The tangled tale of corruption in various public sectors in Indonesia hampered the government to carry out the mandate of the 1945 Constitution, namely to meet every citizen’s basic rights and needs.
Numerous studies concluded that developing countries with abundant natural resources are usually trapped in systemic corruption. Several African countries are good examples of the curse of natural resources.
Sometimes we need a shallow reason just to do to something noble. We know we are not worthy of the nobility, hence the shallow justification.
My fingers were tapping on my gadget, looking for any immigration office that still opened for online passport registration. I was about to go abroad to attend a literature festival. Good grief! All immigration offices in Jakarta were fully booked. No slot was available until 2020. I checked on the application schedule in other cities. Yes, there was a slot for the next day, but it was in Madiun or Kediri, in the East!
We must have encountered the moment where our friends, or even ourselves, cheated on a test or assignment in school or university. The reasons vary: lack of ability, practicality, forgetfulness, being busy, or even culture.
In their capacity as agent of change, students must be critical of what is happening around them. However, the reality shows otherwise. Students are critical, but only few of them take action, the rest is just doing lip service.
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