Silence is not always golden

Silence is not always golden

Silence is golden seems to have been Megawati's principle in
responding to some issues in the past. This stance has proven
effective and has had a positive impact on people's belief in
respect to her maturity and capacity to lead the nation toward a
better future.

However, in the case of A.M. Saefuddin's recent statement, in
my opinion Megawati should gently break her silence. Being
anonymously declared the Indonesian Democratic Party (PDI)
Perjuangan's presidential candidate, now is the right time for
her, in the spirit of transparency, to publicly announce her
history, revealing her family tree, career, wealth and, last but
not least, the crucial question about her religion.

I do believe that by doing this she would contribute much to
our nation building in respect to people's mental readiness to
accept things as they are, rather than letting people live with
falsehoods.

Such real golden action should also be followed by public
figures like Amien Rais, Matori Abdul Jalil or others in a
position to stand for president, otherwise the tendency to repeat
the same "old song" would continue, i.e keeping a candidate
secret until the right time.

ATTILA RAHAYOE

Bekasi, West Java