KKN beast still wagging its tail<\/p>\n
The hectic chase, not without much fanfare, alas, of people
\nfrom the former administration era, will be like a bicycle trip
\ninto the jungles of the Amazon. It will be, at least as I see it,
\na long hazardous venture which probably is more easily started
\nthan concluded if it ever will be crowned with tangible, long
\nlasting satisfactory results, and finally silence the cries for
\njustice.<\/p>\n
It would be outright naivete, I think, to eradicate this
\nsocial illness or wipe out the pest entirely from the earth. In
\nany society, free or oppressed, there has always been KKN
\n(corruption, collusion and nepotism) practices reported openly or
\nin secret, and under various degrees and political and
\norganizational cloaks. The task seems to be as daunting as the
\nbattle against the oldest profession in the world.<\/p>\n
The reform's main aim cannot possibly be cleansing the air
\nfrom KKN bacteria until no single species is left, but keeping it
\nto a socially acceptable minimum. It should not be at the expense
\nof the common people. To a certain degree, in one way or another,
\nin glaring fashion or merely spiritually, perhaps nobody is
\nexempt from corruption. Assisting an associate to get a deal for
\na small commission or appointing a person to a certain post
\nbecause you like him or her may be called a form of collusion.
\nFavoring members of your family, like appointing your daughter to
\nbe a village head or your son-in-law to the post of director
\nwhile there are others equally capable, is clearly nepotistic.<\/p>\n
Remember that the students' reform movement directed their
\nabhorrence against the excesses of such practices which had led
\nto the rich and powerful acquiring excessive wealth while the
\nmajority of the people are deprived of the bare necessities of
\nlife and democratic aspirations and human rights. We see how so
\nsoon after the stepping down of the country's second president,
\none gets the impression that the KKN monster is wagging its tail
\nagain.<\/p>\n
If there is to be a "social safety net" (an IMF term) then it
\nis imperative that the common people and the unemployed in
\nprovincial capital cities are provided with easy access to food,
\nand the provincial governors should be responsible for that in
\nthe first place. Because not only love starts from the stomach,
\naccording to my Dutch teacher Van der Bos, but all revolutions
\nstart from the stomach.<\/p>\n
The presence of KKN germs in most cases is very hard to detect
\nmaterially (substantially) and still harder, if not impossible,
\nto prove legally until the guilty one is seen to try to flee the
\ncountry.<\/p>\n
I am afraid that the KKN beast will roar harder and get
\nstronger to shed all KKN charges leveled by reformists and their
\nsympathizers.<\/p>\n
GANDHI SUKARDI<\/p>\n
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