I saw this picture on TempoInteraktif and started to think and be amazed; how come we have had 4 presidents after Soeharto, and none of them were able to bring Soeharto in to justice ... ???
What makes thing even worse is that when he is now diagnosed as in the state of terribly ill, not just few good, and I bet expensive, team of doctors taking care of him, but many governments officials, such as parliaments members and ministers come and visit him as if he is the good old man that has to deserve the care and respects from those who proclaimed themselves members of a new revolutionary-reformed governments.
It is indeed amazing how the power and influence Soeharto has, enables him to be out of justice and to still receive respects and honors from other important people. He didn't just receive it from people inside the country, but outside as well, like for example the recent guests he had; former Cambodian Prime Minister, and the Philippines' Chief of Parliament.
If you ask villagers, they will mostly rather prefer the regime of Soeharto than this era where the government proclaimed to be a newly fresh independent and democratic, yet democratic is failed and independence is still troublesome. Villagers argued that though in the era of Soeharto the corruption was smoothly hide and political violence were nicely condemned yet the development is fixed. The nation could still feel and see the development growth.
Though Soeharto has a bad name, yet important people from other countries are willingly to come and pay a visit as a tribute to his past works.
Compare from Soeharto-regime to reformed-government era, I can't say that one is better from another. But for sure, having the development going in our country is the most important to-do task.
For that matter, few questions arose; should we or should we not better to have the Soeharto-like regime reign again in order to have a fully recovered development??
Are we or are we not a country which still need an iron hand and a superior head to be able to fix all the chaos and to run this country firmly?
I don't know the answer. You answer!!
