Independence Day
Today marks 62nd anniversary of this Republic. 62 is not a low figure no more. If it applies to human being, then it can be considered as final years time considering average life expectancy of Indonesian people. What have we achieved so far?
As usual, our president delivers annual speech a day before this historical day. And as usual, the speech is all about the achievement made under his/her helm, regardless of how bad the situation is. Ironically, some of the speech material are actually in contrary to what the real situation is. Reading one of the newspaper article made me laugh. It was quoted that our currency has strengthened against the greenback in one of the speech (dun remember exactly in whose speech). But Come on! If we see in the reality, market turmoil influenced by sub-prime mortgage crisis in the United States has been in headlines for weeks and the exchange rate has lowered quite a bit. What a blunder it is. Even though the text had been prepared well before the delivery date, it’s not an acceptable excuse.
Maybe this is the root cause of why our nation is still struggling in the fast-pace movement of globalization era. Ignorance and Unawareness. We have been an independent nation for 62 years, yet we are now struggling to compete with our neighbours who are more than 10 years behind us in term of independence.
But things look promising, although still need huge improvement here and there. Just hope that all will get better. Wake up my nation! Use the independence day spirit to build this nation. To achieve what we want to be when our predecessors declared the independence. Happy 62nd Anniversary.
