PPI Den Haag

Balibo dilarang?malu yah..?

herdianlasut — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 03:12:33 +0000

Children of Indonesia menggugat

Balibo dilarang, so what?

Akhir2 ini kita sebagai rakyat di informasikan bahwa pemutaran film Balibo dilarang tayang di Indonesia. Film yang dikatakan tidak lulus sensor ini merupakan hasil produksi Australia yang menceritakan kisah 5 wartawan Australia yang dibunuh oleh tentara Indonesia di timor timur pada jaman pemerintahan Diktaktor Militer Soeharto.

Dukungan akan pelarangan tayang ini juga datang dari menteri kebudayaan dan pariwisata Jero Wacik yang mengatakan bahwa film ini bisa menghancurkan citra TNI dan menggambarkan versi Australia. Walaupun banyak pro dan kontra berhubungan dengan film ini, namun ada beberapa alternative yang seharusnya bisa dilakukan oleh pihak pemerintah demi berjalannya Demokrasi dan kebebasan memperoleh informasi. Tidak hanya itu, tapi jutsru film ini memberikan kesempatan buat generasi baru di Indonesia agar bisa memberikan kreativitas dan berkontribusi buat bangsanya.

Sebagai pemerintah yang jujur dan sehat, semestinya bisa mengajarkan kepada generasi yang baru mengenai sejarah invasi RI ke timor timur menurut versi Indonesia sendiri. Sangat disesalkan, bahwa upaya pemeritah dalam memajukan bangsa hanya sekedar memilih dan mensensor informasi yang masuk ke dalam negara.

Apabila kaum ex-militer serta pendukungnya mengatakan film ini tidak benar seperti kejadian sesungguhnya, justru seharusnya mereka berani untuk membuka informasi agar dapat membuat film yang menyaingi versi Australia tersebut. Disini yang terlihat adalah justru pemerintah Indonesia yang menutupi kebenaran pada rakyatnya dan bisa menjadikan citra TNI dan negarawan2 lainnya tercoreng ketika film ini diputar di luar negri. Apakah ini yang diinginkan oleh pemerintah beserta antek2nya? Tidakkah akan menjadi suatu kebiasaan sebagai pemerintah Indonesia untuk melarang dan mensensor suatu informasi yang dalam bentuk liputan atau film/documentary?Dan apabila ini menjadi suatu kebiasaan berarti arus perjalanan pemerintahan hanya mengikuti sifat nasionalis yang tinggi agar rakyat selalu bangga dan percaya dengan institusi2nya termasuk TNI dan polisi. Apakah pemerintah begitu naifnya dan mengabaikan bahwa kekuatan teknologi sekarang bisa memberikan informasi yang bebas dimana saja kita berada?.

Walaupun dilarang oleh pemerintah, tapi tetap saja kemungkinan rakyat untuk mendapatkan film ini dari sumber yang berbeda sangat besar, seperti dari Internet atau kerabatnya yang di luar negri. Apakah pelarangan tayang dan sensor itu akan berguna? Bukannya justru bisa menjadikan rakyat semakin curiga dengan kejahatan2 masa lalu dan AIB Indonesia karena pelarangan tersebut?

Dikatakan kebebasan di Indonesia? itu sama sekali bohong terbukti masih ada kekuatan yang mencegah kebebasan dalam berpikir dan bersuara. Dikatakan nasionalisme?sama sekali tidak, karena pemerintah telah gagal membangun kebanggaan sebagai orang Indonesia dan gagal memotivasikan rakyatnya sebagai bagian dari warga negaranya. Dimanakah kita berada sekarang?

Perang tanpa pertumpahan darah

Pepatah mengatakan perang yang terbaik adalah perang yang menggunakan kedamaian tanpa melukai musuh dan tanpa mempertaruhkan nyawa prajurit yang bekerja untukmu, tapi tetap mengontrol suatu keadaan. Dari amanah ini kita bisa melihat bahwa di jaman yang penuh dengan technology ini, akan sangat ironis sebagai pemimpin untuk meyakinkan rakyatnya bahwa film yang dibuat oleh pihak lain tidak pantas untuk ditayangkan. Mungkin film balibo adalah suatu persepsi yang dimiliki oleh Australia. Tapi apakah ada persepsi yang jelas dari Indonesia mengenai pembunuhan 5 wartawan di Balibo tersebut?

Ramos Horta

Yang pemerintah Indonesia perlu mendokumentasikan kepada publik adalah keberadaan UN dan Australia di saat invasi terjadi, serta keterlibatan Amerika dengan pemerintahan Suharto untuk meng-invasi Timor timur. Dan yang paling penting lagi adalah upaya pemerintah untuk membawa kasus ini ke meja hijau international atas pelanggaran HAM dan pembunuhan massal.

Dengan ini kami sebagai penerus bangsa, menuntut pembubaran LSF sebagai syarat sehatnya arus informasi yang masuk ke Indonesia dan mencegah institusi seperti ini yang menjalankan praktek FASISME sebagai peninggalan orde baru di Indonesia. Lanjutkan Reformasi demi kemajuan generasi Indonesia berikutnya….

Herdian Lasut

PPI Den Haag

The Frenchman does “Indonesian”

herdianlasut — Sun, 14 Jun 2009 16:43:53 +0000

In Sunday afternoon while everyone is having a rest time to prepare the next day’s pressure of working or studying, Vanmmushen Broekstraat could become the home where different cultures meet and practice. Today, Mathieu oudry from France has come with a new idea of making an Indonesian food with his preference style of cooking.

As one of the residents in this house, he made a research how to find the suitable taste according to his tongue for the special cuisine ‘Rendang’, as well as for the other people. When people usually have the will to learn over this method of cook, today we learned from him how to cook Indonesian food with French style. Do you think it’s going to change the taste or the feeling when you eat it? Well, not really….

Mixing the method of creating food can also be considered to be mixing cultures. Argumentation and debate is always being the ingredients to reach the consensus between different cultures. Hence, we came up with different options how to serve this food…

It made us to maintain the patience to collaborate our ideas and took us for several hours to wait for the best result. As you know beef or meat need a long process of time and way of cooking to have soft slides so that it will melt in our mouth and taste yummy…

Afterwards, when we think about the fact of mixing, it does not only apply for making children but it is also possible in creating foods. And when we think Pasta or Spaghetti is the preferable tasty food for Asian people like us, the Rendang has become the best food for the Frenchman….

Diaspora of Indonesian art

ppidenhaag — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 17:40:45 +0000

Indonesian village in The Netherlands

Hundreds of houses built in authentic Indonesian style will be seen on small peninsulas in Lelystad. The city of Lelystad is going to build an Indonesian village consisting of hundreds of houses with pointed roofs, porches and inner gardens. The initiators say nearly a thousand people have already applied to live there. Many are of mixed Dutch/Indonesian descent but anyone with a love of Indonesia is welcome. The initiators Lex Burgersdijk en Wally Stahlberg are considering starting similar projects elsewhere in the Netherlands, for instance in Almere and Leeuwarden. Indonesia was a Dutch colony for hundreds of years until the country won its independence in 1949. After independence, hundreds of thousands of people of mixed European and Indonesian ancestry moved to the Netherlands because they were unable or unwilling to integrate into Indonesian society (Expatica, 28 November 2008). However, this gives impact to the new generation of this mixed society to build its own identity and dream of the strong traditional value from their ancestors. Anyone wants to live there?

PEMILU PESTA DEMOKRASI, PATRIOTISME, SEHAT GRATIS UNTUK SEMUA

alamprabu — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 08:33:25 +0000

“Sehat itu mahal” pernah bertanya dari mana “frase” atau ungkapan ini berasal? Dan siapa yang berani menanamkannya di lebih dari 200 juta kepala di Indonesia? Sehingga menjadi sebuah hal yang lumrah kalo orang indonesia sakit siap-siap biaya mahal. Why can’t Sehat itu murah atau bahkan gak ngeluarin biaya sama sekali. Beberapa bilang itu gak mungkin “Mimpi” gila apa loe masa sakit gratis? Jawabannya .. kenapa emang loe.. enggak gak mau sistem kesehatan gratis. Gua yang gila apa loe yang gak waras hmm … Well satu yang pasti gak ada yang gak mungkin didunia ini, karena itulah salah satu tanda-tanda kebesaran Tuhan dimana “kemungkinan/probability” “perubahan/changes” adalah hal yang pasti. Tapi ternyata walaupun dengan semua kemungkinan yang ada dan diberikan, banyak sekali “Kita” yang membatasi pandangan dan mimpinya seperti perkataan tadi “Beberapa bilang itu gak mungkin mimpi, gila apa loe” pernah bertanya apa mereka bilang begitu gara-gara frase tadi yang sudah tertanam diotak mereka masing-masing? Sehingga membatasi keinginan, pandangan dan mimpinya yang otomatis menutup kemungkinan-kemungkinan yang ada. Atau sederhana saja karena ada keuntungan dibaliknya.

Nilai-nilai yang sudah tertanam tadi seakan-akan Dogma dikepala mereka dan sudah menjadi hal yang gak bisa diubah. Pastinya itu bukan Dogma karena gak ada satu pun tertulis di kitab suci manapun kalo sehat itu mahal. Tapi satu yang pasti siapapun yang menanamkan nilai tersebut sudah berhasil membodohi dan berhasil mengkondisikan kalau sehat itu mahal, dan dibalik semua ini siapa yan lebih diuntungkan dari semua itu. hmm siapa yang diuntungkan dari sehat itu mahal… hallo…. ya tentu saja para korporasi, dan para elite yang dapet kompensasi dari aturan tersebut, tapi rakyat, masyarakat kecil, have they ever think about them ?

Dalam sebuah film yang baru-baru ini saya tonton seorang teman berkata pada sehabatnya kalau “You don’t take shit form no body” dan itu seharusnya karakter yang kita punya sebagai manusia yang diberi kebebasan berpikir, memilih, dan bertindak. Kita berani bertanya bahkan pada situasi yang seakan-akan tidak bisa diubah, seperti ungkapan di awal tadi yang merupakan satu dari banyak hal yang kita terima begitu saja dalam hidup kita sebagai warga negara yang bernama Indonesia.

Pemerintahan itu dibentuk untuk mensejahterakan masyarakat yang berada dalam naungan kekuasaannya tersebut, not the other way around. Coba kita lihat kesejahteraan apa yang telah diberikan pemerintahan RI selama ini . Let see transportasi, bahan bakar naik terus belum pernah tercatat dalam sejarah harga BBM turun. Pendidikan well katanya SPP dihapus, tapi itu tidak menyetop bayaran yang lain dari uang pagar, gedung, kebersihan belum lagi buku-buku pelajaran dan banyak lagi hal lain yang bisa ditambahkan dan kalau perlu dibuat untuk meng-cover pengeluaran. Sad isn’t it,

So… kalau kita dulu dengar satu perkataan orang besar seperti “Jangan tanya apa yang telah negara lakukan untukmu tapi apa yang telah kau lakukan untuk Negara” perkataan ini tentu sangat terdengar pariotik dan di satu sisi itulah memang pesan yang ingin di tanamkan, tapi ada lagi yang tujuan yang terpenting di baliknya yaitu dukungan untuk kekuasaan yang berkuasa hal ini mungkin lumrah saja kalau ada timbal balik yang diberikan oleh penguasa dan rakyat. Tapi apakah relevan di negara kita ini? Karena penguasa disini cuma bisa menghabiskan anggaran di program-program yang tidak menjawab permasalahan dan program tersebut harus ada cross kepentingan dengan dirinya secara pribadi, partai dan golongan. Tiba saatnya untuk rakyat indonesia Kritis dalam melihat permainan para pemimpin negaranya, tak peduli siapa yang dia wakili pribadi golongan maupun partai, dan jangan lagi menjadi fanatik terhadap individu, partai, ataupun golongan karena dengan begitu kita hanya akan menjadi kendaraan kepentingan politik kekuasaan mereka.

Tidak ada yang salah untuk bersikap patriotik dan memberikan dedikasi yang besar pada negara, tapi kalau sikap patriotik dan dedikasi rakyat tersebut hanya digunakan oleh elite utuk mempertahankan kekuasaanya buat APA? Seharusnya dengan memberi dedikasi yang besar dan sikap patriotik, masyarakat sadar yaitu mereka mempuyai hak yang lebih besar akan pemenuhan kebutuhan dan kepentingannya, bukan malah mensejahterakan para elite nya saja dan leave them behind ? But halo … thats what happen.

Setiap Pemilu which we so called “Pesta Demokrasi rakyat ini” sebetulnya bukan pesta demokrasi tapi pesta pembodohan rakyat dengan program-program penanaman kebutuhan rakyat akan para elite tersebut, dengan semua janji-janji basi yang sama setiap 5 tahun sekali yaitu “For the people”. Well I say Fuck that.

Kalau memang Pemilu itu Pesta demokrasi seharusnya Pemilu itu pesta dimana rakyat bisa mengkspresikan keinginannya, bahkan minta seenaknya sama partai-partai yang berani menjual dirinya buat masyarakat tersebut, so bukan para elite yang berorasi dan para pengikut cuma denger n joget-joget disuguhin para “entertainment whore lokal asli sini“. Udah gak jamannya gitu. Seharusnya pemilu itu para elite itu mendengar what people have to say and bargain whether they can full fill it for them or not.

Rakyat di setiap pemilu seharusnya punya kebebesan untuk ngomong apapun yang dia mau di depan para elitenya dan tawar menawar apakah tuntutannya itu bisa dipenuhi atau tidak sama tuh elite bukan begitu? Bukan cuma dengerin tuh elite ngomong n abis itu joget dan muter-muter show off dijalanan, come on that was so yesterday.

Tapi semua ini hanya sekedar mimpi kalo rakyat nya masih mau saja dibodohi dan mungkin memang senang atau sengaja mau dibodohi hanya karena fanatisme dan perasaan patriotik tadi ditambah komisi. “Oh come on” Semua itu hanya sesaat aja liat begitu terpilih penguasa baru baik elite legislatif n eksekutif see any changes? Yes emang ada perubahan tapi bukan ke better tapi worst. Let see pendidikan apa makin murah jawabannya … NOT, Kesehatan apa masih barang yang mahal hmm let see koreksi bukan hanya masih tapi tambah makin mahal lagi. So come on apa kita gak bosen dibohongin terus? apa kita gak bosen di janji-janjiin aja? Atau emang Kita nya yang gak berani bertanya dan memperjuangkan keinginan Kita n just go with the flow. One thing for sure Para “fucking elite” ini tak akan berhenti memanfaatkan rakyat sampai rakyat berani not only to say STOP and just simply said fuck them, tapi berjuang untuk itu that’s what call true PATRIOT.

Seharusnya kita bertanya, kritis, dan bisa mencerna mana yang benar-benar mau memperjuangkan kesejahteraan rakyat, bukan hanya mengobar janji yang dibalut “Rasa Patriotik” tadi. Tapi mungkin satu kelemahan bangsa indonesia adalah sikap kritisme itu sendiri.

Budaya yang lebih tertanam adalah Budaya “Ikut-ikutan” bukan budaya kritis yang diharapkan tadi. Semua ikut-ikutan Media massa dengan program yang sama, Bioskop dengan Genre yang sama, sampe yang membuat sedih secara pribadi adalah dunia musik tak hanya dengan genre yang sama tapi attitude dan sound yang benar-benar tidak menggambarkan seorang seniman.

Karena budaya ikut-ikutan ini, pemahaman-pemahamn yang keliru selama ini menjadi suatu hal yang biasa dan diterima. Kita semua terbiasa menerima begitu saja kondisi yang tidak menguntungkan dan mencari pembenaran untuk lari dari situasi tersebut.

Kembali ke “Kesehatan” yang merupakan kebutuhan dasar setiap manusia dan salah satu standar kesejahteraan rakyat sehingga dengan terpenuhinya kebutuhan akan kesehatan tersebut sebagai salah satu tolak ukur keberhasilan program-program yang katanya untuk mensejahterakan rakyat.

Satu pertanyaan yang mendasar dari semua yang kita telah bicarakan tadi adalah kenapa sih sehat itu mahal ? Memangnya kita tidak punya pemerintahan yang kita percayakan untuk mensejahterakan kita, well jawabannya We do have a government kita punya sebuah pemerintahan yang disebut-sebut penganut demokrasi, tapi mensejahterakan kita sebagai rakyatnya tunggu dulu.

Guru-guruku di sekolah selalu menanamkan bahwa pemerintahan kita menganut demokrasi pancasila yang artinya “dari rakyat ke rakyat untuk rakyat” saat itu saya cuma bisa berkata “Wow hebat dan mulia sekali pemerintahan yang didirikan di Negara Kepulauan ini”. Tapi waktu berjalan dan saya mulai mempertanyakan lagi “Who are you kidding with. It’s a Joke but it’s not funny and it Hurts lot of people who believed it. Sungguh ini sama sekali bukan dari rakyat ke rakyat untuk rakyat. Dan pemerintahan yang punya pemikiran yang masih rasional pasti malu untuk mengatakan hal ini karena pemerintahan yang kita punya sama jauh sekali dari ide utopia yang indah tadi.

Tujuan dibentuknya pemerintahan yang biasa kita rayakan dengan kampanye partai dalam euphoria demokrasi yang kebanyakan cuma ikut-ikutan, terlihat bodoh dan kurang kerjaan itu memang untuk mensejehaterakan rakyat. Tapi setelah terbentuknya pemerintahan, banyak hal yang tidak sejalan dalam kesejahteraan rakyat malah tumbuh subur. Salah satunya kesehatan yang mahal kenapa pemerintah tidak mau memperjuangkan kesehatan kita. Saya berani bertaruh alasan mereka pasti terdengar rasional dengan memberikan gambaran segala macam hambatan yang ada, tapi memangnya kenapa kita memilih mereka untuk menjalankan pemerintahan, ya tentu saja untuk memperjuangkan kesejahteraan kita yang salah satunya kesehatan tersebut.

Kalau tidak bisa be a man for God sake akui ketidakmanpuan dan turun kalau perlu demi kesejahteraan kami, dan jangan kasih kami alasan-alasan yang digunakan untuk membenarkan ketidakmampuan dalam memperjuangkan kesejahteraan kami sebagai rakyat. Emangnya kalian itu dipilih untuk apa ? Ya tentu saja untuk mensejahterakan rakyat kalo gak bisa ya turun. Yang menyedihkan malah ikut-ikutan memberi tangisan seperti kasus lumpur sidoarjo ironis sekali Presiden cuma bisa ikutan nangis, bukanya memberikan solusi pasti untuk situasi itu, sungguh peimimpin yang tidak tahu malu sampai ada pengungsi yang mengatakan “Kami sudah kehabisan air mata”. Kok bisa-bisanya pemimpin yang dipilih malah nangis seakan-akan ikut berempati padahal para pengungsi gak butuh tangis lagi yang merka butuh solusi pasti untuk memperbaiki hidup mereka.

Sampai kapan Rakyat Indonesia di jajah bangsanya sendiri ? sampai kapan rakyat indonesia akan selalu memilih “wakil-wakil” yang hanya mementingkan kepentingannya sendiri dan partai ? Sampai kapan rakyat mau dibohongi ? Sampai kapan rakyat akan berani bersikap kritis tidak hanya pada lingkungan, Media, Negara tapi yang terpenting dirinya sendiri, karena sebetulnya kebanyakan dari kita tidak mau, mungkin acuh atau sudah patah semangat kalah sebelum perang. Sebelum majority individu indonesia stand up for them selves Kita akan selalu menjadi bangsa yang terjajah sadly bukan oleh bangsa lain tapi oleh segelintir orang so called elite karena mereka mendapat dukungan dari kita-kita ini.

(Djayawarman Alamprabu 3 Mei 2008)

The World Economy

ppidenhaag — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 21:06:58 +0000

How did global economy came into existance? Should government or market control the economy?? After the first World War Socialism and Communism seem to offer a beneficial promise of change to the world, but time sheds its truth and both system seems to point out only its weaknesses and less of its advantage.

A theory inspired by Karl Marx and was later revolutionized by Lenin. Leninism urge people of the world to reject global economy, this revolution made trade, commerce and private property criminal acts. In my opinion, a market should be like people, they should be free from governments simply because market works and government doesn’t.

Centralization was first invented by Joseph Stalin where the communist party planned and managed every aspect of the economy. Dictatorship and a bottled potential of economic growth were the reality. And soon after, the Second World War. A new system was progressed called capitalism.

The effect was the defeated government had to print more money which resulted in inflation and hyper-inflation. Bolivia for example, had inflation by the hour because government spending was over government earnings and money was printed every hour. The cost of bread increased by the hour. However in contrast, victorious countries had control over the monetary system. The world monetary was invented to secure market and protect growth.

And most countries policy and political agenda is to nurture its economic survival against the world market. In contrast, government power led to the detainment of freedom which basically means more slaves. The ones that understand the concept of economy and business grew richer and those ignorant of such knowledge become more unfortunate. As time goes by, the wealth is controlled by the few and will keep on doing so as a result of capitalism.

Democracy is a hypocrisy, reforms leads to agony and freedom is a concept of ideas that maybe no one can clearly define. Knowledge is kept by the few to keep the wealth in the few. Prosperity and abundance is merely a dream that can not experienced only to be seen as an external part of us whereas it should be a part of us. Wealth is ours to own and the secret may be abstract but as a concept of understanding, we must understand the concept of money and the history behind it all. Money in reality has no true value, banks can create money simply through loan. Money that shouldn’t exist can be create through interest rates. Federal Reserve Banks loans money to the government. The conclusion here is, money does not equal to value anymore, however money equals to debt. The government prints more money faster than we make money, this results in the loss of buying power. Return on investment must be above inflation to really develop our personal economy.
Wealth planning and investment management should be common knowledge. Set your mind to prosperity and abundance by acquiring knowledge for that knowledge is power and the lack of knowledge is the lack of power.

After 9/11 the world is becoming into a single market economy. Globalization is the next destination. A free market where everyone has a stake but no one has the control. For countries such as Indonesia with much resources, they must put much of its dependency in high economic growth by putting barriers that restricts imports into a country, develop and build our own domestic industries. Since the New Order regime, we were victimized by world trade and many inadequate government decisions.

However, the next generation is ours to own and ours only to proclaim the wealth back. Prosperity and abundance should not and is not merely a concept. It is a reality that we own and experience. Educate our country and make it what it should be… FREE and prosperous!!!

(Binti, Gian Carlo, 20 November 2008; Den Haag)

Drop-out school or lack of responsibility?

herdianlasut — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 20:40:21 +0000

The poor education system in the third world countries and humanity consciousness

If we see some people in West Europe like in the Netherlands, walking around in the street and ask for a ‘penny’ to fulfill their needs on that day is because they chose to have a pity life and beg for the mercy from other people. These people who are known as ‘Junkie’ or street artist are quite familiar to find in big cities like Den Haag or Amsterdam. However, the civil society as well as the government realizes that basic needs of life must be strengthened as an individual social need. Hence, the government provides the responsibility for its citizens by giving the social security and insurance. Indeed, most of the European countries are obliged to secure the citizen basic needs such as a place to live, education, insurance, monthly allowance for those who do not have jobs and other policies.

Unlike in the third world countries such as Africa, South America or South East Asia, it is not a choice for people to be poor and lack of basic needs. Many priorities for these people, which basic needs come to be very important matter in their life besides education, insurance and traveling. The term for “developing countries” exists as the fact that the average income in developing countries is much lower than in industrial countries, where the economy relies on a few export crops. A developing country has a relatively low standard of living, an undeveloped industrial base, and a moderate to low Human Development Index (HDI) score. In these countries, even children are forced to drop-out from schools and have no life security which endorses them to work and help to gain the economic life of their family. While the education has a big challenge to get, the nations are having a difficulty to develop every sector due to the lack of high quality labor. It happens in this era that people who have high quality of human resources in knowledge and skills tend to seek a better payment for their services in other countries. This phenomenon created a situation where a nation needs to collect new and better improvement ideas to develop their nations.

Indonesian children pick through garbage at a dump in Jakarta

The fact that developing countries have difficulties in building the nation’s economic is due to the effect of globalization and failure system of government within their own nations. It is often happened that the government themselves are involved in corruption or lack of financial support towards the people as their citizens. Thus, it is failed to meet with what people needs in those countries. Furthermore, we also must come to see the causes of this ignorance are taking part in the education level. The awareness to seek a better condition of life is not fully being supported or guided by the government. Students drop-out from school or teachers are poorly trained and paid are the effect of the ignorance from their government. Teaching methods and materials are generally sub-standard, especially in government schools. While the private ones are focusing on its business capital development through these educational institutions.

There are at least 90 young women in one of the small villages in Indonesia that is called Indramayu, working as commercial sex workers whose under half of them entered prostitution between the ages of 15–16, and the rest were as young as 12 years old. Two factors often causes of prostitution are poverty and low levels of education. The average family income is just Rp300.000 or US$35 per month and gives no possibility for their children to go to school. Research says, most of these women are not well-informed concerning their health in selling their services in prostitution. So, they are threatened by the uncontrolled sexual diseases. The ‘National Estimates of Adult HIV Infection’ published in 2002 estimated that there are just over 233,000 commercial sex workers in Indonesia. Among this population there is an estimated HIV prevalence rate of 3.59 per cent which is 8,360 people. This has become a big issue for a resource-limited area like Indramayu and will have to struggle to deal with the spread of HIV/AIDS among its population. These cases of drop-out of school are the result of the Asian crisis. It was expected that many families would find it difficult to keep their children in school and that dropout rates would be high, especially in the 1980s.

As much as in Africa, knowing the high rate of HIV/AIDS has put the drop-out students much more happening since their governments are failing them. Discrimination towards students who are AIDS-affected among the schools is often occurring. High rates of school drop-out are one of the most tangible results of this systematic government neglect, Human Rights Watch said. Usually, children who drop out of school face a high risk of sexual exploitation, risky labor, and living in the street. Studies show that many girls and boys are dropping out of school as a result of sexual abuse and physical punishment. According to the report, research in Uganda found that eight per cent of 16 and 17 year-olds had sex interaction with their teachers. In South Africa, at least one-third of all child rapes are by school staff. Rates of HIV infection are higher among children with low levels of education in Africa.

Moral suggestions

In compares with industrialized countries, education has become one of the civil rights to achieve in order to balance the human production for the nation’s capital. Children until the age of eighteen are subsidized for their education and self-development at least in Western Europe. Yet, the youth are able to study and have an experience in the working field as their part-time-job.

Industrialized countries however must realize that big corporations run their manufactures in developing countries where they provide the production materials and cheap labor; thus human and its natural resources are actually important to be taken as consideration for their business in productions. Therefore, moral consciousness over the poverty and drop-out school in the developing countries should be aware around the youth and have a progressive support in order to build long-term relationships with those countries.

Essentially, youth and universities have big roles in facing these issues of today’s world problem. Firstly, I would suggest that more NGO, Universities, Governments, media in industrialized countries to take part of these issues especially in the level of education. Having a public debate to find new opportunities and fundraising to support the education system in the third world countries will give credits for every stakeholder regarding this issue. Universities must get involved in forming the discussion and organizing an event that are related to the issue, and it also must get committed with the activities of yearly fundraising for those third world countries in increasing their educational level including books and sources, besides its concept for commercializing several brands and accepts sponsorship.

Secondly, Universities and NGO’s must endorse the Governmental institutions to cooperate more in reforming the governance system fighting the economic crisis and poverty of those third world countries. Furthermore, scholarship for people from the third world countries should be given by universities as a part of the social responsibility and expand its relationship to find a potential prospect of mutual relationship.

Thirdly, Universities and NGO should not give up in convincing the Media to publish the issues over third world countries, education and opportunity for every stakeholder. Instead of delivering the negative perception of the third world countries over the corruption and poverty, they should be more active in organizing a talk show and showing public to find solutions and future potentials prospect of human interaction between the developing countries and developed countries.

Fourthly, Universities should actively engage the local NGO with those in the third world countries as well as the governments. The fact that lots of NGO’s have become an organization that are infiltrated by other parties, so it is important to have cooperation to evaluate the working system within the organization between NGO’s.

Conclusion

In conclusion, since we know that drop-out school is caused by lots of factors and also the effect has spread into several areas like HIV/AIDS. Most of the main factors are education and poverty or economical reasons.

There are not much different cases that occurred in third world countries such as Indonesia, Kenya or Bangladesh. Particularly, the issues are poverty, health, education, and mentality. However, it is important for the industrialized countries to take parts for this matter to be consideration for the mutual benefits by cooperation in education sector.

Schools, governmental institutions, law firms, media must more progressive in giving the debate over poverty in the third world countries and education. Universities have the most important role by endorsing any institutions to create fundraising events and creating new ideas for the development studies.

By actively creating the support and gaining the knowledge for the third world countries to develop in education level could give credits for every stakeholder even to assist these nations to have a better condition of life. However, the question is who would concentrate on the value of humanity for these issues?

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