Barrack Obama Indonesia

Ada satu blog yang menarik. Indonesia-anonymus.blogspot. Blog ini telah menjadi langganan bermain saya. Namun sayang, karena sibuknya si empunya blog, tulisan dalam blog jarang di update. Mekipun begitu, saya rutin berkunjung berharap menemukan tulisan terbaru. Bagi saya bagus tidaknya blog tidak dilihat dari banyaknya postingan yang di update secara rutin dan sering. Namun lebih pada kualitas dari tulisan tersebut. Pengelola blog tidak menulis identitas secara detail. Hanya mengaku sebagai sekelompok orang Indonesia yang peduli terhadap negera ini.

'We are a group of Indonesians, ranting about our beloved country. This blog is a result of many people grumbling about many things in many ways.'

Sekarang telah ada ‘saudara kembar’ blog ini dalam bahasa. http://indonesia-anonymus.com. Tapi entah mengapa, versi Inggris lebih menarik bagi saya ketimbang versi bahasa. Padahal isi tulisan sama persis hanya bahasa yang berbeda.

Namun ini tetap merupakan hal yang positif. Ide-ide dan diskusi mereka dapat di akses dan di mengerti oleh pengunjung yang kesulitan berbahasa inggris sehingga cakupan kalangan pembaca lebih luas.

Ada satu artikel menarik. Tenang 'khayalan' mereka. Tentang ‘Barrack obama’ Indonesia. Apakah Indonesia sudah se-demokrasi Amerika berani memilih presiden-nya tanpa melihat latar belakang, etnis keturunan, asal daerah, agama. Apakah Indonesia berani memilih 'Barrack obama' yang cerdas, menarik, muda, dari kaum minoritas, namun memilki latar belakang yang ‘tidak umum’ dan berasal dari minoritas?

Berikut saya kutip khayalan mereka. Versi Indonesia bisa dilihat di sini.

Barack Obama has an African name. That name is not very common in the US and even Obama himself frequently refers to himself as a person 'with a funny name'.
So let's give our 'obama' a name that is not originally Indonesian. Let's call him Vincent Tjoa. (this is just an imaginary name. A mere example).

Barack Obama is a christian, while his father is a muslim. Christianity is the major religion in the US. So In Indonesia, this would make our Vincent a muslim (the majority), but with a christian father.

Vincent Tjoa, a muslim, mother from Solo, and christian father originally from Fujian, China. Picture it yet?

Let's build up our Vincent character some more using our imagination:
Just like Obama, our Vincent is young, patriotic and full of idealism. His life has not been easy. His father abandoned him when he was small and he was mostly raised by his grandparents in Solo, far from richness. Yet through his own perseverence he managed to graduate first from one of the top school in the country. (Let's say he graduated from ITB or UI).
Soon after he graduated, instead of taking a high-paying job in Jakarta, he chose to work in his community helping the poor.

He then went into politics, and became a member of parliament. He is new, with more idealism than experience, yet wildly popular. He has many supporters among young people, who are tired looking at Indonesia's same old corrupt politics. The young people think Vincent understands them. Understands their aspirations. Their ideals. They believe Vincent will be able to lead Indonesia to the better.

Two years later Vincent decided to run for the presidency.

He runs a grass root, efficient, discipline campaign, offering to bring change to Indonesian politics: He promised to end the divisive politics based on religion, race and ethnicity in Indonesia. "There is no javanese Indonesia. there is no chinese Indonesia, there is no muslim Indonesia, there is no christian Indonesia. There is only one Indonesia! Bhinneka Tunggal Ika, unity in diversity".

Vincent makes beautiful speeches. A great orator. He inspires. He has the ability to move people. Give them hope.
And to top it up, he has an incredibly structured, detailed plan on how to bring Indonesia to a brighter future. "Our prosperity is within reach", he said, "if only we can all work together. It is not about me, it is about you. About Indonesia."

His opponent is an old timer yet a very popular Indonesian politician. A native Indonesian, a devout muslim, a former Indonesian military man who has been in politics for a very long time and part of the political establishment. He is incredibly wealthy and his campaign is run by old faces of the establishment's political machine. Unfortunately, this is the same establishment that some Indonesian people view as the status quo: tolerating the corrupt culture and too slow to move the country forward.

Now, here's the question: Given the story above, will we, Indonesians, vote for our Vincent Tjoa to be Indonesia's next president ? Or will we vote for his opponent?

Can we get past his background, his christian father from Fujian province, his name, and his half chinese ethnicity, and vote for him?

Khayalan menarik bukan? Jadi apa pilihan anda??!!

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