No, maybe not pure lies. Let’s call it hiden lies behind some truth.
We know that 2009 is the year of democracy for Indonesia as this year, we are going to held general election both legislative and presidency. We are currently on the stage of political campaign where some of major political party appears every now and then. They surely try to collect votes. Through televesion, advertisement, program selling, they want to differentiate one another, something like product differentiation on businesess.
However, I feel not comfortable to some political advertisement presented. To name a few, the advertisement sponsored by democratic party, the major supporter for SBY, the current president. They try to collect votes by saying that the government already conduct significant improvement thorough period of presidency. It goes like this:
- Fuel prices go down 3 times
- No longer dependent to IMF
- Solve the Aceh problem?
and the list goes on..
What I see so far, those things are not achievement. They merely conditions implied by coincidence.
global financial crisis drives oil prices to its bottom level in five years. Some months ago, oil prices reached US$140. And now, it records its lowest level at US$35. So, it really makes sense if the fuel prices should go down as well. After all, the oil price is cheap.
We are no longer dependent to IMF. Well, it doesn’t mean we are not dependent to other capitalist financial institution. And also it doesn’t mean we are growing economically stronger than before. We have no further obligation to pay to IMF, but it doesn’t simply because we have paid all the money. We’re just lucky enough to know that all the obligation has been eliminated. We’re just so lucky
Aceh problem? Nobody, nothing, no one can solve it prior to aceh tsunami.
Still call it achievement? I call it luck.
