People can be Unserved

If the majority of state administrators are beginning to prepare for the battle for power in the election, who will look after serving the people?

Kompas/Wawan H Prabowo

The House of Representatives (DPR) held the 16th Plenary Session for Session IV 2020-2021 at the Parliament Complex, Senayan, Jakarta, Friday (9/4/2021). The meeting was attended virtually by 232 board members and 56 people were present in the Plenary Meeting room.

Gerhard J. Falk, a sociology professor at State University of New York (SUNY) College at Buffalo in the United States, once wrote: “Politicians also claim that they also serve. It’s true."

Falk\'s statement, published in Bangsa Mati di Tangan Politikus: Perilaku Politik Zaman Now (The nation dies in the hands of politicians: Political behavior today) by senior journalist Dr. M. Subhan S.D. (Kompas Penerbit Buku, 2019), should cause anxiety today. The Indonesian nation is now very much determined by the direction of politicians, who are full of vested interests. According to Falk, “Politicians serve themselves.”