Stop pointless polemics

Stop pointless polemics

From Pikiran Rakyat

Allow me as a layman to express my hopes for and concerns about this beloved country, which many fallen heroes have defended with their last drop of blood.

I would like to call on the members of the political elite -- in the executive and the legislature -- to stop the pointless polemics and mutual denunciations that they engage in in the interests of their own particular groups and at the expense of the ordinary people. We do not need political bickering. What we do need is adequate and affordable food and clothing. We need peace, whoever the president is. What matters most is that the president really does his/her best to create economic stability.

Let me make this appeal to my fellow countrymen: Please refrain from participating in any action that will only benefit a particular group while the ordinary people are left to bear the brunt of the consequences.

ASE BUDIMAN

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