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107474
Fri, 02/19/2010 - 18:22
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LEGISLATOR AGREES WITH MAHATHIR: RI HAS "BIG POWER" POTENTIALS
Jakarta, Feb 15 (ANTARA) - A senior legislator here Monday concurred with former Malaysian prime minister Mahathir Muhammad's view that Indonesia had the potentials to become "the seventh big power" in the world.
But Tjahjo Koemolo, chairman of the Indonesian Demcoracy Party-Struggle (PDIP) faction in the House of Representatives (DPR), also said to really achieve world power status, "we need a leader who is firm, consistent, and courageous in making decisions, and able to make changes. We also need to take stock again of the nation's real potentials."
Speaking to reporters here Monday, Tjahjo said , with its large population and geopolitically strategic location in the Pacific, Indonesia indeed had the potentials of becoming "the 'new giant" in the global arena of the third millennium.
"Indonesia's strategic position, large population and enormous natural resources will be important assets in achieving world power status, if the state is managed properly," he said.
Indonesia's large population - the fifth largest in the world - had made it a vast market for all sorts of goods so that it was understandable that many foreign quarters and countries considered Indonesia as a potential world power, he said.
What only needed to be done now, according to Tjahjo, was to support efforts to have a state management that was able to see all of the country's potentials, and change the present development paradigm into one that was fully based on those potentials.
He said he hoped that in due course of time, a national leader would emerge who would refuse to be dictated by any foreign power and be able to establish a state management characterized by a nationalism based on the Pancasila and the 1945 Constitution.
Tjahjo also stressed the importance of once again taking stock of the country's real potentials in order to be able to improve the nation's human resources, laws and regulations.
"This is important so that the business and investment climates are legally guaranteed, and likewise is the implementation of simultaneous bureaucratic reforms to create a corruption-free and public-interest serving bureaucracy," he said.
In short, Tjahjo said, a total revolution was needed to accelerate the process towards Indonesia's future position as a developed nation, independent economy, sovereign nation in all fields, especially in politics, ideology and law, as well as in cultural identity and in terms of international esteem.
(A050/C/HAJM/18:20/a014)
But Tjahjo Koemolo, chairman of the Indonesian Demcoracy Party-Struggle (PDIP) faction in the House of Representatives (DPR), also said to really achieve world power status, "we need a leader who is firm, consistent, and courageous in making decisions, and able to make changes. We also need to take stock again of the nation's real potentials."
Speaking to reporters here Monday, Tjahjo said , with its large population and geopolitically strategic location in the Pacific, Indonesia indeed had the potentials of becoming "the 'new giant" in the global arena of the third millennium.
"Indonesia's strategic position, large population and enormous natural resources will be important assets in achieving world power status, if the state is managed properly," he said.
Indonesia's large population - the fifth largest in the world - had made it a vast market for all sorts of goods so that it was understandable that many foreign quarters and countries considered Indonesia as a potential world power, he said.
What only needed to be done now, according to Tjahjo, was to support efforts to have a state management that was able to see all of the country's potentials, and change the present development paradigm into one that was fully based on those potentials.
He said he hoped that in due course of time, a national leader would emerge who would refuse to be dictated by any foreign power and be able to establish a state management characterized by a nationalism based on the Pancasila and the 1945 Constitution.
Tjahjo also stressed the importance of once again taking stock of the country's real potentials in order to be able to improve the nation's human resources, laws and regulations.
"This is important so that the business and investment climates are legally guaranteed, and likewise is the implementation of simultaneous bureaucratic reforms to create a corruption-free and public-interest serving bureaucracy," he said.
In short, Tjahjo said, a total revolution was needed to accelerate the process towards Indonesia's future position as a developed nation, independent economy, sovereign nation in all fields, especially in politics, ideology and law, as well as in cultural identity and in terms of international esteem.
(A050/C/HAJM/18:20/a014)
