The Rice Stalk Grows Silently
Tuesday, May 20, 2008
Our Democracy is an important highlight in a century of Indonesian national identity. It was Hatta’s pointed criticism of Sukarno’s concept of “Guided Democracy” at the height of the tension between the two leaders.
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...a dictator who is dependent upon the authority of a single individual will not last for very long. For this same reason the system which Sukarno brought about will not outlive Sukarno himself. Man’s life is limited. If Sukarno is no longer around, his system will collapse like a house of cards.
As if predicting the future, Mohammad Hatta wrote those sentences five years before Sukarno lost power. At that time, Hatta was no longer the countr
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