MANAGING THE DIFFERENCES FOR THE SAKE OF HUMANISM1
Muhammad Irsyadul Ibad, Sy2
People of the state are always silence. People of the state are always silence.
But they have still remember and have never forgotten.
People like a giant dragon. His bigh body coils in silence,
but five senses and intuition of him are strong.
Don’t hurt them, even hurt them time and again.
They will get-up and destroy.
Jakob Sumardjo3
While I write this paper, Indonesian mass-media is busy to break news on an execution of three Bali bombers (10-12-2002). Finally, they are executed on 2 PM (11-9-2008). This current news had been evocative the humiliated tragedy which killed 202 people and gashed 200 people in six years ago. This is the humiliated tragedy in Indonesia and has been still living within memory of the society. This tragedy is not only indicator of spreading radicalism in pluralized-Indonesian society, but it’s a major threat to pluralism and tolerance in Indonesia as well. The Bali’s bombing had brought us into question about the seriousness of Indonesian to live together in diversities. It becomes an admonition the other countries to break the same terrors and avoid it. Baca Lebih Lanjut »
