THE PARADOX OF AHOK
Ahok is famous for his sternness and his frankliness towards
people. He rose as a media darling for his transparency, but now he’s on trial
because of the transparency of his speech in YouTube. Some people say that Ahok
do blasphemy for Muslims, but actually he’s telling a joke during his speech.
People who were there during the incidence doesn’t protest, but they laugh
together with Ahok. Ironically, people who are in Jakarta who only sees a
cropped video, are the ones that protest against Ahok.
Before we take any conclusion, let us see Ahok’s background.
Ahok’s educational backgound is: First, in elementary and junior high school,
he goes to a Muslim school. We could see here that a man who is born and raised
in a conservative Muslim school, will definitely try not to do blasphemy.
Second, Ahok’s bachelor degree is engineer and his master degree is in
management, but he chose to go into politics. If it’s not because of his own
desire in politics, he would have not chosen to leave his education and career.
Next, Ahok is a chinese man, but he have the heart of patriotism for Indonesia
only. Ahok is raise in a Chinese family with all the tradition that Chinese
have, but his heart is still for Indonesia.
It is sad now to see that when a man of integrity appears, we
just reject him. We did the right thing in 2012 in choosing Ahok, but now we
protest against him. We search for the right leader, but when he/ she is in
front of us, we don’t want it. Then when wil Indonesia progresses, if this is
our reaction to a good leader?
Of course, I agree with my own paradox. My paradox is based
on the facts that I get. Although some of my paradox are based on my point of
view, but I try to emphasize that Ahok is a good man and a of course, a good governor. Like what James Joyce said, “Never let us do
wrong, because our opponents did so. Let us, rather by doing right, show them
what they ought to have done, and establish a rule of dictates of reason and
conscience, rather than of the angry passions.
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