Don’t Turn the Clock
As well as not being urgent, the Pancasila Ideology Guidelines Bill could give rise to a single interpretation of Pancasila. The deliberations of this bill should be ended.
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June 23, 2020
IF it is deliberated and then passed by the House of Representatives (DPR) and the government, the Pancasila Ideology Guidelines (HIP) Law will turn back the clock to our dark past. During the New Order regime, Pancasila was a sacred ideology that could not be questioned.
The Suharto government used Pancasila against political opponents. All institutions were obliged to adopt it as their sole basis. Through the Agency for the Propagation of Panc
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