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Demonstration and the Moving of Youth Organization
“Kebangkitan bangsa” was moment to memorize the history of Budi Utomo which developed on 20 May 1908. It was specified at Indonesian’s Proclamation 17 August 1945. Budi Utomo it self was developed by Dr. Wahidin Sudirohusodo and some students from STOVIA (School Tot Opleiding Van Inlansche Artien). They hoped that this organization could be general; because some organization before Budi Utomo was close which were organizations become more important than other. Budi Utomo inspires some youth organization such as Serikat Dangang Islam and Indische Partiji.
“Gerakan mahasiswa adalah kerakan intelektual yang jauh dari kekerasan dan daya juang radikalisme” (Mahasiswa Hanya Bisa Demo, 27). From this statement we could see that the moving of youth organization based on academic, rational, and didn’t use anarchism. We classified the moving of youth organization into three traditions. First was discussing, it was very important for the youth do discussed before and after their moving, because their issues could persuade the mass. Second was writing tradition, writing was useful to send our ideas and critic to the government. The last was reading, reading was help the youth to know the actual issues whether they got it on magazine, news paper, internet or from their own social.
From decades we saw the moving of youth organization. Demonstration almost happen every week, it was headed by the youth. Demonstration was an expression of mass interest which impinged with government interest. Youth demonstration in 1966 was related to G-30S PKI, Tritura, and Supersemar. There were many students got violent at the time. But we could see the influence of youth in government system. In 1998, the youth could degrade the president (Soeharto) who was headed the country for 32 years. There also so many demonstration which were did by the youth, they had different object to criticize the government, from unbelief statement to the government into some rejected of government policy.
Demonstrations had a close relationship with youth students as the supervisor and person who criticize the moving of the government. But in 1998 the youth rob, violence the other, and acted out of human right rules. . “Gerakan mahasiswa 98 terlihat anarkis dan radikal ditunjukkan dengan aksi penjarahan dan pembakaran gedung-gedung. Memang kita akui bahwa gerakan tersebut mampu mempersembahkan sebuah hasil yang menakjubkan dengan menggulingkan rezim diktator berkuasa. Tapi, untuk menghasilkan sebuah keberhasilan spektakuler harus diwarnai dengan aksi kekerasan atau tragedi berdarah” (Mahasiswa Hanya Bisa Demo, 40-41). Now there was no significant change of youth demonstration to criticize the government.
The youth often criticized the government without calculated the effort that had been did by the government, we never knew that demonstration didn’t help the government to solve the national problems. Just like the statement of Muhammad Jusuf Kala on KOMPAS 18 May 2008 “berbagai persoalan di negri ini bagaimanapun rumit dan sulitnya, bisa diselesaikan dengan baik. Syaratnya, semua dilaksanakan dengan kejururan, keiklasan dan kepercayaan” (hal 2). Here he said that the mass must belief to the government policy, youth often unbelief to all government policy that’s why demonstrations become the tradition in youth organization. Some of youth organizations such as BEM, HMI, PRD, PMII, AMANAT, GMNI, KAMMI, PII, KMPD, and others often criticize the government by demonstrated to express their argument about the government policy. They criticized the government about the decrease price of fuel whether the government had told them the cause of the prize. In this case, the youth didn’t help the government to solve the problem, but they trapped the nation in debt.
Whether in our country the demonstration became the legal way to express the argument, it is better for us to belief to the government decision and policy. We had vote for them to sit in parliament on PEMILU.
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