ACADEMICIST from Jakarta State University (UNJ) Ubedilah Badrun expressed his anger towards today’s regime. On behalf of other intellectuals, he admitted that he was fed up with the government’s neglect of intellectuals. What was worse, continued Ubedilah, was that the concerns of professors some time ago were even suspected of being partisan voices and voices that had been manipulated.
“Never mind friends of civil society and workers, professors, intellectuals and intelligentsia being ignored. This neglect started with the production of the Job Creation Law or Omnibus Law. Hundreds of thousands of workers and students took to the streets. Even Professor Emil Salim’s class warned once morest passing it as law, because it was problematic. But it is being rushed and ratified. “That is the neglect that most insults intellectuals,” said Ubedilah in a discussion on ‘Enforcing the Constitution, Restoring National Civilization and Citizenship Rights’ at the University of Indonesia, Salemba, Central Jakarta, Thursday (14/3).
He also admitted that he was sad and sad regarding President Joko Widodo’s behavior, which he considered had given birth to a neo-authoritarian government. A new model of authoritarian practice, where political power is concentrated in one leader and that power is used for personal interests.
“Friends from constitutional law such as Bivitri, Feri Amsari, Zainal Arifin, had tears in their eyes. “Imagine that almost all theories cannot undermine personal ambitions for power,” he said.
“What is an important conclusion from a political perspective, I believe this is what is then called neo-authoritarianism, a model of authoritarian practice with a new style, which is built through a process in politics called populism. “The one from the little people, from the sewers, then it’s as if he feels that he was chosen by the majority of this nation and that way he can do anything,” he added. (Dis/Z-7)
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