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JAKARTA, KUPANG TIMES - The President of the Republic of Indonesia, Joko Widodo, talks about freedom of speech or freedom of opinion, which he thinks is enough to guarantee his freedom.
The President of the Republic of Indonesia, Jokowi, has sanctioned if there is an assumption that currently there is still a lack of freedom of speech.
This view was conveyed by the President of the Republic of Indonesia, Jokowi in an interview with Senior Journalist, Karni Ilyas.
Karni Ilyas asked the President of the Republic of Indonesia, Jokowi, about the survey results which stated that there was still a lack of freedom of speech.
"Huh, what freedom is still lacking,?" |Jokowi (President of the Republic of Indonesia), in a video interview uploaded to the Twitter account @jokowi on Tuesday, August 23, 2022.
The former governor of DKI Jakarta said that; "People can now curse, insult, mock, ridicule the President,"
"Also every day we hear, people make fun of the President, also every day we hear, we see, it's normal,"|Jokowi (President of the Republic of Indonesia)
The President of the Republic of Indonesia, Jokowi, asked Karni Ilyas, "what kind of freedom of speech do you really want,?"
It was only then that the President of the Republic of Indonesia, Jokowi said that Indonesian democracy was now very liberal.
"Even though we are Eastern people who are full of politeness, who are full of good ethics and manners, but we are now, in my opinion, very liberal,"|Jokowi (President of the Republic of Indonesia)
"Didn't Mr. Karni see it,?"|Jokowi (President of the Republic of Indonesia)
However, the President of the Republic of Indonesia, Jokowi said, "it's a different story if then freedom of speech is insulting someone and that person is angry,"
"Then, that person reported to the police, now that's another area, already the area of the law is working,"|Jokowi (President of the Republic of Indonesia)
Number of Surveys
Previously, several opinion polls have described how people are increasingly afraid to speak up.
The survey of the Research Institute for Economic and Social Information Education (LP3ES) in 34 Cities in Indonesia on April 8-15, 2021 found a portrait of the current society which is increasingly afraid to express opinions, express, gather and associate.
LP3ES researcher Erwan Halil explained that the majority of the community as much as 52.1% agreed that the threat to Civil Liberties was increasing and resulted in increased public fear of opinion, expression and assembly and association as important foundations of freedom.
“This condition is also strengthened by the performance of the Government sector, where Freedom of Organization/Opinion only received a Public Rating of 59.2%,”|Erwan Halil (LP3ES Researcher), last Thursday (06/06/21).
The Indonesian Political Indicator also reveals the results of a recent survey on freedom of expression.
The survey institute found that 62.9% of the public felt increasingly afraid to express their opinion.
Researcher for Indonesian Political Indicators, Kennedy Muslim, explained that the survey was conducted on February 11-21, 2022, on 1,200 respondents using the Stratified Random Sampling method and a margin of error of around 2.9%.
One of the questions asked was whether they agreed or disagreed with the statement, that nowadays people are increasingly afraid to express their opinion.
"And the results are very interesting. We find that 62.9% of respondents agree and strongly agree that people today are increasingly afraid to express their opinions,"|Kennedy Muslim (Researcher for Indonesian Political Indicators), on the Indonesia Lawyer Club YouTube channel, which was uploaded on Friday evening, April 8, 2022.
(W.J.B)
