Development and Peace

The government must avoid development that involves the use of intimidation, coercion, persecution and violence that tends to be unmeasurable.

KOMPAS/HENDRA A SETYAWAN

Azyumardi Azra

“There is no peace without development, and there is no development without peace” (Jan Eliasson, President of the UN General Assembly 60, 2005)

Development remains a national agenda. Since the New Order government initiated national development in various fields in the 1970s, there have been many achievement and development results that have been enjoyed by the people. However, it is clear that Indonesia has not made an achievement as expected. During the reformation period, in the midst of the era of political freedom, national development was carried out by the government alternately with different intensities. President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo’s government is considered to have a priority on infrastructure development such as highways, toll roads, bridges, reservoirs, airports, or ports.