By INDRA Tranggono

A boy wrote a short poem of Indonesia, where the address? For the boy, Indonesia is like a house that has a clear administrative address Senayan or Merdeka Palace. However, it is possible that poem  just teasing us, this country really have an address?

When we asked about the “address” state, the mind is the existence of the position and orientation of the value of a nation. In this context, the phrase “address of the state” could be understood in ideological and constitutional. So, “address” of Indonesia is Pancasila (way of/ (/ e / orientation values), while the “home” of Indonesia is the 1945 Constitution.

However, we now increasingly losing Indonesia in the context of the ideological and constitutional. Indonesia has been transformed into a middle of nowhere country as in the fictional universe.

As an “address” and “home”, Pancasila and the 1945 constitution more so blurred in life. If found, we’ll find them “locked” in the ritual quite room  and isolated nationalities. That is, the Pancasila and the 1945 constitution appear only in the affirmation of national rites performed rhetorically.

Orphane

The organizer of the state (executive, legislative, and judiciary) still feel the need to exploit rhetorically of Pancasila and the 1945 Constitution in order to gain legitimacy from the people while the break-down and practice they tend not to work in solidarity to the people, as mandated by the Pancasila and the 1945 Constitution , but better defend the interests of capital and free market forces principled “only the strongest and powerful will survive.” This paradigm shift associated with the nation’s life. Pre-year 1965, the life of our society patterned po-pulis, civil, and anti-foreign capital, while the post-1965. our society patterned elitist, militaristic, and pro-foreign capital (Bas-kara T Wardaya; 2009).

State finally become an institution does not fully service to citizens, but tend to become “agents” of capital strength. As for the organizers of the state tends to be a ” committee” free market. Policies that do not respond to citizens’ problems real and urgent, but rather serve the interests of capital and global markets. People were categorized as part of a legitimate global market to be exploited economically and culturally. People are not understood as a big community which attached to the existence of the state and entitled to be protected.

People were turned into orphans. Without given an optimal capital and ability by the state, people are forced to fight against the inhumanity of capital strength and power. State bear to let his people be “consumer nation”, whereas the state should encourage the nation become a creative and independent nation.

Countries tend to be “not guilty” when successfully create jobs for millions of labor of outsourcing / dailys /week’s / monthly not enough to live on his monthly minimum. State has also created cultural disorientation through the machines and the mass culture industry so that people are born as a uniform set of human beings, both in cultural ideas, cultural behavior, and in material culture.

Social issues, economics, and culture that swallowed people tend to be closed covered with red carpet which is called statistical interpretations narrate the country’s success in overcoming poverty, combating corruption, reduce unemployment and increase economic growth. Feeling as a hero. various success is spoken fluently and loudly by the political actors palace.

However, the narrative interpretation of the statistics were a bitter irony when faced with social reality, economics, and culture of the day to day facing the people of the People’s shivering and shaking swallowed by versatile high-cost life and certainly not negotiable, even just to get a bite of rice. People were forced to be creative, for example with stale rice turn into parched rice (dry). It feels more pain when the state slashed its budget by spending it lavishly to buy a presidential airplane, luxury cars for officials, and other needs are not urgent.

Legitimacy of the central market

When the country off from the ideological and constitutional responsibilities, the center of the people dynamics in the hands of capital and market power.  Finally, shopping centers which are stated to monopolistic practices by the Business Competition Supervisory Commission (KPPU) actually won the case by the court, shortly after state officials met the president (CEO) of the company in Paris. Fund is no longer meaningful as capital, but transformed into a “commander” which determines the whole dynamics of the state and society So did the markets not just mean “buy-sell agreement”, but has become a center of legitimacy for political life, social, economic, and culture.

Anyone who is not submissive and obedient to the power of capital and markets, please be disrespectful and eliminated . Do not be surprised if the leader who was born later are those who are able to compromise with the power of capital and markets. All must be “purchased”, including a president, ministers, parliament members, prosecutors, judges, governors, regents and mayors, and others. Leaders are born from the womb is no longer any socio-cultural integrity, capability, and commitment. Power-driven pragmatism and capital markets have distribution functionalization womb.

The power of capital and markets artificially paced life of the country and without prophetic vision (freeing and up human existence). People were entering the realm of simulacra or the world as if. As if a leader, as if a representative of the people, as if life were prosperous, as if the democratic, as if to get justice, even as if a country that protects.

These simulacra world built  by the state, the power of capital, and markets through the symbolic culture of the people who represent the collective dream life of people separated from the real and authentic, so as not critical of the apparent reality of the besieged, including the question where the real “address” of Indonesia, such as poetry boy earlier. We are increasingly losing Indonesia that we are loved.
INDRA Tranggono

Cultural observers.

Living in Yogyakarta