Soekarno vs Soeharto

Soekarno, the first president of Indonesia, is one of the Indonesian greatest heroes because of his movement for Indonesian’s independence. Beside Soekarno, Indonesia also have another hero. Soeharto, the second president of Indonesia, has a big influence on the development of Indonesia. Both of them are a successful leader in their era. However, they have a lot of differences. Soekarno and Soeharto have a different background, leadership pattern, and the way they lose their authority.

Soekarno and Soeharto have a different background. Soekarno is one of Indonesian intellectuals. Soekarno studied at HBS (Hoogere Burger School) and THS (Technische Hooge School, now called ITB). On the other hand, Soeharto has much experience in military, because he had joined with colonial military (KNIL) and also Japan military (PETA).  Moreover, in Soekarno era, Soekarno trust Soeharto to stabilize the situation when G-30S PKI happened.

Soekarno and Soeharto also have a different leadership pattern. Soekarno well-known as a wonderful orator because of his speeches that can persuade a lot of Indonesian people. Through his speeches, he successfully create the foundation of Indonesian nationalism. On the other hand, Soeharto like to vanish the differences in Indonesian people. He tried to make this heterogeneous people to homogeneous people, because he think that homogeneous people is more stable than heterogeneous people. With his strong military, Soeharto successfully to stabilize the social, economic, and politic situation for a long time.

In the end of their era, they also have different story. Soekarno lose his authority because he betrayed by his own right hand, Soeharto. Soeharto advantaged the Soekarno’s weakness in military to get Soekarno’s position. On the other hand, Soeharto’s dictator style for 32 years make Indonesian people realize that their aspiration right is limited by Soeharto . So, many people wanted Soeharto to step down from his position through many demonstrations that happened in several cities in Indonesia.

In conclusion, both Soekarno and Soeharto have their own style to develop Indonesia. However, they are great hero for Indonesia even they have their own weakness. 

There is no SNMPTN tertulis in 2013?

There is no SNMPTN tertulis in 2013?

Ministry of Education planned to help the students to search for universities by abolish SNMPTN tertulis from the recruitment of university student in 2013. They wanted to change SNMPTN tertulis with UN (national exam) scores after they check and think that the last national exam execution (in 2012) is clear enough from any fraudulency. In 2012, Ministry of Education had tighten the regulation of national exam execution in 2012, so they optimist that the number of fraudulency had been decreased (almost clear from fraudulency) and they can use the national exam scores to change SNMPTN tertulis.

In my opinion, Ministry of Education chose the wrong choice if they choose to abolish SNMPTN tertulis, because I think SNMPTN tertulis is fairer than the other way in the recruitment of university student like SNMPTN undangan or national exam. In the other words, there are much fraudulency in SNMPTN undangan or national exam even Ministry of Education have controlled and anticipated it. For examples in SNMPTN undangan there are many schools that manipulate the student score’s so the students have more chance to accepted in that universities. Moreover, this manipulation has become a school tradition in several schools. Besides SNMPTN undangan, national exam also offers the opportunities to do some fraudulence. Almost every student knows that ‘the national exam solutions will appear before the national exams appear’, so I think there are many students that trust and use that to do their national exam. All of my statements are my own experience when I was a senior high school student. Furthermore, I have seen much fraudulency with my own eyes, and I think my generation is the victim of the unwise decision that chosen by the Ministry of Education.

People can show their respect for nature in many different ways

Show your respect for nature

Since our nature is getting worse, many people start to think about what they can give to the next generation, in the other words, people start to concern about the sustainability of the earth. There are many ways to show our respect for nature. A few people choose to respect the nature in some ‘hard’ ways, but most of people choose some simple ways.

Some people show their respect for nature in simple ways which actually all people can do this way. The several examples of this are no littering, turn off the lamp when it is not used, use refillable drinking bottle, reduce reuse recycle paper, try to not use tissues, plant some trees in home, use bicycle or just use public transportation.

However, a few people choose some ‘hard’ ways to show their respect for nature. Usually, this people very concern about the environmental changes that happening now. For example, there are a few people that become a vegetarian because they know that there is much carbon dioxide that produced when they process the meat.  Vegetables and fruit do not have to processed in long time, but meat have to. For ordinary people, it must be hard for them if they forbid themselves not to do what they usually do, but for this kind of people, they willing themselves not to eat any meat only for reduce carbon dioxide that produced every time they eat.

In my conclusion, as a good people that lived in the earth we must respect our nature. However, how we show that respects are depend on how we look at the nature, as a friend or just as a supplier of our needs.