A Corrupt Government: Countless Ways to Bamboozle Indonesia’s Rule of Laws
Indonesia’s 2024 election day is just around the corner and just several days before, many Indonesians were astonished by the facts and investigations unveiling how corrupt Jokowi’s government is.
The ultimate despicability of Jokowi’s government arised when his son, Gibran Rakabuming Raka, ran for the presidential election as vice president candidate for Prabowo Subianto, the profoundly alleged human rights violator who was responsible to the dissapearence of 13 activists during 1998 tragedy.
Gibran’s candidacy emerged frauds of law enforcement done by his uncle, Anwar Usman, who was a former head of constitutional court. Prior to the candidacy of Gibran, a college student namely Almas Tsaqibbirru filed a lawsuit to the constitutional court concerning the age requirements of president and vice president candidates through case number 90/PUU-XXI/2023 which later was granted. The political motives behind the granted lawsuit were tangible to the scenario of Gibran’s candidacy without facing significant hitches.
Furthermore, several of fouls political moves Jokowi had taken through lobbying and negotiating people with power were out of our sights and concerns when it was clear there were issues that needed to be addressed back then, one of such was the appointment of responsible regional heads. Moreover, Dirty Vote denotes debauchery of BANSOS by the states officials and excessive use of funds for political campaign disguised as BANSOS, the failure of BAWASLU to supervise the election, the non-neutrality of civil servants, states officials, and cabinet insiders to support certain candidate (we-know-who), and a lot more which Jusuf Kalla (former Jokowi’s Vice President 2014–2019) stated were only 25% of 2024 election frauds being exposed.
Indonesia underwent 32 years of corrupt and dictatorship government led by Soeharto from 1966 to 1998 with several bloody conflicts from the start, throughout, to the end of his authority. These were the histories they never told us in school and we learned it years later that this country has untold bleak histories.
As a younger generation, it is crucial to have not only analytical and critical thinking but also empathy of what had happened in the past we didn’t live in. I can only hope for the generation to come to not undergo the same tragedy just because we weren’t told the history enough of Indonesia’s fragile democracy.
