Students Movement

Don't know when and who started, a definite demonstration by recent students receive scant sympathy from the public. Like anybody set all this by exploiting the students emotions and the these efforts seems to generate the public did not sympathize with the student movement. It was different when the student movement that occurred in 1998 that Suharto had dropped from the top leadership of this country after no less than 32 years in power.

Public sympathy flowing at that. Suharto's downfall was predictable with the death of 4 students in the event of May 12, 1998, remembering the same thing happens when a student died in demonstrations in 1966. Looks like history always repeats itself, the struggle seems to always take his own son. Riots in various cities which followed the death of the students have looked like in the scenario, in which time was not seen any police or soldiers on the streets. You could still see in memory when the riots that occurred in May 14, 1998, that almost all of the unrest when it begins with burning tires. Out of nowhere came, suddenly there are a lot of vehicle tires on the street later in the burn, then there was looting, burning the vehicles and buildings going on there. Who is supplying the tires? Who started looting and burning? Never knew to this day.

Students needs to set back their strategy of struggle if they want to succeed in the fight for their idealism. Sympathetic ways should be used so as not easily provoked into the activities that will not attract public sympathy. Burning tires in the demonstrations would not bring goodness, even be shunned by the public, as we have seen in recent years. Public no longer sympathetic, and even the public was still traumatized memory of arson and riots that occurred in various cities in May 1998 and thereafter. When examined that it was precisely one of the reasons why the last time a student demonstration against fuel price increases never reached a satisfactory outcome.

So now it seems the students have to study again the history of student struggle and if you want to get public sympathy, what for they struggle. As the term "Jas Merah" is often touted by the Bung Karno, "Don't once in a while to Forget History!

Students must use the ways that convey the aspirations elegant in order not easily provoked by the parties want to reduce their action. Because once provoked, the struggle toward the ideal you want will be lost.

Public expectations of the student movement is that their intellectual level always be more clear and independent in view the problems occurred in the country, and make changes toward improvement attaining the ideals of freedom, namely the just and prosperous.

Students, return your movement to the goals and ideals of your struggle.

| January 29, 2010 | samidirijono | architect |