Arpan Rachman
Monday, October 25, 2010 - 15:00 pm
... If the proposal was rejected without weighed, a voice silenced,
criticism is prohibited, is considered subversive, and disrupt the security,
then there is only one word: your opponent!
- Wiji Tukul
WHAT probably figure who was once considered "common enemy" and then was asked to be a "hero" to everyone. This is because from a country that is still learning to appreciate the winners of history.
Once upon when the crucial moment of the collapse of the New Order power, mid-May 1998. Gus Dur and his friends form a delegation to SOWAN to the President (then) Suharto. In the delegation had come with renowned poet from Yogya, Emha Ainun Najib. After SOWAN, Emha commented in front of the press. He said he helped persuade the Father of Development is to go down the reins.
"Not so the president did not die, if die a hero," so about cultural statement that called Kiai Kanjeng.
Later, the expectation of a dark period of twelve years ago was rolling like a snowball rolling so that the greater the controversial discourse on the state level, in October 2010. The era that is now called post-reform era.
Following the discourse, the attitude of strong disapproval boisterous soon spread. Students Action Front (FAM), University of Indonesia (UI) rejected the plan because Suharto was the villain of human rights. Behavior of power for 32 years the New Order under Soeharto's regime is a crime, said Director Ray Rangkuti Circle Madani.
For the sake of pursuing truth that premise, the 98 activist network now moving again. Discourse to mempahlawankan Soeharto met with counter-discourse: the test material to the Constitutional Court regarding the Law No 20 of 2009 concerning title, service marks, and marks of honor.
From east of the island of Java, Islam Network Anti-Discrimination (JIAD) East Java through Aan statement Anshori, East Java JIAD Presidium Coordinator, called for granting the title hero is done by selectively not random. It's just not clear their request addressed to anyone.
If you like the claim that history is controlled by the winners, giving the title hero must go through a series of process quality test. What did New Order for 32 years? Terjadikah during the regime change, and kindness when the monotony reigns on the throne of this republic? Indicators of other controls may equally we cooked them all later.
Patriot title to a figure for the next generation will look like a page in the history books. If it looks too much dirt and blood spots did not speak of humanity over there, the coronation of "bene Meritus de Patria" (people who have served the country) needs to be questioned in an exclamation mark innumerable.
So, Suharto hero or not? He has become a figure persona-non-grata (an unwelcome figure) for the audience, 12 years ago. And what is there today who still want to repeat the darkly sinister, cruel 32 years huh?
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