Assalamualaikum w.w.

Mamak jo dunasanak di palanta,

Ambo basobok artikel nan menarik mengenai situasi di Somalia..
tampaknyo mereka ingin mancobo sistem sarupo lareh Bodi Caniago
diawak...

"A new approach to bringing order in Somalia
By Jeffrey Gettleman
Published: August 18, 2008

Does the international community have it all wrong on Somalia?

After 17 years, 14 transitional governments and more than $8 billion
in foreign aid, the country is as violent, lawless - and, many say, as
hopeless - as ever.

Early this month, a man who had been running an orphanage for 18 years
was fatally shot in the head. A few days before that, 20 women
sweeping the streets were blown up with a bomb buried in a pile of
garbage. No one is safe, and perhaps no place on earth more closely
meets Thomas Hobbes's characterization of a state of nature in which
life is "nasty, brutish and short."

Nothing seems to be able to lift Somalia's curse of anarchy.

Part of the problem, a rising number of Western academics and Somali
professionals argue, is that the bulk of outside efforts have
concentrated on setting up a strong central government, which may be
anathema in a country where authority tends to be diffuse and
clan-based."

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But there may be another answer: going local.

Many Somali intellectuals and Western academics are pushing a form of
government that might be better suited to Somalia's fluid, fragmented
and decentralized society. The new idea - actually an old idea that
seems to enjoying something of a renaissance because of the
transitional government's shortcomings - is to rebuild Somalia from
the bottom up.

It is called the building-block approach. The first blocks would be
small governments at the lowest levels, in villages and towns. These
would be stacked to form district and regional governments. The last
step would be uniting the regional governments in a loose national
federation that controlled, say, currency and the pirate-infested
shoreline, but did not sideline local leaders."


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http://iht.com/articles/2008/08/18/africa/somalia.php

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