ABRI and democracy<\/p>\n
In his address on Armed Forces Day, President Soeharto
\nemphasized that the future development of the Armed Forces (ABRI)
\nwould always be realized in the larger framework of the nation's
\nand the country's development. In that context the President said
\nthat ABRI's role in security and defense matters and in social
\nand political affairs would still be needed in the future.<\/p>\n
The advent of the era of information and communication has
\nprompted an even greater acceleration in the processes of
\nopenness and democratization. On the international plane this is
\nwhat has sparked demands for improvements and democratization in
\nthe United Nations, as expressed by the 10th Non-Aligned Movement
\nSummit in Jakarta in September 1992. On the regional level,
\nnation states, either individually, or on the basis of their
\ngroup affiliations, are insisting on more democratic plans for
\ncooperation on the basis of partnership and equality of status.<\/p>\n
In the meantime, within each individual country, developments
\nalso require that the democratization process be assured based on
\nthe concepts and value systems that prevail. This phenomenon,
\nwhich is becoming increasingly global in scale, also causes a
\ngrowing interaction between various types of democracy with each
\nnation striving to reap the greatest possible benefit from this
\nprocess.<\/p>\n
In our view it is in this context that ABRI's social-political
\nrole can act as a dynamizing force, not only to push forward and
\nto stabilize the democratization process in all spheres of life,
\nbut to protect it from practices that could turn democracy into
\nanarchy.<\/p>\n
-- Suara Karya, Jakarta<\/p>", "url": "https:\/\/jawawa.id\/newsitem\/abri-and-democracy-1447893297", "image": "" }, "sponsor": "Okusi Associates", "sponsor_url": "https:\/\/okusiassociates.com" }