Globalization, deepening political divide bring test for Pancasila
31st May 2021 2 hours ago
ANTARA FOTO/Arif Firmansyah/rwa. The prolonged COVID-19 pandemic has once again forced the Indonesian people to commemorate Pancasila Day virtually.
Wearing the traditional attire of South Kalimantan, President Joko Widodo (Jokowi) led the commemoration ceremony, held in a hybrid manner, from the Bogor Presidential Palace, while high-ranking officials gathered in the yard of the Pancasila Building inside the Foreign Ministry compound in Jakarta, or joined in the celebrations from their offices.
Those who participated in the ceremony included chairman of the People s Consultative Assembly (MPR), Bambang Soesatyo, who read out the Pancasila text, and chief of the House of Representatives (DPR), Puan Maharani, who read out the preamble to the 1945 Constitution (UUD1945).
Pancasila faces increasingly formidable challenges: President
31st May 2021 1 hour ago
A screenshot - President Joko Widodo during the commemoration of Pancasila s birthday from the Bogor Presidential Palace on Tuesday (1/6/2021). ANTARA/HO-Youtube Sekretariat Presiden
International radical ideologies have capitalized on the facilities to penetrate all areas, all classes, and all age groups in Indonesia, regardless of the place and time. Jakarta (ANTARA) - President Joko Widodo (Jokowi) has reminded the Indonesian nation of an increasingly formidable challenge to instill the values of the Pancasila state ideology in the community amid the rapid technological development and global interaction.
The rapid interaction among members of the global community in the era of globalization does not spontaneously increase common views and togetherness. Instead, it gives rise to various challenges for which the nation must remain vigilant, the president stated
President Joko Widodo (Jokowi) has urged the Indonesian nation to increase knowledge of the values of the Pancasila state ideology through extraordinary .
President Joko Widodo (Jokowi) identified that the accuracy of government data remained substantially low, while pressing for improvements and database .
Indonesian President Joko Widodo has observed a gap in the implementation of development programs by the central and regional governments that he attributed .