Time for the Public Interest

In Javanese philosophy, a leader must be virtuous and possess leksana, being generous and keeping one’s promise; a promise to prioritize the interests and welfare of the people.

Time for the public interest

KOMPAS/FERGANATA INDRA RIATMOKO

Voting Committee (PPS) officers put up a permanent candidate list (DCT) for members of the DPD RI constituency in DI Yogyakarta on the information board for residents in Gedongkiwo Village, Mantrijeron, Yogyakarta, Wednesday (26/9/2018). The installation of DCT aims to help voters identify who the legislative candidates will be elected in the upcoming general election.

“Politics is the art of the possible, the attainable – the art of the next best.” This is the advice that was imparted by Otto von Bismarck, the first chancellor of the German Empire.