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