'Bung' Karno's teachings

'Bung' Karno's teachings

From Rakyat Merdeka

The reform movement has not yet borne fruit because it is not imbued with the teachings of Bung Karno, which stress a love of the people and togetherness in keeping with the ideals of the Aug. 17, 1945 revolution.

Now that Soeharto has stepped down from his presidential seat, the stipulation of the People's Consultative Assembly banning Bung Karno's teachings has remained in force. The Functional Group (Golkar) Party as the backbone of the New Order is yet to be dissolved.

The 1999 general election, held by the then president BJ Habibie, was not intended for the dissolution of Golkar. This general election gave the New Order forces a chance to consolidate themselves. The "Unity Cabinet" formed by Abdurrahman "Gus Dur" Wahid and the present "Mutual Help Cabinet", formed by Megawati, essentially only to allow the New Order forces to survive.

In the post-Soeharto era, the governments rely heavily on the power of global imperialism/capitalism so that our country has to undergo a protracted crisis.

Even the present administration of Megawati Soekarnoputri has successfully protected Soeharto and his cronies so that they are free from any prosecution for their previous crimes.

The longer Megawati is in power, the more disintegrated the nation becomes. The sales of state assets, the revocation of subsidies for fuel oil, electricity, health and education have made lower class people more miserable than ever.

Corruption, collusion and nepotism have become more rampant than before while bribery is practiced in practically all executive, legislative and judiciary institutions.

Therefore, Megawati, Hamzah Haz, Akbar Tandjung and Amien Rais must immediately give up their posts and hand them over to those without any phobia of Bung Karno's teachings.

HASAN, Bandung