Return DPRD's severance pay

Return DPRD's severance pay

I fully subscribe to the demonstration launched by some 800
university students in Malang, East Java. The students were
strongly opposed to the severance pay allocated to departing
members of the (regional) legislative council (DPRD), thus the
students showed their sensitivity toward injustice, the people's
fate and the partiality in favor of fellow bureaucrats -- the
government, the House of Representatives (DPR) and the DPRD.
Besides, there is the indifference of the bureaucrats concerning
the disaster of the government's huge debt. Their severance pay
policy demonstrates all this.

Students in other cities, together with non-governmental
organizations, labor unions, proreform mass organizations and
political parties, should exert pressure on and launch action
against the government, the DPR and the DPRD to force the
cancellation of the severance pay.

The government, the DPR and the DPRD should see this as an
opportunity to prioritize the people instead of their personal
interests. Each rupiah spent by the government should be
justified in order to avoid increasing our debt.

I appeal to the members of the DPR and the DPRD to be aware of
this and take the side of the people, who really cannot bear
anymore the burden of their suffering. They should refuse the
money and return the severance pay to the government. It will be
a sweet souvenir for the Indonesian people. Their action will be
recorded in golden ink at the end of their services in the DPR
and DPRD.

Their awareness and generosity will be highly appreciated. It
is the right moment to show that they are on the side of the
people.

WISDARMANTO

Jakarta