Don't let RI disintegrate

Don't let RI disintegrate

From Suara Karya

Observing political, economic, social and security developments in this era of reform, particularly over the last two years, as children of the nation we have every reason to feel concerned and confused. Why? If we look back at the history of the superpowers, our reform movement at present can be compared with the perestroika launched in the Soviet Union in 1987-1988.

The world then witnessed that then president Mikail Gorbachev, the initiator of glasnost and perestroika, failed to control all of the excesses that arose from his reform movement. The longer the reform plan continued, the greater the threat and danger of disintegration in that country. The world community ultimately witnessed perestroika boomeranging on its initiator.

With the advent of the collapse of the communist regimes all over Eastern Europe in 1989, the Soviet Union also crumbled and disappeared from the world map at the start of 1991. Will we take the Soviet Union as an example? The answer should definitely be "No". However, the worrying developments in our country over the last few years have received only lukewarm attention from the political elite. What happened to the Soviet Union could also happen to our country. The signals to that effect have been evident since the multidimensional crisis hit the country and led Indonesia to the most alarming state where the integrity of the country had dropped almost to zero in the eyes of the international community.

ARLENDI TMA

Bogor, West Java