The controversial ratification of the Minerba Law revision, the Omnibus Law on Job Creation, the Criminal Code Bill, disclosure of various criminal cases, and spread of social irregularities (committed by those who are materially affluent) were so horrible. Those indicated the outbreak of “affluenza”, a social disease that arises due to the overflow of property […]
Month: October 2021
Ineffective Communication Towards the New Normal
New Normal is an effort to maintain good habits that became the Covid-19 protocol. For this reason, the practice of using masks, avoiding crowds, keeping a distance, and frequently washing hands with soap have become new habits in people’s lives. However, not all of them can do such a thing. The increasing number of victims […]
Spelling Thoughts Antonio Gramsci
Discussing the thoughts of Antonio Gramsci, one must be careful. When he took notes in prison, he did not have the proper tools. Therefore, his ideas are not written regularly in a logical order. At times Gramsci seemed to contradict himself. Only the publishers, who selected only about a fifth of all the records, organized […]
Noam Chomsky: Religious Fundamentalism
In his book, When Time Shall Be No More, historian Paul Boyer writes, “surveys show that one-third to one-half [of Americans] believe that the future can be interpreted from “Gospel” prophecies. To me, this is a very admirable view. I didn’t find that fact, but I do see a lot of similar views. I read […]
Enactment of the Mining Law: Exploitation for the Interests of a Few Political Elites
Indonesian coal barons have won almost all the interests they have fought for over the last four years. The central government has regained complete control over mineral resources, with local governments wholly stripped of their authority in mining licensing. These are some essential revisions to Mineral and Coal (Minerba), aka the Minerba Law, approved by […]
The Return of Authoritarian Instinct amid the Covid Pandemic
When students and pro-democracy activists took to the streets of Jakarta and other major cities in Indonesia on May 20, 1998, and afterward rejoiced over the fall of Suharto’s authoritarian regime, they never thought that a global pandemic would pose such a significant threat to democracy. In Indonesia, more than two decades later. After 22 […]