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        "id": 1689427,
        "msgid": "observers-and-the-post-truth-phenomenon-1776696648",
        "date": "2026-04-20 20:43:19",
        "title": "Observers and the Post-Truth Phenomenon",
        "author": "",
        "source": "DETIK",
        "tags": "",
        "topic": "Politics",
        "summary": "This opinion piece defends the achievements of President Prabowo Subianto's government after 1.6 years in power, highlighting its anti-corruption efforts, economic reforms, and social welfare programmes aimed at national transformation and reducing inequality. It criticises opposition figures, observers, pollsters, and government critics as \"truth killers\" who propagate baseless attacks and ad hominem criticisms, accusing them of aligning with political losers and engaging in intellectual dishonesty. The article underscores the government's success in fulfilling campaign promises, such as free nutritious meals, health checks, and economic self-sufficiency, while dismissing detractors' narratives as empty and fact-free, portraying the administration's progress as a beacon of sincere leadership for the marginalised.",
        "content": "<p>\u201cRamai-ramai membunuh kebenaran, agar bersama-sama hidup dalam\nkebohongan.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The government under President Prabowo\u2019s leadership has been in place\nfor more than 1.6 years. What the government has thought, said, written,\nand done during this time has proceeded within a clear framework, namely\nthe national transformation agenda. It has been judged comprehensively\nby various groups, including the majority of the lower-class population\nnumbering in the hundreds of millions.<\/p>\n<p>Over these one and a half years, as time has passed, I have followed\nwhat has been presented by observers, buzzers, and the opposition, like\na stage play, plucking useless old strings, only mastering minor tones\nthat seem boring.<\/p>\n<p>The opposition group appears offensive with criticisms that lack\nsubstance, are not incisive, and tend towards ad hominem attacks and\nintellectual nihilism.<\/p>\n<p>Therefore, entering the second year of the government, this article\nfocuses on exposing the nature of observers, opposition, pollsters, and\nbuzzers\u2014the \u201ctruth killers\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Observers, pollsters, opposition, buzzers, and government haters who\nclaim to be inner-circle holders of intellectual authority should\nactually be suspected of having a political disposition aligned with\ngroups that lost the election, relatives, or\u2014my conviction\u2014nothing more\nthan compradors with thieves and robbers of state funds. The correlation\nis based on facts and information presented by the media as the nation\u2019s\nwindow so far.<\/p>\n<p>Unnoticed, over that 1.6-year period, observers and truth killers\nalong with sympathisers have shouted and cursed the government daily\nwithout stopping, without tiring, and without boredom as time\npasses.<\/p>\n<p>I note the credo of these truth killers: \u201cthe government of\ncorruption, collusion, and nepotism, the government does not eradicate\nmafias, cartels, the government does not keep promises, the government\ndoes not uphold human rights, does not commit to the people, is\ninconsistent, undemocratic, immoral, does not respect freedom of\nexpression\u201d. All these words are indeed pleasing to the ears of haters,\nbecause they indeed like dry credos devoid of literacy like this.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, they are respected, but it needs to be questioned whether\nthese truth killers have eyes of the heart when President Prabowo\neradicates oligarchs (economic mafias and trading cartels) amid\nhigh-cost general elections? The government is aggressively fighting\neconomic oligarchs as well as political oligarchs, legal oligarchs that\nhave long lived in Byzantium while stepping on the feet of poor and\nbackward indigenous people.<\/p>\n<p>Prabowo has ensured that this government is clean and anti-collusion,\ncorruption, and nepotism. The state has returned trillions of the\npeople\u2019s money stolen by thieves, BUMN commissioners\u2019 allowances have\nbeen abolished, BUMNs are no longer used as feasting tools for hundreds\nof street unemployed and job seekers accommodated as leaders of\nred-plate companies as has been the tradition so far. Now Danantara\nrecruits BUMN executives with high qualifications and competence.<\/p>\n<p>The President is fulfilling all the promises outlined in the book on\nnational transformation that was promised to the Indonesian people\nduring the presidential campaign. Various populist policies to break the\nchain of poverty by allocating state budget no less than 1,300 trillion\nfrom the 3,600 trillion state budget.<\/p>\n<p>For Prabowo, the primary agenda is national self-reliance with\nsufficient food, sufficient energy, clean water as an elementary need\nfor a nation\u2019s resilience. A satiated people, a healthy people, and a\nsmart people are the results of Prabowo\u2019s heartfelt reflections in his\nlong life journey. Since a young age, he has recorded and captured\nhistory, faced history, and determined the future of Indonesian\nhistory.<\/p>\n<p>His commitment is very strong to elevate the Indonesian nation by\neliminating economic pathology, social pathology, cultural pathology,\nand various pathologies through programmes like Free Nutritious Meals,\nPeople\u2019s Schools, Red White Cooperatives, Fisherman Villages, Human\nRights-Aware Villages, free health checks, and others.<\/p>\n<p>Prabowo is also strengthening the nation\u2019s economic foundation with\ndownstreaming programmes, the formation of Danantara, increased\ninvestment, self-sufficiency, improved tax revenue ratio. All programmes\nstem from Prabowo\u2019s ideals in ASTACITA, wealth for the people and the\nthrone for the people.<\/p>\n<p>Amid the government\u2019s favouritism and successes, we are witnessing\n(while laughing) the cheap drama of truth-killing observers with wild\nimaginations and tendencies towards fantasy, using their logic analysis\nknives with fallacy variables, producing lies, hatred, envy, malice,\ncruelty, and evil towards the truth, \u201cthey are collectively killing the\ntruth\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Therefore, it is reasonable if observers feel their knowledge is not\nused but persist on the path of fallacy, then the truth killers with\ntheir expressions can only be categorised as \u201cintellectual onanism\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Leaders in this country are present with sincerity and full of\nfeeling, caring for the marginalised and the poor. The wealth of the\nrich that previously grew 10% per year is now starting to be balanced\nwith the wealth of the general public, especially the middle class.\nBusinesses are also growing, the poor are beginning to decrease, the\nworld\u2019s HDI ranking for this nation is starting to improve, the Gini\nratio index has reached 0.363, the highest in the last 15 years, meaning\nan increase in people\u2019s purchasing power and an improvement in the\nbalanced distribution of welfare.<\/p>\n<p>Prabowo\u2019s achievements are extraordinary because in just 1.6 years,\nthe budget used has not reached 4,000 trillion of the state budget, yet\nwe see various brilliant achievements being carved by Prabowo\nSubianto.<\/p>\n<p>Finally, I measure the capacity of truth killers simply by looking at\ntheir verbal orations without data, facts, and accurate information.\nEmpty narratives that disrupt the image as if they are defenders of\ntruth and justice. The question is simple: currently, the people of\nPapua are grieving in sorrow<\/p>",
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