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RI NEEDS LEADER CAPABLE OF SELF-SACRIFICES : FORMER MUHAMMADIYAH LEADER
Padang, Nov 1 (ANTARA) - Indonesia needs leaders who are willing to make self-sacrficies for a bigger cause, former chairman of Muhammadiyah, one of Indonesia's largest Moslem organizations, Prof Dr Ahmad Syafii Maarif, said here on Saturday.
"Such a leader is needed because only through sacrifices will the country's problems be solved so that the country will not be neglected like a no-man's village," he said after a thanksgiving function for the Ramon Magsaysay Award he had won and a friendly gathering of West Sumatra community members.
He said in order to be able to come out of all the problems the nation had to move towards implementing good governance and the move had to be speeded up.
He admitted that some districts and cities had already gone to the direction. He said good governance had to become a national reference to wipe out corrupt, filthy and damaging practices.
He said that the number of districts/towns approved by the House of Representatives (DPR) had now reached 483 and it would increase seven more. However he said that only less than five percent of them had started implementing good governance.
"Actually the conditions of the country are still repairable so long as there is a will and, of course, a leader who is far-sighted, ethical, civilized and keen," he said referring as an example to former Philippine president Ramon Magsaysay (1900-1957).
He said Magsaysay became a legend not because he died after his plane crashed on a mountain in Cebu on March 17, 1957 but because of his courage in deviating from the then general pattern to defend the poor and democracy.
He fought corruption and really defended the poor through his policies, the very policies that the people of Indonesia are currently waiting for.
Referring to the government's direct cash assistance (BLT) program for the poor, he said it was positive in the short term but in the long term it would only induce a beggar mentality among the people which would harm the nation's reputation.
Maarif who helped set up the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) said he was glad with the courageous actions that had been taken by the institution in the past few months.
He said the KPK had to stick to the law as its reference, adding "political intervention must be set aside firmly so that noone can accuse it of being dicriminative any more."
He said President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono must not hesitate and must show himself as a general and that is important so that the country's current condition would not drag on.
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"Such a leader is needed because only through sacrifices will the country's problems be solved so that the country will not be neglected like a no-man's village," he said after a thanksgiving function for the Ramon Magsaysay Award he had won and a friendly gathering of West Sumatra community members.
He said in order to be able to come out of all the problems the nation had to move towards implementing good governance and the move had to be speeded up.
He admitted that some districts and cities had already gone to the direction. He said good governance had to become a national reference to wipe out corrupt, filthy and damaging practices.
He said that the number of districts/towns approved by the House of Representatives (DPR) had now reached 483 and it would increase seven more. However he said that only less than five percent of them had started implementing good governance.
"Actually the conditions of the country are still repairable so long as there is a will and, of course, a leader who is far-sighted, ethical, civilized and keen," he said referring as an example to former Philippine president Ramon Magsaysay (1900-1957).
He said Magsaysay became a legend not because he died after his plane crashed on a mountain in Cebu on March 17, 1957 but because of his courage in deviating from the then general pattern to defend the poor and democracy.
He fought corruption and really defended the poor through his policies, the very policies that the people of Indonesia are currently waiting for.
Referring to the government's direct cash assistance (BLT) program for the poor, he said it was positive in the short term but in the long term it would only induce a beggar mentality among the people which would harm the nation's reputation.
Maarif who helped set up the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) said he was glad with the courageous actions that had been taken by the institution in the past few months.
He said the KPK had to stick to the law as its reference, adding "political intervention must be set aside firmly so that noone can accuse it of being dicriminative any more."
He said President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono must not hesitate and must show himself as a general and that is important so that the country's current condition would not drag on.
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