A-Infos (en) Spaine, LISA, Regeneracion: Indonesia in State of Emergency - Don't be naive. Liberal democracy cannot be reformed! (ca, de, it, pt, tr)[machine translation]

Indonesia revolts against feudal power of sitting president and his 
family. ---- Massive national uprising in Indonesia against the 
authoritarian feudal power grab of the president, who installed his own 
son and family members in various strategic positions, and pressured 
parliament to facilitate his power accumulation. Attempt to establish a 
new dynasty. Recently, parliament tried to pass the regional chief 
election bill for the succession of his second son as governor. The 
people are fed up and protests have broken out everywhere. Anarchists 
are on the front line.

It's true, Indonesia is in a state of emergency. Not because of natural 
disasters or wars, but because of a situation that could lead Indonesia 
to become the next Bangladesh.

We know in advance that the powerful can make and override rules at 
will. There is no point in complaining or moaning. The elites can do it 
because the system allows them to do so. There is no point in talking 
about morality and ethics when our politics is like this. Exalting 
democracy, defending it and trying to clean it up will get us nowhere, 
because this is the most efficient way for the elites to maintain power 
without the need for them to become "dictators."

The democracy we defend is the democracy that gives us the power to 
determine our destiny. The democracy they fight for only gives 
legitimacy to those who have access to the circle of power.

We are the oppressed class, trapped by daily economic problems, inhuman 
wages, threats of eviction, forced expropriation of ancestral lands and 
agricultural lands, as well as an increasingly irrational educational 
system. We must have different dreams than the elites. We must break the 
chain of oppression from our minds, imagining democratic spaces that are 
truly democratic and under our control.

Therefore, we must restore politics as the direct management of public 
affairs by citizens, through democratic institutions, especially in the 
form of citizens' councils, workers' councils, peasants' councils, and 
the like. We must return politics to open spaces, to street corners, 
parks, stalls, and public spaces. People will spontaneously gather in 
the square or in the community hall, starting a general assembly to 
discuss their problems and decide on the course of action.

These democratic institutions must be open, political, and based on 
direct democracy. The main idea is simple: everyone must be able to 
represent themselves, and the political process must take place at the 
smallest level (community, workplace, school, village, etc.). In direct 
democracy, there is no need for "representatives," and all decisions are 
made from below. Therefore, we do not need a group of elites to 
represent us. This is the true meaning of reclaiming sovereignty, 
returning it to the hands of the people!

This political process allows politics and democracy to develop without 
intermediaries, connecting people to everything related to their daily 
lives and making them true political subjects. In other words, they 
represent themselves.

Only by establishing these forms of self-organization can the embryo of 
real social change be cultivated, necessary to replace this decadent 
social order.

LET'S BUILD PEOPLE'S POWER!

LET'S BUILD LIBERTARIAN SOCIALISM!

*Article translated into Spanish from the note by Perhimpunan Merdeka - 
Makassar (Free Association - Makassar), from Indonesia, on the political 
situation in the country.

https://www.regeneracionlibertaria.org/2024/10/02/indonesia-en-estado-de-emergencia/
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