Serving people or groups?

From Media Indonesia

The House of Representatives (DPR) has finally decided that it will ask the government to review the fuel price increase policy. The decision is indeed disappointing.

As people's representatives, legislators should voice what is in the public interest. In reality, however, what they have done fails to meet public expectations.

If the DPR was really struggling for society as a whole, it should have firmly rejected the government's fuel price policy. The question is: Does the House serve ordinary people or special groups?

The fuel price hike has persisted despite public protests against it everywhere in the country. Can we still trust a government that causes such hardship to the population?

DHANI Bekasi, West Java