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adi rahman
A heated debate has been seen in Indonesia for the last 2 months. A newly-proposed act is under a spot-light. What is it about? Why does it attract so many opinions and comments?The act or rule is called HIP or Haluan Ideology Pancasila (the Guide for Pancasila Ideology). The advocates of this rule argue that without such legislation the country is under lurking threats of anti-Pancasila's group who want to change the constitutional ideology of the nation i.e. Pancasila. In doing so, many activists of human rights and democracy and academicians project and highly aware that the legislation may possibly be used abusively for political interests like it used to be during the new order era (Orde Baru) which was led by Soeharto reigned from 1966 to 1998. Is Pancasila barely an ideology?...
