Observers and the Post-Truth Phenomenon
“Ramai-ramai membunuh kebenaran, agar bersama-sama hidup dalam kebohongan.”
The government under President Prabowo’s leadership has been in place for more than 1.6 years. What the government has thought, said, written, and done during this time has proceeded within a clear framework, namely the national transformation agenda. It has been judged comprehensively by various groups, including the majority of the lower-class population numbering in the hundreds of millions.
Over these one and a half years, as time has passed, I have followed what has been presented by observers, buzzers, and the opposition, like a stage play, plucking useless old strings, only mastering minor tones that seem boring.
The opposition group appears offensive with criticisms that lack substance, are not incisive, and tend towards ad hominem attacks and intellectual nihilism.
Therefore, entering the second year of the government, this article focuses on exposing the nature of observers, opposition, pollsters, and buzzers—the “truth killers”.
Observers, pollsters, opposition, buzzers, and government haters who claim to be inner-circle holders of intellectual authority should actually be suspected of having a political disposition aligned with groups that lost the election, relatives, or—my conviction—nothing more than compradors with thieves and robbers of state funds. The correlation is based on facts and information presented by the media as the nation’s window so far.
Unnoticed, over that 1.6-year period, observers and truth killers along with sympathisers have shouted and cursed the government daily without stopping, without tiring, and without boredom as time passes.
I note the credo of these truth killers: “the government of corruption, collusion, and nepotism, the government does not eradicate mafias, cartels, the government does not keep promises, the government does not uphold human rights, does not commit to the people, is inconsistent, undemocratic, immoral, does not respect freedom of expression”. All these words are indeed pleasing to the ears of haters, because they indeed like dry credos devoid of literacy like this.
Of course, they are respected, but it needs to be questioned whether these truth killers have eyes of the heart when President Prabowo eradicates oligarchs (economic mafias and trading cartels) amid high-cost general elections? The government is aggressively fighting economic oligarchs as well as political oligarchs, legal oligarchs that have long lived in Byzantium while stepping on the feet of poor and backward indigenous people.
Prabowo has ensured that this government is clean and anti-collusion, corruption, and nepotism. The state has returned trillions of the people’s money stolen by thieves, BUMN commissioners’ allowances have been abolished, BUMNs are no longer used as feasting tools for hundreds of street unemployed and job seekers accommodated as leaders of red-plate companies as has been the tradition so far. Now Danantara recruits BUMN executives with high qualifications and competence.
The President is fulfilling all the promises outlined in the book on national transformation that was promised to the Indonesian people during the presidential campaign. Various populist policies to break the chain of poverty by allocating state budget no less than 1,300 trillion from the 3,600 trillion state budget.
For Prabowo, the primary agenda is national self-reliance with sufficient food, sufficient energy, clean water as an elementary need for a nation’s resilience. A satiated people, a healthy people, and a smart people are the results of Prabowo’s heartfelt reflections in his long life journey. Since a young age, he has recorded and captured history, faced history, and determined the future of Indonesian history.
His commitment is very strong to elevate the Indonesian nation by eliminating economic pathology, social pathology, cultural pathology, and various pathologies through programmes like Free Nutritious Meals, People’s Schools, Red White Cooperatives, Fisherman Villages, Human Rights-Aware Villages, free health checks, and others.
Prabowo is also strengthening the nation’s economic foundation with downstreaming programmes, the formation of Danantara, increased investment, self-sufficiency, improved tax revenue ratio. All programmes stem from Prabowo’s ideals in ASTACITA, wealth for the people and the throne for the people.
Amid the government’s favouritism and successes, we are witnessing (while laughing) the cheap drama of truth-killing observers with wild imaginations and tendencies towards fantasy, using their logic analysis knives with fallacy variables, producing lies, hatred, envy, malice, cruelty, and evil towards the truth, “they are collectively killing the truth”.
Therefore, it is reasonable if observers feel their knowledge is not used but persist on the path of fallacy, then the truth killers with their expressions can only be categorised as “intellectual onanism”.
Leaders in this country are present with sincerity and full of feeling, caring for the marginalised and the poor. The wealth of the rich that previously grew 10% per year is now starting to be balanced with the wealth of the general public, especially the middle class. Businesses are also growing, the poor are beginning to decrease, the world’s HDI ranking for this nation is starting to improve, the Gini ratio index has reached 0.363, the highest in the last 15 years, meaning an increase in people’s purchasing power and an improvement in the balanced distribution of welfare.
Prabowo’s achievements are extraordinary because in just 1.6 years, the budget used has not reached 4,000 trillion of the state budget, yet we see various brilliant achievements being carved by Prabowo Subianto.
Finally, I measure the capacity of truth killers simply by looking at their verbal orations without data, facts, and accurate information. Empty narratives that disrupt the image as if they are defenders of truth and justice. The question is simple: currently, the people of Papua are grieving in sorrow