kejaksaan Tinggi DKI Jakarta. Yang dipermasalahkan bukan KKG mengkorup, tetapi mengapa KKG membayar kembali hibah yang dituntut oleh WB sebesar USD 500 juta sedangkan yang dikorup hanyalah sekitar USD 30.000. Mengembalikan hibah seluruhnya sebesar USD 500 juta dianggap merugikan keuangan negara. Tetapi ketika salah paham, bahwa justru KKG yang berkelahi tidak mau membayar dan SMI yang sebagai Menteri Keuangan yang membayarnya, SMI-nya tidak diapa-apakan. KKG juga tidak diapa-apakan, tetapi sempat diperiksa. </span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:  justify;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-size: small;">Berkaitan dengan ini ada hal sejenis yang terpublikasikan secara luas. </span></span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Indonesia</span><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> menerima hutang dari WB sebesar USD 4,7 juta untuk membangun proyek infra struktur. Menurut WB lagi sebagian dikorup, dan karena itu minta supaya seluruh hutang yang USD 4,7 juta dikembalikan. Tidak jelas dikembalikan atau tidak. Rasanya dikembalikan dan tidak ada konsekwensinya, walaupun dianggap merugikan dan mengacaukan perencanaan keuangan negara. Saya kemukakan ini karena ada kecenderungan segala sesuatunya akan kebal hukum apabila WB ada di belakangnya. Jelas ini merupakan faktor yang bisa menjelaskan mengapa pengangkatan SMI oleh WB langsung saja mematikan urusannya dengan KPK tentang Century yang sebelumnya demikian gegap gempitanya.</span></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">Ketika KKG sebagai Menko EKUIN pertama kali harus mengucapkan pidato di depan CGI dalam pembukaan rapat tahunannya, kepada KKG disodorkan naskah pidato oleh staf yang jelas anggota OTB. Isinya sama sekali tidak disetujui oleh KKG, dan dia minta kepada staf yang bersangkutan supaya diubah dengan arahan dari KKG. Dia menolak sambil mengatakan bahwa sudah menjadi tradisi sejak dahulu kala bahwa pidato pembukaan IGGI/CGI oleh Ketua </span></span></span><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">Delegasi</span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-size: small;">RI</span></span></span></span><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"> haruslah dibuat oleh WB melalui staf Menko EKUIN. Akhirnya saya membuatnya sendiri yang isinya sesuai dengan hati nurani dan keyakinan saya, yang ternyata isinya mengejutkan pimpinan sidang, Wakil Presiden WB Dr. Kasum.</span></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">Pidato yang saya ucapkan mengandung tiga inti. Yang pertama, kalau Indonesia tidak mampu membayar cicilan pokok utang beserta bunga yang jatuh tempo, negara-negara IGGI/CGI ikut bersalah, karena barang siapa memberi utang harus mengevaluasi apakah yang diberi utang akan mampu membayar cicilan utang pokoknya beserta bunganya tepat waktu. Kalau ternyata tidak bisa, negara-negara pemberi utang harus ikut bertanggung jawab dalam bentuk hair cut. Bukan hanya penundaan pembayaran cicilan utang pokoknya saja, yang sifatnya menggeser beban di kemudian hari, sedangkan bunganya membengkak. </span></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:  justify;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Kedua, KKG protes penggunaan istilah “negara donor”, dan minta supaya istilah yang sudah dibakukan oleh WB bersama-sama dengan para ekonom OTB itu diganti dengan istilah “negara kreditur” atau “negara pemberi utang”. Ketiga, KKG juga protes digunakannya istilah “aid” atau bantuan, dan minta diganti dengan “loan” atau kredit. Kesemuanya tidak dihiraukan. Belakangan saya mendengar dari Dr. Satish Mishra yang khusus diperbantukan pada </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Indonesia</span><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> oleh PBB selama krisis. Dia memberitahukan kepada saya bahwa walaupun segala sesuatu yang saya katakan masuk akal, para ekonom OTB sendiri bersama-sama dengan WB, Bank Pembangunan Asia dan IMF menyikapinya dengan “let him talk”. Biarlah dia bicara, tidak akan ada dampaknya sama sekali.</span></span></span></p>
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<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: &quot;&quot;,Times New Roman,&quot;&quot;;">Saya kutip apa yang ditulis oleh John Pilger dalam bukunya yang berjudul “The New Rulers of the World.” Saya terjemahkan seakurat mungkin ke dalam bahasa Indonesia sebagai berikut :</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">“Dalam bulan November 1967, menyusul tertangkapnya ‘hadiah terbesar’, hasil tangkapannya dibagi. The Time-Life Corporation mensponsori konperensi istimewa di Jenewa yang dalam waktu tiga hari merancang pengambil alihan </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Indonesia</span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">. </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Para</span><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> pesertanya meliputi para kapitalis yang paling berkuasa di dunia, orang-orang seperti David Rockefeller. Semua raksasa korporasi Barat diwakili : perusahaan-perusahaan minyak dan bank, General Motors, Imperial Chemical Industries, British Leyland, British American Tobacco, American Express, Siemens, Goodyear, The International Paper Corporation, US Steel. Di seberang meja adalah orang-orangnya Soeharto yang oleh Rockefeller disebut “ekonoom-ekonoom </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Indonesia</span><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> yang top”.</span></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">“Di Jenewa, Tim Sultan terkenal dengan sebutan ‘the Berkeley Mafia’, karena beberapa di antaranya pernah menikmati beasiswa dari pemerintah Amerika Serikat untuk belajar di Universitas California di Berkeley. Mereka datang sebagai peminta-minta yang menyuarakan hal-hal yang diinginkan oleh para majikan yang hadir. Menyodorkan butir butir yang dijual dari negara dan bangsanya, Sultan menawarkan : …… buruh murah yang melimpah….cadangan besar dari sumber daya alam ….. pasar yang besar.”</span></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">Di halaman 39 ditulis : “Pada hari kedua, ekonomi </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Indonesia</span><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> telah dibagi, sektor demi sektor. ‘Ini dilakukan dengan cara yang spektakuler’ kata Jeffrey Winters, guru besar pada Northwestern University, Chicago, yang dengan mahasiwanya yang sedang bekerja untuk gelar doktornya, Brad Simpson telah mempelajari dokumen-dokumen konperensi. ‘Mereka membaginya ke dalam </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">lima</span><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> seksi : pertambangan di satu kamar, jasa-jasa di kamar lain, industri ringan di kamar lain, perbankan dan keuangan di kamar lain lagi; yang dilakukan oleh Chase Manhattan duduk dengan sebuah delegasi yang mendiktekan kebijakan-kebijakan yang dapat diterima oleh mereka dan para investor lainnya. Kita saksikan para pemimpin korporasi besar ini berkeliling dari satu meja ke meja yang lain, mengatakan : ini yang kami inginkan : ini, ini dan ini, dan mereka pada dasarnya merancang infra struktur hukum untuk berinvestasi di </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Indonesia</span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">. Saya tidak pernah mendengar situasi seperti itu sebelumnya, di mana modal global duduk dengan para wakil dari negara yang diasumsikan sebagai negara berdaulat dan merancang persyaratan buat masuknya investasi mereka ke dalam negaranya sendiri.</span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Freeport</span><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> mendapatkan bukit (mountain) dengan tembaga di Papua Barat (Henry Kissinger duduk dalam board). Sebuah konsorsium Eropa mendapat nikel Papua Barat. Sang raksasa Alcoa mendapat bagian terbesar dari bauksit </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Indonesia</span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">. Sekelompok erusahaan-perusahaan Amerika, Jepang dan Perancis mendapat hutan-hutan tropis i </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Sumatra</span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">, Papua Barat dan </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Kalimantan</span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">. Sebuah undang-undang tentang penanaman modal asing yang dengan buru-buru disodorkan kepada Soeharto membuat perampokan ini bebas pajak untuk </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">lima</span><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> tahun lamanya. Nyata dan secara rahasia, kendali dari ekonomi Indonesia pergi ke Inter Governmental Group on Indonesia (IGGI), yang anggota-anggota intinya adalah Amerika Serikat, Canada, Eropa, Australia dan, yang terpenting, Dana Moneter Internasional dan Bank Dunia.”</span></span></p>
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<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: &quot;&quot;,Times New Roman,&quot;&quot;;">Demikian gambaran yang diberikan oleh Brad Simpson, Jeffrey Winters dan John Pilger tentang suasana, kesepakatan-kesepakatan dan jalannya sebuah konperensi yang merupakan titik awal sangat penting buat nasib ekonomi bangsa Indonesia selanjutnya.</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">Kalau baru sebelum krisis global berlangsung kita mengenal istilah “korporatokrasi”, paham dan ideologi ini sudah ditancapkan di </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Indonesia</span><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> sejak tahun 1967. Delegasi </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Indonesia</span><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> adalah Pemerintah. Tetapi counter part-nya captain of industries atau para korporatokrat.</span></span></span></p>
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</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="color: #0000ff;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">PARA</span></span><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: #0000ff;"> PERUSAK EKONOMI NEGARA-NEGARA MANGSA</span></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">Benarkah sinyalemen John Pilger, Joseph Stiglitz dan masih banyak ekonom AS kenamaan lainnya bahwa hutanglah yang dijadikan instrumen untuk mencengkeram </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Indonesia</span><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> ?</span></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">Dalam rangka ini, saya kutip buku yang menggemparkan. Buku ini ditulis oleh John Perkins dengan judul : “The Confessions of an Economic Hit man”, atau  “Pengakuan oleh seorang Perusak Ekonomi”. Buku ini tercantum dalam New York Times bestseller list selama 7 minggu.</span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:  justify;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Saya kutip sambil menterjemahkannya ke dalam bahasa Indonesia sebagai berikut.</span></span></span></p>
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<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: &quot;&quot;,Times New Roman,&quot;&quot;;">Halaman 12 : “Saya hanya mengetahui bahwa penugasan pertama saya di </span><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: &quot;&quot;,Times New Roman,&quot;&quot;;">Indonesia</span><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: &quot;&quot;,Times New Roman,&quot;&quot;;">, dan saya salah seorang dari sebuah tim yang terdiri dari 11 orang yang dikirim untuk menciptakan cetak biru rencana pembangunan pembangkit listrik buat pulau Jawa.”</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">Halaman 13 : “Saya tahu bahwa saya harus menghasilkan model ekonometrik untuk </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Indonesia</span><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> dan Jawa”. “Saya mengetahui bahwa statistik dapat dimanipulasi untuk menghasilkan banyak kesimpulan, termasuk apa yang dikehendaki oleh analis atas dasar statistik yang dibuatnya.”</span></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">Halaman 15 : “Pertama-tama saya harus memberikan pembenaran (justification) untuk memberikan hutang yang sangat besar jumlahnya yang akan disalurkan kembali ke MAIN (perusahaan konsultan di mana John Perkins bekerja) dan perusahan-perusahaan Amerika lainnya (seperti Bechtel, Halliburton, Stone &amp; Webster, dan Brown &amp; Root) melalui penjualan proyek-proyek raksasa dalam bidang rekayasa dan konstruksi. Kedua, saya harus membangkrutkan negara yang menerima pinjaman tersebut (tentunya setelah MAIN dan kontraktor Amerika lainnya telah dibayar), agar negara target itu untuk selamanya tercengkeram oleh kreditornya, sehingga negara penghutang (baca : </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Indonesia</span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">) menjadi target yang empuk kalau kami membutuhkan favours, termasuk basis-basis militer, suara di PBB, atau akses pada minyak dan sumber daya alam lainnya.”</span></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">Halaman 15-16 : “Aspek yang harus disembunyikan dari semua proyek tersebut ialah membuat laba sangat besar buat para kontraktor, dan membuat bahagia beberapa gelintir keluarga dari negara-negara penerima hutang yang sudah kaya dan berpengaruh di negaranya masing-masing. Dengan demikian ketergantungan keuangan negara penerima hutang menjadi permanent sebagai instrumen untuk memperoleh kesetiaan dari pemerintah-pemerintah penerima hutang. Maka semakin besar jumlah hutang semakin baik. Kenyataan bahwa beban hutang yang sangat besar menyengsarakan bagian termiskin dari bangsanya dalam bidang kesehatan, pendidikan dan jasa-jasa sosial lainnya selama berpuluh-puluh tahun tidak perlu masuk dalam pertimbangan.”</span></span></span></p>
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<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: &quot;&quot;,Times New Roman,&quot;&quot;;">Halaman 15 : “Faktor yang paling menentukan adalah Pendapatan Domestik Bruto (PDB). Proyek yang memberi kontribusi terbesar terhadap pertumbuhan PDB harus dimenangkan. Walaupun hanya satu proyek yang harus dimenangkan, saya harus menunjukkan bahwa membangun proyek yang bersangkutan akan membawa manfaat yang unggul pada pertumbuhan PDB.”</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">Halaman 16 : “Claudia dan saya mendiskusikan karakteristik dari PDB yang menyesatkan. Misalnya pertumbuhan PDB bisa terjadi walaupun hanya menguntungkan satu orang saja, yaitu yang memiliki perusahaan jasa publik, dengan membebani hutang yang sangat berat buat rakyatnya. Yang kaya menjadi semakin kaya dan yang miskin menjadi semakin miskin. Statistik akan mencatatnya sebagai kemajuan ekonomi.”</span></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">Halaman 19 : “Sangat menguntungkan buat para penyusun strategi karena di tahun-tahun enam puluhan terjadi revolusi lainnya, yaitu pemberdayaan perusahaan-perusahaan internasional dan organisasi-organisasi multinasional seperti Bank Dunia dan IMF.”</span></span></span></p>
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</span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Fokus tulisan ini adalah peran SMI dalam perpspektif sejarah dan kaitannya dengan hubungan yang sangat erat dan subordinatif pada kekuatan-kekuatan asing, mungkin kekuatan corporatocracy yang diwakili oleh tiga lembaga keuangan internasional, yaitu Bank Dunia, Bank Pembangunan Asia dan IMF.</span></span></span></p>
<h3 style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="font-weight: normal; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Sejak Konperensi Jenewa bulan November 1967 yang digambarkan oleh John Pilger, dalam tahun itu juga lahir UU no. 1 tahun 1967 tentang Penanaman Modal Asing, yang disusul dengan UU No. 6 tahun 1968 tentang Penanaman Modal Dalam Negeri, dan serangkaian perundang-undangan dan peraturan beserta kebijakan-kebijakan yang sangat jelas menjurus pada liberalsasi. Dalam berbagai perundang-undangan dan peraturan tersebut, kedudukan asing semakin lama semakin bebas, sehingga akhirnya praktis sama dengan kedudukan warga negara </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-weight: normal; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Indonesia</span></span></span></h3>
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<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Kalau kita perhatikan bidang-bidang yang diminati dalam melakukan investasi besar di Indonesia, perhatian mereka tertuju pada pertumbuhan PDB Indonesia yang produknya untuk mereka, sedangkan bangsa Indonesia hanya memperoleh pajak dan royalti yang sangat minimal.</span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:  justify;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Bidang-bidang ini adalah pertambangan dan infra struktur seperti listrik dan jalan tol yang dari tarif tinggi yang dikenakan pada rakyat </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Indonesia</span><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> mendatangkan laba baginya.</span></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">Bidang lain adalah memberikan kredit yang sebesar-besarnya dengan tiga sasaran : pertama, memperoleh pendapatan bunga, kedua, proyek yang dikaitkan dengan hutang yang diberikan di mark up, dan dengan hutang kebijakan </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Indonesia</span><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> dikendalikan melalui anak bangsa sendiri, terutama yang termasuk kelompok OTB untuk ekonomi dan kelompok The Ohio Boys untuk bidang politik.</span></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">Keseluruhan ini sendiri merupakan ceritera yang menarik dan bermanfaat sebagai bahan renungan introspeksi betapa kita sejak tahun 1967 sudah dijajah kembali dengan cara dan teknologi yang lebih dahsyat.</span></span></span></p>
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</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Para</span><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> penjajah Belanda dahulu menanam berbagai pohon yang buahnya bernilai tinggi. Kekejaman mereka terletak pada eksploitasi manusia </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Indonesia</span><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> bagaikan budak. Kebun-kebunnya sampai sekarang menjadi PTP yang masih menguntungkan.</span></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">Sejak tahun 1967, pengerukan dan penyedotan kekayaan alam </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Indonesia</span><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> oleh kekuatan asing, terutama mineral yang sangat mahal harganya dan sangat vital itu dilakukan secara besar-besaran dengan modal besar dan teknologi tinggi. </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Para</span><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> pembantunya adalah bangsa sendiri yang berhasil dijadikan kroni-kroninya. Apakah pengangkatan SMI menjadi managing director WB merupakan bagian dari skenario ini saya tidak tahu.</span></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:  justify;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><strong><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: #0000ff;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Comments*</span></span></strong></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:  justify;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Bagi kami, <span style="color: #0000ff;">antek-antek Neoliberalists dan pengkhianat bangsa</span> adalah mereka yang melaksanakan kebijaksanaan pemerintah dibidang politik dan ekonomi yang memihak kepada kepentingan asing khususnya kepentingan IMF, Wold Bank (Bank Dunia) dan Asian Development Bank (ADB) diatas kepentingan bangsa sendiri. Kebijaksanaan itu antara lain adalah kebijaksanaan yang menyatu (in harmony) dengan charateristic kebijaksanaan Neoliberalism, sbb: </span></span></span></p>
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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in; text-indent: -0.25in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="font-size: small;">1.</span><span style="font-size: 7pt; font-family: &quot;&quot;,Times New Roman,&quot;&quot;;"> </span><strong><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">THE RULE OF THE MARKET.</span></span></strong><span style="font-size:  14pt;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> Liberating “free” enterprise or private enterprise from any bonds imposed by the government (the state) no matter how much social damage this causes. Greater openness to international trade and investment, as in NAFTA. Reduce wages by de-unionizing workers and eliminating workers’ rights that had been won over many years of struggle. No more price controls. All in all, total freedom of movement for capital, goods and services. To convince us this is good for us, they say “an unregulated market is the best way to increase economic growth, which will ultimately benefit everyone.” It’s like Reagan’s “supply-side” and “trickle-down” economics, but somehow the wealth didn’t trickle down very much. <span style="color: #0000ff;">It’s a dirty trick by foreign corporations and wealthy countries to have all of the access from raw materials to consumers by creating free and open market that you shall not buy! </span></span></span></span></p>
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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="font-size: small;">2.</span><span style="font-size: 7pt; font-family: &quot;&quot;,Times New Roman,&quot;&quot;;"> </span><strong><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">CUTTING PUBLIC EXPENDITURE FOR SOCIAL SERVICES</span></span></strong><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> like education and health care. REDUCING THE SAFETY-NET FOR THE POOR, and even maintenance of roads, bridges, water supply — again in the name of reducing government’s role. Of course, they don’t oppose government subsidies and tax benefits for business.</span></span></span></p>
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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="font-size: small;">3.</span><span style="font-size: 7pt; font-family: &quot;&quot;,Times New Roman,&quot;&quot;;"> </span><strong><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">DEREGULATION.</span></span></strong><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> Reduce government regulation of everything that could diminish profits, including protecting the environment and safety on the job.</span></span></span></p>
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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="font-size: small;">4.</span><span style="font-size: 7pt; font-family: &quot;&quot;,Times New Roman,&quot;&quot;;"> </span><strong><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">PRIVATIZATION.</span></span></strong><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> Sell state-owned enterprises, goods and services to private investors. This includes banks, key industries, railroads, toll highways, electricity, schools, hospitals and even fresh water. Although usually done in the name of greater efficiency, which is often needed, privatization has mainly had the effect of concentrating wealth even more in a few hands and making the public pay even more for its needs.</span></span></span></p>
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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="font-size: small;">5.</span><span style="font-size: 7pt; font-family: &quot;&quot;,Times New Roman,&quot;&quot;;"> </span><strong><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">ELIMINATING THE CONCEPT OF “THE PUBLIC GOOD” or “COMMUNITY”</span></span></strong><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> and replacing it with “individual responsibility.” Pressuring the poorest people in a society to find solutions to their lack of health care, education and social security all by themselves — then blaming them, if they fail, as “lazy.”</span></span></span></p>
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		<title>Posisi Hutang Indonesia 2010</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 05 May 2010 22:35:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Komari</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Setinggi Gunung Hilmalaya, Seluas Lautan Pacific.
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Lihatlah jumlah angka nol-nya….sepanjang jalan raya dari Jakarta ke Bandung!
 
Nglihat nolnya saja udah pusing…, apalagi melunasinya! 
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Kapan hutang-hutang ini akan dilunasi? Sampai anak cucu dan sampai generasi keberapa hutang itu akan bisa lepas dari beban APBN; lepas dari pundak dan tidak lagi mencekik leher bangsa Indonesia?
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 20pt; color: #000000;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">Lihatlah jumlah angka nol-nya….sepanjang jalan raya dari Jakarta ke Bandung!</span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 20pt; color: #000000;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">Nglihat nolnya saja udah pusing…, apalagi melunasinya! </span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 20pt; color: #000000;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">Kapan hutang-hutang ini akan dilunasi? Sampai anak cucu dan sampai generasi keberapa hutang itu akan bisa lepas dari beban APBN; lepas dari pundak dan tidak lagi mencekik leher bangsa Indonesia?</span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 20pt; color: #000000;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">Apakah kebijaksanaan Pemerintah Pusat hanya bisa tambal sulam sekedar memanage hutang-hutang itu; kalau tidak hutang sama Paul untuk bayar Peter, ya ganti utang sama achong-achong didalam negeri untuk bayar Peter di luar negeri?  </span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 20pt; color: #000000;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">Lihat saja buktinya. </span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 20pt; color: #000000;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">Dulu zaman Orde Baru sebelum tahun 1997/1998, hutang dalam negeri hampir tidak ada atau kecil sekali, karena regime Orde Baru, selalu pinjam Paul untuk bayar Peter, termasuk IMF.</span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 20pt; color: #000000;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">Sekarang dizaman REFORMASI; zamanya Boediono, Sri Mulyani (pentolan BI dan Menkeu) dan Presiden SBY, hutang sama Peter dibayar dengan meminjam hutang dari achong-achong dengan menjual SUN (Surat Utang Negara) dan SBN (Surat Berharga Negara), menjadikan hutang dalam negeri besarnya melampui hutang luar negeri hanya dalam waktu 12 tahun. </span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">Tangganpan atas interview Sri Mulyani:</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">The current notion that is being entertained by SBY’ administration, especially, by Sri Mulyani to suggest that the Indonesia’s massive debts are still 30% of GDP and the debts payment on interest and principle only 2% of the GDP are thus acceptable is very ridiculous and unacceptable! Why? </span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">These debts have entangled </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Indonesia</span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">’s ability to elevate much of the poverty, massive unemployment and provide much of the needed funds to fix the broken infrastructures and public services. These massive debts must be reduced and eliminated. We shall stop entertaining such a silly notion. </span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Prior to 1997/1998, </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Indonesia</span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">’s domestic debts were virtually zero, insignificant or, very small. Now, </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Indonesia</span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">’s domestic debts are even bigger than foreign debts just within the last 12 years. </span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">To suggest that it is okay for Indonesia to sustain such a massive debt just because the payment is still within 30% of GDP and its interest payment is still under 2% of GDP is simply irresponsible and immoral, knowing how many Indonesia people are still living under poverty; living under $2 a day! </span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Menkeu Sri Mulyani continues to insist openly and publicly that </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Indonesia</span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">’s massive debts are within safety ratio and thus manageable! </span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">She cited that most developed countries like </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Japan</span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">, </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">USA</span><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> and European countries such as: </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Germany</span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">, French and </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">United Kingdom</span><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> have debts. </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">India</span><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> that has economic growth of 6% also has debts 6% to 7% of its GDP. Even </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Japan</span><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> has debts reaching up to 150% of its GDP. </span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">European Countries such as: French, </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Germany</span><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> and </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">United Kingdom</span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">, have deficit between 6% to 7% of their GDP. </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">United States of America</span><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> has the largest debts in the world and has deficit at 9% of its GDP. </span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Meanwhile </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Indonesia</span><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> with 5,000 trillion Rupiah in GDP, her debts is under 30%, with deficit under 3% or less making </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Indonesia</span><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> the healthiest country on earth after </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">China</span><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> and </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">India</span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">. Is it really? </span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">What flaw with Menkeu Sri Mulyani’s public statements is her attempt to manipulate and to corrupt the information by distorting the economical facts about those developed countries such as: Japan, USA and European countries, such as: French, Germany and United Kingdom. There are fundamental economical differences between those developed countries and Indonesia, which are:</span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">A). </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Japan</span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">, </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">USA</span><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> and European Countries such as: </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">England</span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">, </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Germany</span><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> and </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">France</span><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> have <strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #0000ff;">large and solid Domestic Equity Market</span></strong>, while </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Indonesia</span><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> does not! </span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">B). </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Japan</span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">, </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">USA</span><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> and European Countries such as: </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">England</span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">, </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Germany</span><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> and </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">France</span><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> have <strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #0000ff;">humongous Market Capitalization</span></strong>, while </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Indonesia</span><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> does not!</span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">Those 2 things distinct and separate between those developed countries and Indonesia in terms of financial and economical outlook in the eyes of world creditors such as IMF, World Bank, Asian Development Bank (ADB) and Japan Bank for International Cooperation (JBIC). </span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">So from the stand point of <strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Domestic Equity Market and Market Capitalization alone</strong>, comparing Indonesia with those developed countries, USA, Japan and other European Countries such as: French, United Kingdom, and Germany does not make sense and simply incomparable. </span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Those develop countries: </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Japan</span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">, </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">USA</span><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> and some European countries even though they have higher debt ratio over 150% from their GDP and their deficit as high as 9%, they are still desirable by those world creditors because they have large and solid Domestic Equity Market and humongous Market Capitalization. These are 2 things that </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Indonesia</span><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> lacks off and does not have. </span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Indonesia</span><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> does have Domestic Equity Market and Market capitalization, but the amount is too insignificant compared to its massive debts, massive unemployment and the number of its citizen who are still living under poverty line.</span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">The issue of having massive debts for </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Indonesia</span><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> does not end as long as those debts payment and deficit are still within safety ratio.  There are bigger and more agonizing problems than that. </span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: #ff0000;">The 1st problem</span></span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">: <span style="color: #0000ff;">Our debts are in US dollar and our currency is in Rupiah.</span> </span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">The loan repayments will <strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">INCREASE</strong> as the Rupiah continues to depreciate, make it much more challenging and difficult if not impossible TO PAY those massive debts OFF! This means that the ordinary people of </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Indonesia</span><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> have to work <strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">MUCH and MUCH HARDER</strong> as tax payers to keep up with the increasing </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">US</span><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> currency. </span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">Ibarat mengejar hutang yang naik Bus, tapi kita mengejarnya pakai sepeda. Tidak akan bisa nyampek-nyampek, malah semakin hari semakin ketinggalan jauh.</span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><em style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: #0000ff;">The loan amounts as time goes by are not getting smaller but even bigger</span></em><span style="font-size: 14pt;">. That translates the much longer time needed for </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Indonesia</span><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> to be able to pay off its massive foreign and domestic debts if not for a generation to come. What a blunder! </span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">As one of those younger generations, I can not accept this reality and this is one of the reasons why I have been continuously confronting and raising this issue openly and publicly. I am challenging the current government and the parliament members to resolve this critical issue sooner than later. It is too important issue for the welfare of the </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Indonesia</span><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> people at large! </span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: #ff0000;">The 2nd problem:</span></span><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> <span style="color: #0000ff;">The </span></span><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: #0000ff;">Indonesia</span><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: #0000ff;">’s ability to pay these loans will DECLINE</span><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> as the debt service ratio (DSR) has risen over the years from 33% in 1996 to 50% in 1998. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Even in 2008/2009 is still within 30%. </span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">On the demand side, Indonesian market had about 64% in Asian region. But on the supply side, the real sector was very poor. This affects and will continue to affect the declining value of the Rupiah against other currencies, especially, the </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">US</span><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> currency. It is maybe catching up here and there, due to different reasons. But lack of supply in the real sector will minimize the ability of currency Rupiah to compete other currencies. </span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">Another issue is with virtually no significant ability from the Indonesian Government to <span style="color: #0000ff;">stipulate domestic economy</span> due to lack of funds because of these massive debts and monstrous Central Government spending which in 2008 absorb 77.88% of total APBN revenue, the trend continues and domestic consumption will have to be imported and thus eliminating the change for Indonesia in capturing its DOMESTIC EQUITY MARKET. </span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: #ff0000;">Double that</span></span><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> with the Indonesian <span style="color: #0000ff;">Government economic policies</span> that has been primarily focusing on the macro-economy. <span style="color: #0000ff;">The real sector was not only poor but significantly untouched! </span>This factor alone translates the likelihood of declining and weakening the currency Rupiah against US Dollar and other currencies. </span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">With virtually no significant effort to capture much of the DOMESTIC EQUITY MARKET, it is only economic-formula that </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Indonesia</span><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> will highly unlikely be able to establish bigger and broader MARKET CAPITALIZATION, one of the critical sectors that are needed to strengthen Rupiah currency. </span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">In the absence of these two significant sectors, Domestic Equity Market and Market capitalization, it is only common sense that the currency Rupiah will most likely will continue to decline and weaken. <span style="color: #0000ff;">This is a double deep</span>. That means the ability for </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Indonesia</span><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> to pay off its massive debts will take<span style="color: #0000ff;"> much and much longer time</span>, beyond imaginable. The issues are massive!</span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">Dengan kondisi ekonomi seperti ini, biar sampai elek ya nggak akan bisa melunasi hutang-hutang itu kalau kebijaksanaan pemerintahan selama ini hanya mengeluarkan long laundry list. It’s a pathetic reality that I can not bear to see it going much longer. </span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">It is a sad reality that with this bad economy, there is no sound Government economic policy; it is either non-existence or chaotic that is undertaken to remedy this issue in a country that is so rich with natural resources. </span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: #ff0000;">The 3rd problem</span></span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">: <span style="color: #0000ff;">“Because the required loan repayment is so large and so humongous, the potential and the funds needed to stipulate the economy are lacking”.</span> What does it mean? </span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">That means as </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Indonesia</span><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> is lacking of fund needed stipulate its domestic economy and to rebuild the broken infra structures due to her massive debts, this will make it impossible for </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Indonesia</span><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> to improve its current condition. This condition triples already complicated the matters. </span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">It is high possibility that the condition will likely to get worse each year as we have seen for the last 30 years with its currency value unless dramatic economic policy is undertaken. At best, the current administration will only maintain status quo, the situation that has been unchanged for over 35 years. Will you accept this reality for the next 5 years? </span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: #ff0000;">The 4th problem:</span></span><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> <span style="color: #0000ff;">Such an immense debt stock could exacerbate adverse public perception and false expectations (false hopes). </span></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">This situation is just like a combustion chamber with high density, where a tiny spark can create an explosion burning the entire chamber, making </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Indonesia</span><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> susceptible to external shock and turmoil. We have seen this happening in 1998.</span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">The Indonesian people expect too much from their leaders to make a significant change of their life from poverty and difficulties, which is understandable and they have every right to expect that from their leaders. It makes sense. But what are not being known and understood are how massive these debts really are and what impact it has to the Indonesian government’s ability to govern with such an immense debt stock. </span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">When those expectations do not arrive as hoped because it was false expectation and false hope at the first place anyway, people become anger and often times they express their anger toward other innocent people or minority who has nothing to do with the real issue as we have seen happening in 1998. These adverse public perceptions and false expectations are just like a combustion chamber that is ready to explode at any given time. </span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Knowing how critical and dangerous the issue really is, it is beyond any reasonable doubt that </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Indonesia</span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">’s massive foreign and domestic debt is the most pressing issue facing </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Indonesia</span><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> at this time and this shall be the number #1 issue and a top priority for President SBY, his cabinet members and the Parliament to address it. </span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">This is a clear danger just like ticking timed-bomb that must be resolved sooner than later. I can not say it any better and point it out this issue in much clear way than this to emphasize how critical the issues really are. </span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">It is time for all of Indonesia’s politicians, members of the Parliament, President and Vice President of Indonesia and all cabinet Ministers to rise up to tackle those big issues and deliver results to the Indonesian people and not empty promises. Now is the time for a change and I am taking the 1st step toward that direction. Maintaining status quo is just unacceptable proposition in such a critical time. We can do better and yes, we can! Because I believe that we are a capable nation! </span></span></p>
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		<title>Menagih Janji Kampanye dan Tantangan Indonesia 5 Tahun Kedepan</title>
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		<dc:creator>Chris Komari</dc:creator>
		
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Northern California, January 28th, 2010
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Dear Mr. President Bambang Susilo Yudhoyono and Mr. Vice President Boediono, Newly elected Cabinet Ministers, Members of Parliament, Members of Constitutional Court, Members of Supreme Court, members of Corruption Eradication Commission and the wonderful people of Indonesia:
 
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: #0000ff;">Dear Mr. President Bambang Susilo Yudhoyono and Mr. Vice President Boediono, Newly elected Cabinet Ministers, Members of Parliament, Members of Constitutional Court, Members of Supreme Court, members of Corruption Eradication Commission and the wonderful people of </span><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: #0000ff;">Indonesia</span><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: #0000ff;">:</span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: #000000;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">Warm greetings from Northern California! Salam sejahtera dan damai dari kami warga Indonesia yang berada di USA!</span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: #000000;">Congratulations</span></strong><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: #000000;"> to Dr. Bambang Susilo Yudhoyono for winning the re-election of the Presidency and Mr. Boediono for being newly elected Vice President of Indonesia. May God give you the wisdom and strength to execute your office to uphold the rule of law and to improve the life of the millions people of Indonesia who are now still living under poverty line. </span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: #000000;">Congratulations</span></strong><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: #000000;"> to all of newly elected Members of Parliament (MP’s) for winning the election-contest to becoming Representatives of the people of Indonesia. May God give you the knowledge and the courage to represent the interest of the ordinary Indonesian people and not political parties! </span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: #000000;">Congratulations </span></strong><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: #000000;">to all elected Ministers under President SBY’s second term of his Presidency and I wish you all the best to serve the Indonesian people in supporting the works of the President and Vice President. </span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: #000000;">Congratulations</span></strong><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: #000000;"> to the people of Indonesia who have been successfully undertaking peaceful general election and direct Presidential election for the 3<sup>rd</sup> times. </span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: #000000;">The election and the 100 days have been completed and the honeymoon for President SBY and his cabinet Ministers is over. It’s now the time to work on the core issues and produce tangible results that have a direct impact to the millions and millions of ordinary Indonesian people who are now living under poverty line and reduce Indonesia massive unemployment and massive domestic and foreign debts. </span><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: #0000ff;">It is time for a real change!</span><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: #000000;"> </span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: #000000;">As I stated openly and publicly in my 1<sup>st</sup> open letter on August 26<sup>th</sup>, 2008 prior to the Presidential election (a copy or link as enclosed at the end of this letter), i</span><span style="font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">t is<strong> </strong>NOT<strong> </strong>critical</span><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> in my view who was going to be next President and Vice President of Indonesia regardless whoever they might be. But <span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">it is<strong> <span style="color: #ff6600;">VERY CRITICAL</span></strong></span> that the elected President and Vice President of Indonesia and the appointed Cabinet Ministers must understand the critical issues facing the nation and the country of Indonesia! </span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: #000000;">One assertion that I continue to make since the first direct election in 2004 in my effort to emphasize the importance and the criticality of the issue is the fact that without resolving those critical issues first once and for all</span><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: #0000ff;">,<strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"> there is not much </strong></span><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: #000000;">for any new President and Vice President of Indonesia can do</span><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: #0000ff;"> </span><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: #000000;">regardless how genius those persons might be, to make any significant changes in Indonesia.<strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"> </strong></span><strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: #ff6600;">I am that confident!</span></strong><strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: #0000ff;"> </span></strong></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: #000000;">The issues have entangled President’s ability to govern and even brought down once was the most powerful man in the 35 years history of that country. It shows how critical those issues really are and how important it is to resolve those issues sooner than later. </span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: #000000;">For that matter, it is absolutely critical for the elected President and Vice President of Indonesia and his cabinet Ministers shall </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">come up with<span style="color: #000000;"> comprehensive work-plans and action plans </span>to resolve those critical issues step-by-step with bench-marks or expected conditions on the ground to measure the success-possibility of their programs with a timeline. Those programs must be shared and debated publicly in order for the public to have the opportunity to scrutinize those programs as well as to uphold <strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #0000ff;">the right of the people to know and to be informed! </span></strong></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">These open public debates will enhance Democratic process in Indonesia to work its best for the people because the people are no longer left behind acting as spectators of Democracy after the election process has been completed. They are still being included and play a critical role in the decision making process in the government’s affairs either at the Central Government, Provincial Government and at the District or City Government level. <strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #0000ff;">This is what government of the people, by the people and for the people is all about. </span></strong><span style="color: #000000;">The people at large still play critical role in the decision making process in the government affairs even after the general election has been completed. </span></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">The notion that is often times being entertained by government officials that they do have programs to address the issues and whether the people agree or disagree with their programs are somehow a different issue and only human is unacceptable. They are elected by the people in a democratic process and the spirit, the heart and the fundamental principle of Democracy is that the people have the right to know and to be informed. To suggest that being government officials and thus having an authority to keep their programs in secrecy is just wrong and undemocratic. The people must be allowed to scrutinize their representatives and those who are in power. </span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">The government must agree to share the proposed programs, undertake open public debates with members of Parliament and the people at large to scrutinize those programs before they arrive to any conclusions or restrictions. This is the spirit of Democracy that must be upheld. </span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">Now let’s look at the 100 day programs produced by the SBY’s administration. <span style="color: #000000;">What was the best of 100 days programs that SBY’s administration has generated?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span>Here it is:</span></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span class="date"><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: #000000;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">Selasa, 26/01/2010 12:09 WIB</span></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><strong><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: #0000ff;">Ramdhania El Hida</span></strong><span class="reporter"><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: #0000ff;"> - detikFinance</span></span><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: #0000ff;"> </span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><strong><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Jakarta</span></strong><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> - Meskipun program 100 hari pemerintah Kabinet Indonesia Bersatu Jilid II baru berjalan 98 hari, namun pemerintah memastikan program 100 hari di sektor ekonomi dipastikan selesai 100%.</span></span></p>
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Demikian ditegaskan Menteri Koordinator Perekonomian <span class="yshortcuts">Hatta Rajasa</span> usai rapat koordinasi di Ruang Grahasawala Kantor <span class="yshortcuts">Menko Perekonomian</span>, </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Jakarta</span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">, Selasa (</span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">26/1/2010</span></span></p>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">&#8220;Dari laporan menteri-menteri bidang perekonomian, sampai hari ini program 100 hari akan selesai 100%. Semuanya sudah pada final draf,&#8221; tegas Hatta.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">Menurut Hatta, program 100 hari yang berupa regulasi ini memiliki 3 esensi yaitu <em>quickwin</em> , <em>debottlenecking</em> , dan pondasi strategis. Dari 51 rencana aksi, lanjut Hatta, hanya 1 yang belum selesai yaitu revitalisasi industri pupuk dan pangan.</p>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">&#8220;Yang belum itu tinggal revitalisasi industri pupuk dan pangan, tapi besok selesai,&#8221; janji Hatta.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">Hatta menyatakan pada rapat kali ini, pihaknya sudah menyelesaikan draf cetak biru mengenai Sistem Logistik Nasional (Sislognas). Cetak biru mengenai Sislognas ini, ujar Hatta, diharapkan bisa menjadi rujukan sampai tahun 2025.</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">&#8220;Sudah pada final draf, Sislognas, Sistem Logistik Nasional yang sudah kita ketok menjadi final draf, rujukan sampai 2025. Ya bisa dibilang blue print,&#8221; jelas Hatta.</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">Selain itu, Hatta mengatakan hari ini pemerintah akan menyelesaikan rancangan revisi Keppres Nomor 80 Tahun 2010. &#8220;Hari ini Revisi Keppres 80 selesai, rakor kita terdahulu sudah dibahas, masih kurang sedikit,&#8221; ungkap Hatta.</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">Sebelumnya, Tim Ekonomi <span class="yshortcuts">Kabinet Indonesia Bersatu</span> jilid II mengklaim berhasil menuntaskan 92,16% program kerja 100 harinya, sementara DPR dan kalangan usaha mempertanyakan dasar penilaiannya.</span></span></p>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">Menko Perekonomian Hatta Rajasa dalam dokumen tertulis menyebut tingkat kemajuan pencapaian target program 100 hari pemerintah di bidang ekonomi hingga hari ke-75 sudah sebesar 92,16%. Dari 19 program kerja dan 53 rencana aksi, sebanyak 12 rencana aksi (23,53%) sudah dituntaskan, sedangkan 35 rencana aksi (68,63%) masih sekitar 75%-100%, dan tinggal 4 rencana aksi yang masih di bawah 75%.</p>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">&#8220;Program kerja 100 hari akan selesai semuanya. Sekarang tinggal finishing saja mungkin,&#8221; ujar Hatta pekan lalu.</span></span></div>
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Dokumen Kemenko Perekonomian mencatat empat rencana aksi yang masih di bawah 75% adalah perluasan modal lembaga pembiayaan infrastruktur, perubahan Keppres No.80/2003 tentang Pedoman Pelaksanaan <span class="yshortcuts">Pengadaan barang dan Jasa</span> Pemerintah, penyelesaian penyediaan akses telepon di 32 provinsi mencakup 25.000 desa (Desa Berdering), dan penyusunan rencana aksi revitalisasi Industri pupuk dan gula.</span></span></p>
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Meskipun diyakini tuntas pada 100 hari, Hatta menegaskan 53 rencana aksi tersebut tidak akan langsung diberlakukan. Pasalnya butuh waktu 6 bulan untuk melakukan sosialisasi untuk benar-benar diimplementasikan.</span></span></p>
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Monitoring pelaksanaan program 100 hari bidang perekonomian hari ke 75 sebagai berikut:</p>
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<li class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify; tab-stops: list .5in; mso-list: l7 level1 lfo31;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">P12A2: Perluasan modal lembaga pembiayaan infrastruktur (Kemenkeu)</span></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify; tab-stops: list .5in; mso-list: l7 level1 lfo31;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">P12A3: Perubahan Keppres No.80/2003 tentang Pedoman Pelaksanaan <span class="yshortcuts">Pengadaan barang dan Jasa</span> Pemerintah (Bappenas)</span></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify; tab-stops: list .5in; mso-list: l7 level1 lfo31;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">P13A7: Penyelesaian penyediaan akses telepon di 32 provinsi mencakup 25.000 desa (desa Berdering) (Kemenkominfo)</span></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify; tab-stops: list .5in; mso-list: l7 level1 lfo31;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">P26A1: Penyusunan rencana Aksi revitalisasi Industri pupuk dan gula (Kemenperin)</span></span></li>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><strong><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: #008000;">Tingkat capaian Hijau (75-100%):</span></strong><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: #008000;"> </span></span></p>
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<ol style="margin-top: 0in;" type="1">
<li class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify; tab-stops: list .5in; mso-list: l22 level1 lfo34;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">P11A1: review sinkronisasi kebijakan dan peraturan perundang-undangan yang terkait dengan <span class="yshortcuts">tata ruang</span> Kemenko Perekonomian</span></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify; tab-stops: list .5in; mso-list: l22 level1 lfo34;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">P11A2: Penyempurnaan standar prosedur operasional pengaturan dan pelayanan pertanahan (mengacu pada UU No.25/2009 tentang pelayanan publik)</span></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify; tab-stops: list .5in; mso-list: l22 level1 lfo34;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">P11A3 : <span class="yshortcuts">Integrasi</span> data dan pelayanan pertanahan nasional secara online (BPN)</span></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify; tab-stops: list .5in; mso-list: l22 level1 lfo34;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">P11A4 : Pengembangan Kantor Pertanahan Bergerak (LARASITA) (BPN)</span></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify; tab-stops: list .5in; mso-list: l22 level1 lfo34;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">P11A5: Penyusunan RPP tentang Perubahan Peruntukan Kawasan <span class="yshortcuts">Hutan</span> (Kementerian Kehutanan)</span></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify; tab-stops: list .5in; mso-list: l22 level1 lfo34;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">P12A1: Perubahan Perpres No.67/2005 tentang Kerjasama Pemerintah dan Badan Usaha Dalam Penyediaan Infrastruktur (Bappenas)</span></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify; tab-stops: list .5in; mso-list: l22 level1 lfo34;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">P12A4: Penetapan skema Co-financing bagi program pembangunan antara Pemerintah Pusat dan Daerah (Penciptaan ownership di daerah) serta pemerintah dan swasta/BUMN (public private partnership) (Kemenko Perekonomian)</span></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify; tab-stops: list .5in; mso-list: l22 level1 lfo34;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">P13A4: Pembentukan tim penyiapan prasarana penghubung Jawa-Sumatera yang bertugas melakukan <span class="yshortcuts">studi kelayakan</span> (Kementerian PU)</span></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify; tab-stops: list .5in; mso-list: l22 level1 lfo34;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">P13A8: Pencanangan dukungan kepada <span class="yshortcuts">teknologi informasi dan komunikasi</span> lokal sekaligus pemantapan program IGOS (Indonesia Go Open Source) (Kemenkominfo)</span></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify; tab-stops: list .5in; mso-list: l22 level1 lfo34;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">P13A9: Peningkatan layanan transportasi bagi masyarakat di daerah tertinggal, terdepan, terluar, dan pasca-konflik (Kementerian Perhubungan)</span></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify; tab-stops: list .5in; mso-list: l22 level1 lfo34;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">P13A10: Dimulainya perbaikan sarana dan prasarana pelabuhan perikanan dengan mengutamakan penyediaan sarana air bersih dan pabrik es oleh pemerintah serta pembenahan system rantai dingin mulai dari penyortiran di laut sampai dengan di tempat pemasarannya (Kementerian KP).</span></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify; tab-stops: list .5in; mso-list: l22 level1 lfo34;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">P14A2: Perubahan PP No.36/1998 tentang Penertiban dan Pendayagunaan Tanah Terlantar (BPN)</span></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify; tab-stops: list .5in; mso-list: l22 level1 lfo34;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">P14A2: Perubahan PP No.46/2002 tentang PNBP Bidang Pertanahan (BPN)</span></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify; tab-stops: list .5in; mso-list: l22 level1 lfo34;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">P15A1 Pencanangan PP tentang Pertanian Pangan Skala Luas (food estate) (Kementerian Pertanian)</span></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify; tab-stops: list .5in; mso-list: l22 level1 lfo34;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">P15A2 : Pencanangan food estate di Merauke (Kementerian Pertanian)</span></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify; tab-stops: list .5in; mso-list: l22 level1 lfo34;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">P15A3: Pencanangan program peningkatan daya saing dan nilai tambah produk pertanian dengan pemberian insentif bagi tumbuhnya industri pedesaan berbasis produk (Kementerian Pertanian)</span></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify; tab-stops: list .5in; mso-list: l22 level1 lfo34;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">P16A1: Penyusunan cetak biru swasenbada pangan tahap II untuk kedelai, jagung, gula dan daging sapi (Kementerian Pertanian)</span></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify; tab-stops: list .5in; mso-list: l22 level1 lfo34;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">P18A1 Penerbitan Permen ESDM tentang Harga Patokan Pembelian Listrik dari Panas Bumi (Kementerian ESDM)</span></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify; tab-stops: list .5in; mso-list: l22 level1 lfo34;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">P19A2 Penuntasan reorganisasi PLN dan Pertamina (Kementerian BUMN)</span></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify; tab-stops: list .5in; mso-list: l22 level1 lfo34;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">P21A1 Menerbitkan Peraturan Menteri Keuangan tentang Insentif pemanfaatan renewable energy (Kementerian Keuangan)</span></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify; tab-stops: list .5in; mso-list: l22 level1 lfo34;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">P22A1 Penyediaan dana penjaminan untuk KUR dalam APBN sebesar Rp 2 triliun per tahun (Kemenko Perekonomian)</span></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify; tab-stops: list .5in; mso-list: l22 level1 lfo34;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">P22A2 Perubahan Peraturan Pelaksana Penyaluran KUR (Kemenko Perekonomian)</span></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify; tab-stops: list .5in; mso-list: l22 level1 lfo34;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">P22A3: Perluasan akses KUR : lingkage antara perbankan besar nasional dan bank daerah (Kemen Kop dan UKM)</span></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify; tab-stops: list .5in; mso-list: l22 level1 lfo34;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">P23A1: Memperluas program diklat dan pendidikan vocational bagi pelaku UKM (Kemen Kop dan UKM)</span></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify; tab-stops: list .5in; mso-list: l22 level1 lfo34;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">P23A2 Perluasan One Village One Product (OVOP) (Kemen Kop dan UKM)</span></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify; tab-stops: list .5in; mso-list: l22 level1 lfo34;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">P23A3 Percepatan pembangunan atau revitalisasi pasar tradisional sebanyak 90 pasar (Kemen Kop dan UKM)</span></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify; tab-stops: list .5in; mso-list: l22 level1 lfo34;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">P24A1 Perubahan Peraturan tentang Upah Minimum Sektoral (Kemenakertrans)</span></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify; tab-stops: list .5in; mso-list: l22 level1 lfo34;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">P25A1 Penerapan Sistem Pelayanan Informasi dan Perizinan Investasi Secara Elektronik (SPIPISE) di Kawasan <span class="yshortcuts">Perdagangan Bebas</span> dan Pelabuhan Bebas Batam </span></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify; tab-stops: list .5in; mso-list: l22 level1 lfo34;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">P25A2 Pengoperasian pelayanan kepelabuhanan dan kepabeanan 24 jam per hari dan 7 hari per minggu (Kementerian Perhubungan)</span></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify; tab-stops: list .5in; mso-list: l22 level1 lfo34;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">P27A1 Pencanangan klaster industry berbasis pertanian, oleochemical di <span class="yshortcuts">Sumatera Utara</span>, <span class="yshortcuts">Kalimantan Timur</span>, dan Riau (Kementerian Perindustrian)</span></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify; tab-stops: list .5in; mso-list: l22 level1 lfo34;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">P27A2 Pencanangan Klaster industry berbasis migas, kondesat di <span class="yshortcuts">Jawa Timur</span> dan Kalimantan Timur (Kementerian Perindustrian)</span></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify; tab-stops: list .5in; mso-list: l22 level1 lfo34;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">P28A1 Penyusunan cetak biru transportasi multimoda sesuai dengan cetak biru sistem logistik nasional (Kementerian Perhubungan) </span></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify; tab-stops: list .5in; mso-list: l22 level1 lfo34;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">P28A2 Penyusunan konsep dasar perencanaan jaringan transportasi angkutan laut dan rencana pembangunan pelabuhan (Kementerian Perhubungan)</span></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify; tab-stops: list .5in; mso-list: l22 level1 lfo34;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">P28A3 Integrasi system angkutan umum missal perkotaan antar-moda, dimulai di Jakarta dengan penerapan tiket terusan <span class="yshortcuts">kereta api</span> dan busway (Kementerian Perhubungan)</span></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify; tab-stops: list .5in; mso-list: l22 level1 lfo34;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">P29A1 Penyusunan pedoman teknis tentang keselamatan transportasi (kementerian Perhubungan).</span></span></li>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><strong><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: #0000ff;">Tingkat capaian Biru (100%):</span></strong><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: #0000ff;"> </span></span></p>
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<li class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify; tab-stops: list .5in; mso-list: l6 level1 lfo35;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">P13A1 Peningkatan kesehatan lingkungan berupa pembangunan sarana air minum di 1.379 lokasi/kawasan bagi masyarakat berpenghasilan rendah dan pembangunan sanitasi masyarakat di 61 lokasi (Kementerian PU)</span></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify; tab-stops: list .5in; mso-list: l6 level1 lfo35;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">P13A2 Penyelesaian audit teknis untuk pengembalian dan pemastian fungsi embung, waduk, bending dan bendungan, serta jaringan irigasi secara holistic dan terintegrasi (Kementerian PU)</span></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify; tab-stops: list .5in; mso-list: l6 level1 lfo35;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">P13A3 Peningkatan kapasitas jalan lintas di Sumatera dan Sulawesi sepanjang 695 km; <span class="yshortcuts">sebagai bagian dari</span> pembangunan jalan lintas Sumatera dan Sulawesi sepanjang 695 km; sebagai bagian dari pembangunan jalan lintas Sumatera, Jawa, Bali, <span class="yshortcuts">Nusa Tenggara Barat</span>, <span class="yshortcuts">Nusa Tenggara Timur</span>, Kalimantan, Sulawesi, dan Papua sepanjang 19.370 km dalam 5 tahun (Kementerian PU).</span></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify; tab-stops: list .5in; mso-list: l6 level1 lfo35;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">P13A5 Penyelesaian struktur penampang basah prasarana pengendalian Banjir kanal Timur (BKT) Jakarta sehingga dapat mengalirkan air (Kementerian PU).</span></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify; tab-stops: list .5in; mso-list: l6 level1 lfo35;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">P13A6 Peningkatan tingkat hunian rusunawa yang sudah/sedang dibangun dari sekitar 40% menjadi 80% dalam 100 hari dan melakukan kaji ulang menyeluruh atas kebijakan pembangunan dan penghunian rusunawa dan rusunami (Kemenpera)</span></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify; tab-stops: list .5in; mso-list: l6 level1 lfo35;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">P17A1 Pemenuhan BBM dalam negeri khususnya untuk Indonesia bagian timur (Kementerian ESDM)</span></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify; tab-stops: list .5in; mso-list: l6 level1 lfo35;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">P17A2 Perencanaan pasokan gas bumi untuk keperluan domestic (Kementerian ESDM)</span></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify; tab-stops: list .5in; mso-list: l6 level1 lfo35;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">P17A3 Penerbitan PP dan Peraturan Menteri ESDM tentang Pasokan <span class="yshortcuts">Batubara</span> dalam negeri (DMO) (Kementerian ESDM)</span></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify; tab-stops: list .5in; mso-list: l6 level1 lfo35;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">P17A4 Penerbitan Perpres tentang Proyek Percepatan Pembangunan Pembangkit Tanaga Listrik 10.000 MW tahap II (Kementerian ESDM)</span></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify; tab-stops: list .5in; mso-list: l6 level1 lfo35;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">P19A1 Perumusan penyelesaian permasalahan PPA di tingkat korporat PT PLN (Kementerian ESDM)</span></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify; tab-stops: list .5in; mso-list: l6 level1 lfo35;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">P19A3 Pemanfaatan coal bed methane melalui penyusunan perangkat sehingga menghasilkan energy pada tahun 2011 (Kementerian ESDM)</span></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify; tab-stops: list .5in; mso-list: l6 level1 lfo35;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">P20A1 Perumusan pengalihan system subsidi; BBM, pupuk dan listrik (Kemenko Perekonomian)</span></span></li>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><a href="http://www.detikfinance.com/read/2010/01/26/120923/1286185/4/hatta-program-100-hari-selesai-100" target="_blank"><span class="yshortcuts"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">http://www.detikfinance.com/read/2010/01/26/120923/1286185/4/hatta-program-100-hari-selesai-100</span></span></a></span></p>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">Berikut, 15 program &#8220;100 Hari&#8221; yang ditetapkan pemerintahan SBY:Silakan memeriksa dan menilai mana saja program yang berjalan atau, sukur-sukur, mencapai sasarannya</span></span></div>
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<div><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">&gt;  1. Pemberantasan Mafia Hukum<br />
&gt;  2. Penanggulangan Terorisme<br />
&gt;  3. Revitatalisasi Industri Pertahanan<br />
&gt;  4. Listrik<br />
&gt;  5. Produksi dan Ketahanan Pangan<br />
&gt;  6. Revitaliasi Pabrik Pupuk<br />
&gt;  7. Membenahi Keruwetan Tanah dan Tata Ruang<br />
&gt;  8. Infrasturuktur<br />
&gt;  9. Usaha Mikro, Kecil dan Menengah<br />
&gt; 10. Investasi dan Pembiayaan<br />
&gt; 11. Perubahan Iklim dan Lingkungan<br />
&gt; 12. Reformasi Kesehatan<br />
&gt; 13. Pendidikan<br />
&gt; 14. Penanggulangan Bencana<br />
&gt; 15. Sinergi Pusat dan Daerah</span></span></div>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: #000000;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">(Unquote)</span></span></strong></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: #000000;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">Wow! Just look at it! What a laundry list! </span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: #000000;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">The long list 100 days programs that were presented by SBY’s administration 2010 as stated above do not address the top 10 or even the top 3 pressing issues facing Indonesia. </span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: #000000;">It’s a long laundry list that does not make a dent on poverty and the massive unemployment, let alone of making a significant change in the overall outlook of Indonesian state of economy! </span><strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: #ff0000;">There are no bench marks, conditions or time line used to measure the success of those programs. </span></strong><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: #000000;">Any high school graduate can generate such a list! Is this the best thing of those cabinet Ministers can generate in lieu of their demand to drive Toyota Crown Majesta? What a joke!</span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">What is the benefit for the Indonesian people to having just programs from the government that are <strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><span style="color: #0000ff;">immeasurable;</span></span></strong> more like a long laundry list without bench-marks, measured expected condition on the ground and timeline? </span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">The more immeasurable of the programs are, the more likely those programs are bound to fail and nothing less but a laundry list that does not do any good for the people of Indonesia at large! Certainly those 51 programs that were presented by the current SBY’s administration for 2010 with lack of sharp focus in improving the life of the millions and millions Indonesian people who are still living under poverty line, reducing massive unemployment and Indonesia massive domestic and foreign debts for not having bench-marks, expected conditions on the ground and timeline is just ridiculous and <strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #0000ff;">UNACCEPTABLE!</span></strong> </span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">It’s time for a real change and the change is from today by scrutinizing the government programs that must be result oriented and not simply just programs and empty promises with rosy picture of the end-results. The era of laundry list, empty promises and secrecy are over. <span style="color: #000000;">We want to see </span><strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #0000ff;">tangible results</span></strong><span style="color: #000000;"> and these tangible results can only be achieved by having comprehensive sound plans and action plans with bench-marks and timeline that are debatable, measurable and attainable.</span> This is the spirit of Democracy that must be upheld. </span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">As promised during the general and Presidential campaign election 2009:</span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in; text-indent: -0.25in; text-align: justify; tab-stops: list .5in; mso-list: l38 level1 lfo27;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;;">        </span></span></span><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">If the current administration claims and wants to reduce poverty, inflation and unemployment at any percentage level, <strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #ff0000;">what are the plans and the action plans to get there?</span></strong> What are the bench-marks and timeline? What conditions expected on the ground to occur to indicate that the Programs are working? At what point that these programs have to be aborted or changed because it does not work and what are the consequences? These are the critical issue that must be answered.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in; text-indent: -0.25in; text-align: justify; tab-stops: list .5in; mso-list: l38 level1 lfo27;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;;">        </span></span></span><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">If the current administration wants to reduce<strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"> Indonesia’s massive Foreign and Domestic debts</strong>, <strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #ff0000;">what are the plans and the action-plans to get there?</span></strong><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span>What are the bench-marks and timeline to pay off these massive debts? The basic questions of who, what, where, why, when, if and how shall be applied and answered before we arrive to the expected results. </span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in; text-indent: -0.25in; text-align: justify; tab-stops: list .5in; mso-list: l38 level1 lfo27;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;;">        </span></span></span><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">If the current administration wants to improve the weakening currency Rupiah for the last 30 years, <strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #ff0000;">what are the plans and the action plans to get there?</span></strong> What are the bench-marks and timeline? What are the back up plans and consequences if it does not work? All of these questions need to be debated candidly, openly and publicly. </span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: #0000ff;">The Indonesia people are more interested in knowing the work-plans and the action plans that sound, measurable and comprehensive rather than having those laundry lists.</span></strong><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: #000000;"> The work-plans and the action-plans must be scrutinized whether it makes sense or not. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: #000000;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">We must undertake our public-oversight’s role to make significant changes and our role is nothing but to hold our Government Officials and Representatives accountable to generate tangible results by undertaking public open debates about the issues and the subsequent programs presented by the government. </span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">For that reason alone, it is not questionable that the President and the Vice President of Indonesia, all newly elected Cabinet Ministers and Members of Parliament shall come up and present their version of <strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #0000ff;">comprehensive work-plans and actions plans </span></strong>to address the many depressing and critical issues facing the country. This is the spirit of healthy debate and competition in a democratic government that must be promoted. </span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">We have identified several critical issues with clarity. We have spoken out loud, openly and publicly, pre and post Presidential and General Election. There should be no reasons or excuses for those who are in power that they do not know what those critical issues are. It is unacceptable for our current leaders in the Executive and the in the Legislative Branch to <strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #0000ff;">IGNORE </span></strong><span style="color: #000000;">or, abandoning</span><strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #0000ff;"> </span></strong>these critical issues to be unresolved for the next 5 years. </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">The issues are so critical to the welfare of millions and millions Indonesian people. Those critical issues shall be addressed and resolved now without any delay. </span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: #ff0000;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">What are those critical issues? <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: #0000ff;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">Massive Domestic &amp; Foreign Debts and disproportional Funds Allocation (APBN)</span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">As of January 2009, Indonesia’s foreign debts stand at <strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Rp.746 trillion</strong> and Indonesia’s domestic debts stand at <strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Rp.920 trillion Rupiah</strong>. It is interesting to note that now </span><span style="color: #0000ff;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Indonesia</span></span><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: #0000ff;">’s Domestic Debts is much bigger than foreign debts</span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">. Prior to 1997, Indonesia’s domestic debts was virtually zero, or very small! </span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">Meanwhile, Indonesia’s national budget (APBN) in 2008, total revenue stood at <strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Rp.895 trillion</strong>; total expenditure was <strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Rp.989.5 trillion</strong> resulting in deficit for <strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Rp.94.5</strong> trillion Rupiah, in which the Central Government alone spent <strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Rp.697.1 trillion</strong> <strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #ff0000;">(77.88%)</span></strong> of total revenue APBN. That is a lot of money to spend by one single entity called Central Government. </span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">Meanwhile, the remaining funds, which was <strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Rp.292.4 trillion</strong> <strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #ff0000;">(22.12% of APBN)</span></strong> was given or allocated to support 33 different provincial governments, which later on these provincial governments must share some of these funds to finance 491 Cities, 5,263 Districts (Kecamatan) and 69,919 Sub-Districts (Kelurahan) government to undertake whatever infrastructure and social projects they need. *Source: <strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #0000ff;">(Fiskal.depkeu.go.id and Direktorat Jendral Pengelolaan Utang DEPKEU). </span></strong></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">If those sub-districts (Kelurahan) or villages (Desa-Desa) government did receive any funds from that small amount (22.12% of APBN) that was set-aside by Central Government after being slashed and shared by Provincial, City and District level of Government, <strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #0000ff;">how much money left </span></strong>do you think they will receive? If there is, it must be very insignificant. How long this issue has been left untouched? </span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">This national budget allocation in my view is <strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #0000ff;">very disproportional, irresponsible and UNFAIR</span></strong>, especially, to those millions and million ordinary Indonesia citizens who live in the villages under poverty. Do you surprise that majority of those Indonesian people who are now still living under poverty live in those villages? To make a change on the ground, this budget allocation shall be dramatically changed and allocated differently. </span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">We encourage the Members of Parliament to come up with their own version National Budget (APBN 2010) competing with the National Budget (APBN) that is going to be submitted by the President. This budget allocation shall be debated openly and publicly. </span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">The National Budget allocation under APBN (in 2010) shall be proportional to address the needs of those ordinary Indonesia people who are still living under poverty in thousands and thousands villages. I don’t have to mention the figure; we all know how many people are still living under $ 2 a day or, (Rp. 20.000.-/ per hari)</span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">Let me address point per point to point it out those top critical issues and challenges facing Indonesia at this current time one-by-one with clarity in order for our President, Vice President, Cabinet Ministers, and Representatives of the people understand them all and willing to resolve those pressing issues sooner than later, as follow: </span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 45pt; text-indent: -0.25in; text-align: justify; tab-stops: list 45.0pt; mso-list: l41 level1 lfo23;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: #ff0000;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">1.<span style="font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;;">     </span></span></span></strong><strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: #ff0000;">*<span style="text-decoration: underline;">Kapan hutang dalam dan luar negeri </span></span></strong><strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: #ff0000;">Indonesia</span></span></strong><strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: #ff0000;"> akan di lunasi? </span></span></strong></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: #000000;">Nasional budget (APBN) sendiri tiap tahunnya tidak pernah balanced dan malah deficit trilliunan Rupiah.</span><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: #0000ff;"> Bagaimana, kapan dan berapa </span><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: #000000;">lama </span><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: #000000;">Indonesia</span><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: #000000;"> akan bisa melunasi HUTANG DALAM DAN LUAR NEGERI dan dari mana duitnya?</span><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: #0000ff;"> </span><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: #000000;">Issue ini perlu diperdebatkn secara umum dan terbuka dengan public atau rakyat </span><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: #000000;">Indonesia</span><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: #000000;">. </span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">(When are you going to pay off Indonesia’s massive Foreign and Domestic Debts? What plans and actions plans do you have to pay off Indonesia&#8217;s massive Domestic and Foreign debts, when, how long and where do you get the money from? </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: #0000ff; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">The false claim and false notion entertained by SBY’s Administration</span></span></strong></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">The current notion that is being entertained by the current administration to suggest that the <strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #ff0000;">Indonesia’s massive debts are still 30% of GDP</span></strong> and the debts payment on interest and principle <strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #ff0000;">only 2% of the GDP</span></strong> are thus acceptable is very ridiculous and unacceptable! Why? </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">These debts have entangled </span><span style="font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">Indonesia</span><span style="font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">’s ability to elevate much of the poverty, massive unemployment and provide much of the needed funds to fix the broken infrastructures and public services. These massive debts must be reduced and eliminated. We shall stop entertain such a silly notion. </span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">Prior to 1997/1998, </span><span style="font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">Indonesia</span><span style="font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">’s <strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">domestic debts</strong> were virtually zero, insignificant or, very small. Now, Indonesia’s domestic debts are even bigger than foreign debts just within the last 12 years. To suggest that it is okay for Indonesia to sustain such a massive debt just because the payment is <strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">still within 30% of GDP</strong> and its interest payment is still <strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">under 2% of GDP</strong> is simply irresponsible and immoral, knowing how many Indonesia people are still living under poverty; living under $2 a day! </span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">Menkeu Sri Mulyani</span></strong><span style="font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;"> continues to insist openly and publicly that </span><span style="font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">Indonesia</span><span style="font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">’s massive debts are within safety ratio and thus manageable! She cited that most developed countries like </span><span style="font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">Japan</span><span style="font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">, </span><span style="font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">USA</span><span style="font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;"> and European countries have debts. Japan’s debts are higher and bigger than Indonesia standing up to 150% of its GDP. United States of America has debts bigger than all debts by Asian countries combined all together. Some European countries have deficit higher than 9%. </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">Meanwhile, as <strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Menkeu Sri Mulyani</strong> explained that </span><span style="font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">Indonesia</span><span style="font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">’s debt ratio is still within 30% of its GDP, the interest is still within 2% of its GDP and the deficit is under 3%. Indonesia financial outlook is better than those developed countries. </span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">What is flaw with <strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Menkeu Sri Mulyani’s public statements</strong> is her attempt to corrupt and distort the economical facts about those developed countries such as: </span><span style="font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">Japan</span><span style="font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">, </span><span style="font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">USA</span><span style="font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;"> and European countries. There are fundamental economical differences between those developed countries and Indonesia, which are:</span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: #000000; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">A). </span><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: #000000; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">Japan</span><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: #000000; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">, </span><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: #000000; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">USA</span><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: #000000; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;"> and European Countries such as: </span><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: #000000; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">England</span><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: #000000; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">, </span><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: #000000; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">Germany</span><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: #000000; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;"> and </span><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: #000000; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">France</span><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: #000000; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;"> have large and solid </span><strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: #0000ff; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">Domestic Equity Market</span></strong><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: #000000; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">, while </span><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: #000000; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">Indonesia</span><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: #000000; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;"> does not! </span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: #000000; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">B). </span><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: #000000; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">Japan</span><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: #000000; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">, </span><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: #000000; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">USA</span><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: #000000; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;"> and European Countries such as: </span><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: #000000; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">England</span><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: #000000; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">, </span><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: #000000; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">Germany</span><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: #000000; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;"> and </span><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: #000000; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">France</span><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: #000000; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;"> have humongous </span><strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: #0000ff; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">Market Capitalization</span></strong><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: #000000; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">, while </span><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: #000000; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">Indonesia</span><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: #000000; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;"> does not!</span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">Those 2 things distinct and separate between those developed countries and Indonesia in terms of financial and economical outlook in the eyes of world creditors such as IMF, World Bank, Asian Development Bank (ADB) and Japan Bank for International Cooperation (JBIC). </span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">So, comparing Indonesia with those developed countries does not make sense and incomparable, just like comparing assets and the net worth of Aburizal Bakrie (Bakrie Brothers’ Co.) and successful penjual Bakso who has positive outlook on his/her portfolio, bought a nice house and brand new Mercedes Benz. </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">Even though Aburizal Bakrie’s financial outlook is let’s say minus and have deficit over 9% from his overall portfolio compared to penjual Bakso who has deficit under 3%, most Bank will prefer to loan money to Aburizal Bakrie than this successful penjual Bakso. Why? </span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">Because in terms of financial and economical outlook, Aburizal Bakrie’s Companies have tremendous amount of net worth, assets and potential profit compared to this penjual Bakso even though his portfolio is minus or having deficit bigger than this successful penjual bakso. That is the difference and that is something that <strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Menkeu Sri Mulyani</strong> failed to mention on her public statements. </span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">Those develop countries: </span><span style="font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">Japan</span><span style="font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">, </span><span style="font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">USA</span><span style="font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;"> and European countries even though they have debt ratio over 150% from their GDP and their deficit as high as 9%, they are still desirable by those world creditors because they have large and solid <strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #0000ff;">Domestic Equity Market</span></strong> and humongous <strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #0000ff;">Market Capitalization</span></strong>. </span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">These are 2 things that </span><span style="font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">Indonesia</span><span style="font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;"> does not have. If she does, the amount is too insignificant compared to its massive debts, massive unemployment and the amount of its citizen who are still living under poverty line. It is simply incomparable Madam Sri Mulyani! </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">It doesn’t take a genius to <strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #0000ff;">draw straight line</span></strong> between government’s massive debts and its citizen poverty and prosperity. The more bankrupt the government is, the more likely its citizen continues to suffer due to lack of public funds to provide public services. It’s simple math. The question we all ask is this: <span style="color: #ff0000;">H<strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">ow long these massive debts are going to be left unresolved? </strong></span>What plans and action plans do you have to resolve this issue? </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">Sama anggota PARIS CLUB saja akan memakan waktu 40 tahun, itupun kalau Indonesia bisa terus menerus bisa membayar cicilanya yg berupa Principle, Interest dan Commission setiap tahunya rata-rata $4.5 billion dalam waktu 40 tahun? </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">Below is link below <strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">“Proyeksi Pembayaran Pinjaman Luar Negeri Pemerintah </strong></span><strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">Indonesia</span></strong><strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;"> Kepada Negara Anggota Paris Club 2005-2008.”</span></strong></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"> </span></span></strong></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: #0000ff; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">http://parmadim.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/02/debts-to-paris-club.pdf</span></span></strong></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">Empat puluh tahun (40 tahun), bukanlah 40 minggu atau 40 bulan? Mortgage loan untuk pembelian dan cicilan rumah diluar negeri saja hanya 30 tahun maximum dan jarang yg 40 tahun. Terus bagaimana dengan hutang-hutang Indonesia dengan creditor asing lain seperti ADB (Asian Development Bank), JBIC (Japan Bank of International Cooperation, World Bank, creditor asing lain dan juga creditor dalam negeri? </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.75in; text-indent: -0.25in; text-align: justify; tab-stops: list .75in; mso-list: l28 level1 lfo39;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">1.<span style="font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;;">        </span></span></span><span style="font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">Kapan hutang-hutang ini akan dilunasi? Jangan cuma me-manage hutang-hutang itu saja, tambal sulam. Kalau nggak hutang Paul untuk bayar Peter, ganti hutang achong-achong untuk bayar Peter. </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.25in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.75in; text-indent: -0.25in; text-align: justify; tab-stops: list .75in; mso-list: l28 level1 lfo39;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">2.<span style="font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;;">        </span></span></span><span style="font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">Apakah Indonesia dan rakyatnya harus terus menerus menanggung hutang-hutang ini seumur hidup bahkan sampai anak cucu dari generasi ke generasi? </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.75in; text-indent: -0.25in; text-align: justify; tab-stops: list .75in; mso-list: l28 level1 lfo39;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">3.<span style="font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;;">        </span></span></span><span style="font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">Bernarkah para pemimpim kita hanya bisa tambal sulam dalam mengatasi masalah ini karena besarnya hutang dan ketidakmampuan mereka untuk mencari jalan pemecahanya? </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.75in; text-indent: -0.25in; text-align: justify; tab-stops: list .75in; mso-list: l28 level1 lfo39;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">4.<span style="font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;;">        </span></span></span><span style="font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">Kenapa hutang ini telah dibiarkan begitu lama mencekik leher bangsa Indonesia? </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">Kami tidak percaya bahwasanya masalah ini tidak bisa dipecahkan dan kami tidak bisa menerima bila hutang ini harus dibiarkan mencekik leher bangsa </span><span style="font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">Indonesia</span><span style="font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;"> lebih lama lagi. Sudah lebih dari 60 tahun, berapa lama lagi bangsa </span><span style="font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">Indonesia</span><span style="font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;"> harus menderita karena hutang negara dan ketidakmampuan generasi tua dalam mengelola sumber daya alam dan kekayaan negara </span><span style="font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">Indonesia</span><span style="font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">. <em></em></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: #000000;">What is at stake for </span></strong><strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: #000000;">Indonesia</span></strong><strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: #000000;"> with these massive Foreign and Domestic Debts? </span></strong></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: #ff0000;">The 1<sup>st</sup> problem</span></span></strong><span style="font-size: 14pt;">: <span style="color: #0000ff;">Our debts are in US dollar and our currency is in Rupiah</span>. </span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">The loan repayments will <strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">INCREASE</strong> as the Rupiah continues to depreciate, make it much more challenging and difficult if not impossible TO PAY those massive debts OFF! This means that the ordinary people of Indonesia have to work <strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">MUCH and MUCH HARDER</strong> as tax payers to keep up with the increasing US currency. <strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><em style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">(Ibarat mengejar hutang yang naik Bus, tapi kita mengejarnya pakai sepeda. Tidak akan bisa nyampek-nyampek, malah semakin hari semakin ketinggalan jauh).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span></em></strong></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">The loan amounts as time goes by are not getting smaller but even bigger. That translates the much longer time needed for Indonesia to be able to pay off its massive foreign and domestic debts if not for a generation to come. What a blunder! </span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">As one of those younger generations, I can not accept this reality and this is one of the reasons why I have been continuously confronting and raising this issue openly and publicly. I am challenging the current government and the parliament members to resolve this critical issue sooner than later. It is too important issue for the welfare of the Indonesia people at large! </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: #ff0000;">The 2<sup>nd</sup> problem</span></span></strong><span style="font-size: 14pt;">: <span style="color: #0000ff;">The </span></span><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: #0000ff;">Indonesia</span><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: #0000ff;">’s ability to pay these loans will DECLINE as the debt service ratio (DSR) has risen over the years from 33% in 1996 to 50% in 1998. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Even in 2008/2009 is still within 30%. </span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">The ability to repay these debts will depend on EXPORTS, and exports are greatly dependent on <strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #0000ff;">“demand and supply.” </span></strong></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in; text-align: justify;"><strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: #0000ff;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"> </span></span></strong></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">On the demand side, Indonesian market had about 64% in Asian region. But on the supply side, the <strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #0000ff;">real sector</span></strong> was very poor. This affects and will continue to affect the declining value of the Rupiah against other currencies, especially, the US currency. It is maybe catching up here and there, due to different reasons. But lack of supply in the real sector will minimize the ability of currency Rupiah to compete other currencies. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">Another issue is with virtually <strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #0000ff;">no significant ability</span></strong> from the Indonesian Government to stipulate domestic economy due to lack of funds because of these massive debts and monstrous Central Government spending which in 2008 absorb 77.88% of total APBN revenue, the trend continues and domestic consumption will have to be imported and thus eliminating the change for Indonesia in capturing its DOMESTIC EQUITY MARKET. </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: #000000;">Double that</span></strong><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> with the Indonesian Government economic policies that has been primarily focusing on the macro-economy. The real sector was not only poor but significantly untouched! This factor alone translates the likelihood of declining and weakening the currency Rupiah against US Dollar and other currencies. With virtually no significant effort to capture much of the DOMESTIC EQUITY MARKET, it is only economic-formula that </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Indonesia</span><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> will <strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #0000ff;">highly unlikely</span></strong> be able to establish bigger and broader MARKET CAPITALIZATION, one of the critical sectors that are needed to strengthen Rupiah currency. </span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">In the absence of these two significant sectors, Domestic Equity Market and Market capitalization, it is only common sense that the currency Rupiah will most likely will continue to decline and weaken. <strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #0000ff;">This is a double deep.</span></strong> That means the ability for </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Indonesia</span><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> to pay off its massive debts will take much and much longer time, beyond imaginable. The issues are massive! </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">Dengan kondisi ekonomi seperti ini, biar sampai elek ya nggak akan bisa melunasi hutang-hutang itu kalau kebijaksanaan pemerintahan selama ini hanya mengeluarkan long laundry list. It’s a pathetic reality that I can not bear to see it going much longer. </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: #0000ff;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">Who is paying the price? </span></span></strong></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">No body else but those millions and millions ordinary poor Indonesian people who do not know the complexity of these massive debts, its ramification and the underlying issues facing the country. Because they are the one who will continue to suffer for many and many years to come unless this issue is resolved once and for all, sooner than later. </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">It is a sad reality that with this bad economy, there is no sound Government economic policy; it is either non-existence or chaotic that is undertaken to remedy this issue in a country that is so rich with natural resources. </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: #ff0000;">The 3rd problem</span></span></strong><span style="font-size: 14pt;">: “<span style="color: #0000ff;">Because the required loan repayment is so large and so humongous, the potential and the funds needed to stipulate the economy are lacking. What does it mean? </span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">That means as </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Indonesia</span><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> is lacking of fund needed stipulate its domestic economy and to rebuild the broken infra structures due to her massive debts, this will make it impossible for </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Indonesia</span><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> to improve its current condition. This condition triples already complicated the matters. </span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">It is high possibility that the condition will likely to get worse each year as we have seen for the last 30 years with its currency value unless dramatic economic policy is undertaken. At best, the current administration will only maintain status quo, the situation that has been unchanged for over 35 years. Will you accept this reality for the next 5 years? </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: #ff0000;">The 4<sup>th</sup> problem</span></span></strong><span style="font-size: 14pt;">: <span style="color: #0000ff;">Such an immense debt stock could exacerbate adverse public perception and false expectations (false hopes).</span> </span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">This situation is just like a combustion chamber with high density, where a tiny spark can create an explosion burning the entire chamber, making </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Indonesia</span><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> susceptible to external shock and turmoil. We have seen this happening in 1998.</span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">The Indonesian people expect too much from their leaders to make a significant change of their life from poverty and difficulties, which is understandable and they have every right to expect that from their leaders. It makes sense. But what are not being known and understood are how massive these debts really are and what impact it has to the Indonesian government’s ability to govern with such an immense debt stock. </span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">When those expectations do not arrive as hoped because it was false expectation and false hope at the first place anyway, people become anger and often times they express their anger toward other innocent people or minority who has nothing to do with the real issue as we have seen happening in 1998. These adverse public perceptions and false expectations are just like a combustion chamber that is ready to explode at any given time. </span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Knowing how critical and dangerous the issue really is, it is beyond any reasonable doubt that </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Indonesia</span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">’s massive foreign and domestic debt is the most pressing issue facing </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Indonesia</span><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> at this time and this shall be the number #1 issue and a top priority for President SBY, his cabinet members and the Parliament to address it. </span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: #0000ff;">This is a clear danger just like </span><strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: #000000;">ticking timed-bomb</span></strong><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: #0000ff;"> that must be resolved sooner than later. I can not say it any better and point it out this issue in much clear way than this to emphasize how critical the issues really are. </span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">It is time for all of Indonesia’s politicians, members of the Parliament, President and Vice President of Indonesia and all cabinet Ministers to rise up to tackle those big issues and deliver results to the Indonesian people and not empty promises. Now is the time for a change and I am taking the 1<sup>st</sup> step toward that direction. Maintaining status quo is just unacceptable proposition in such a critical time. We can do better and yes, we can! Because I believe that we are a capable nation! </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: #000000; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">Inilah tantangan dan tanggung jawab terbesar bagi para pemimpim rakyat mulai dari </span><strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: #0000ff; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">President, Wakil President, para Menteri Kabinet dan Wakil Rakyat</span></strong><strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: #ff0000; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;"> </span></strong><strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: #0000ff; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">di Parliamen</span></strong><strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: #ff0000; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;"> </span></strong><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: #000000; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">dalam waktu</span><strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: #ff0000; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;"> </span></strong><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: #000000; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">5 tahun kedepan</span><strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: #ff0000; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;"> (2009-2014). </span></strong></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in; text-align: justify;"><strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: #ff0000; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"> </span></span></strong></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">Rakyat </span><span style="font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">Indonesia</span><span style="font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;"> menunggu hasil kerja pemerintah yang nyata dan hasil kerja yang nyata itu hanya akan bisa dicapai bila pemerintah memimilki program kerja yg konkrit dan comprehensive yg memiliki bench-marks dan timeline untuk memecahkan masalah kritis ini. </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">Rakyat </span><span style="font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">Indonesia</span><span style="font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;"> tidak ingin lagi dibohongi, rakyat </span><span style="font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">Indonesia</span><span style="font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;"> tidak ingin lagi melihat masalah ini ditunda-tunda karena masalah ini telah membelenggu kehidupan rakyat </span><span style="font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">Indonesia</span><span style="font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;"> lebih dari 35 tahun. Kami; rakyat </span><span style="font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">Indonesia</span><span style="font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;"> yg paham akan masalah ini memiliki pendapat dan jalan keluar. Karena itu kami menuntut agar program kerja pemerintah disebarluaskan agar kami memiliki kesempatan untuk mempelajari dan memperdebatkan program kerja itu. </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">Kami menginginkan agar hutang-hutang </span><span style="font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">Indonesia</span><span style="font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;"> yang begitu besar jumlahnya yang telah mencekik leher bangsa </span><span style="font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">Indonesia</span><span style="font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;"> bertahun-tahun dicari pemecahanya untuk diperkecil dan dihapuskan secepatnya. </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 45pt; text-indent: -0.25in; text-align: justify; tab-stops: list 45.0pt; mso-list: l41 level1 lfo23;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><em><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: #ff0000;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">2.<span style="font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;;">     </span></span></span></em><strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: #ff0000;">*<span style="text-decoration: underline;">Kurs Rupiah telah merosot nilainya terus menerus terhadap US dollar dalam waktu 30 tahun terakhir.</span></span></strong><em></em></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 45pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">(What plans and actions plans do you have to address the weakening currency Rupiah for the last 30 years?) </span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: #0000ff; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">Another false claim and false notion entertained by SBY’s Administration</span></span></strong></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">The notion that is being entertained by the current administration to suggest that </span><strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #0000ff;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">Indonesia</span></span></strong><strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: #0000ff; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">’s currency Rupiah is stable or improved</span></strong><span style="font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;"> because they are able to maintain the currency value within Rp.10.000 equal to $1USD is really ridiculous! This is the most dire and hopeless claim I have ever heard or, simply a brain-washed as an attempt to manipulate perception. </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">In 1970’s, USD $1 equal to Rp. 400 and in 1980’s $1USD equal to Rp.650. Now in 2009; 30 years later, $1USD is equal to what? Rp.10.000…? This indicates that the economic condition in Indonesia compared to the economic condition in the USA is 10X times worse or weaken. To suggest that maintaining currency Rupiah to stand at Rp.10.000 equal to $1USD okay and acceptable is simply ridiculous, isn’t it! So, stop entertaining such a false notion! </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">The currency improvement was there because </span><span style="font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">Indonesia</span><span style="font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;"> was at the bottom before. At one point, $1 USD was equal to Rp. 15.000. It is ridiculously unfounded that </span><span style="font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">Indonesia</span><span style="font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;"> currency Rupiah is claimed getting better. No, it is not. It’s 10 x (ten times) worse or, weakens for the last 30 years. This is undeniable fact! </span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: #0000ff; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"> </span></span></strong></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: #0000ff; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">THE UNDERLYING ISSUES</span></span></strong></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: #0000ff; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"> </span></span></strong></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: #000000; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">It is worth of repeating the answers because the important of this issue. As I said above, </span><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: #000000; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">Indonesia</span><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: #000000; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;"> is in massive debt trap. You can deny it all day long and come up with an excuse that Indonesia’s debts is still within 30% of APBN and its interest payment is still within 2% of APBN and thus the overall debts is still manageable. </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: #000000; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: #000000; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">The problem with this assertion is how long are we going to pay off these massive debts? As a country, are we going to keep paying these massive debts payment for many and many more years to come? Isn’t there a better way to address this issue? </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: #ff0000;">The 1<sup>st</sup> problem</span></span></strong><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">:</span></span><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> <span style="color: #000000;">Our debts are in US dollar and our currency is in Rupiah. </span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: #ff0000;">The 2<sup>nd</sup> problem</span></span></strong><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">: </span></span><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: #000000;">The </span><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: #000000;">Indonesia</span><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: #000000;">’s ability to pay these loans will DECLINE as the debt service ratio (DSR) has risen over the years from 33% in 1996 to 50% in 1998.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span>Even in 2008/2009 is still within 30%. </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in; text-align: justify;"><strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: #000000;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"> </span></span></strong></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: #ff0000;">The 3rd problem</span></span></strong><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">:</span></span><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> <span style="color: #000000;">Because the required loan repayment is so large and so humongous, the potential of having the funds needed to stipulate the domestic economy are lacking. What does it mean? </span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: #ff0000;">The 4<sup>th</sup> problem</span></span></strong><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">:</span></span><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> <span style="color: #000000;">Such an immense debt stock could exacerbate adverse public perception and false expectations (false hopes). </span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: #000000;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">Improving Indonesian economy will tied down respectfully with the effort of improving its currency (Rupiah). And for this effort to succeed, there are many sectors of government that has to be harmonized and managed. Even the effort of reducing <strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #0000ff;">the unemployment and poverty</span></strong> elevation can be remedied at the same time when currency Rupiah is improved. Why? </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">Because to improve Indonesian currency Rupiah against US Dollar and other Foreign currencies will involve and revolve around improving Domestic Equity Market and Market Capitalization. This will take tremendous amount of hard works and efforts as well as cooperation from all across sector of Government offices. Not only within the government departments, institutions and banking industries but also government economic policies that must be harmonized and tailored to achieve one common goal, but also from law enforcement and Judicial System to uphold the rule of law and not the rule of man to establish order and sense of security for foreign investors to invest in Indonesia. The works are tremendous to improve a currency of a country. It is definitely not only from economic sector alone, but also from overall government operations. </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">But again, regardless how complex and perplexing it may seem, it is workable and achievable. This is the job of our leaders and representatives to address it. We; the people of </span><span style="font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">Indonesia</span><span style="font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;"> want to see them taking action sooner than later. Because the issue is very critical and having direct impact to the life of millions people. </span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 45pt; text-indent: -0.25in; text-align: justify; tab-stops: list 45.0pt; mso-list: l41 level1 lfo23;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><em><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: #ff0000;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">3.<span style="font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;;">     </span></span></span></em><strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: #ff0000;">*<span style="text-decoration: underline;">Pemerintah Pusat Terlalu Boros! </span></span></strong><em></em></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 27pt; text-align: justify;"><strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: #993300;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"> </span></span></strong></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 45pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">(What plans and actions plan do you have to cut the central government spending that has taken about 70% total national budget (APBN) for the last 5 years?). </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 1in; text-align: justify;"><em><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: #993300;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"> </span></span></em></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: #000000;">Kenapa SBY Administrasi ke II bukan mengurangi pengeluaraan pemerintah pusat, malah memperbesar? Dimana tanggung-jawab Presiden SBY? Tidak mengertikah Presiden SBY dengan kritikal issue yang dihadapi Bangsa dan Negara Indonesia?</span><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: #993300;"> <em></em></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: #0000ff;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"> </span></span></strong></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: #000000;">Tahun 2008, pemerintah pusat telah memakan 77.88% dari total pendapatan APBN.</span><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: #0000ff;"> </span><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: #000000;">Sementara itu sisa dana APBN sebesar 22.12% (APBN) dibagai-bagi ke 33 daerah di tingkat propinsi dan harus dibagi-bagi lagi ke bawah ke 491 pemerintah di tingkat kota, 5,263 pemerinthan di tingkat kecamatan dan 69,919 pemerinthan di tingkat desa. </span><em></em></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: #000000;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">Bukankah percentase pengeluaran dan alokasi dana APBN ini seharusnya di balik dimana pemerintah daerah memilki dana alokasi lebih besar daripada pemerintah pusat atau paling tidak harus proporsional? Apalagi dengan terus berjalanya kebijaksaan autonomi daerah? <em></em></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: #0000ff;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">Bloated Members of Executive and Members of Parliament</span></span></strong></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">United States of America (USA) as a country had GDP as big as $14.4 trillions in 2008, about 13 times bigger than </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Indonesia</span><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> where </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Indonesia</span><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> in 2008 had $ 915.9 billion in GDP. That is GDP comparison. </span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">Now territorial wise, USA is about 9 times bigger than Indonesia, where USA has 9,826,630 km2 (or 3,794,066 sq mile) and Indonesia has 1.919.440 km2 (or 3.794.066 Sq mile). Now look at how many members of US Congress has? </span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">It has only 535 members, which includes 100 Senators (2 Senator from each States) and 435 congressmen/women from 435 different district across </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">USA</span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">. That is </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">USA</span><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> being a country that has such a monstrous market capitalization in the world and humongous domestic equity market. Now look at how many members of Parliament (DPR/MPR/DPD) </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Indonesia</span><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> has? </span></span></p>
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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">It has 692 members, which are 560 total members of the Parliament (DPR/MPR) and another 132 members of DPD. That is 157 members more than member of US Congress. Go figure! </span></span></p>
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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Indonesia</span><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> as being a smaller country, much smaller country about 13 times smaller in GDP and 9 times smaller in territorial size but is having 157 more members of legislative than member of US Congress? </span></span></p>
<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: #0000ff;">What is wrong with this picture? </span></strong><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: #000000;">This is not it. Let me give the bigger picture and how massive government </span><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: #000000;">Indonesia</span><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: #000000;"> really is. </span></span></p>
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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">On top of those bloated figures, Indonesia is the only country on Earth that has so many Menteri, Assistant Menteri, Direktur Jendral, Inspektur Jendral, Assistant Dirjen dan Assistant Irjen, and plus KPK, KPU all across the nation from top Central Government down to the local municipality at City, District and Sub-District level. </span></span></p>
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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: #0000ff;">Double that</span></strong><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> with additional members of the government what’s so called: Tenaga Ahli (The experts), Watimpres and wakil Menteri! Don’t be surprised that some of those Ministers, Members of Parliament and other Government Officials have more than 1 tenaga ahli (the expert). </span></span></p>
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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: #0000ff;">Triple that</span></strong><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> with the establishment of over 50 different commissions in the last decade. In terms of size, Indonesian government is really big if not monstrous. Do you surprise why the Central Government absorbed and spent over 77% of its GDP. </span></span></p>
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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">Knowing all these wasteful spending, President SBY in stead of reducing his Cabinet Ministers, he even increased the number of his 2<sup>nd</sup> Cabinet Ministers on top of additional 10 vice or wakil Minister and member of Watimpres.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span>What doesn’t he understand? </span></span></p>
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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">One of the new phenomenons during this era of reformation in </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Indonesia</span><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> is the growing establishment of the so called: <strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #0000ff;">INDEPENDENT COMMISSIONS</span></strong> outside the work of Executive, Legislative and Judicative Branch of Government. For the last decade there are at least 50 different commissions have been established. Just to name a few of them:</span></span></p>
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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">a). In the absence of public trust toward the <strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #0000ff;">Indonesian government officials</span></strong> on public transparency, the <strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #ff0000;">OMBUDSMAN Commission</span></strong> was established to undertake the job of public oversight. </span></span></p>
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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">b). In the absence public trust toward the <strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #0000ff;">Indonesian’s law enforcements</span></strong> to undertake on <span style="color: #000000;">human rights violations,</span> <strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #ff0000;">KOMNAS HAM</span></strong> was established. </span></span></p>
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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">c). In the absence of public trust toward <strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #0000ff;">Indonesian’s Justice System</span></strong> that is so corrupt, <strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #ff0000;">KPK (Komisi Pemberantasan Korupsi)</span></strong> was established.</span></span></p>
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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Imagine how many layers Government and number of personnel does </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Indonesia</span><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> have?</span></span></p>
<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">The very troubling corruption madness in almost every level of government offices, especially at the Judicial System of Government was an issue that triggers the establishment of this KPK. And because the justice system in Indonesia does not function and work as it is meant to be, KPK was established to undertake the job in combating corruption. It is understandable and makes sense from the need stand point! </span></span></p>
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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Lack of enforcement on the rule of laws and continuing power abuses tripled the problems. KPK (Komisi Pemberantasan Korupsi) was then established to address such a need in response to public outcry.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span>But <strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #0000ff;">creating such commissions is also creating a new layer of government on top of layers after layers that are already there draining much of the </span></strong></span><strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: #0000ff;">Indonesia</span></strong><strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: #0000ff;">’s financial resources (APBN). </span></strong></span></p>
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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">In the absence of judicial system ability to function fairly and independently, KPU (Komisi Pemilihan Umum) was established to monitor, regulate and oversee the general and presidential election process. Even though KPU has been functioning as it was intended to be, it has no enforcement authority. </span></span></p>
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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">The 2004 election, Golkar party was the biggest violator on KPU regulations but because this commission does not have either Executive, Legislative or Judicial authority to enforce the law, there was nothing that KPU could do to hold Golkar party accountable and imposed punishment accordingly. </span></span></p>
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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">This is a new government office that was claimed to be absolute and independent entity but was unable to punish the violators. What does that say and prove? </span></span></p>
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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">Violations in the 2009 elections were also reported to continue to occur. What POLRI and KPU did to hold the violators accountable? No much. The problem here is that POLRI is under President’s power grip. For POLRI to take on the sitting President’s Party or the Commander in Chief himself is highly unlikely. This is another lame duck government entity that is function-able but lack of enforcement and authority. </span></span></p>
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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">If we look at the job of KPK and KPU, it is clearly still within the framework of judicial system of Government. And because one branch of Government does not work, an alternative was established. I can accept that and that was not too unfortunate step taken since the judicial system was completely untrustworthy. </span></span></p>
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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">I don’t disagree in terms of the intention and the spirit of establishing those commissions and other entities. </span></span></p>
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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: #0000ff;">But maintaining broken entities or institutions to exist and </span><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: #ff0000;">keeping these commissions the way they are</span><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: #0000ff;">, with lack of enforcements while creating more and more layers of government is unwise policy and uneconomic in nature. The broken entities must be dissolved or at the very least to be dramatically reformed to minimize the government spending. </span></span></p>
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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: #000000;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">This is something that SBY’a administration does not do during his 1<sup>st</sup> term and likely on his 2<sup>nd</sup> term. It’s sobering and phatetic reality that shall be challenged openly and publicly. </span></span></p>
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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">The other option that can be taken momentarily to remedy the issue is by keeping KPK and KPU the way they are as independent and separated entities. Consequently, the size of Judicial System and Law Enforcement must be dramatically reduced to compensate both commissions in terms of cost and number of personnel. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This is one of the ways to minimize central government spending. </span></span></p>
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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">Understanding this issue, it is now the time for the Indonesian Government to gradually reform judicial system and place KPK/KPU back within that framework or the wing of Judicial System with its Judicial Authority. The executive and legislative branch of Government must work together to reform Indonesia’s judicial system to be corrupt and bribery free as well as to be absolute independent. Otherwise, fixing the bigger issues will be impossible.</span></span></p>
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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: #0000ff;">Keeping the spirit of check and balance between </span><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: #ff0000;">“Cicak vs. Buaya”; </span><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: #000000;">between KPK vs. POLRI.</span></span></p>
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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: #000000;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">In the wake of the recent political debacle in Indonesia between KPK and POLRI and the public sentiment toward President SBY’s involvement on the matter that there was collaborated attempts to marginalize the power of KPK through POLRI and the Office for Counsel of Prosecution (KEJAKSAAN) have become a political issue that can not be ignored. If President SBY is unable to fairly address the issue publicly and openly, his reputation to gain public trust will be diminishing. </span></span></p>
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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: #000000;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">What so great about Democracy government is the establishment of open competition amongst the members of the branches of government and other institution within the government affairs to do what is just and fair under the rule of law and not under the rule of man. </span></span></p>
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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: #000000;">The recent arrest by POLRI of 2 prominent members of KPK; Mr. Bibit S. Rianto and Mr. Chandra M. Hamzah, was an example of check and balance that shall be upheld under democratic government with one condition that any arrest of citizen by POLRI, KPK or other Judiciaries,</span><strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: #0000ff;"> a probably cause must first be established and an arrest warrant must be obtained from the Court. </span></strong><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: #000000;">So, the arrest has to be an order from the Court and it is not in itself the power of POLRI, or KPK or other judiciaries. </span></span></p>
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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: #000000;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">Once an arrest warrant is obtained from the Court, POLRI, KPK or other Judiciaries have every legal ground uphold the rule of law by arresting those individuals regardless who they are. </span></span></p>
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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: #000000;">The next critical action that must be followed is that under Habeas Corpus, Declaration of Human Rights and other International documents require that once a person is detained or arrested by an authority, </span><strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: #0000ff;">within 3 days after the arrest takes place, the charge (s) must be submitted in the Court of law against that person. </span></strong></span></p>
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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: #000000;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">No entity shall be allowed to arrest any citizen longer than 3 days without any charge being submitted in the Court of law. If after 3 days no charge (s) being submitted against that person under the Court of law, that person must be released. </span></span></p>
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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: #000000;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">In the arrest members of KPK; Mr. Bibit S. Rianto and Mr. Chandra M. Hamzah, now POLRI has an obligation to submit the charge (s) against Mr. Bibit S. Rianto and Mr. Chandra M. Hamzah after 3 days they were arrested in the Court of law. The Court then will have to decide whether these individuals guilty or not. If they are, the will go to jail and if not, they will have to be set free. </span></span></p>
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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: #000000;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">This is the establishment of justice in a democratic government under the rule of law and not under the rule of man. The action by President SBY not to get involved or be part of the process in this matter is correct. This issue belongs to Judicial System of Government and the Executive Branch shall stay away from it. The action by President SBY to immediately appoint the replacement of these two individuals to undertake their tasks at KPK in their absence due to this arrest is also correct. </span></span></p>
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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: #000000;">In a nutshell, President SBY action was not done with the intention to marginalize the power of KPK, but it is to continue the work of KPK and to maintain </span><strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: #ff0000;">check and balance</span></strong><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: #000000;"> between KPK and POLRI. Secondly, President SBY’s actions show and demonstrate being President of the country he is in charge the Executive Branch of Government, not Legislative or Judicative and that no one shall be above the law including members of KPK. </span></span></p>
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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: #000000;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">However, the action by President SBY to encourage or order POLRI and the Counsel Office for Prosecution (Kejaksaan) to resolve this issue outside the Judicial System is wrong and in violation of the spirit of Democratic Government that recognizes boundaries and separation between Judicial System and The Executive Branch. Any members of Parliament can take on this issue should they wish to cite a legal and constitutional ground under democratic principle that President SBY is overstepping his authority as the Head of the Executive Branch on this issue. </span></span></p>
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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: #000000;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">With this situation occurred, I strongly believe that now members of KPK and members of POLRI will continue to compete and this competition in itself will establish “check and balance” between the two government entities. When government entities are competing in justice and goodness, the people get the benefits. This is the spirit of check and balance that shall be upheld. That is good and that is very healthy in democratic society! <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></span></p>
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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: #000000;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">With a notion that everyone is innocent until proven guilty under the Court of law, the people shall wait and see what kind of case and evident POLRI have against Mr. Bibit S. Rianto and Mr. Chandra M. Hamzah. We will also see what kind of defend these 2 individuals have in the Court of law. </span></span></p>
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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: #000000;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">The judicial system shall be allowed to proceed and let’s the court system justify and decide the matter. Once the decision is made on the matter, the public can then reassess the situation and do what is necessary to response the verdict. If the allegation is proven to be false and fabricated, then the President has every obligation to reform POLRI and the Office of Counsel for Prosecution (KEJAKSAAN) as well as other judiciaries related to this matter that is corrupt and broken. Again, Democracy is a government based on the rule of law, and not the rule of man. </span></span></p>
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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: #000000;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">Unfortunately, the case has been resolved and remedied in line with the executive order of the President to settle the case outside the court. We did not see the court proceeding to take place! <strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">That in itself is wrong and undemocratic!</strong> Even though that decision may seem beneficial, but it is in violation of justice, the rule of law and democratic principles. Those legal issues shall be decided under the rule of law, in the judicial system by court order and not under the rule of man. </span></span></p>
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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: #000000;">This case should be a guiding example for those commissions or other public oversight agencies in </span><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: #000000;">Indonesia</span><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: #000000;"> to undertake public oversight to oversee the work of government officials, Representative and other government entities to demand and to play role in establishing transparency, check and balance for all government’s bodies and institutions. When businesses or government institutions compete, people get benefits. This kind of competition shall be upheld and promote more in </span><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: #000000;">Indonesia</span><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: #000000;">. </span></span></p>
<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: #000000;">B</span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">elow is the breakdown of Cabinet Minister’s establishment during the era of reformation from (1999 to 2014):</span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: #0000ff;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">A) *President Abdurrahman Wahid Administration (1999- 2001) - Tiga kali perombakan cabinet</span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: #ff0000;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"># 36 MENTERI</span></span></strong><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"> DAN PEJABAT SETINGKAT MENTERI<br />
# PARPOL (20 ORANG)<br />
# NON-PARPOL (16 ORANG)</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">*Didukung oleh koalisi PDIP, PKB, Golkar, PPP, PAN, dan <span class="yshortcuts">Partai Keadilan</span>. Presdient Abdurrahman jatuh karena dimakzulkan / impeached by DPR. Ketika itu, DPR mengajukan hak angket atas penyalahgunaan dana Bulog dan penyelewengan bantuan Sultan </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Brunei</span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">.<strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"></strong></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">B) <span style="color: #0000ff;">*President Megawati Soekarnoputri Adminsitration (2001-2004)*</span></span></span></strong></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: #ff0000;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"># 34 MENTERI</span></span></strong><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"> DAN PEJABAT SETINGKAT MENTERI<br />
# PARPOL (14 ORANG)<br />
# NON-PARPOL (20 ORANG)<br />
*Didukung oleh koalisi PDIP, PPP, PKB, Golkar, PBB, dan PAN.</span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">C) <span style="color: #0000ff;">*President <span class="yshortcuts">Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono</span> Adminsitration - I Term (2004-2009)* Dua kali perombakan cabinet</span></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: #ff0000;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"># 38 MENTERI</span></span></strong><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"> DAN PEJABAT SETINGKAT MENTERI<br />
# PARPOL (17 ORANG)<br />
# NON-PARPOL (21 ORANG)</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"># Semula hanya didukung Partai Demokrat, PKS, PBB, dan PKPI. Belakangan<br />
bergabung Golkar, PPP, PKB, dan PAN. Meski resminya didukung banyak<br />
partai, pemerintah pernah digoyang DPR melalui penggunaan hak angket<br />
atas kasus impor beras dan kenaikan harga BBM, tapi rencana itu batal<br />
dilaksanakan.</span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">D) </span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #0000ff;">*Presdient Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono Administration - II Term (2009-2014)*<br />
</span></strong><br />
<strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #ff0000;"># 40 MENTERI</span></strong> DAN PEJABAT SETINGKAT MENTERI<br />
# PARPOL (20 ORANG)<br />
# NON-PARPOL (20 ORANG)</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"># 9 Wakil Menteri (awalnya 11 wakil menteri diusulkan)</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"># 9 Anggota Watimpres</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"># Didukung oleh mayoritas partai di DPR kecuali PDIP, Hanura, dan Gerindra. Dua yang terakhir adalah partai kecil.</span></span></p>
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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">With all due respect to our elected President SBY’s attempts to fix the problems, it shows that President SBY does not care with the bloated figure of his administration and the central government spending where in 2008 took <strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #0000ff;">77.88%</span></strong> of total national revenue (APBN). In stead of reducing the number of his Cabinet Ministers during his second administration, he even increased the number from 38 members to 40 members. </span></span></p>
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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">It shows that President SBY ignores the issue even though so many people including myself have pointed this out openly and publicly. With that massive cabinet minister’s establishment, he will continue spending much of the National Budget (APBN) to fund the central Government. What a tragic! This is an issue that can not be left unresolved much longer. <span style="mso-tab-count: 1;">     </span></span></span></p>
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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">Do you know how much the salary for each of those Parliament members and other government officials have and plus tunjangan here and there; this and that, gaji kehormatan dan permintaan cicin emas sebagai kenangan dimasa habis jabatan, etc? Check out this link:</span></span></p>
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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><a href="http://parmadim.com/category/democracy-or-demo-crazy/"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">http://parmadim.com/category/democracy-or-demo-crazy/</span></a></span></p>
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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Gaji kehormatan?</span></strong><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> That was a real crack-up when we discovered this. Who came up with this idea to give an extra gaji Kerhormatan to Representatives of the people? What kehormatan that Representatives have or have shown that deserved to get extra gaji? <strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #0000ff;">Didn’t you hear lately that they want their salary increased? </span></strong>How about Ministers’ demand and insistence to drive Toyota Crown Majesta?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span><strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"></strong></span></span></p>
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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">Who also came up with an idea that members of parliament have to be over 500 or 600, or 700 people? Is this a remnant of ORDE BARU? </span></span></p>
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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">Why not slash it in half and make members of Parliament smaller and can work more effective and efficient? Did you get the picture why the Central Government drained much of the National Budget, which was in 2008 took 77.88% of total APBN revenue? <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>That is outrageous. This has to change! </span></span></p>
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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: #000000;">The sad part is the fact up to today as I drafted this letter that </span><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: #ff0000;">there is no indication</span><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: #000000;"> either from the President or, from Parliament to address this issue. We; the people of Indonesia, may have to come together to undertake peaceful movement in the main-street across the country to demand such a change!!! If there is a massive demonstration in the streets of </span><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: #000000;">Indonesia</span><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: #000000;">, these are the issues that they should fight for. </span></span></p>
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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">I hope we don’t have to come to this. The Executive Branch and the Legislative Branch of Government shall work together to address these issues for the betterment of the country. A dramatic change and reduction in terms of total personnel in the Parliament and the Executive Branch must be undertaken prior to the next general election 2014. For that matter, a new bill must be introduced in the Parliament to address those issues.</span></span></p>
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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: #0000ff;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">THE PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION AND THE PRESIDENCY</span></span></strong></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: #333333; mso-ansi-language: EN;">Yang menjadi issue adalah mekanisme PILPRES (Pemilihan Presiden) yg telah dimanipulasi oleh partai politik. Adanya undang-undang agar President harus dibawa/diajukan oleh satu partai politik dan dimana partai politik ini harus memiliki paling tidak </span><strong><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: #0000ff; mso-ansi-language: EN;">20% suara di Parliamen</span></strong><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: #333333; mso-ansi-language: EN;"> adalah bertentangan dengan prinsip-prinsip demokrasi dan tidak in the best interest of the people. </span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: #333333; mso-ansi-language: EN;">Dengan syarat ini jelas, tidak semua warga negara Indonesia bisa mencalonkan diri untuk menjadi Presiden Indonesia. Untuk mencalonkan diri menjadi CAPRES (Calon Presiden), warga negara ini harus paling tidak menjadi kepala Partai Politik dulu, satu syarat yg secara moral dan konstitusional tidak masuk akal. </span><strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: #0000ff; mso-ansi-language: EN;">Karena syarat ini pula membuat CAPRES yg kebanyakan Kepala Partai Politik harus berkoalisi dgn partai lain</span></strong><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: #333333; mso-ansi-language: EN;"> untuk memenuhi syarat quota 20% suara di Parliamen, akibatnya kontrak politik harus dibuat seperti pembagian kursi menteri di kabinet.</span><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: #333333; mso-ansi-language: EN;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: #333333; mso-ansi-language: EN;">Akibatnya ya seperti yg kita lihat dgn Presiden SBY harus bagi-bagi kursi menteri dengan partai politk pendukungnya dan seperti yg kita lihat mereka yg duduk di kursi menteri kebanyakan orang-orang dari Partai koalisi entah mereka punya qualitas kemampuan atau tidak untuk menduduki jabatan tsb. karena itu, undang-undang ini yg mengharuskan CAPRES harus diajukan oleh PARPOL yg memiliki 20% suara di parliamen harus di <strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">HAPUSKAN</strong>.</span><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: #333333; mso-ansi-language: EN;"> </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: #333333;">Lebih dari itu, a</span><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: #333333; mso-ansi-language: EN;">gar Presiden Indonesia tidak menjadi </span><strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: #0000ff; mso-ansi-language: EN;">LAME DUCK PRESIDEN</span></strong><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: #0000ff; mso-ansi-language: EN;"> </span><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: #000000; mso-ansi-language: EN;">(tidak memiliki kekuatan dibanding Parliamen)</span><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: #333333; mso-ansi-language: EN;">, maka Presiden Indonesia harus diberikan </span><strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: #ff0000; mso-ansi-language: EN;">HAK VETO</span></strong><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: #333333; mso-ansi-language: EN;"> hingga kekuasaan Presiden seimbang dengan kekuasaan Legislative dan CAPRES tidak lagi harus diajukan oleh PARPOL yg harus memiliki 20% suara di Parliamen. Kalau CAPRES ini menang dalam pemilu, CAPRES ini bisa dengan bebas memimilih dan menentukan siapa-siapa yg akan duduk di kabinetnya tanpa harus mendapat tekanan politik dari koalisi partai lain. Dari sini barulah kita bisa mengharapakan Presiden akan bisa bebas memilih orang-orang yg dipandangnya qualified for the job untuk menduduki jabatan menteri membantu kerja Presiden. </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: #333333; mso-ansi-language: EN;"> </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;" lang="EN"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">Disinilah pentingnya mengarahkan process demokrasi di lapangan agar semua langkah dan process demokrasi diarahkan demi membela kepentingan RAKYAT, dan bukanya demi kepentingan Partai Politik dan beberapa golongan elites. </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;" lang="EN"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: #0000ff; mso-ansi-language: EN;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">KENAPA PARTAI POLITIK CENDERUNG BERKONGKALIKONG DAN BER KOALI DENGAN PEMERINTAH. </span></span></strong></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: #0000ff; mso-ansi-language: EN;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"> </span></span></strong></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: #0000ff; mso-ansi-language: EN;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">APAKAH PARTAI POLITIK SEKEDAR ALAT DAN EKSES UNTUK MENDAPAT CEPERAN DANA DARI APBN?</span></span></strong></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;" lang="EN"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: #000000; mso-ansi-language: EN;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">Rakyat perlu mempertajam mata dan telingga untuk melihat sepak terjang para politisi dan Partai Politik. </span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: #000000; mso-ansi-language: EN;">Partai dan anggota Partai perlu uang yg besar untuk </span><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: #000000;">menjaga kelangsungan hidup mereka, yakni untuk membiayai kegiatan-kegiatan politiknya, keperluan memobilisasi politik dan keperluan pribadi.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: #000000;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">Karena itulah politisi ini secara bersama melakukan kolonisasi (penjajahan) terhadap kabinet pemerintahan dan kepemimpinan di DPR karena posisi-posisi itu menyediakan sumber uang atau rente ekonomi. Sumber uang terbesar bagi seorang politisi dan partai politik adalah dari pemerintah yang tidak lain adalah dana APBN (uang rakyat) yang akan dibagi-bagi sebagai dana alokasi program kerja dan mereka yang punya urusan dengan Pemerintah dan Parliamen. </span></span></p>
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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: #000000;">Disinlah mengapa, P<span class="yshortcuts">artai Politik di Indonesia</span> cenderung berkolusi ketimbang berkompetisi. Mereka membentuk sebuah kelompok yang memiliki kecenderungan untuk melayani diri sendiri dibandingkan secara individual mencoba membela dan mewakili beragam kepentingan kolektif yang ada di masyarakat. Maka jangan heran kalau kita melihat para politisi dan partai politik </span><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: #000000;">Indonesia</span><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: #000000;"> yg hanya berpura-pura membela kepentingan rakyat terutama di masa Kampanye, tapi dalam prakteknya hanya membela kepentingan partai dan diri sendiri. </span></span></p>
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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: #000000;">a). Kebanyakan Partai Politik </span><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: #000000;">Indonesia</span><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: #000000;"> </span><strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: #0000ff;">tidak memiliki citra dan mau memegang teguh semangat ideologi</span></strong><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: #000000;"> </span><strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: #0000ff;">partai </span></strong><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: #000000;">sebagi factor penentu prilaku partai. Dengan iming-iming jabatan jadi ketua MPR atau DPR atau Menteri misalnya, ideologi itu lenyap di udara dalam sekejap. Lihat saja apa yg terjadi akhir-akhir ini dengan pembentukan cabinet Menteri Adminsitrasi SBY ke II. </span></span></p>
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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: #000000;">b). Kepala Partai sendiri tidak memiliki kekuatan untuk melarang anggotanya untuk TIDAK bergabung dalam kolasi sebab dalam contest CALEG misalnya, anggota Partai harus keluar uang saku yang banyak dan bila anggota partai ini dapat tawaran dari Partai yg berkuasa, mau tidak mau mau kepala Partai harus mengizinkanya karena memang banyak man’faatnya baik bagi kader partai itu sendiri maupun bagi Partai Politik. </span><strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: #0000ff;">Permintaan izin dari ketua Partai hanya formalitas </span></strong><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: #000000;">untuk tidak memalukan Kepala dan citra Partai dimata publik. Tapi semuanya itu mudah di baca. </span></span></p>
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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: #000000;">c). Dengan ganguan uang, jabatan dan kekuasaan ini </span><strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: #0000ff;">semangat oposisi hilang</span></strong><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: #000000;">, kecuali bagi mereka para politisi sejati yang memiliki nyali dan tekad untuk membela kepentingan rakyat. Lebih parah lagi, partai yg berkuasa tahu dan sangat pandai mengunakan A’s card ini untuk membentuk koalisi pemerintahan yg tidak lain adalah demi kepentingan individuals dan Partai. </span></span></p>
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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: #000000;">d). Betapa naivenya bila dimasa kampanye rakyat dicegoki dan dimabuki dengan slogan-slogan ideology partai, tapi dalam prakteknya setelah pemilu setelah dan kalah pemilu, para politisi ini begitu mudah melupakan ideology partai dan kepentingan rakyat yg harus dibela dan berani menjadi opisisi. Sehingga </span><strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: #0000ff;">hasil pemilu hampir-hampir tidak ada pengaruhnya </span></strong><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: #000000;">dalam menentukan sikap dan prilaku partai politik, apalagi mau membela kepentingan rakyat. </span></span></p>
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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: #000000;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">e). Mayoritas kalau tidak semua calon anggota Legislative (CALEG) adalah KADER partai politik dan bukanya KADER daerah. Mereka betul-betul lengket dan dididik untuk memperjuangakan kepentingan Partai Politik dan bukanya kepentingan konstituen atau rakyat. Dan setelah dipilih menjadi anggota DPR, tak satupun dari wakil rakyat ini yang memiliki kantor independent sendiri diluar Partai bagi rakyat untuk bisa mengadu nasib dan tukar pendapat dengan para wakilnya, sehingga kesinanbugan antara wakil rakayt dan rakyat tidak terjalin dan tidak ada setelah pemilu berakhir. </span></span></p>
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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: #000000;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">f). Pada akhirnya rakyat hanya bisa jadi penonton atau spectator Democarcy setelah pemilu selesai. Apa yang rakyat harapakan dari wakil rakyat dan partai oposisi memperjuankan kepentingan rakyat hilang ditelan angin karena para politisi ini cenderung bertindak secara kolektive sebagai satu kelompok membela kepentingan mereka masing-masing. </span></span></p>
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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: #000000;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">Kompetisi antar partai politik yang hadir dalam arena politik menghilang begitu partai politik memasuki arena pemerintahan (pembentukan kabinet) dan arena legislatif. Komitmen ideologis partai memudar seketika saat mereka membentuk koalisi pemerintahan.</span></span></p>
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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: #000000;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">Harapan rakyat untuk memiliki seorang politisi secara individu yg berani tampil kedepan membela kepentingan rakyat hanyalah mimpi disiang bolong. Kepentingan partai dan kepentingan individu terlalu dominan meski politisi ini sadar bahwasanya mereka dipilih oleh rakyat untuk membela kepentingan rakyat dan bukanya kepentingan Partai, gologan tertentu atau kepentingan pribadi! </span></span></p>
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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: #000000;">g). </span><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: #000000;">Para</span><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: #000000;"> politisi yg mengaku sebagai pembela kepentingan rakyat dalam musim kampanye dan kalah dalam pemilu, cenderung berdiam diri setelah pemilihan umum berakhir. </span><strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: #0000ff;">Semangat dan ideology mereka hanya tampak dalam masa kampanye </span></strong><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: #000000;">yg ingin mendapatkan suara dan jabatan dengan embel-embel membela kepentingan rakyat. Namun setelah kalah dalam pemilu, mereka hanya berdiam diri. </span></span></p>
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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: #000000;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">Hal ini secara langsung maupun tidak lansung menciptakan praduga dan kesimpulan sebagai politisi pembohong rakyat dan bukannya pembela kepentingan rakyat. Bukankah semangat kerja dan ideologi partai atau ideology pribadi itu bisa diperjuangankan setelah pemilihan umum selesai? Akibatnya rakyat betul-betul jenuh dengan realitas politik seperti ini dan sebagian memilih menjadi GOLPUT sebab hasil pemilu hampir-hampir tidak ada bedanya. </span></span></p>
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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">h). Dari prilaku para politisi ini mencerminkan <strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #0000ff;">satu refleksi yang sangat jelas</span></strong> bahwasanya politik di </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Indonesia</span><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> masih diwarnai sebagai <strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #0000ff;">ajang batu locatan bagi para politisi untuk mendapatkan jabatan baru, status yang lebih tinggi sambil memgumpulkan capital yang lebih besar dan bukanya sebagai ajang pengabdian terhadap negara dan bangsa. </span></strong>Pada akhirnya rakyat hanya disodorkan satu fakta yang sangat tidak menyenangkan dan mengutungkan bahwasanya para politisi Indonesia hanya mengunakan Partai Politik sebagai tujuan dan negara sebagi alatnya simana APBN (uang rakyat) adalah sumber pengahasilan mereka. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Betapa tragic dan ironi-nya bagi rakyat Indonesia! </span></span></p>
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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">Semua loopholes ini perlu di tutup dan dicari penyelesainya agar kepentigan rakyat tidak didominasi oleh kepentingan Partai Politk, agar dana APBN benar-benar disalurkan untuk kepentingan rakyat dan bukanya di ogroh-ogroh dan diodol-odol oleh oknum-oknum dan kepentingan Partai Politik. </span></span></p>
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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">Disinilah pentingnya menciptakan <strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #0000ff;">PUBLIC OVERSIGHT</span></strong> di Parliamen untuk memonitor program kerja, rapat umum dan hearings yg dilakukan oleh anggota Komisi DPR. <strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Ini adalah tugas utama dari</strong> <strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #0000ff;">Media Masa dan Wartawan Indonesia </span></strong>untuk selalu mengikuti, memonitor dan melaporkan hasil kerja anggota komisi dan pejabat negara kepada rakyat secara regular.</span></span></p>
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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">Hal ini bisa dilakukan dengan cara meliput rapat-rapat dari anggota komisi DPR dan kemudian menyiarkan langsung atau menyusul dari rapat-rapat itu secara regular di TV swasta mereka disamping juga oleh TV pemerintah. Sudah saatnya SEKJEN DPR memiliki TV crew sendiri dan channel khusus dari Pemerintah untuk menyiarkan kerja SPR. Sehingga kerja KOMISI tidak lagi tertutup dan mereka yang punya urusan dengan Parliamen dan Pemerintah Indonesia tidak menjadi ajang pemerasan dan sumber ekonomi bagi para anggota komisi DPR dan Pejabat Negara. </span></span></p>
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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Tugas wartawan dan media masa </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Indonesia</span><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> adalah menciptakan transparency, check and balance dan secrecy (keharasiaan) dari kerja Komisi DPR bisa dihapuskan. Perlu diingat bahwasanya RAKYAT INDONESIA memiliki HAK unutk mengethaui dan diberitahu. Hal ini juga akan mengurangi kesempatan terjadinya bribes dan korupsi bagi anggota komisi DPR. Karena itu hearing dari KOMISI DPR tidak boleh dilakukan secara tertutup kecuali untuk hearing atas rahasia negara. </span></span></p>
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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">Kesempatan dan kemungkinan bagi anggota KOMISI DPR untuk mencari nafkah diluar gaji bulanan melalui cara-cara pemerasan dan bribery dari mereka yg sedang menghadapi masalah maupun dari mereka yang punya urusan dengan pemerintah perlu diperkecil, diperangi dan dihilangkan. Salah satu cara effective unutk memerangi tindakan criminal ini adalah membuka dan menyiarkan rapat-rapat itu secara umum dan terbuka kepada masyarakat luas. Teman akrab korupsi dan bribery adalah secrecy (kerahasiaan), karena itu keharasiaaan dari kerja anggota KOMISI perlu dilarang. </span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: #993300;">4) </span><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: #ff0000;">*<span style="text-decoration: underline;">Bikin Surplus atau paling tidak balancing National Budget (APBN) selama 5 tahun mendatang? <em></em></span></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">(What plans and action plans do you have to be undertaken to balance National Budget (APBN) during the next 5 years in your administration and how?)</span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">There should be a new law introduced in </span><span style="font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">Indonesia</span><span style="font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;"> to mandate and that every new administration must balance its national budge, regardless. That will prevent Indonesia from having deeper and deeper debts! This maybe sounds crazy at this current time knowing that Indonesia is in a deep debt trap left alone of balancing its budget. But this is important step if Indonesia is serious about eliminating the debts. Why?</span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">Because in the absence of any law regulating such a requirement to balance the national budget, President of Indonesia will continue to ignore the central government spending and will continue to generate deficit year after year. There will be no pressure for the President to streamlining his/her Cabinet Minister. The will be no pressure for the President and other government institutions such as BUMN to be profitable oriented. There is no regulation in place to force the central government to work toward that direction, eliminating Indonesia’s massive debts. This is one of the ways. Make a new law that requires President Indonesia to balance his/her national budget (APBN) every year or having a surplus if possible. </span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">That is why I have been advocating that </span><span style="font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">Indonesia</span><span style="font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;"> must resolve its massive debts once and for all. Unless we take this step to resolve these critical issues, I don’t know how anyone can pronounce any significant changes are going to happen on the ground. Eliminating those massive debts shall be the 1<sup>st</sup> priority because these debts have tangled Indonesia’s ability to elevate poverty, provide much of the needed public services, improve infrastructures and minimize unemployment for a very long time over 35 years. </span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">How many more decades do Indonesian people have to wait and suffer? Well, unless Indonesia is taking dramatic action in regard to resolving these massive debts,, I don’t see how a significant change is going to be achieved? With PARIS CLUB alone will take 40 years. How about other foreign and domestic debts with other creditors? <strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #0000ff;">Will it take a generation or much longer?</span></strong> If Indonesia national budget is never balanced and always in deficit for billions and billions dollar each year, what in the world Indonesia is going to pay off her massive debts? What a mess! </span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: #0000ff; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">5). </span></strong><strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: #ff0000; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">*<span style="text-decoration: underline;">Memelihara keberadaan badan Executive, Legislative dan Judicative Branch of Government untuk tetap exist, co-equal, independent, absolute, dispersed and decentralized untuk menpertahankan pemerintahan yang terbuka (transparent) dengan menciptakan system “check and balance” dalam pemeritahan Demokrasi dengan menghormati dan menegakan public oversight role oleh Media dan rakyat secara luas.<em></em></span></span></strong></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">(What plans and actions do you have to maintain the Executive, Legislative and Judicial Branch of Government to remain exist, independent, absolute, dispersed and decentralized but co-equal in an effort to create transparency in the government affairs by maintaining system check and balance in the government and respecting the role of public oversight by the Media and the people at large?)</span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">Selama ini Demokrasi di Indonesia telah berjalan cukup baik, namun ada berapa hal yang perlu diperbaiki dimana kekuasan pemerintah perlu di bagi-bagi (dispersed or, decentralized) untuk menempatkan agar Legislative, Executive dan Judicial Branch of Government bisa exist, co-equal, independent, absolute, dispersed and decentralized. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">Sampai detik ini, President Indonesia sebagai the Head of Executive Branch dan Commander in Chief tidak memiliki <strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #0000ff;">HAK VETO</span></strong> yang membuat Legislative Branch lebih tinggi kekuasaanya dari pada Executive Branch. Hal ini tidak benar dalam pemerintahan Demokrasi dan perlu dirubah. Saya usulkan agar HAK VETO President diberikan dan undang-undangkan.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">Disamping itu juga, Parliamen </span><span style="font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">Indonesia</span><span style="font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;"> tidak memiliki wewenang untuk menbatalkan <strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #0000ff;">(to vacate) </span></strong>keputusan Mahkamah Agung dan Mahkamah Konstitusi. Karena tanpa hal itu, membuat Mahkamah Agung, Mahkamah Konstitusi atau Judicial Branch of Government di Indonesia memiliki kekuasaan lebih tinggi dari Legislative Branch dan Parliamen Indonesia. Hal ini juga tidak benar dalam Democratic Government dan harus dirubah. </span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">Dalam Demokrasi, <strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #000000;">tidak boleh</span></strong><span style="color: #000000;"> ada satupun branch of Government yg memiliki kekuatan dan kekuasaan mutlak, tanpa adanya check and balance.</span><span style="color: #ff0000;"> </span><strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #000000;">Mereka bisa</span></strong><span style="color: #000000;"> menganbil keputusan secara mutlak dan independent tapi keputusan itu harus masih bisa di checked and balanced dengan mekanisme Demokrasi atau yang lebih dikenal dengan Co-Interdependence. Disinilah makna dan penting nya HAK VETO Presiden dan HAK Legislative untuk melewati (OVERRIDE) hak veto Presiden dengan mekanisme Demokrasi yang ada. </span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: #ff0000; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"> </span></span></strong></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">3 Cabang pemerintahan itu ada dan didesigned agar saling ketergantungan dan memiliki kekuatan yg sejajar. Mereka yang duduk di Mahkamah Agung dan Mahkamah Konstitusi adalah appointed position (atau di tunjuk) dan tidak semestinya memiliki kekuasaan melebihi mereka yang dipilih langsung oleh rakyat (elected position) seperti Parliamen atau Executive Branch. </span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">Saya usulkan agar Parliamen Indonesia diberi hak untuk membatalkan <strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #0000ff;">(to nullify)</span></strong> keputusan Mahkamah Agung maupun keputusan dari Mahkamah Konstitusi dengan ¾ suara menyetujuinya, bila ada keputusan Mahkamah Agung maupun keputusan Mahkamah Konstitusi yang dirasa tidak bermanfaat bagi negara dan bangsa Indonesia seperti demi menyelamatkan negara dari perpecahan, perang saudara, dsb. Hak ini perlu ajukan dan diundang-undangkan. </span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">Mahkamah Konstitusi dan Mahkamah Agung (Judicial System) juga seharusnya diberi wewenang untuk mengevaluasi dan membatalkan KEPRES dan PERPU (Executive Order) yang dianggap melanggar Pancasila, Konstitusi UUD 1945, Amendement UUD 1945 dan Undang-Undang lain yang ada. Hal ini bisa dilakukan dengan mengajukan KEPRES atau PERPU tersebut ke Mahkamah Konstitusi untuk diperdebatkan secara hukum. </span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">Karena itulah betapa pentingnya bagi Indonesia untuk memperbaiki dan memiliki Judicial System (Jaksa-Jaksa) yang independent dengan cara men-scrutinize setiap calon Jaksa dalam pengangkatan Jaksa-Jaksa agar dapat menghasilkan Jaksa-Jaksa yang benar-benar tahu tugas dan tanggung jawab seorang Jaksa dalam mengemban amanat rakyat dan menjaga keseimbanagn negara dan bangsa yang komptetent dan qualified for the job. </span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">“Judicial Test of Execelence” unutk meng-scrutinize bagi para calon Jaksa tinggi perlu perlu dilakukan secara intensif dan terus diperbaiki di </span><span style="font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">Indonesia</span><span style="font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;"> untuk menghasilkan seorang jaksa yang berkaliber, corrupt free and mengetahui fungsi dan riole seorang Jaksa tinggi. </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">Semuanya ini perlu diajukan dan diundang-undangkan untuk membuat Legislative, Executive and Judicial Branch of Government tetap <strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #0000ff;">exist, co-equal, independent, absolute, dispersed and decentralized </span></strong>dimana unsur <strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #0000ff;">check and balance</span></strong> diantara ke 3 branch of government ini bisa tetap dijamin dan pertahankan. </span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">Lebih penting lagi undang-undang baru perlu diciptakan untuk melindungi undang-undang itu sendiri dengan menciptakan aturan baru yang melarang Menteri-Menteri, dan Non-Legislative Bodies, Offices atau Departments untuk tidak diperkenankan membuat aturan-aturan baru atau undang-undang baru yang mengikat rakyat atau kehidupan masyarakat. </span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">Hanya badan Legislative-lah baik itu di tingkat pusat, propinsi dan kabupaten yang berhak membuat undang-undang baru yang sifatnya mengikat kehidupan dan kebebasan rakyat </span><span style="font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">Indonesia</span><span style="font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;"> secara menyeluruh. Legislative tingkat propinsi dan kota tidak boleh membuat aturan atau undang-undang baru yang sifatnya bertentangan dengan undang-undang dan aturan yang ada yang telah dikeluakan oleh Parliamen pusat atau Legislative Branch. </span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: #000000; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">Legislative ditingkat propinsi dan tingkat </span><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: #000000; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">kota</span><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: #000000; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;"> dalam membuat undang-undang baru adalah </span><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: #0000ff; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">semata-mata demi menyempurnaan undang-undang yang ada dalam pelaksanakanya dilapangan </span><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: #000000; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">dimasing-masing daerah disesuaikan dengan tuntutan dan tantanagan dimasing-masing daerah demi menutup lopeholes yang ada dan menjaga kepentingan dan kedaulatan rakyat. </span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">Kalau Menteri dan anggota disegenap Executive Branch of Government merasa perlu diciptakan undang-undang baru untuk mengatur hal-hal tertentu, maka mereka perlu mengusulkannya ke Legislative Branch. Mereka tidak sepantasnya diperbolehkan untuk bikin undang-undagn baru dengan sendirinya. </span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: #0000ff; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">They are appointed officials and not elected official and for that matter, they <strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">have no MANDATE</strong> from the people and can not make a new law.</span><span style="font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;"> Mereka hanya diperbolehkan membuat aturan baru sebagai penjabaran atau penjelasan untuk menutup lope-holes dari undang-undang yang ada demi melindungi kepentigan dan kedaulatan rakyat. </span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 27pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: #ff0000; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">6). *<span style="text-decoration: underline;">Merubah pemilihan Presiden and pemilihan anggota Legislative agar tidak money dan political party oriented, tetapi lebih mengarah ke issue yg dihadapi rakyat and people oriented? </span></span></strong><em></em></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">(What plans and actions plans do you have to change the Presidential and General Election to be more people and issue oriented in stead of money and political party oriented?)</span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">The last general election on </span><span style="font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">April 9th, 2009</span><span style="font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;"> has shown that the general election was overwhelmed primarily by <strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #0000ff;">the interest of political parties</span></strong> in stead of the interest of the Indonesian people. It was just too money oriented in stead of issue oriented making democracy in Indonesia <strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #0000ff;">a</span></strong> <strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #0000ff;">government of the political party, for political party and by political party</span></strong>. That is not what Democracy is all about in any stretch of imagination! I was there on the ground seeing with my own eyes prior to the election, during the election and after the general election. This has to change! </span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">For the shake of the </span><span style="font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">Indonesia</span><span style="font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;"> people, the rule of the game on the ground for the next general election in 2014 shall be reformed. It has to be made in such a way that all Legislative candidates (Caleg) must be issue and people oriented. Unless they understand and fight for the issue facing their people or constituents, they will not win in the general election. This is the job of KPU to formulate work-plans and action-plans from now on to address this issue. The current system of general election does not benefit the people of Indonesia and for that matter, it must be reformed. </span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: #0000ff; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">The 20% parliamentary requirement</span></strong><span style="font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;"> for any political party who harbors Presidential candidate shall also be abolished. This rule and regulation does not serve the interest of the people. It serves the interest of big political parties only. This law prohibits small parties from having their own Presidential candidates who have, perhaps, more qualified Presidential candidates. This law is simply unconstitutional, unfair for the people and unfair for small political parties and for that matter, it shall be amended, rectified or nullified! </span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 45pt; text-indent: -0.25in; text-align: justify; tab-stops: list 45.0pt; mso-list: l12 level1 lfo44;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: #0000ff; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">7.<span style="font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;;">     </span></span></span></strong><strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: #ff0000; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">*<span style="text-decoration: underline;">Menjamin kedaulatan tertinggi dan meneggakan HAK rakyat </span></span></strong><strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: #ff0000; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">Indonesia</span></span></strong><strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: #ff0000; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;"> untuk mengetahui dan diberitahu tentang hal-hal yang dihadapi bangsa dan negara? <em></em></span></span></strong></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">(What plans and action plans do you have to make sure that Indonesia’s people right to know and to be informed guaranteed and implemented?)</span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">Di Indoneasia telah diyatakan bahwasanya <strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #0000ff;">kedaulatan ada di tangan rakyat</span></strong> meaning kekuasaan tertinggi ada ditanga rakyat. <strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">What does it mean?</strong> </span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: #000000; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">Apakah setelah rakyat </span><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: #000000; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">Indonesia</span><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: #000000; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;"> selesai memilih Presidennya atau wakil-wakilnya di parliamen melalui pemilihan umum secara otomatis RAKYAT </span><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: #000000; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">INDONESIA</span><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: #000000; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;"> juga mentransfer atau mengambil alihkan KEDAULATAN TERTINGGI nya kepada Presiden atau wakil-wakilnya di Parliamen? </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">Jawabnya secara tegas adalah TIDAK! Kedaulatan itu tetap ada di tangan rakyat dan tidak secara otomatis ditransfer kepada Presiden maupun wakil-wakilnya di Parliament. Karena itu saya mengingatkan mereka yang akan menjadi pemimpin di Executive dan Legislative Branch of Government bahwasanya:</span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: #ff0000; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">A).</span><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: #0000ff; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;"> Rakyat </span><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: #0000ff; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">Indonesia</span><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: #0000ff; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;"> dalam mendelegasikan kekuasaanya baik itu melalui pemilihan umum atau referendum </span><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: #ff0000; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">tidak secara otomotis</span><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: #0000ff; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;"> menyerahkan kekuasaan tertingginya kepada pemerintah, wakil-wakil rakyat di Parliamen, Presiden, Wakil Presiden, Menteri-Menteri, Gubernur, Jaksa, POLRI, ABRI atau Departmen dan Non-Departemen lain yang melayaninya.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: #ff0000; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">B).</span><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: #0000ff; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;"> Presiden, Anggota Parliamen, Pemerintah Indonesia dan agency lainya yang melayani kepentigan rakyat </span><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: #ff0000; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">tidak meimiliki HAK</span><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: #0000ff; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;"> untuk memilih-milih atau memilah-milah informasi apa yang PATUT diberikan kepada rakyat dan informasi apa yang TIDAK PATUT diberikan kepada rakyat Indonesia. </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: #0000ff; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: #ff0000; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">C).</span><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: #0000ff; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;"> Rakyat Indonesia sebagai pemegang kedaulatan tertinggi </span><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: #ff0000; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">menuntut HAKnya untuk mengetahui dan diberitahu </span><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: #0000ff; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">tentang hal-hal yang dihadapi negara dan bangsa dan langkah-langkah apa yang akan diambil oleh pemerintah dan wakil-wakilnya di Parliamen hingga rakyat Indonesia sebagai pemegang kekuasan tertinggi mengetahui tentang hal-hal yang dihadapi negara dan bangsa Indonesia dan </span><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: #ff0000; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">tetap bisa mengontrol setiap lembaga atau intsrumen</span><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: #0000ff; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;"> yang telah diciptakanya.”</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><em><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: #008000;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"> </span></span></em></strong></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: #000000; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">Selama ini banyak dari anggota komisi parliamen </span><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: #000000; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">Indonesia</span><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: #000000; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;"> yang mengadakan rapat-rapat secara tertutup hingga rakyat </span><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: #000000; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">Indonesia</span><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: #000000; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;"> tidak tahu menahu tentang apa dan siapa yang dibicarakan dan program kerja apa yang dilakukan di masing-masing komisi. Rakyat hanya tahu dari media kalau so and so dari anggota komisi ini dan itu terlibat dalam kasus menyuapan. Hal ini terjadi karena </span><strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: #0000ff; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">tidak adanya public oversight</span></strong><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: #000000; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;"> melalui transparency, check and balance di Parliamen. </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: #000000; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: #000000; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">Hal ini sangat memilukan dan memalukan dan perlu dirubah. Rakyat </span><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: #000000; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">Indonesia</span><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: #000000; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;"> adalah pemegang kekuasaan tertinggi dan karena itu sangatlah tidak benar bila rakyat </span><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: #000000; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">Indonesia</span><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: #000000; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;"> malah dibohongi, jadi penonton Demokrasi, tidak pernah dilibatkan dalam pengambilan keputusan pemerintahan dan malah dipinterin oleh mereka yang telah dipilih melalui pemilihan umum. </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: #000000; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: #000000; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">Lebih dari itu, </span><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: #333333; mso-ansi-language: EN;">mereka yg melakukan role sebagai instrumen </span><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: #0000ff; mso-ansi-language: EN;">PUBLIC OVERSIGHT </span><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: #000000; mso-ansi-language: EN;">seperti ICW, KONTRAS </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">KRHN, LBH Jakarta, Transparency International Indonesia, Indonesia, Police Watch, Imparsial, Elsam, ICJR, Pusat Studi Hukum dan Kebijakan (PSHK), Masyarakat Transparansi Indonesia (MTI), LeIP, Dompet Dhuafa Republika, Pro Patria Institute, P2D, PB HMI, LIPI </span><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: #000000; mso-ansi-language: EN;">dan organisasi independent lain</span><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: #0000ff; mso-ansi-language: EN;"> </span><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: #000000; mso-ansi-language: EN;">terhadap hasil kerja pejabat negara</span><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: #333333; mso-ansi-language: EN;"> malah diancam dengan tindakan pidana dengan alasan mencemarkan nama baik pejabat. </span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: #0000ff; mso-ansi-language: EN;">Undang-undang atau aturan seperti ini perlu dihapus di Indonesia karena tidak sesuai dengan prinsip-prinsip Demokrasi dan melangar HAK RAKYAT sebagi pemegang kedaulatan tertinggi di Indonesia. </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: #333333; mso-ansi-language: EN;"> </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: #333333; mso-ansi-language: EN;">Adalah HAK RAKYAT untuk melakukan dan mengeksekusi rolenya sebagai agency PUBLIC OVERSIGHT terhadap para pejabat dan wakil rakyat yg melakukan tindakan PIDANA dan ASUSILA secara terbuka dimuka publik maupun didepan hukum. Tidak sepantasnya bila hak rakyat ini dibatasi dan dijadikan object oleh pejabat negara, oknum hukum seperti POLRI, para Pejabat Negara di Executive dan JUDICATIVE seperti MK, atau Wakil Rakyat di Parliamen sebagai issue pencemaran nama baik pejabat. That notion is wrong, undemocratic and unconstitutional. </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: #333333; mso-ansi-language: EN;"> </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: #333333; mso-ansi-language: EN;">Salah satu kontrak menjadi public official baik itu pejabat negara atau wakil rakyat adalah siap dan mau di confront (scrutiny) secara terbuka oleh rakyat atas tindak-tanduk dan hasil kerja mereka. </span><strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: #0000ff; mso-ansi-language: EN;">Kalau ada pejabat atau wakil rakyat yg tidak mau di confrontir secara terbuka oleh rakyat, jangan mencalonkan diri jadi pejabat negara atau wakil rakyat! </span></strong><strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"></strong></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: #333333; mso-ansi-language: EN;">That is the most rediculous assertion oleh pejabat Indonesia, kalau dikritik oleh rakyat dan discrutiny didepan umum atas hasil kerja meraka, rakyat yg mengkritik malah dibilang mencemarkan nama baik pejabat! Terus kita sebagai rakyat punya hak apa dan harus bagaimana? Diam saja! Terus apa makna Rakyat adalah pemegang kedaultan tertinggi? What kind of crab do you guys put in Indonesian people&#8217;s nose! </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: #333333; mso-ansi-language: EN;"> </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: #333333; mso-ansi-language: EN;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">Ada 11 prinsip Demokrasi yg seharusnya diadopsi dan diimplementasikan di Indonesia secara lengkap, utuh, bijaksana dan konsekwen bila ingin melihat system pemerintahan Demokrasi di Indonesia berjalan dengan baik, dimana process demokrasi ini akan benar-benar menomor-satukan kepentingan dan membela hak rakyat. Sebelas (11) prinsip itu adalah sbb:</span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-indent: 0.5in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">1) Sovereignty of the people.</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-indent: 0.5in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">2) Government based upon consent of the governed.</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-indent: 0.5in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;" lang="EN">3) </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Majority rule.</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">4) Minority rights.</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">5) Guarantee of basic human rights.</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;" lang="EN">6) </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Free and fair elections.</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">7) Equality before the law.</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;" lang="EN"> <img src='http://parmadim.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_cool.gif' alt='8)' class='wp-smiley' /> </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Due process of law.</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">9) Constitutional limits on government.</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;" lang="EN">10) </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Social, economic, and political pluralism.</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;" lang="EN">11) </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Values of tolerance, pragmatism, cooperation, and compromise.</span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: #333333; mso-ansi-language: EN;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">Sayangnya, selama ini politisi Indonesia lebih suka memilih-milih dalam mengimplentasikan prinsip-prinsip itu, bahkan memanipulasi prinsip-prinsip demokrasi itu demi kepentingan Partai Politik dan golongan tertentu. Mayoritas politisi Indonesia hanya ikut arus, takut menjadi opisisi, takut berbuat what is right for the people meski harus jadi oposisi, dimusuhi banyak orang, tidak mendapat jabatan jadi Menteri, tersingkir dari inner circle, bahkan terkesan terlalu gila dengan jabatan dan hanya berpura-pura membela rakyat. </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: #333333; mso-ansi-language: EN;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: #333333; mso-ansi-language: EN;">Sorry to say, but that is the reality on the ground! Lihat saja kasus korupsi yg melanda pejabat negara dan angota Parliamen. Lihat saja mereka yg mau mengorbankan prinsip partai demi ambisi menjadi Menteri atau posisi lain di Pemerintahan. Only a few of them who really care and have the courage to fight for the interest of the people and stand up against those who offer money, wealth and position in lieu of cooperation and coalision. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: #333333; mso-ansi-language: EN;">Rakyat Indonesia yg banyak tidak paham akan Demokrasi dilapangan mudah dibohongi oleh uang, janji-janji muluk dan oleh mereka yg ingin menarik keuntungan dari ketidakpahaman mereka tentang prinsip-prinsip demokrasi ini. </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: #000000; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: #000000; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">Untuk mengatasi kesenjangan ini, saya usulkan agar semua rapat komisi atau hearing perlu dilakukan secara terbuka (secara public) yg harus dihadiri paling tidak oleh 3 wartawan dari 3 media outlets, dimana wartwan ini diwajibkan untuk rerecord jalanya pertemuan atau hearing dalam bentuk CD’s atau DVD’s. </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: #000000; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: #000000; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">Pemerintah Indonesia dan SEKJEN DPR perlu juga memiliki TV Channel dan TV crew sendiri untuk meliput dan melaporkan atau menyiarkan rapat-rapat komisi di Parliamen dan disetiap pertemuan oleh masing-masing komisi di Parliamen. Ini adalah HAK rakyat dan Pemerintah serta Wakil Rakyat perlu menghormatinya dengan mekalukan dan memberikan tuntutan itu. </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: #000000; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: #000000; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">Pemerintah Indonesia bisa meminta TV swasta untuk menyediakan paling tidak satu channel khusus untuk menyiarkan rapat-rapat komisi atau Parliamentary proceeding secara regular </span><strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: #0000ff; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">(tiap hari dan berulang-ulang)</span></strong><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: #000000; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;"> agar rakyat Indonesia secara menyeluruh tahu issue-issue apa yang dibicarakan di Parliamen dan oleh komiis mana dan siapa sja yang hadir dalam rapat itu. Hal ini perlu dilakukan segera untuk menciptakan </span><strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: #0000ff; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">public oversight, public transparency and public accountability!</span></strong></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 45pt; text-indent: -0.25in; text-align: justify; tab-stops: list 45.0pt; mso-list: l12 level1 lfo44;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: #0000ff; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">8.<span style="font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;;">     </span></span></span></strong><strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: #ff0000; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">*The Indonesian Economic Policy and the dangerous of Neo-Liberalism for </span></span></strong><strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: #ff0000; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">Indonesia</span></span></strong><strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"></strong></span></p>
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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">What is Neo-Liberalism?</span></span></strong></p>
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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">&#8220;Neo-liberalism&#8221;</span></strong><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> is a set of economic policies that have become widespread during the last 25 years or so. Although the word is rarely heard by millions and millions of ordinary Indonesian citizen and people around the world, you can clearly see the effects of neo-liberalism around the world as those who run big corporations are getting richer and richer and the poor grows poorer.</span></span></p>
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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">&#8220;Liberalism&#8221; can refer to political, economic, or even religious ideas. In the U.S, especially, the political liberalism has been a strategy to prevent social conflict. It is presented to poor and working people as progressive compared to conservative or Right-wingers. </span></span></p>
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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">Economic liberalism is different. Conservative politicians (mostly Republicans) who say they hate &#8220;liberals&#8221;; meaning the political type have no real problem with economic liberalism, including neoliberalism. Because neoliberailsm in economic sense does benefit conservative’s agenda. But the word &#8220;Neo&#8221; here means a new kind of liberalism. So what was the old kind of liberalism? </span></span></p>
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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">The liberal school of economics became famous in </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Europe</span><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> when Adam Smith, a Scottish economist, published a book in 1776 called THE WEALTH OF NATIONS. He and others advocated the abolition of government intervention in economic matters. No restrictions on manufacturing, no barriers to commerce, no tariffs, he said; free trade was the best way for a nation&#8217;s economy to develop. Such ideas were &#8220;liberal&#8221; in the sense of no controls. This application of individualism encouraged &#8220;free&#8221; enterprise,&#8221; &#8220;free&#8221; competition, which came to mean, free for the capitalists to make huge profits as they wished.</span></span></p>
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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Economic liberalism prevailed in the </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">United States</span><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> through the 1800s and early 1900s. Then the Great Depression of the 1930s led an economist named John Maynard Keynes to a theory that challenged liberalism as the best policy for capitalists. He said, in essence, that full employment is necessary for capitalism to grow and it can be achieved only if governments and central banks intervene to increase employment. These ideas had much influence on President Roosevelt&#8217;s New Deal, which did improve life for many people. <strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><em style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The belief that government should advance the common good became widely accepted.</em></strong></span></span></p>
<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">But the capitalist crisis over the last 25 years, with its shrinking profit rates, inspired the corporate elite to revive economic liberalism. <span style="color: #0000ff;">That&#8217;s what makes it &#8220;neo&#8221; or new. </span>Now, with the rapid globalization of the capitalist economy, we are seeing neo-liberalism on a global scale.</span></span></p>
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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">Perhaps, the most memorable definition and statements of this process came from Subcomandante Marcos at the Zapatista-sponsored </span><a href="http://spin.com.mx/%7Ehvelarde/Mexico/EZLN/encuentro-neoliberalismo.html"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">Encuentro Intercontinental por la Humanidad y contra el Neo-liberalismo</span></a><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"> (Inter-continental Encounter for Humanity and Against Neo-liberalism) of August 1996 in Chiapas when he said: <span style="color: #000000;">&#8220;What the Right-wingers offer is to turn the whole world into one big mall where they can buy Indians here, women there &#8230;” and he might have added children, immigrants, workers or even a whole country like Mexico.&#8221;</span></span></span></p>
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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: #0000ff;">That is why we see global invasion</span></strong><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: #000000;"> by giant major Corporations across the globe to get access on natural resources, raw materials, market, influences, dominant and strategic control on the pretext of working relationship on economical, military and diplomatic cooperation. There are so many ways these major Corporations use to tie those underdeveloped countries including Indonesia to open up their resources by enticing them with billions and billions dollar loan with string attached. </span></span></p>
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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><strong><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">The characteristics and main points of neo-liberalism include:</span></span></strong></p>
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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 1in; text-indent: -0.25in; text-align: justify; tab-stops: list 1.0in; mso-list: l10 level1 lfo30;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: #0000ff;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">1.<span style="font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;;">     </span></span></span><strong><span style="font-size: 14pt;">THE RULE OF THE MARKET.</span></strong><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> Liberating &#8220;free&#8221; enterprise or private enterprise from any bonds imposed by the government (the state) no matter how much social damage this causes. Greater openness to international trade and investment, as in NAFTA. Reduce wages by de-unionizing workers and eliminating workers&#8217; rights that had been won over many years of struggle. No more price controls. All in all, total freedom of movement for capital, goods and services. To convince us this is good for us, they say &#8220;an unregulated market is the best way to increase economic growth, which will ultimately benefit everyone.&#8221; It&#8217;s like Reagan&#8217;s &#8220;supply-side&#8221; and &#8220;trickle-down&#8221; economics, but somehow the wealth didn&#8217;t trickle down very much. <span style="color: #0000ff;">It’s a dirty trick by foreign corporations and wealthy countries to have all of the access from raw materials to consumers by creating free and open market that you shall not buy! </span></span></span></p>
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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 1in; text-indent: -0.25in; text-align: justify; tab-stops: list 1.0in; mso-list: l10 level1 lfo30;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">2.<span style="font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;;">     </span></span></span><strong><span style="font-size: 14pt;">CUTTING PUBLIC EXPENDITURE FOR SOCIAL SERVICES</span></strong><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> like education and health care. REDUCING THE SAFETY-NET FOR THE POOR, and even maintenance of roads, bridges, water supply &#8212; again in the name of reducing government&#8217;s role. Of course, they don&#8217;t oppose government subsidies and tax benefits for business.</span></span></p>
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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 1in; text-indent: -0.25in; text-align: justify; tab-stops: list 1.0in; mso-list: l10 level1 lfo30;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">3.<span style="font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;;">     </span></span></span><strong><span style="font-size: 14pt;">DEREGULATION.</span></strong><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> Reduce government regulation of everything that could diminish profits, including protecting the environment and safety on the job.</span></span></p>
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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 1in; text-indent: -0.25in; text-align: justify; tab-stops: list 1.0in; mso-list: l10 level1 lfo30;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">4.<span style="font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;;">     </span></span></span><strong><span style="font-size: 14pt;">PRIVATIZATION.</span></strong><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> Sell state-owned enterprises, goods and services to private investors. This includes banks, key industries, railroads, toll highways, electricity, schools, hospitals and even fresh water. Although usually done in the name of greater efficiency, which is often needed, privatization has mainly had the effect of concentrating wealth even more in a few hands and making the public pay even more for its needs.</span></span></p>
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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 1in; text-indent: -0.25in; text-align: justify; tab-stops: list 1.0in; mso-list: l10 level1 lfo30;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">5.<span style="font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;;">     </span></span></span><strong><span style="font-size: 14pt;">ELIMINATING THE CONCEPT OF &#8220;THE PUBLIC GOOD&#8221; or &#8220;COMMUNITY&#8221;</span></strong><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> and replacing it with &#8220;individual responsibility.&#8221; Pressuring the poorest people in a society to find solutions to their lack of health care, education and social security all by themselves &#8212; then blaming them, if they fail, as &#8220;lazy.&#8221;</span></span></p>
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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Around the world, neo-liberalism has been imposed by powerful financial institutions like the <strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #993300;">International Monetary Fund (IMF),</span></strong> <strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #0000ff;">the World Bank and </span><span style="color: #008000;">the Inter-American Development Bank</span></strong>. It is raging all over </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Latin America</span><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> and it has been penetrating </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Indonesia</span><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> since the 1960’s. </span></span></p>
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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Look at IMF&#8217;s 4 steps to damnation, a blueprint of Neo-Liberailsm:</span></span></p>
<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><a href="http://www.jubileeresearch.org/analysis/articles/IMF_Four_steps_Damnation.htm">http://www.jubileeresearch.org/analysis/articles/IMF_Four_steps_Damnation.htm</a></span></span></p>
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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">The first clear example of neo-liberalism at work came in </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Chile</span><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> (with thanks to </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">University</span><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> of </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Chicago</span><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> economist Milton Friedman), after the CIA-supported coup against the popularly elected Allende regime in 1973. Other countries followed, with some of the worst effects in </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Mexico</span><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> where wages declined 40 to 50% in the first year of NAFTA while the cost of living rose by 80%. Over 20,000 small and medium businesses have failed and more than 1,000 state-owned enterprises have been privatized in </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Mexico</span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">. As one scholar said, <strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">&#8220;Neoliberalism means the neo-colonization of </strong></span><strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Latin America</span></strong><strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">.&#8221;</span></strong></span></p>
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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: #0000ff;">Now picture this notion to </span></strong><strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: #0000ff;">INDONESIA</span></strong><strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: #0000ff;"> for</span></strong><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: #0000ff;"> </span><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: #000000;">Presiden SBY,</span><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: #0000ff;"> </span><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: #000000;">Boediono’s gang and Sri Mulyani’s</span><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: #0000ff;"> </span><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: #000000;">gang to embrace neoliberalism. </span></span></p>
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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Accepting neoliberalism for </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Indonesia</span><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> without guards and limits is like accepting </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Indonesia</span><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> to be colonialized by foreign Corporations. That is bad for </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Indonesia</span><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> and that is bad for Indonesian people. <span style="color: #000000;">Likewise, closing the door for foreign market and investments is also wrong. We have to balance both needs and know what to do to protect and preserve our interests. </span></span></span></p>
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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">In the </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">United States</span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">, neo-liberalism is destroying welfare programs; attacking the rights of labor (including all immigrant workers); and cut backing social programs. The Republican &#8220;Contract&#8221; on </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">America</span><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> promoted by then speaker of the House, Mr. Newt Gingrich is pure neo-liberalism. Its supporters are working hard to deny protection to children, youth, women, the planet itself and trying to trick us into acceptance by saying this will &#8220;get government off my back.&#8221; </span></span></p>
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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">The beneficiaries of neo-liberalism are a minority of the world&#8217;s people. For the vast majority it brings even more suffering than before: suffering without the small, hard-won gains of the last 60 years, suffering without end. </span></span></p>
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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Do you want to see </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Indonesia</span><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> taking the same path of neoliberalism that has been rejected in </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Latin America</span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span>Wake up, people! Wake up! Don’t be fooled. </span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 45pt; text-indent: -0.25in; text-align: justify; tab-stops: list 45.0pt; mso-list: l12 level1 lfo44;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: #0000ff; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">9.<span style="font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;;">     </span></span></span></strong><strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: #ff0000; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">*<span style="text-decoration: underline;">Combating Corruption (Memberantas Korupsi). </span></span></strong></span></p>
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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: #000000;">SBY’s administration has addressed corruption by supporting the work of KPK (Komisi Pemberatasan Korupsi) to continue combating corruption in </span><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: #000000;">Indonesia</span><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: #000000;">. But capturing those who committed such a crime and put them in jail does not address the underlying issue of corruption. </span></span></p>
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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: #000000;">There are underlying issues of corruption. Those underlying issues must be addressed first in order to reduce and eliminate much of the corruption in </span><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: #000000;">Indonesia</span><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: #000000;">. What are those issues? </span></span></p>
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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: #000000;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">Corruption is a form of crime and crime happens because of two things that happen concurrently, meaning there are 2 things that happen at the same time or in sequence, which are:</span></span></p>
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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 1in; text-indent: -0.25in; text-align: justify; tab-stops: list 1.0in; mso-list: l22 level2 lfo34;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: #000000;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">1.<span style="font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;;">     </span></span></span></strong><strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: #000000;">The desire to commit the crime</span></strong></span></p>
<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 1in; text-indent: -0.25in; text-align: justify; tab-stops: list 1.0in; mso-list: l22 level2 lfo34;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">2.<span style="font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;;">     </span></span></span></strong><strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: #000000;">The opportunity to do it.</span></strong><strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"></strong></span></p>
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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: #000000;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">It is just a human nature that some people may want to take a short-cut or, the easiest way to get rich and one of those short-cuts can be stealing or committing a corruption. </span></span></p>
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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: #000000;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">We can not do much to address the desire of every human being to take the short-cut or the easiest way to fulfill their desire. This is perhaps, the job of those religious clerics to keep reminding people that stealing and corruption is not okay, it is against the commandments of God (Allah). It is not the job of the Government to do that. </span></span></p>
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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: #000000;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">But what the government can do is to address the second issue, which is to close or to minimize the opportunity for anyone to commit such a crime. This is the tricky part but it is not impossible. Each government offices and institutions have their own strength and weaknesses and for that matter, the effort to close and minimize these gaps are vary and shall be undertaken case per case or, office by office basis. </span></span></p>
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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: #000000;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">However in general, most of corruption occurs because there is secrecy and to close the gap and minimize secrecy, it is critical that the accounting system in every offices and institutions shall be made in such a way that is open for public scrutiny by creating transparency, check and balance. All rates or fees must be published openly and publicly for everybody to see, all receipts must be electronically documented and there shall not be any hidden fees, all decisions shall be made public as a group and no single person is allowed to have all access. </span></span></p>
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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: #000000;">All offices and government institutions can NOT be run by one person and one person knows and has all the access. The system of transparency, check and balance must be established to eliminate the secrecy. These are the underlying issues of corruption that must be addressed first. </span></span></p>
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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: #000000;">Even though KPK as entity is able and capable of prosecuting thousands and thousand of corruptors and put them in jails, do you think this effort will reduce and eliminate much of the corruption in </span><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: #000000;">Indonesia</span><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: #000000;"> if those underlying issues of corruption are left unresolved? The answer is certainly NO! One corruptor is in jail, a new corruptor will pop up! This is why, the underlying issues of corruption must be addressed first and KPK is not the answer. </span></span></p>
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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: #000000;">KPK does work to a point. However, knowing how much the central government has to pay for the KPK&#8217;s daily operation, it is not wise to leave it the way it is. It creates more layer of government; draining much of the </span><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: #000000;">Indonesia</span><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: #000000;">’s APBN. Indonesian judicial system is still broken and it shall be reformed. KPK shall be placed back within the framework of </span><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: #000000;">Indonesia</span><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: #000000;"> judicial system once the judicial system is back on track to minimize central government spending.</span></span></p>
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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: #000000;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">SBY administration does not seem to care about minimizing those massive central government spending and at the same time, moving forward with regional autonomy policy forcing the regional and provincial government to expand, making Indonesia government in the era of reformation; in terms of personnel, the biggest government ever on Earth. </span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: #0000ff;">Establishing PUBLIC OVERSIGHT WATCH (P.O.W.)</span></strong><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: #000000;"> with spirit of Volunteerism to monitor the work of Government Officials and Members of Representative. <em></em></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Melihat perkembangan politik di </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Indonesia</span><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> akhir-akhir ini dimana terlihat jelas betapa pentingnya peranan pejabat negara dan wakil rakyat untuk memperjuangkan kepentingan rakyat dengan menjalankan aspirasi dan harapan rakyat, namun yg ada malah sebaliknya. Pejabat negara dan wakil rakyat malah melakukan tindakan-tindakan dan manuver politik yg bertentangan dengan kehendak dan harapan mayoritas rakyat </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Indonesia</span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">. </span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">Hal ini sangat memprihatinkan, apalagi ada indikasi dari pejabat negara dan wakil rakyat yang ingin mengurangi dan mengkredilkan HAK dan KEDAULATAN rakyat. Sebagai contoh pertama dalam masalah ini adalah usaha dari Menteri KOMUNIKASI; Tifatul Sembiring (Mantan President PKS) melalui KPI (Komisi Penyiaran Indonesia) untuk tidak atau membatasi siaran langsung persidangan KPK vs. POLRI. Hal ini salah besar dalam pemerintahan Demokrasi dan usaha ini harus diperangi dengan maksimal. </span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Contoh kedua adalah <strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">pada awalnya</strong> ada usaha dari pemerintah melalui Sri Mulyani dan Boediono’s gang; dua pejabat negara yg terseret dalam kasus BANK Century, untuk mengurangi atau menutup-nutupi kasus ini dari publik. Usaha pemerintah untuk menutup-nutupi kasus ini atau melupakan kasus ini adalah jelas pelanggaran atas HAK dan KEDAULATAN RAKYAT </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">INDONESIA</span><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> untuk <strong><span style="color: #0000ff;">mengetahui dan diberitahu</span></strong>. </span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">Baguslah bila akhirnya DPR bisa berhasil mengajukan hak angketnya untuk memongkar kasus Bank century ini. </span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Usaha-usaha dari pejabat negara atau wakil rakyat yang ingin mengebiri HAK dan KEDAULATAN RAKYAT </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">INDONESIA</span><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> untuk <strong><span style="color: #0000ff;">mengetahui dan diberitahu</span></strong> tentang masalah-masalah penting yg dihadapi bangsa dan negara </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Indonesia</span><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> harus kita perangi secara dashyat. </span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">Politik pengebirian <strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">HAK dan KEDAULATAN RAKYAT</strong> yang sangat bertentangan dengan asas dan prinsip negara Demokrasi yang tidak bisa kita toleransi! Mesti telah ada dan banyak NGO’s yang memiliki missi yang sama di Jakarta, organizasi PUBLIC OVERSIGHT WATCH (P.O.W) ini perlu dibentuk disetiap daerah, baik itu ditingkat Pusat, Propinsi dan Kabupaten. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: #000000;">Scope dan ruang kerja P.O.W tidak terbatas pada masalah sosial, politik dan hukum saja, tapi semua aspek pemerintahan yang memiliki dampak langsung terhadap kehidupan dan nasib bangsa </span><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: #000000;">Indonesia</span><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: #000000;"> secara menyeluruh baik itu ditingkat Daerah, Propinsi maupun di tingkat Pusat. </span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: #000000;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">P.O.W. akan memonitor sepak terjang para pejabat negara dan wakil rakyat baik itu yang ada didalam maupun di luar negeri dan melaporkan penemuanya kepada rakyat bekerja sama dengan jaringan Media, NGO’s dan Organisasi-Organisasi lain di seluruh Indonesia dan diluar negeri. </span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: #0000ff; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Sudah saatnya bagi rakyat </span><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: #0000ff; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Indonesia</span><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: #0000ff; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> untuk menuntut hasil kerja para pejabat negara dan para wakilnya di Parliamen untuk bekerja demi kepentingan rakyat dan bukanya demi kepentingan partai politik dan golongan elite tertentu. </span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: #000000;">P.O.W adalah organizasi rakyat dengan spirit volunteerism yg peka dan prihatin dengan  perkembangan politik di </span><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: #000000;">Indonesia</span><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: #000000;"> dan didaerahnya masing-masing yang sifatnya terbuka bagi siapa saja yang ingin bergabung untuk memonitor hasil kerja para pejabat negara dan wakil rakyat dimasing-masing daerah pemerintahan diseluruh </span><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: #000000;">Indonesia</span><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: #000000;">. </span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: #000000;">P.O.W. dimasing-masing daerah akan saling terkait, bekerja sama dan membantu satu sama lain untuk mencapai tujuan yang sama yaitu memaksa pejabat negara dan wakil rakyat untuk bekerja demi kepentingan rakyat; hal yg sepantasnya mereka lakukan karena mereka dipilih oleh rakyat dan hal ini hanya akan bisa kita tempuh jika kita; rakyat Indonesia sendiri yang harus memonitor kerja mereka secara terus menerus serta melaporkannya secara regular dan terbuka kepada rakyat Indonesia bekerja sama dengan Media and organisasi-organisai kerakyatan lainya. Inilah semestinya spirit dari organisasi P.O.W ini.</span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 45pt; text-indent: -0.25in; text-align: justify; tab-stops: list 45.0pt; mso-list: l12 level1 lfo44;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: #0000ff; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">10.<span style="font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;;">                  </span></span></span></strong><strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: #ff0000;">*<span style="text-decoration: underline;">Memecahkan masalah macetnya lalu lintas di Jalan Raya Ibukota </span></span></strong><strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: #ff0000;">Jakarta</span></span></strong><strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: #ff0000;"> dan banjir tahunan? <em></em></span></span></strong></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">(What plans and action plans does he/she have to resolve the traffic congestion in </span><span style="font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">Jakarta</span><span style="font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;"> and the seasonal flood in </span><span style="font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">Jakarta</span><span style="font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;"> and surrounding?).</span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">Sungguh memalukan bila masalah ini masih juga belum terpecahkan! Tidaklah bisa dipungkuri dan menjadi penglihatan umum betapa macetnya jalan raya di </span><span style="font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">Jakarta</span><span style="font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;"> dan banjir musiman yang masih sering melanda </span><span style="font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">kota</span><span style="font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;"> metropolitan </span><span style="font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">Jakarta</span><span style="font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;"> dan sekitarnya. Beberapa Gubernur telah mencoba memecahkan masalah ini dan sampai hari inipun masalah itu masih juga belum terpecahkan. </span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">Ironinya bukankah kantor Presiden, Wakil Presiden, Kantor Menteri-Menteri dan gedung Parliamen ada di </span><span style="font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">Jakarta</span><span style="font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">? Bukankah Presiden, Wakil Presiden. Menteri-Menteri, anggota Parliamen dan pejabat negara lainya melihat langsung dengan mata kepala sendiri betapa macetnya jalan-jalan di Kota Jakarta ini dan juga banjir yang setiap kali melanda </span><span style="font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">kota</span><span style="font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;"> </span><span style="font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">Jakarta</span><span style="font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;"> dan sekitarnya? Masak tak satu orangpun dari sekian ribu pemimpin bangsa yang mampu memiliki ide untuk mengatasi masalah ini? </span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">There is no problem that can not be remedied. If they can’t resolve these obvious traffic jam and seasonal flood in our own back yard, how can they claim to resolve the much bigger issues facing the country and the nation of </span><span style="font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">Indonesia</span><span style="font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">? This is a real test of leadership! </span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Political and economical problems in </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Indonesia</span><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> are so complex, perplexing and complicated. However, there is no problem that can not be remedied! Many people stated that the problems in Indonesia is just like a messy knot that has been rusted for over 35 years and Indonesian people are getting used to living in this condition. </span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">To undo the knot and to resolve these messy issues, we need to find the tip of the knot and work around it to resolve those messy issues one step at a time. The tip of the political mess in </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Indonesia</span><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> is the Parliament. The tip of Indonesian economical issue and financial crisis lie at the Executive Branch of Government. Both of these branches of Government must work hand in hand to resolve all issues facing the country. </span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">This is one of my ways to do that by confronting the elected President, Vice President and Members of Parliament openly and publicly to encourage them to act now than later. The issues are too great and too critical for the advancement of the country and the betterment of its people. </span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">We need to hold our leaders and Representatives of the people accountable to generate tangible results to change the condition on the ground that directly impact millions people of </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Indonesia</span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">. I am that confident that unless the above issues that I pointed out with clarity are resolved once and for all, I don’t see how any leader can even pronounce significant progresses and achievements. </span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">As I said previously, it is<strong> </strong>NOT<strong> </strong>critical</span><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> in my view who is going to be the next President and Vice President of </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Indonesia</span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">. But <span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">it is<strong> VERY CRITICAL</strong></span> that the elected President and Vice President of Indonesia understand those critical issues and have scrutinizeable plans and action plans with measurable bench-marks, expected conditions on the ground and timeline to resolve those issues. More importantly that those proposed plans and action-plans must be shared with the Members of Parliament and the public to undertake public debates. <em style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"></em></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">Any plan or program without a deadline and measurable-success is nothing but a plan. A plan does not do any good unless it is implement-able and generates tangible results that change people’s life is useless. For that matter, any President and Vice President regardless of their style, character and past accomplishments who are taking such a path by simply presenting immeasurable programs shall be challenged and rejected. We want tangible results with transparency, check and balance in the process. </span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">I am looking forward to seeing our President, Vice President, Cabinet Ministers and Members of Parliament working together to address those critical issues once and for all. It is only then that we can see possible significant changes on the ground that will transform the million’s life of Indonesian people who are now still living under poverty. </span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">I am openly challenging SBY’s administration to resolve not even those top 10 issues. If they can resolve at least the top 3 issues, which are: </span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in; text-indent: -0.5in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: #ff0000;">&gt;&gt;&gt;</span><strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: #008000;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;">   </span>1). Mengurangi dan akhirnya menghapuskan seluruh </span></strong><strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: #0000ff;">hutang </span></strong><strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: #0000ff;">Indonesia</span></strong><strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: #0000ff;"> baik dalam dan luar negeri.</span></strong></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in; text-indent: -0.5in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: #ff0000;">&gt;&gt;&gt;</span></strong><strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: #008000;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;">   </span>2). </span></strong><strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: #0000ff;">Memperbaiki currency Rupiah</span></strong><strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: #008000;"> terhadap US Dollar, paling tidak sama nilai dengan di tahun 1980’an</span></strong></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in; text-indent: -0.5in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: #ff0000;">&gt;&gt;&gt;</span><strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: #008000;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;">   </span>3). Mengurangi secara dratis </span></strong><strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: #0000ff;">pemborosan pengeluaran Pemerintah Pusat dan mengalokasikan dana APBN secara proprosional</span></strong><strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: #008000;"> antara kepentingan Pemerintah Pusat dan pemerintah daerah baik itu ditingkat Propinsi maupun ditingkat </span></strong><strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: #008000;">Kota</span></strong><strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: #008000;"> Madya dan Kabupaten. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></strong></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">I can guarantee you with degree of certainty that if those top 3 issues are resolved, there will be a very significant change in Indonesia, especially, to the life of millions and millions Indonesia people who are now still living under poverty line and those who are unemployed! </span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">May Allah give you the wisdom and strength to do so!</span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">Now that those critical issues have been identified and pointed out with clarity; openly and publicly, there should be no excuses for those who are now in power to deny that they do not know what those critical issues are and to ignore those critical issues for the next 5 years. </span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Show your leadership to the people of </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Indonesia</span><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> that you are capable of resolving those critical issues as promised during the campaign! The People of Indonesia are looking forward to seeing those critical issues to be addressed and resolved sooner than later. </span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">I wish you all the best to be part of the history in the making to make significant changes in </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Indonesia</span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">. Good luck, Mr. President! </span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">Sincerely,</span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">Chris Komari</span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">Partai Masa Depan Indonesian Mandiri (Parmadim)</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><a href="http://www.indonesiamatters.com/2431/presidential-debates/"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">http://www.indonesiamatters.com/2431/presidential-debates/</span></a></span></p>
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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">* Chris Komari is an Indonesian citizen and California Resident at the same time. He served as a member of City Council for the City of Bay Point, </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">State of California</span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">, </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">USA</span><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> in 2002. He is now serving as Board Member of Project Area Committee (PAC) from 2008 in the same city; a governing body under jurisdiction of Contra Costa County, State of California, USA. Chris was the first Indonesian-American who has ever been appointed by the local authorities to serve in the governing bodies in the State of </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">California</span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">, </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">USA</span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">. He is also a volunteer in many community based and non-profit charitable organizations in his hometown. He was a former Chairman of Tsunami Fund Raising Concert in San Francisco 2005 to help the Tsunami victims in </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Sumatera</span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">, </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Indonesia</span><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> and also a former Chairman of Indonesia Day 2005, an annual public event that is undertaken to promote </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Indonesia</span><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> as a whole in conjunction with the celebration of Indonesia Independent Day in </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Northern California</span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">. He is currently CFO for Indonesian Community Center (ICC), a non-profit charitable organization under 501(c) (3) that he co-founded with his Indonesian friends to help the victims of natural disasters in </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Indonesia</span><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> and those unfortunate people around the world who are in dire situation and need helps. In his efforts to represent the unspoken voices from under and unrepresented millions and millions of ordinary Indonesian people as well as to address the many critical issues facing Indonesia, he formed a political platform called “Future Indonesia” which later on he reformulated in response to the political developments in Indonesia to become a Political Party called “Future Indonesia Independent Party or, Partai Masa Depan Indonesia Mandiri (PARMADIM). This political party is still in its early stage of formation and it has not yet been registered or certified by the Government of Indonesia. Chris has written many critical issues facing </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Indonesia</span><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> pre and post general and Presidential election in 2009. His views on those issues can be seen through his political website <a href="http://www.parmadim.com/">www.parmadim.com</a> </span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Kami memperbolehkan dan memberi authorisasi kepada siapa saja; individu, korporasi, NGO’s, pejabat pemerintah, partai politik maupun ratusan Media Masa Indonesia yang ingin me-reprint atau menterjemahkan isi surat ini kedalam bahasa Indonesia, mem-publish semua atau sedikit demi sedikit; point per point atau selurunya ke dalam majalah dan Koran anda, me-reprint isi surat ini untuk keperluan lain, seperti seminar dan diskusi umum dan menyebar luaskan isi surat ini kekalayak ramai untuk dijadikan bahan perdebatan umum selama hal itu dilakukan bukan semata-mata untuk mencari KEUNTUNGAN pribadi, partai politik, organisasi atau perusahaan dimana ada berkerja atau berasosiasi yang mengarah pada monetary benefits. Tujuan kami adalah agar issue yang sangat kritikal ini bisa diketahui oleh public secara luas dan diperdebatkan secara umum untuk dicari pemecahanya demi kemajuan, perkembangan dan perbaikian nasib Bangsa dan Negara </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Indonesia</span><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> untuk lebih cerah dan makmur. Terima kasih/Penulis. </span></span></p>
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		<title>&#8220;DPR&#8221; bukanlah Dewan Pencari Fakta (DPF)</title>
		<link>http://parmadim.com/2010/03/27/dpr-bukanlah-dewan-pencari-fakta-dpf/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 27 Mar 2010 08:40:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Komari</dc:creator>
		
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“DPR” bukanlah Dewan Pencari Fakta (DPF)! 



Lembaga Legislative seperti DPR bukanlah Tim Pencari Fakta (TPF), Komisi Pencari Fakta (KPF) atau Dewan Pencari Fakta (DPF) seperti dalam kasus Cicak vs. Buaya.
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TPF, KPF dan DPF tidak memiliki kekuasaan secara konstitusional, karena itu kerja DPR tidak seharusnya disamakan seperti kerjanya TIM Pencari FAKTA yang hanya sekedar memberi [...]]]></description>
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<div><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 24pt; color: #ff6600;">“DPR” bukanlah Dewan Pencari Fakta (DPF)! </span></strong></span></div>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="color: #000000;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">Lembaga Legislative seperti DPR bukanlah Tim Pencari Fakta (TPF), Komisi Pencari Fakta (KPF) atau Dewan Pencari Fakta (DPF) seperti dalam kasus Cicak vs. Buaya.</span></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="color: #000000;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">TPF, KPF dan DPF tidak memiliki kekuasaan secara konstitusional, karena itu kerja DPR tidak seharusnya disamakan seperti kerjanya TIM Pencari FAKTA yang hanya sekedar memberi rekomendasi kepada Presiden. </span></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="color: #000000;">Lembaga Legislative adalah salah satu branch of Government dalam pemerintahan Demokrasi, dimana secara </span><strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #0000ff;">KONSTITUSIONAL</span><span style="color: #000000;"> </span></strong><span style="color: #000000;">memiliki wewenang, tugas, tanggung-jawab dan kewajiban untuk menjalankan pengawasan atau <strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #000000;">&#8220;oversight role&#8221;</span></strong> terhadap kerja Executive. Hal ini sangat perlu untuk meneggakan system <strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #000000;">&#8220;check and balance&#8221;</span></strong> dalam pemerintahan Demokrasi.</span></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="color: #000000;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">Terus apa artinya <strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">&#8220;oversight role&#8221;</strong> bila wrongdoing atau public misconducts yang dilakukan oleh pejabat Executive telah ditetapkan sebagai hasil kerja dari PANSUS melalui hak angket oleh MP’s yang dilakukan dilegislative dengan saksi-saksi yang memakan biaya jutaan, millyaran bahkan trilliunan tapi hasilnya hanya sebuah &#8220;rekomendasi&#8221; yang bisa diabaikan begitu saja oleh seorang Presiden? </span></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">Buat apa menghambur-hamburkan uang rakyat trilliunan rupiah, mencerca saksi ini dan itu, mengadakan sidang berkepanjangan, debat sana debat sini dengan fasilitas HAK ANGKET tapi yang keluar hanya sekedar &#8220;rekomendasi&#8221;?</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">* Apa bedanya dengan kerja TIM PENCARI FAKTA, kalau ujung-ujungnya dari HAK ANGKET hanyalah sekedar &#8220;rekomendasi&#8217;? Terus apa makna HAK ANGKET DPR?</span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="color: #000000;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">Terus apa artinya <strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #000000;">“oversight role”?</span></strong> Apa artinya DPR/MPR/DPD sebagai badan Legislative? What a waste of time and people&#8217;s money! Itu sih pemborosan uang rakyat oleh PANSUS, kalau HAK ANGKET hanya berujung pada rekomendasi tanpa hasil yang nyata yang bisa memperbaiki suana dan memecahkan masalah yang ada secara tegas dan tepat! </span></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; color: #000000;">Kenapa para anggota PANSUS yang juga anggota Parliamen harus mendapatkan gaji tambahan diluar gaji pokok dalam menjalankan sidang hak angket ini? Bukankah hak angket adalah bagian dari tugas DPR dan menjalankan sidang hak angket adalah bagian dari tugas-tugas menjadi anggota Parliamen? </span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; color: #000000;">Pemborosan uang rakyat seperti ini perlu di reevalausi dan dihentikan! Kerja PANSUS melalui hak angket <strong>t<span style="color: #0000ff;">idak BENAR dan tidak b</span></strong><span style="color: #0000ff;"><strong>oleh</strong> h</span>anya sekedar menghasilkan <strong>rekomendasi kepada Presiden</strong>, tapi harus bisa secara tegas, berani dan tepat dalam memecahkan masalah yang ada dan melakukan <strong>impeachment proceeding</strong> secara independent terhadap pejabat negara yang terbukti dan terindikasi melakukan pelanggaran atau wrongdoings yang sifatnya <strong>non-criminal public misconducts</strong>.</span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="color: #000000;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">Kalau yang dicari hanyalah sekedar rekomendasi kepada Presiden, kenapa tidak menunjuk TIM Pencari FAKTA saja? Kenapa harus DPR melalui hak angket lagi?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> What a joke! </span></span></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="color: #000000;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">Ataukah DPR-nya yang masih tidak tahu fungsi &#8220;oversight&#8221; dan tugas DPR sebagai badan Legislative? </span></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="color: #000000;">Tidakah atau sulitkah di pahami bahwasanya DPR memiliki HAK Konstitutional seperti </span><span style="color: #0000ff;">Hak Angket, Hak Interpelasi, Hak Menyatakan Pendapat dan Hak Budget</span><span style="color: #000000;"> adalah refleksi dari </span><span style="color: #0000ff;">&#8220;Oversight Role&#8221; </span><span style="color: #000000;">DPR terhadap badan Executive? </span></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="color: #000000;">Hak-hak konstitutional DPR sebagai badan legislative itu ada dan dimaksudkan untuk mengawasi kerja Executive demi terciptanya <strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #000000;">“check and balance”</span></strong> dalam pemerintahan Demokrasi. Dan check and balance itu baru akan bisa tercipta bila DPR mengambil sikap dan tindakan yang tegas kepada orang-orang di Executive yang melakukan pelanggaran baik yang sifatnya </span><span style="color: #0000ff;">criminal misconducts</span><span style="color: #000000;"> maupun </span><span style="color: #0000ff;">non-criminal misconducts</span><span style="color: #000000;">. </span></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="color: #000000;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">Apakah <strong>dengan sekedar rekomendasi</strong> dari DPR yang bisa diabaikan begitu saja oleh seorang Presiden, system <strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">“check and balance”</strong> itu akan bisa diciptakan? </span></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="color: #000000;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">Don&#8217;t be so naive dan menganggap kerja DPR, apalagi mengunakan HAK ANGKET itu sama dengan kerjanya TIM PENCARI FAKTA yang kerjanya cuma memberi rekomendasi. </span></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="color: #000000;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">Jangan pernah berpikir bahwasanya hak-hak konstitusional DPR itu hanyalah hak DPR <strong>untuk mencari penjelasan dari pemerintah</strong> yang berujung-ujung cuma memberi rekomendasi. </span></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="color: #000000;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">Itu sih salah mengerti tentang tugas dan tanggung-jawab DPR sebagai badan Legislative dalam menjalankan peran pengawasan atau <strong>&#8220;oversight&#8221;</strong> terhadap badan Executive. <span style="color: #0000ff;">Hak Angket, Hak Interpelasi, Hak Menyatakan Pendapat, Hak Budget dan Hak Subpoena DPR i</span><span style="color: #000000;">tu memiliki bobot, kekuatan dan kekuasaan tersendiri secara konstitusional. Jadi jangan disamakan dengan kerjanya TIM PENCARI FAKTA. </span></span></span></span><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="color: #000000;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">Karena apa? </span></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="color: #000000;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">Karena DPR bukanlah TIM PENCARI FAKTA atau KOMISI PENCARI FAKTA atau DEWAN PENCARI FAKTA. DPR adalah badan Legislative yang memiliki wewenang, tanggung-jawab dan kekuasaan yang nyata, <strong>independent, absolute dan co-equal </strong>secara Konstitutional! </span></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="color: #000000;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">Karena itu, DPR/MPR/DPD sebagai badan Legislative secara konstitutional harus bisa, berani dan mampu secara independent melakukan d<span style="color: #0000ff;"><span style="color: #0000ff;">ecisi</span>ve action to remove public officers from office (impeachment proceeding) k</span>alau pejabat pemerintah tersebut terbukti bersalah dan melanggar aturan secara konstitutional. Itulah fungsi <strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">&#8220;oversight role&#8221;</strong> badan Legislative terhadap badan Executive.</span></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="color: #000000;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">Kalau wrongdoing (pelanggaran) dan public misconducts yang dilakukan itu sifatnya criminal, sudah sepantasnya DPR/MPR/DPD sebagai badan Legislative menyerahkan masalah itu; seperti penemuan PANSUS kepada POLRI, Kejaksaan atau KPK untuk meneruskan investigasi criminal (further criminal investigations) terhadap mereka yang bersangkutan, karena secara Konstitutional, criminal proceeding adalah hak Judiciary (judicial system) dan bukanya hak Legislative. </span></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="color: #000000;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">Namun Legislative bisa dan berhak memproses dan mengadili langsung pelanggaran (wrongdoings) yang sifatnya non-criminal misconducts terhadap pejabat negara yang disebut dengan Legisltaive trial, seperti impeachment proceeding. </span></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="color: #000000;">Bahkan secara konstitutional, bila DPR tidak mempercayai POLRI, KEJAKSAAN dan KPK karena mereka disinyalir terlalu dekat dengan orang-orang di Executive, seperti dalam kasus Bank Century dimana salah satu pelakunya adalah ketua BI Boediono yang saat ini menjabat sebagai Wakil Presiden, maka DPR bisa mengusulkan untuk menunjuk </span><strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #0000ff;">&#8220;Indepedent Counsel&#8221;</span></strong><span style="color: #000000;"> untuk melanjutkan criminal investigation terhadap pejabat yang bersangkutan.</span></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="color: #000000;">Karena itu dalam kasus Bank Century, bila DPR tidak mempercayai POLRI, KEJAKSAAN atau KPK yang disinyalir mereka terlalu lamban dalam mengambil sikap karena adanya <strong>conflict of interest</strong> terhadap Chairman BI Boediono yang saat ini menjabat sebagai Wakil Presiden, DPR perlu menunjuk </span><strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #0000ff;">&#8220;Independent Counsel&#8221;</span></strong><span style="color: #000000;"> untuk menindaklanjuti temuan anggota PANSUS dan keputusan DPR. </span></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="color: #000000;">Dalam kasus Bank Century, pelanggaran (wrongdoings) yang dilakukan oleh Chairman BI Boediono dan Menkeu Sri Mulyani yang sifatnya atau yang bisa dikategorikan sebgai pelanggaran </span><span style="color: #0000ff;">Non-Criminal Public Misconducts, antara lain adalah sbb: </span></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="color: #000000;">1). </span><strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #0000ff;">Menurunkan syarat CAR</span></strong><span style="color: #000000;"> dan <strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">adanya indikasi</strong> bahwasanya kebijakan itu diambil untuk membuat Bank Century qualified menerima dana Bail out, <strong>meski Chairman Boediono secara pribadi</strong> tidak menerima keuntungan dari kebijakan itu. Dari segi aturan dan kebijakan, hal itu adalah wrongdoing atau pelanggaran secara constitutional yang sifatnya non-criminal public misconduct! </span></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="color: #000000;">2). </span><strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #0000ff;">Tidak memberikan data yang lengkap</span></strong><span style="color: #000000;"> kepada MENKEU Sri Mulyani (entah sengaja maupuan tidak disengaja). Hal ini juga termasuk wrongdoing atau pelanggaran secara constitutional yang sifatnya non-criminal public misconduct!</span></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="color: #000000;">3). </span><strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #0000ff;">MENKEU Sri Mulyani mengaku di TIPU</span></strong><span style="color: #000000;"> dan salah mengambil kebijakan </span><strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #0000ff;">(Incompetency)</span></strong><span style="color: #000000;"> yang merugikan negara dan hanya menguntungkan orang-orang tertentu termasuk pemilik Bank Century Robert Tantular, meski secara PRIBADI, Menkeu Sri Mulyani tidak mengambil keuntungan dari kebijakan itu. Hal ini juga wrongdoing atau pelanggaran secara constitutional yang sifatnya non-criminal public misconduct!</span></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="color: #000000;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">Maka secara constitutional, DPR/MPR/DPD sebagai badan Legislative harus berani dan mampu mengambil <strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">&#8220;decisive action&#8221;</strong> terhadap pejabat negara yang melakukan pelanggaran (wrongdoing atau public misconducts), baik itu yang sifatnya criminal misconducts maupun non-criminal misconducts. </span></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="color: #000000;">Hak-Hak konsitutional DPR seperti </span><span style="color: #0000ff;">Hak Angket, Hak Interpelasi, Hak Menyatakan Pendapata dan Hak Budget</span><span style="color: #000000;"> adalah bentuk dari &#8220;OVERSIGHT ROLE&#8221; DPR/MPR/DPD terhadap badan Executive. </span></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="color: #000000;">Hak ini harus di executed dengan tegas dan benar untuk menegakan dan menciptakan <strong>&#8220;system check and balance&#8221;</strong> dalam pemerintahan Demokrasi. Karena itu tanggung-jawab dan tugas </span><span style="color: #0000ff;">&#8220;oversight role&#8221;</span><span style="color: #000000;"> ini tidak boleh dibatasi, dikerdilkan, dikurangi, dihambat, dikompromi atau dikontrol oleh lembaga lain seperti Judiciary atau MK.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; color: #000000;">J<span style="color: #0000ff;"><span style="color: #000000;">adi </span><strong><span style="color: #000000;">T</span>IDAK BENAR </strong></span>bila hak DPR sebagai badan Legislative untuk melakukan impeachment proceeding harus dibatasi, di kontrol, ditentukan dan harus menunggu keputusan Judiciary dulu (MK) untuk menentukan apakah Boediono dan Menkeu Sri Mulyani bersalah atau tidak berdasarkan hukum (Criminal Law). </span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; color: #000000;">S<span style="color: #0000ff;">ebab Pertama:</span> &#8220;Bagaimana kalau kesalahan itu sifatnya bukan criminal public misconducts, tapi pelanggaran constitutional? Apakah pelanggaran itu harus masih dibuktikan secara hukum oleh Judiciary dengan memakai dasar criminal law? Tidak masuk akal bukan?</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; color: #000000;">S<span style="color: #0000ff;">ebab kedua:</span> Dengan membatasi ruang garak DPR dengan keputusan Judiciary (MK) membuat DPR <strong>a 2nd class branch of government </strong>atau badan Legislative dibawah Judiciary dan sekaligus membuat <strong>Judicary &#8220;a soft dictator&#8221;</strong> dalam pemerintahan demokrasi. Hal ini tidak benar dan bertentangan dengan prinsip-prinsip Demokrasi dimana badan Executive, Legislative dan Judiciary itu harus co-equal, indepedent, absolute, dispersed dan decentralized. </span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="color: #000000;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">Kecuali dalam kasus-kasus yang sifatnya <strong>criminal misconducts atau criminal violations</strong> yang masuk dalam ranah kriminal hukum (Criminal Law), Judiciary (seperti POLRI, KEJAKSAAN, KPK dan MK) atau Independent Counsel perlu dilibatkan.</span></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="color: #000000;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">Dalam kasus Bank Century, kalau aturanya yang salah atau terlalu banyak loopholes, seperti langkah Chairman Boediono yang seenaknya merubah aturan CAR untuk membuat Bank Century qualified menerima dana Bail-Out, maka DPR/MPR/DPD sebagai badan Legislative perlu merevalusi aturan BI tersebut dan membuat Undang-Undang baru seperlunya untuk menyempurnakan ATURAN BI itu agar tidak mudah <strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">DIPERMAINKAN</strong> oleh pejabat BI, seperti yang dilakukan oleh Chairman Boediono waktu itu. </span></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="color: #000000;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">Disinilah peranan “<strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">oversight role DPR”</strong> yang sesungguhnya dalam mengawasi kerja Executive. Jadi bukan hanya menghukum mereka yang salah, tapi juga menutup loopholes dan menyempurnakan aturan yang belum sempurna! </span></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="color: #000000;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">Disinilah mestinya fungsi dan role badan Legislative dalam menjalankan peran <strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">&#8220;oversight&#8221; </strong>terhadap Exectutive, dan bukanya seperti TIM Pencari FAKTA yang kerjanya tidak lain hanyalah memberi input dan rekomendasi terhadap Execuitve/President.</span></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: #0000ff;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">Apa yang bias dilakukan DPR saat ini? </span></span></strong></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="color: #000000;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">Jalan terbaik baik DPR saat ini adalah memilah-milah pelanggaran yang dilakukan oleh Chairman BI Boediono dan Menkeu Sri Mulyani dalam 2 kategori:</span></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: #0000ff;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">1). Criminal Misconducts - (Criminal law)</span></span></strong></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="color: #000000;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">Pelanggaran (wrongdoing) yang sifatnya Criminal Misconducts, DPR perlu melimpahkan ke ranah <span class="yshortcuts">HUKUM</span> kepada POLRI, KEJAKSAAN dan KPK. Tapi bila 3 lembaga ini (POLRI, KEJAKSAAN dan KPK) tidak bisa dipercaya karena terlalu dekat dengan Executive dan yang melakukan pelanggaran adalah seorang Wakil Presiden, maka DPR bias menunjuk &#8220;Independent Counsel&#8221; untuk melanjutkan penyelidikan dan penyidikan terhadap <span class="yshortcuts">kasus Bank Century</span> terhadap mereka (pejabat negara) yang terlibat. Target dari penyelidikan dan penyidikan criminal misconducts adalah individunya yang bisa berakhir dengan hukuman penjara bagi sipelaku. </span></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: #0000ff;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">2). Non-Criminal Misconducts (Constitutional law)</span></span></strong></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="color: #000000;">Semua penemuan pelanggaran yang sifatnya non-criminal misconducts yang dilakukan oleh Chairman BI Boediono dan Menkeu Sri Mulyani dan pejabat negara lainya, DPR sebagai lembaga Legislative perlu melakukan HAK MENYATAKAN PENDAPAT yang bisa mengarah pada Impeachment Proceeding tanpa harus menunggu keputusan dari Judiciary, seperti MK. Sebab DPR/MPR/DPD sebagai badan legislative adalah badan yang independent dan harus bisa, berani dan mampu melakukan </span><span style="color: #0000ff;">Legislative trial </span><span style="color: #000000;">terhadap orang-orang Executive yang melakukan pelanggaran non-criminal misconducts atau pelanggaran secara konstitutional. </span></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="color: #000000;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">Target dari <strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Legislative trial</strong> adalah jabatan dari si pelaku dimana sipelaku akan dipaksa untuk meninggalkan jabatanya kalau terbukti bersalah (Impeached). </span></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="color: #000000;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">Tapi dalam kasus non-criminal misconducts (seperti pelanggaran aturan, undang-undang atau pelanggaran konstitusi), acuanya bukanlah pada si pelaku menerima keuntungan PRIBADI atau TIDAK. Tapi lebih pada penlanggaran konstitusional (Constitutioanl Law) dimana DPR/MPR/DPD sebagai badan Legislative harus bisa, mampu dan berani mengambil sikap yang tegas untuk mengambil tindakan terhadap oknum pejabat yang melanggar aturan (public misconducts) seperti dalam kasus Bank Century. </span></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="color: #000000;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">Yang jelas, DPR bukanlah TIM Pencari FAKTA yang kerjanya hanya memberi rekomendasi. DPR secara KONSTITUTIONAL memiliki kekuasan dan kekuatan yang harus di pakai dan diteggakan. Otherwise, apalah artinya hearings, hak angket, hak interpelasi, hak menyakatakn pendapat dan hak budget bila keputusan DPR terhadap suatu kasus, yang keluar cuma rekomendasi. Apalagi bila rekomemdasi itu bisa begitu saja diabaikan oleh seorang Presiden. </span></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><strong><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: #0000ff;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">Apa yang yang bisa DPR lakukan untuk melawan seorang Presiden yang keras kepala? </span></span></strong></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="color: #000000;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">Banyak hal, dan secara politis kalau Presiden yang akan keras kepala terhadap keinginan DPR, justru DPR-lah yang memiliki upper hand.</span></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="color: #000000;">Dalam pemerinthan Demokrasi, DPR sebagai badan Legislative memiliki hak, kewajikan dan tanggung-jawab untuk mengawasi Executive (President) yang disebut dengan </span><strong><span style="color: #0000ff;">&#8220;OVERSIGHT ROLE&#8221;</span></strong><span style="color: #000000;">. Sebaliknya Presiden tidak memiliki oversight role therhadap kerja DPR. Apalagi Presiden </span></span><span style="color: #000000;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Indonesia</span><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> saat ini belum memiliki <strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">HAK VETO,</strong> menjadikan Presiden </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Indonesia</span><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> a lame duck President at all times. </span></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="color: #000000;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">Karena itulah dalam kasus Bank Century, DPR telah mengadakan hearings dan dari penemuanya, DPR sebagai lembaga Legislative memberikan rekomendasi untuk me-non-aktif-kan Wapres Boediono dan Menkeu Sri Mulyani yang secara konstitutional harus dilakukan oleh Presiden SBY. Kenyataanya, Presiden SBY telah menolak saran dan rekomendasi DPR. Terus apa yang bisa dilakukan oleh DPR? </span></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="color: #000000;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">What DPR can do to address the issue?</span></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="color: #000000;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">Penolakan President SBY terhadap rekomendasi DPR adalah pelanggaran dan sekaligus penolakan terhadap <strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">&#8220;Oversight Role&#8221;</strong> DPR sebagai badan Legislative terhadap badan Executive. </span></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="color: #000000;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">DPR bisa mengambil langkah-langkah sbb:</span></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="color: #000000;">1). </span><strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #0000ff;">Memanggil President SBY</span></strong><span style="color: #000000;"> melalui Hak Interpelasi atau Hak Angket dan Hak Subpoena untuk meminta pertanggung-jawaban Presiden di depan sidang paripurna atas penolakan recommendasi DPR tsb.</span></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="color: #000000;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">2). Bila penolakan President SBY dilakukan <strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">sebagai unjuk kekuatan</strong> terhadap DPR, maka DPR sebagai lembaga Legislative bisa melakukan <strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">impeachment poceeding</strong>, dengan alasan <strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">President telah melakukan pelanggaran constitutional</strong> yakni melanggar dan mengabaikan tugas dan tanggung jawab DPR dalam menjalankan oversight role terhadap Executive.</span></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="color: #000000;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">3). Untuk menghukum Executive/President sebagai balas unjuk kekuatan dan kekuasaan terhadap President, DPR sebagai lembaga Legislative bisa men-stall (menunda-nunda) atau <strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">tidak meloloskan APBN 2010 dengan dalih konstitutional irregularities</strong> dan membiarkan President SBY administrasi menjalankan roda pemerintahan tanpa dana (tanpa budget) sampai waktu yang bisa ditetapkan oleh DPR.</span></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: #0000ff;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">Tuntutan dan alasan konstitutional irregularities itu bisa diajukan oleh DPR kepada Presiden SBY sebagai syarat penyetujuan APBN 2010. </span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="color: #000000;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">Bila President tidak menghormati HAK dan Kewajiban Oversight Role DPR, apa alasan DPR harus menghormati HAK dan Kewajiban Presiden dengan menyetujui APBN 2010 yang diajukan Pemerintah. Karena itulah, kalau Presiden mau keras kepala terhadap DPR, DPR punya banyak upper hand secara konstitusi! </span></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: #0000ff;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">DPR bisa melakukan maneuver politik yang bisa menyulitkan Presiden SBY. </span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="color: #000000;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">Bila jutaan rakyat biasa di pedesaan yang telah hidup dibawah garis kemiskinan bertahun-tahun dan menggangur bertahun-tahun tahu dan mengerti komposisi budget President SBY selama 5 tahun terkahir dan kemana larinya dana APBN, rakyat Indonesia justru akan menghujat Pemerintah pusat daripada DPR. Teliti saja budget President SBY selama 5 tahun terkahir. </span></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="color: #000000;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">Sebagai contoh, dibawah ini adalah secara singkat komposisi budget President SBY tahun 2008:</span></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="color: #000000;">1). </span><span style="color: #0000ff;">Total Pendapatan negara Rp. 895.0 trilliun</span></span></span></strong></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="color: #000000;">2). </span><span style="color: #ff0000;">Total pengeluaran negara Rp. 989.5 trilliun</span></span></span></strong></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="color: #000000;">3). </span><span style="color: #008000;">Total deficit negara minus (-) Rp. 94.5 trilliun</span></span></span></strong></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="color: #000000;">Dari total pengeluaran negara sebesar Rp. 989.5 trilliun, kalian tahu berapa total pengeluaran Pemerintah Pusat sendiri? Lihat nih angkanya: </span><span style="color: #ff0000;">Rp. 697.1 trilliun (77.88%) </span><span style="color: #000000;">dari semua total pendapatan negara dalam APBN.</span></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="color: #000000;">Sementara itu sisanya yang hanya </span><span style="color: #0000ff;">22.12% </span><span style="color: #000000;">sebesar</span><span style="color: #0000ff;"> Rp. 292.4 trilliun, </span><span style="color: #000000;">dialokasikan kebawah, kepemrintah daerah yang terdiri dari:</span></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="color: #000000;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">1). &gt;33 Pemerintah Propinsi,</span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="color: #000000;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">2). &gt;491 Pemerintah Kota Madya dan kabupaten</span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="color: #000000;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">3). &gt;5,263 Pemerintah Kecamatan</span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="color: #000000;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">4). &gt;69,919 Pemerintah Desa dan kelurahan (dimana jutaan orang miskin dan pengganguran itu hidup). </span></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="color: #000000;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">Coba bayangkan? </span></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="color: #000000;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">Kira-kira berapa dana yang diterima oleh pemerintah pedesaan setelah dana yang kecil (22.12%) itu harus disunat oleh pemerintah Propinsi, Pemerintah Kabupaten dan Kecamatan? </span></span></span></p>
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Mayoritas orang </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Indonesia</span></span><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="color: #000000;"> yang miskin dan pengganguran tinggal di jurisdiksi tingkat pemerintah daerah dari tingkat Propinsi, Kabupaten, Kecamatan dan Pedesaan atau Kelurahan. Mestinya merekalah yang harus disuntik dan disubsisdi oleh pemerintah pusat melalui alokasi dana APBN yang poprosional, bukan malah sebaliknya, </span><span style="color: #0000ff;">dimana sebagian besar dana APBN</span><span style="color: #000000;"> </span><span style="color: #ff0000;">(77.88% dari seluruh pendapatan negara)</span><span style="color: #000000;"> dihabiskan, dihambur-hamburkan atau dirampok oleh Pemerintah Pusat.</span></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="color: #000000;">Kalau rakyat pedesaan yang sudah miskin dan menggangur bertahun tahu dan mengerti hal ini, siapa yang akan di hujat? </span><span style="color: #0000ff;">President SBY atau DPR? </span></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: #000000;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">DPR bisa mengunakan amunisi ini untuk memaksa Presiden SBY menuruti kehendap DPR dan menjalankan rekomendasi DPR untuk me-non-aktifkan Wapres Boediono dan Menkeu Sri Mulyani. </span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: #000000;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">Bagaimana caranya? </span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="color: #000000;">DPR bisa menolak komposisi APBN 2010 yang diajukan pemerintah dan DPR bisa meminta pemerintah untuk merevisi semua alokasi APBN 2010 dari </span><span style="color: #ff0000;">70% untuk Pemerintah Pusat</span><span style="color: #000000;"> dan </span><span style="color: #0000ff;">30% untuk Pemerintah Daerah</span><span style="color: #000000;"> menjadi sebaliknya, yakni </span><span style="color: #ff0000;">30% untuk Pemerintah Pusat</span><span style="color: #000000;"> dan </span><span style="color: #0000ff;">70% untuk Pemerintah Daerah.</span></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="color: #000000;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">Bila tuntutan itu benar-benar diajukan DPR, terus mau apa President SBY?</span></span></span></strong></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="color: #000000;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">Bila tuntutan itu tidak dilakukan, DPR memiliki alasan yang kuat untuk tidak meloloskan APBN 2010 dengan komposisi seperti yang diajukan pemerintah dengan dalih membela kepentingan dan nasib jutaan rakyat miskin yang hidup dipedesaan.</span></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="color: #000000;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">Dengan tidak meloloskan APBN 2010 sebagaimana yang diajukan pemerintahan SBY; sampai President SBY mau membuat perubahan alokasi dana APBN 2010, runyamlah program kerja President SBY. </span></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="color: #000000;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">Walhasil, mau tidak mau President SBY harus berkompromi dengan kehendak DPR bila budget 2010 dengan komposisi yang diinginkan pemerintah di loloskan oleh DPR dan kompromi itu tidak lain adalah bagi Presiden SBY menjalankan rekomendasi DPR untuk menon-aktifkan Wapres Boediono dan Menkeu Sri Mulyani. </span></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="color: #000000;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">Itu baru satu manuever politik yang bisa dilakukan DPR terhadap President. Masih banyak lagi yang bisa dilakukan DPR untuk mengawasi orang-orang di Executive. Karena itu, dalam waktu panjang tidak ada untungnya bagi Presiden SBY menentang dan menantang kehendap DPR. </span></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="color: #000000;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">It is NOT getting better, it&#8217;s getting worse. Karena apa? </span></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="color: #000000;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">Karena President SBY tidak akan pusing-pusing mencalonkan diri lagi jadi President ditahun 2014, karena itu President SBY akan menguras dana APBN 2010 dan seterusnya untuk kepentingan pemerintah pusat.</span></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="color: #000000;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">Hal ini bisa dilihat dari jumlah Menteri-Menterinnya yang tidak diperkecil, malah diperbesar. Sudah begitu, ditambah wakil-wakil Menteri, belum lagi segudang tenaga ahli, komisi ini dan komisi itu. Lihat saja, berapa itu dana APBN 2010 yang akan dikuras oleh PEMENRINTAH PUSAT.</span></span></span></p>
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Saya tidak ingin melihat adanya showdown kekuatan antara Executive dan Legislative, antara President dan DPR. Tapi tampaknya President SBY tidak memahami the political and constitutional ramifications dari sikap menentang dan menantang hasil rekomendasi DPR.</span></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="color: #000000;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">DPR memiliki tugas konstitutional untuk mengawasi kerja Executive yang disebut <strong>&#8220;Oversight Role&#8221;. </strong>Tugas dan tanggung jawab ini tidak bisa di bargained, dikompromi, ditantang, ditentang dan dihilangkan oleh seorang President, Head of the Executive Branch. Kalau hal itu terjadi, that is the beginning of Constitutional crisis. A showdown kekuatan tidak bisa dihindari!</span></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #000000;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Dalam keadaan aman, DPR memiliki upper hand dibanding President, apalagi President </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Indonesia</span><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> tidak atau belum memiliki HAK VETO. Kerena itu, it does not do any good for President SBY to challenge the will of DPR, apalagi menolak rekomendasi DPR.</span></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="color: #000000;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">Kalau President SBY tetap keras kepala melawan kehendak DPR, this is the beginning of the end of his Presidency, karena DPR sebagai institusi Legislative bisa melkukan political maneuvers yang bisa mempersulit kerja President SBY, diantaranya adalah meminta revisi budget atau menolak memberikan dana dari semua kerja program pemerintah yang dianggap tidak sesuasi dengan kepentingan rakyat. Issue kepentingan rakyat adalah topik yang sangat broad, objektive dan debatable! Jangankan menolak, meminta revisi budget yang jumlahnya significant saja sudah akan mempersulit kerja Executive, apalagi menolak atau mengolor-olor waktu! </span></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="color: #000000;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">Berapa lama perang Presiden SBY melawan DPR, tergantung berapa lama President SBY akan tetap keras kepala melawan kehendak DPR. Kalau Presient SBY mau keras kepala terhadap DPR, begitu banyak hal yang bisa dilakukan oleh DPR untuk membuat roda pemerintahan SBY mati total, dan semua itu bisa dilakukan secara legal, diterima oleh rakyat dan masuk akal secara konstitutional. </span></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: #000000;">Yang jelas, janganlah jadikan DPR seperti Tim Pencari Fakta, karena DPR bukanlah Dewan Pencari Fakta (DPF)! So, act like it! </span></span></p>
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<span style="color: #000000;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">Chris Komari</span></span></span></p>
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		<title>A National Tragedy</title>
		<link>http://parmadim.com/2010/02/08/freeport-a-national-tragedy/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Feb 2010 22:10:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Komari</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[FREEPORT: Corrupt Contract atau Perampokan?
 
*Link: ini baru pajak, yang di bawa kabur berapa?
*Link: Global Invasion by World Giant Corporations
*Link: Neoliberalism-and-Global-Invasion-by-World-Institutions
*Link: Tantangan-yang-harus-kita-hadapi-dalam-membongkar-corrupt-contract-atau-perampokan-di-tambang-freeport

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Tambang Freeport adalah asset dan sumber kekayaan nasional yang perlu diperjuangkan bukan hanya demi kepentingan rakyat setempat di Irian-Jaya, tetapi juga demi kepentingan dan kesejateraaan seluruh bangsa Indonesia secara merata.
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Kontrak yang ada sekarang ini jelas-jelas [...]]]></description>
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<h3><span style="color: #ff6600;">*</span><a href="http://www.cenderawasihpos.com/detail.php?ses=&amp;id=2066"><span style="color: #ff6600;">Link: ini baru pajak, yang di bawa kabur berapa?</span></a></h3>
<h3><a href="http://kabarislam.wordpress.com/2010/02/05/yahudi-as-dominasi-ekonomi-indonesia/"><span style="color: #ff6600;">*Link: Global Invasion by World Giant Corporations</span></a></h3>
<h3><a href="http://parmadim.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/neoliberalism-and-gloabl-invasion-by-world-institutions.doc"><span style="color: #ff6600;">*Link: Neoliberalism-and-Global-Invasion-by-World-Institutions</span></a></h3>
<h3><span style="color: #ff6600;">*</span><a href="http://parmadim.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/tantangan-yang-harus-kita-hadapi-dalam-membongkar-corrupt-contract-atau-perampokan-di-tambang-freeport.doc"><span style="color: #ff6600;">Link: Tantangan-yang-harus-kita-hadapi-dalam-membongkar-corrupt-contract-atau-perampokan-di-tambang-freeport</span></a></h3>
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<h3 style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-weight: normal; color: #000000; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">*</span></span></span></h3>
<h3 style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="font-weight: normal; color: #000000; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Tambang Freeport adalah asset dan sumber kekayaan nasional yang perlu diperjuangkan bukan hanya demi kepentingan rakyat setempat di Irian-Jaya, tetapi juga demi kepentingan dan kesejateraaan seluruh bangsa </span><span style="font-weight: normal; color: #000000; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Indonesia</span><span style="font-weight: normal; color: #000000; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> secara merata.</span></span></span></h3>
<h3 style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-weight: normal; color: #000000; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">*</span></span></span></h3>
<h3 style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="font-weight: normal; color: #000000; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Kontrak yang ada sekarang ini jelas-jelas tidak menguntungkan negara dan bangsa </span><span style="font-weight: normal; color: #000000; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Indonesia</span><span style="font-weight: normal; color: #000000; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">, apalagi penduduk Irian-Jaya. Karena itu kontrak </span><span style="font-weight: normal; color: #000000; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Freeport</span><span style="font-weight: normal; color: #000000; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> perlu di reevaluasi dan di-PANSUS-kan di gedung DPR. Bila terbukti adakanya tindakan yang menyalahi konstitusi dan UUD 1945 dalam melindungi kekayaan alam Indonesia, maka corrupt contract ini perlu dibatalkan apapun resikonya dan penggalian tambang emas dan batubara di Freeport perlu di hentikan segera.</span></span></span></h3>
<h3 style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-weight: normal; color: #000000; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">*</span></span></span></h3>
<h3 style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="font-weight: normal; color: #000000; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Bila tekanan dan tantangan International terlalu besar, maka tambang </span><span style="font-weight: normal; color: #000000; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Freeport</span><span style="font-weight: normal; color: #000000; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> perlu di nasionalisasikan sebagai jawaban dari tekanan dan tantangan International demi kepentingan penduduk setempat dan rakyat </span><span style="font-weight: normal; color: #000000; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Indonesia</span><span style="font-weight: normal; color: #000000; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> secara menyeluruh.</span></span></span></h3>
<h3 style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-weight: normal; color: #000000; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">*</span></span></span></h3>
<h3 style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="font-weight: normal; color: #000000; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Sesuai dengan tuntutan di Konstitusi dan UUD 1945, semua sumber daya alam </span><span style="font-weight: normal; color: #000000; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Indonesia</span><span style="font-weight: normal; color: #000000; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> harus dilindungi dan diproteksi dari cengkeraman dan invasion dari giant Corporations dari negera-negara maju. Karena itu, saya menghimbau kepada anggota DPR untuk segera mem-PANSUS-kan </span><span style="font-weight: normal; color: #000000; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">FREEPORT</span><span style="font-weight: normal; color: #000000; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">.</span></span></span></h3>
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<h2>*Link to Videos:</h2>
<h3><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_LEXOQeMXlk&amp;feature=player_embedded"><span style="color: #ff6600;">Tambang Freeport I, Irian-Jaya</span></a></h3>
<h3><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R6d5oFo00tE&amp;feature=related"><span style="color: #ff6600;">Tambang Freeport II</span></a></h3>
<h3><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QHZ_fXTva9I&amp;feature=related"><span style="color: #ff6600;">watch?v=QHZ_fXTva9I&amp;feature=related</span></a></h3>
<h3><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5nuXtq_tY5I&amp;feature=related"><span style="color: #ff6600;">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5nuXtq_tY5I&amp;feature=related</span></a></h3>
<h3><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VeedllH59n8&amp;feature=related"><span style="color: #ff6600;">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VeedllH59n8&amp;feature=related</span></a></h3>
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		<title>Presiden SBY: &#8220;Suka tebar pesona, tanpa hasil kerja yang nyata&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://parmadim.com/2010/01/28/menagih-janji-kampanye-dan-tantangan-indonesia-5-tahun-kedepan/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Jan 2010 21:48:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Komari</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Campaign Promises]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[ 
Northern California January 28th, 2010
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Open Letter to President SBY and his Cabinet Ministers
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Apa artinya program kerja 100 hari kalau yang ada hanya a long laundry list? 
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What is so great being a President if he is unable to resolve the most critical and pressing issues facing the nation of Indonesia and maintaining status quo [...]]]></description>
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<div style="text-align: right;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Northern California </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">January 28<sup>th</sup>, 2010</span></span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">*</span></span></span></div>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">Open Letter to President SBY and his Cabinet Ministers</span></span></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">Apa artinya program kerja 100 hari kalau yang ada hanya a long laundry list? </span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">*</span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">What is so great being a President if he is unable to resolve the most critical and pressing issues facing the nation of Indonesia and maintaining status quo with a long laundry list of program that do not have any impact to eliminate Indonesia’s massive debts, massive unemployment and poverty. </span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">*</span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="color: #0000ff;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">The Central Government spending is getting bigger and bigger</span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">, those big bosses who are sitting at the Executive Branch of Government continue to demand to get raised for their based salary and luxurious treatments to drive a brand new vehicle like Toyota Crown Majesta. Meanwhile, the millions and millions people of </span></span></span></span><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">Indonesia</span></span></span><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"> continue unemployed and living under poverty line and untouched getting poor and poorer! What an insult! </span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">*</span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">And all what the President SBY’s administration and his cabinet Ministers could do was to come up with a long laundry list that do not have any impact whatsoever to the life of those poor millions and millions of Indonesia people who are now still living below poverty line, being unemployed for so long and the central government continues to stack up the massive debts. </span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">*</span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">How arrogance and what an insult to the injury for any Government official under SBY’ administration to pronounce success for making those laundry lists for the first 