More dialog required<\/p>\n
JAKARTA (JP): Minister of Home Affairs Moch. Yogie S.M. warned
\nyesterday that political chaos looms ahead unless Indonesia is
\nable to handle the increasingly difficult challenges.<\/p>\n
Addressing the annual leadership meeting of the ruling Golkar
\npolitical grouping yesterday, Yogie reminded of the need for the
\ngovernment, political organizations and experts to hold
\n"intensive and extensive dialogs" and establish rules of the
\nfuture political game.<\/p>\n
"They need to sit together and come up with adequate and
\nprogressive guidance and a code of conduct," he said.<\/p>\n
One of the most important political challenges to be faced in
\nthe coming 25 years is creating opportunities for members of
\nsociety to openly state their political aspirations, he said.<\/p>\n
Golkar, as the ruling political organization, should help find
\nways to establish mechanisms in which "political negotiations" in
\nsociety can take place without harming one party or the other, he
\nsaid.<\/p>\n
"We have to find ways so that in the future, our mode of
\nnegotiation can create a win-win situation," he said. "The only
\nparty that we have to defeat is people who pretend to accept the
\nstate ideology Pancasila and the 1945 Constitution."<\/p>\n
Yogie said voters will only completely trust Golkar if it
\nremains intact and united in carrying out its task in the
\nnational development efforts.<\/p>\n
The three-day meeting is being attended by some 600 leading
\nmembers from Golkar's branch offices in the 27 provinces, from
\nthe mass organizations affiliated with it, as well as
\nrepresentatives from the bureaucracy and the Armed Forces.<\/p>\n
The meeting proceeded with four smaller group discussions.<\/p>\n
The first group is entrusted with the task of handling
\norganizational matters, such as procedures for recruitment; the
\nsecond for drawing up Golkar's concepts of development, which are
\nto be submitted and included in the 1998 Guidelines of State
\nPolicy.<\/p>\n
The third commission is in charge of discussing Golkar's
\nconcepts on "the improvement of the quality of nationalism",
\nwhile the last group is to draw up the organization's political
\nstatement, to be issued tomorrow during its 30th anniversary
\ncelebration.<\/p>\n
More vigilance<\/p>\n
Yogie also warned that Indonesia needs to be more vigilant of
\nthe onslaught of foreign information and "concepts of life" which
\nare not always suitable here.<\/p>\n
He noted that some developed countries have displayed the
\nemergence of "such concepts of life as democratization...human
\nrights, and others which are against concepts that are already
\nestablished here."<\/p>\n
"Those concepts .. may come in the way of our efforts to
\ndevelop our nation," he said. "However, let's see them more as a
\nchallenge ... which we can meet by working... for the good of the
\npeople."<\/p>\n
Golkar, whose leadership dominates various layers of the
\nadministration, won 68 percent of the vote during the last
\ngeneral elections in 1992. The Moslem-based United Development
\nParty (PPP) was a distant second with 17 percent, while the
\npopulist Indonesian Democratic Party (PDI) took 15 percent.<\/p>\n
Regarding the next elections in 1997, Yogie said voters should
\nlook at them as an inseparable part of the ongoing process to
\nreach the nation's aspirations.<\/p>\n
"(Winning) in elections should not be considered as only a
\nfulcrum of democracy, but also as a way for us to reach those
\ngoals established by our forefathers," he said. "This is why we
\ndon't want to see it (general elections) dividing the nation into
\nwarring groups of people."<\/p>\n
"Political parties naturally compete to win people's votes,
\nbut victory is meaningless if it is gained through ways which
\ndegrade or even slander one group or another," he said.<\/p>\n
He advised Golkar and the two other political parties to
\ncompete in developing better programs, thus improving the
\nimplementation of each of the future general elections.<\/p>\n
"Give the public opportunities to rationally decide which
\nparty offers programs which are more in accordance with its
\naspirations." (swe)<\/p>",
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