The year of
2014 is probably one of the most crucial times for Indonesia. It is the year
where all Indonesian nationalities are voting in the upcoming Legislative
Election and Presidential Election. The legislative election is going to be
held on April 9, 2014 which is basically where all the Indonesian citizens vote
for their desired parliament member from certain political party. The
presidential election is going to be held on July 9, 2014.
I honestly don’t
know whether I have already been registered as a voter or not since I haven’t
received any voting invitation yet which I previously had during the City Mayor
and Governor election last year. Up until February, I wasn’t aware that there’ll
be a Legislative and Presidential Election this year, honestly! There was a lot
of constant flow of comments regarding potential president candidate and views
of political party on my Facebook and Twitter timeline, which was pretty
unusual. So, I turned on my TV in order to figure out what was going on, and it
came clear to me that the general election is this year. No wonder people, not
only on Facebook and Twitter but also on IMs, have been aggressively rooting
for their favorite party or candidate.
As for me, I
am clueless. In my family, we don’t have any particular favorite party or
candidate. Since I was a kid, my family has always been divided into several
different political views and it constantly changing over the years. We’re not
the kind of family that is rooting for the same candidate or party who
inherited their views from the family’s previous generation, instead we have
the freedom to choose whichever party we liked or whoever candidate that we favor.
We talk about politics now and then, in my family, but we rarely dive into the
serious depth of conversation, we even talk about how lame our choices are or
how we choose a candidate because there’s no one left to choose and we laugh
about it all the time.
Do
you wanna effectively lose friends? Express your political views aggressively
and talk bad about other candidates. A number of my friends (especially on Facebook)
are fanatically and aggressively post pictures or comments regarding their
favorite party/ candidate and then talk negative against the other parties/
candidates. Then there’ll be debate which end up in fight from each
supporter. Sometimes
I just want to tell them to slow down and take it easy, but I know it will make
them attack me instead.
Everyone has
the right to express their opinion, but to aggressively defend it or being
stubborn and hot-headed about other people’s opinion does not bring any
advantages. Learn to respect other people’s opinion doesn’t matter how absurd
you think the opinion is. Respect. Respect. Respect. Open our mind. Try to
listen what other people has to say. Embrace the differences. We’re all
intelligent and well-mannered people so let’s act like one, shall we?
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