Meritocracy for the Republic
We have reached the peak of hypocrisy in the administration of the state. It is time for all of us, especially leaders, to have to improve ourselves totally and honestly – now or never!
Sukidi
"For hundreds of years," Michael Young said in The Rise of the Meritocracy (1958), "the community has become a battlefield between two major principles – the principle of selection by the family and the principle of selection based on achievement." The principle of selection on the basis of meritocracy has become a success story of the two developed countries of Singapore and the United States. Meanwhile, this republic is vulnerable to falling toward Indonesian kakistocracy, which is marked by incompetent leadership and moral deviations across all lines of state administration.
The principle of selection based on meritocracy has led Singapore to become a developed country. Growing up with a father born in Semarang, Central Java, in 1903, Lee Kuan Yew became a brilliant architect in transforming Singapore from a small tropical port city without the wealth of natural resources into a developed country with superior human capital, quality of life, health, education and income in the world on the basis of the principle of nondiscriminatory meritocracy.