No more burden, please!

No more burden, please!

From Koran Tempo

President Megawati Soekarnoputri and Vice President Hamzah Haz
stated that making a deliberate consensus would be preferable in
making decisions at the upcoming People's Consultative Assembly's
(MPR) Annual Session in August, especially on the fourth
amendment of the 1945 Constitution.

Politicians, observers and the media have quickly reacted to
the statements.

As an everyday person, who always struggles to make ends meet,
rather than observe political issues, I am of the opinion that
the political elite's arguments have led to a conflict of
interest among them. But this has become more of a burden to
people like me.

With the economic crisis showing no signs of slowing,
political discourses developed by the political elite have raised
the political temperature before the MPR Annual Session. This has
deteriorated the people's way of life and become burdensome for
the country.

Megawati's and Hamzah's preference to a consensus, or a voting
system to make decisions at the MPR session, should not be
politicized.

Whatever the political elite takes, please don't put the
burden on the people.

ADNAN MAPALA, Bandung