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October 20, 2010
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Moral Crisis in Indonesia
Age of a country cannot guarantee its prosperity. For example India and Egypt, they were more than 2000 years old, yet until now they were still a developing country and most of its population is still relatively poor. While Singapore and New Zealand, the country’s age of less than 150 years in building themselves, yet they are now a highly developed country and its people are richer on average. Thus, why Indonesia remains a country that suffers with any crisis? The answer is depending on the mental and moral attitude of its citizen because human cannot only be measured by its brain or physic but their mental attitudes.
Moral crisis that occurred in our country can be seen from the loss of honesty. Corruption spread evenly in the territory of this country, from Aceh to Papua. Furthermore, moral crisis happened in many companies who loss the responsibility. They do not pay attention to circumstances surrounding environment and causing environmental damage everywhere. Moral crisis also can be seen from the neglecting of the environment around us without rehabilitation and the uncontrolled freedom of the press which began to encourage glorified commercialism and consumerism. The most jeopardizing thing is when the media has been “saddled” with the vision and mission for personal gain, then the role and function of journalism would have degraded the quality. To overcome the moral crisis the government must act decisively on the perpetrators of crimes, ranging from the visible, to which even disguised but the most important thing of all is that we are required to do the reform, especially reforming our mental, by upholding honesty, increasing self-responsibility, filtering the information circulating in the media, improving discipline and complying the regulations.
The conclusion is that the moral crisis is the core of all problems that exist in Indonesia. If this is left unchecked then it would threaten the future of the nation. Unfortunately, these moral issues are often marginalized from the agenda and plans from the future leaders.
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