Like a bad dream

Like a bad dream

June 7 general election showed us which parties or figures
should represent the people in the House of
Representatives/People's Consultative Assembly. However, since
the elections we have seen a number of paradoxical events occur.

Since the opening of the Assembly's General Session, we have
seen the irony and paradox between the results of the general
election and the General Session. The Indonesian Democratic Party
of Struggle (PDI Perjuangan), Golkar Party and the National
Awakening Party (PKB) were the top three parties based on the
results of the general election, but to be a leader in the
Assembly or to implement true and fair ideas is impossible for
them because of the one-person-one-vote system.

It looks like the members of the Assembly are simply
struggling for their own parties or to defeat the other parties
that have more of the people's confidence. The people's votes
were the people's confidence. Such confidence wasn't based on the
idea of like or dislike, but on the credibility and consistency
of a party and its members. Yet we have to admit that there are
still some who are influenced by money. Please, Assembly members,
understand what people want, not what you want, including whether
to accept the President's accountability speech.

Finally, we hope the bad dream of ironic and paradoxical
decisions will not be seen anymore, especially in the
presidential and vice presidential election.

FRANS POSSENTI B.

Tangerang, West Java