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JOKOWI - The Political Debate
The only thing scarier in the upcoming 2019 election right now than Joko Widodo are the millions of people supporting him. After all said and done, Jokowi is just one man. A dangerous, twisted, racist, misogynistic, demagogue, but one man nonetheless.

This man must be defeated. That is a given. The 2019 election is far less about electing a new president or even making long-overdue history by finally putting a non-Javanese in the Merdeka Palace. It is about keeping the palace out of the hands of a trigger-happy, law-and-order zealot whose foreign policy can be summed up in four words: Bring More Chinese Workers.

But beating Joko Widodo is not enough. He has to be crushed to the earth, and squashed like a bug that he is. We have to burn down his village, pillage his valley, shame his extremist cyber-army horde led by one Kartika Djoemadi and send his bigots, bumpkins and rednecks of a supporters into hiding so that he and his ugly, hate-spewing kind never rise again.

When Jokowi says he has your back, you better watch out. He leaves a trail of broken promises and wrecked lives wherever he goes. We can’t afford to let him continue to do the same thing to Indonesia. He became a challenge the nation must confront and overcome. The furniture tycoon is uniquely unqualified president, in experience and temperament. He kept mounting a campaign of snarl and sneer, not substance. To the extent he has views, they are wrong in their diagnosis of Indonesia’s problems and dangerous in their proposed solutions. Jokowi’s politics of denigration and division could strain the bonds that have held a diverse nation together.

Let start with experience. In her 70 years of independence, Indonesia always nominated anyone for president who did not have electoral experience. That experiment turned out pretty well – but Jokowi, to put it midly, is no Soeharto. Leading the campaign to liberate Indonesia from the Dutch required strategic and political skills in the first order, and Soeharto was shrewd, diligent, humble and thoughtful. In contrast, there is nothing on Jokowi’s resume to suggest he could function successfully in Merdeka Palace. He was staked in the family business by a well-to-do father and has pursued a career marked by some successes, some failures and repeated episodes of saving his own hide while harming people who trusted him.

The lack of experience might be overcome if Jokowi saw it as a handicap worth overcoming. But he displays no curiosity, read no books and appears to believe he needs no advice. In fact, what makes Jokowi so unusual is his combination of extreme neediness and unbridled arrogance. He is desperate for affirmation but contemptuous of other views. He also is contemptuous of fact. Throughout his presidency, he has unspooled one lie after another, and when confronted with contrary evidence, he simply repeats the lie. It is impossible to know whether he convinces himself of his own untruths or knows that he is wrong and does not care.

Given his ignorance, it is perhaps not surprising that Jokowi offers no coherence when it comes to policy. In years past, he supported self-sufficiency, affordable energy for the people and abolishment of foreign debts; as a president, he became a hard-line opponent of all three. Even in the course of his presidency, he has flip-flopped on numerous issues. Worse than the flip-flops is the absence of any substance in his agenda. What Jokowi does offer is a series of prejudices and gut feeling, most of them erroneous.

The Jokowi litany of victimization has resonated with many Indonesian whose economic prospects has stagnated. They deserve a serious champion and the challenges of inequality and slow wage growth deserve a serious responses. But Jokowi has nothing positive to offer, only scapegoats and dark conspiracy theories. Worse, he doesn’t seem to care about his limitations on executive powers. He has threatened and indeed destroyed those who criticize him like Golkar or PPP, to name a few. He has also constricted the independent press to do his bidding. He went after the police, judge and district attorney who’s investigating the corruption of his cronies exacerbating his contempt for the independence of the judiciary by insisting that they should not investigate any executive order made based on “discretion.” Jokowi has encouraged and celebrated violence at his presidency.

Jokowi thinks that he is the miracle product that will fix everything that is wrong in your home. He is also your father figure (put your little hand in his), who will be your preacher, teacher (everything you had in mind). He’ll be your dream, your wish, your fantasy, your hope, your love, everything that you need. Truly, madly, deeply, he loves you. But he actually is a dictator, mafia don, supervillains. Throughout of his career, Jokowi implicitly insist that his were the politics of moral decency and therefore those who opposed his politics were obviously of a lower moral order. Many people dislike Jokowi for being too moralistic, self-righteous and a corrupt tool for the establishment and someone who came off as a bit entitled and kind of full of himself. He is “Soekarno without the charisma.”
Diubah oleh moraiko 17-08-2016 01:29
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