Itu bukan "culture of denial", tp "culture of lying".
From: Sunny <[email protected]> >To: [email protected] >Sent: Friday, February 17, 2012 3:25 AM >Subject: [proletar] No ‘Culture of Denial’ in Indonesia: SBY to Ambassadors > > > >http://www.thejakartaglobe.com/home/no-culture-of-denial-in-indonesia-sby-to-ambassadors/498346?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=jgnewsletter > >No ‘Culture of Denial’ in Indonesia: SBY to Ambassadors >Ismira Lutfia | February 16, 2012 > >President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, at a dialogue with journalists at the >State Palace in Jakarta on Monday, also expressed positive sentiments about >the state of the country. (Rumgapres Photo/Abror Rizki) >Interreligious strife is just media hype, rights abuses in Papua don’t go >unpunished and the current anticorruption drive is the most aggressive in the >country’s history, President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono told foreign ambassadors >on Wednesday. > >In his address at the Foreign Ministry to 119 of the 128 ambassadors to >Indonesia, the president echoed the same positive sentiments that he aired two >days earlier in a tightly controlled, nationally televised question and answer >session with journalists. > >He assured the ambassadors that on the issue of interreligious conflict, >“things aren’t as bad as the mass media is reporting.” > >“In general, religious harmony and national harmony are being >well-maintained,” Yudhoyono said, going on to distance himself from >allegations of double standards in justice. > >“No [violations] are going unnoticed,” he said. > >He said that also applied to the persecution of the Ahmadiyah Islamic sect in >various regions. > >Hard-line Muslims have attacked the minority community, destroyed its mosques, >schools and homes, driven them out of villages and killed several Ahmadis in >recent years. > >In the most brutal attack, which took place last year, three Ahmadis were >beaten to death by a mob of more than 1,000. Only a dozen people were >convicted, all of whom received sentences of six months or less. > >Yudhoyono said that in the case of the Ahmadis, they were free to worship as >they saw fit, but only if it did not offend other Muslims. > >Given that 90 percent of the population is Muslim, he said, the state has a >responsibility to step is whenever a different creed was introduced. > >“It’s the duty of the state to organize and arrange [the new faith] in order >to avoid clashes that threaten the social structure,” the president said. > >On the issue of Papua, where the military have frequently been accused of >human-rights violations in trying to quell a low-level separatist movement, >Yudhoyono conceded there were rights abuses but insisted they were being >swiftly dealt with. > >“The guilty will certainly be punished. There is no impunity or culture of >denial,” he said. > >“We always follow due legal process because we want to be transparent.” > >After a brutal crackdown in October on a peaceful protest in Papua that left >at least three unarmed civilians dead, the police officers found responsible >received written warnings and other administrative sanctions. > >Yudhoyono also said that since becoming president, he had changed the >government’s stance in dealing with the region’s problems from a >military-based approach to what he termed a community empowerment and >development approach. > >“In the future, I and the government will work seriously to resolve the >problems in Papua,” he said. “We will also nurture dialogue with community >leaders to listen to their critiques and corrections.” > >The president also touted his fight against corruption as unprecedented in >scale. “We are carrying out the most aggressive anticorruption campaign in >Indonesian history,” he said. > >“In the midst of a frenetic democracy and political uproar, I’m staying >focused and not getting sidetracked in running my mandate to achieve strategic >development in the coming years.” > >The political uproar he referred to was the scandal in which his own >Democratic Party was mired. The party’s former treasurer, Muhammad Nazaruddin, >is standing trial for bid-rigging, while a top legislator has been named a >suspect in the same case. The party chairman and other officials have also >been named as involved in the same scandal. > >“I realize there’s still a long way to go and much to do before we reach a >point where we can feel comfortable [about the progress made],” Yudhoyono said > >[Non-text portions of this message have been removed] > > > > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] ------------------------------------ Post message: [email protected] Subscribe : [email protected] Unsubscribe : [email protected] List owner : [email protected] Homepage : http://proletar.8m.com/Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/proletar/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/proletar/join (Yahoo! 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