GETTING BETTER FROM BITTERNESS By : Marsudiono [*] In Indonesia the price of life is cheaper than the price of chili. It is still well recorded in our mind, how many lives lost in the calamity of Merapi eruption, earth quake and tsunami in Mentawai, land slide, and flooding in several areas of Indonesia. The victim is only a matter of statistic. Most people said that it was as a result of geographical phenomena. Indonesian has lost its sophisticated moral values. Not very long ago, not more than fifteen years before this country was bombarded by monetary crisis, we were ever proud of our nation as civilized society. It was written in the book of Pancasila and Civic Education. Here, we were described as friendly people. After Indonesia had entered the gate of reformation, the flowers of freedom euphoria bloomed everywhere. Now the flowers have turned into the fruits of anarchy, egotism, harassment, violence, rudeness, and abuse which tort
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